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Topkent to the Adelaide board:

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mrmonkey said:
The internet has ruined everything, bringing back the half time updates with Diesel.

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Back in 2011 or so, I remember channel 7 used to delay the Friday night game to after better homes and gardens, and they'd delay the Sunday afternoon game too. Sunday then moved to 3:20pm and they delayed the Saturday afternoon game they'd picked up after 10 lost the rights in 2012 (the unique individuals commentary team)

Anyways the main point of this post i'm eventually getting around too, is being in a s**t era. If it looked like we where struggling and not likely to turn it around I looked up the scores to see it was worth watching the rest of the game. I distinctly remember doing this with that Friday night Carlton game in 2011 at my Grandma's house off her neighbours unlocked wifi called "Department of the interwebz"
 

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PerfectFooty said:
Back in 2011 or so, I remember channel 7 used to delay the Friday night game to after better homes and gardens, and they'd delay the Sunday afternoon game too. Sunday then moved to 3:20pm and they delayed the Saturday afternoon game they'd picked up after 10 lost the rights in 2012 (the unique individuals commentary team)

Anyways the main point of this post i'm eventually getting around too, is being in a s**t era. If it looked like we where struggling and not likely to turn it around I looked up the scores to see it was worth watching the rest of the game. I distinctly remember doing this with that Friday night Carlton game in 2011 at my Grandma's house off her neighbours unlocked wifi called "Department of the interwebz"
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It really was ridiculous to have the games on delay, you couldn't even watch it on foxtel to get it live. I was at that Carlton game so I couldn't avoid it, but I remember listening to the essendon game the following week, was kind of good in a way because I had already listened to it on the radio or was following it on the app so I could relax.

My own memory of not wanting to know the score came mid season 98. I remember watching highlights between Melbourne and Geelong. I was only 11 at the time so a bit naive. I remember my old man saying 'not a lot of Melbourne highlights' at that point I realised we were getting flogged. I still didn't look away.


I looked up the game Geelong vs melbourne Rd 12 1998 at the mcg. Geelong 15.3.93 to 1.3.9. At half time.
 
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Robbo being the world biggest fat ******* baby


Kane Cornes has the knowledge to be one of footy’s best analysts. But as MARK ROBINSON writes, this time the outspoken TV and radio personality went too far and played the bully.

Kane Cornes wears many hats in the media as an inquisitive, insightful and thorough football analyst.

Right now, though, he’s wearing the class clown hat. And it fits perfectly.

His take-down of Trent Cotchin last Sunday, he said, was nothing but an attempt to take the piss out of Cotchin and Channel 7.

When Matthew Richardson defended Cotchin on social media, Cornes accused Richo of being too sensitive.

It’s a narcissistic response: Be the provocateur and then be critical of the person calling it out.

A cheap laugh at somebody’s expense and it’s a form of bullying.

It was Triple M’s playbook as well. They’d mock someone and when that someone responded, they’d get all uppity and fire back when they had started the fight in the first place.

Bullying is an ugly word.

At schools, parents and teachers spend far too much time trying to protect the vulnerable and educate their tormentors. Bullying is expected from kids and adolescents, because their brains are not yet fully developed.

But from a 41-year-old man with a high profile on Channel 9?

Not to mention a backdrop of sfellowing panellists, acting like the cool kids at the back of the class while one their mates sets fire to someone’s hair. Oh, Nine should be so proud.

Those same people will likely say “hello” to Cotchin next time they see him at the footy. And act all friendly and innocent, without their sfellowing gang, of course.

They should apologise to Cotchin, instead.

The Nine boys are clearly great mates and “taking the piss” out of each other – and it’s often high-quality humour – in their own domain is the difference. What they don’t comprehend is that it’s not a defence when “taking the piss” out of someone else.

Cotchin can fight his own battles, that’s if he even cares. He showed that as skipper through one of the greatest periods in Richmond’s history, where respect was earned and given.

The young Seven staffer who compiled the social media post – which didn’t go to air – is probably less resilient and likely to be disheartened by the fallout.

Maybe Cornes was responding to Cotchin’s clip of him made a couple of weeks back, when Cotchin said Cornes was still salty because the Tigers beat him in his 300th game.

