Stuart MacGill - Aussie cricketers shouldn't do KFC ad

[Syrah]

Stuart MacGill is correct.

Maybe he is in this instance, but he's a massive hypocrite. As others have pointed out he's involved in alcohol advertising. Alcohol abuse has significant health and social issues, much like KFC/junk diets.

 

[BarneyBent]

Maybe he is in this instance, but he's a massive hypocrite. As others have pointed out he's involved in alcohol advertising. Alcohol abuse has significant health and social issues, much like KFC/junk diets.

Firstly, advertising geared towards adults is pretty much fair game, and the ads he has been in have very much been geared towards adults, not kids.

Secondly, moderate wine consumption is actually quite healthy. He has not advertised alcohol abuse. There is no "healthy" dosage of KFC.

 

[western royboy]

wonder what the little kids playing cricket are gonna feel like having after a game of cricket on the weekend.
Maybe the same stuff they see all their heroes eating an advertising?
Long day for parents watching, kid happy an excited after game or upset....... yep good luck to the parent arguing an trying to explain why its a bad idea.

Well done macgilla.
My respect for u just went up.
I had no idea its part of their contract payments thats totally wrong.
More proof cricket australia will sell theirs an everyones elses soul for a buck.

Macgilla has in some circles been branded as a brat or difficult to deal with. In reality he is just a regular cat with a semi short fuse who refuses to suffer fools or go along with something if he doesn't think it's right, regardless of the consequences. In this day an age of spin doctoring and corporate clap trap he's a breath of fresh air.

 

[ManWithNoName]

Maybe he is in this instance, but he's a massive hypocrite. As others have pointed out he's involved in alcohol advertising. Alcohol abuse has significant health and social issues, much like KFC/junk diets.

You can't compare marketing wine to adults and marketing junk food to kids.

 

[Parquet Court]

Macgilla has in some circles been branded as a brat or difficult to deal with. In reality he is just a regular cat with a semi short fuse who refuses to suffer fools or go along with something if he doesn't think it's right, regardless of the consequences. In this day an age of spin doctoring and corporate clap trap he's a breath of fresh air.

ive heard it is shorter than gary coleman but i agree with macgill here. parents and children of low SES are the targets of KFCs advertising.

take the parents of a kid from armadale SHS and a kid from Hale school and get them to tell you what the difference is between saturated fats, protein, carbs etc: and i bet you can guess which one gets it right

 

[placebo]

Wrong. I actually think comments like yours are the cop out.

Research shows that parents are more likely to buy junk food if it involves an elite athlete so they are actually deceived by the association, not simply copping out

That's not deception, that's marketing a product so more people buy it, LIKE ALL BUSINESSES DO! They aren't brainwashed, nothing takes over their bodies and forces them down to KFC to buy the food.
So again...it's the parents fault and their inability to take responsibility for their kids eating habits. They know what the food is, they know it's bad, it's the parents fault. Thanks

But Stuey MacGill isn't those parents. He just knows that parents won't take responsibility. If it was the parents who were complaining about the cricketers, then I'd absolutely agree with you, but they're not. MacGill's complaint is just as much about the parents as the KFC ads, he's just taking it as assumed that there will be plenty of parents who will buckle to the pressure that these KFC ads put on them.

Pressure? Oh come on, you make it sound like they are forcing parents down to their stores. They aren't.

 

[fairdinkum]

Pressure? Oh come on, you make it sound like they are forcing parents down to their stores. They aren't.

Oi placebo, do you agree with the government regarding the banning of commercial advertising for cigarettes?

 

[Parquet Court]

That's not deception, that's marketing a product so more people buy it, LIKE ALL BUSINESSES DO! They aren't brainwashed, nothing takes over their bodies and forces them down to KFC to buy the food.
So again...it's the parents fault and their inability to take responsibility for their kids eating habits. They know what the food is, they know it's bad, it's the parents fault. Thanks


thats not necessarily how it works, not all people actually think KFC is bad food and then sometimes you get people who know it is bad but do not know why and then there are the people who do know its bad and refrain from it.

1 piece of chicken has about 1500 kjs or 1/6th of recommended daily intake and when do you ever only have 1 piece. you have 3 and its on the way to over half the kjs for a day.

KFC market to family's and in the scheme of things for a family of 4, for 20 dollars you can get a dinner that would be cheaper than getting a similar thing from coles, like a meat, veg, rice.

now i know that KFC is a business and in our free enterprise economy they are allowed to advertise and push their product as much as they want and hey, there are still cigarettes and alcohol being marketed and sold.

and finally obesity is about to tear this society a new arse hole. we may not be seeing this at the moment but we are in for a rude shock in the next decade or so....diabetes, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, arthritis, knee and hip replacements will be through the roof.

and now i think that elite sportsmen and their associations should be thinking carefully about their allegiances and how they market their products to the community, after all kids are more likely to do what shane watson does rather than their mum or dad.

 

[BarneyBent]

That's not deception, that's marketing a product so more people buy it, LIKE ALL BUSINESSES DO! They aren't brainwashed, nothing takes over their bodies and forces them down to KFC to buy the food.
So again...it's the parents fault and their inability to take responsibility for their kids eating habits. They know what the food is, they know it's bad, it's the parents fault. Thanks


Pressure? Oh come on, you make it sound like they are forcing parents down to their stores. They aren't.

Yes, it's the parents' fault for succumbing to pressure. That doesn't mean the players should contribute to that pressure.

 

[JOELY]

im fine with macgill doing ads for alcohol. it's an adult drink that is only available to adults! sure, underages can get their hands on it, but it's hardly macgills problem if some break the law. KFC on the other hand can be easily purchased by kids, so the advertising is right up their alley. it doesn't help that KFC ads are always completely juvenille, while macgill's ads aren't, suiting the demographic they're aiming for. personally when i was a kid i kinda tuned out when ads for alcohol came on, i just new it wasnt for me and there wasnt any point paying attention because i couldn't get