Maybe Cornes just felt like being a smart-arse.

The media as a collective doesn’t miss. Newspapers, TV and radio drench the landscape with previews and reviews, hot-takes and the outlandish.

One TV segment this week was critical of Collingwood coach Craig McRae because he spoke about himself after the St Kilda game and didn’t praise the Saints.

Coaches have a habit of protecting their players in this world of mass media saturation and condemnation, and even that drew criticism. McRae’s old coach Leigh Matthews thought it was ridiculous that McRae apologised for ignoring the Saints.

As Richo said, the bar is “getting lower and lower’’.

For sure, Cornes is a garish personality and his football opinions help drive clicks and debate.

Although he is heavy on provocation for what he perceives as mistakes and failings from coaches and players, his knowledge of the game is top shelf.

And, with a 300-game career supporting him, he has the credentials and confidence to be considered one of the big voices in commentary, if not the biggest.

People say they dislike him, but those same people probably crave what he says. It’s because he pricks people’s emotions and, because of that, he’s good for the game.

Seven’s rebooted show Talking Footy, which is hosted by James Brayshaw and has Cotchin, Joel Selwood and Tim Watson as panel members, is a work in progress.

It is far more analytical, and thus not as lively and bouncy as the Sunday Footy Show. And being, what, 10 shows old, it’s trying to find its comfortable groove.

Cotchin, who retired from playing at the end of last year, is knowledgeable and a work in progress. As is Selwood, who is making a fist of it in his first regular TV gig. Just as Cornes was a work in progress when he first dipped his toe into television.

Cornes has since added his schtick to the role. One SEN mainstay once likened him to the great Lou Richards, in that he says stuff that he doesn’t really believe, but says it anyway to set free the lunatics. That might be true, but it must be said, Cornes is also a serious analyst.

He got the Cotchin piss-take wrong. It was a juvenile assassination.

True, everyone in the football media has said or written something that, at the time, seemed funny or informed, only to wish they had their time again.

My hand is high in the air. At those times, you need your coat pulled.

Cornes might think he didn’t overstep and that’s fine. And he’ll probably think this column is also an over-reaction. That’s fine, too.

But cheap shots disguised as “harmless fun” are so Sammy Newman.

Let’s hope Cornes’s 17-year-old son, Eddy, who has launched his own sports podcast, as revealed in the Adelaide Advertiser, is spared the same sort of ridicule.

Good luck to the lad by the way. Despite the old man letting himself down this time, Eddy is fortunate to have big shoes to follow
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schmuttt said:
Essendon are still an abysmal team defensively, lucky the Saints aren't kicking straight.
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It's good to see the things that hurt teams a few years ago is still hurting them now and not just us

Saints in terms of accuracy and the bombers in terms of leaking goals
 
Don't think it's a free against Stringer, the umpire also blew it pretty late so the 50 is a tad iffy but within the rules if it is a free

I do however find it hilarious to see them robbed of a goal though, more so after Stringer went the shush
 
schmuttt said:
Real bulldogs vibe about this Essendon back 6
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Martin with just about the most meaningless 40 possession game I've seen. Horrendous display of stat-padding
 

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Is it just me or does Nick Hind look way older than he actually is?
 
Essendon shitting themselves trying to get in front, doing their best to even up on behinds with St Kilda
 
Both teams pretty uncomposed late in the game, although St Kilda s**t themselves the most obviously to let that slip. Where the better side for mostly three quarters and absolutely where caught in the headlights once Essendon had a run at them
 
PerfectFooty said:
Both teams pretty uncomposed late in the game, although St Kilda s**t themselves the most obviously to let that slip. Where the better side for mostly three quarters and absolutely where caught in the headlights once Essendon had a run at them
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Thought Essendon dominated from halfway through the 2nd honestly, Saints missed a lot of shots that they'll rue in that opening 40-50 minutes but Essendon ran them down eventually.
 
Surely lightning doesn't strike twice with the Eagles playing the Dogs at Marvel?
 
Gerard Healy: Players need to be better on both sides

Also Gerard: Why don't players do boomerrangs on they're preferred foot when kicking for goal? That they've done 1000 times over

Don't get me wrong it was a shithouse kick from Waterman
 
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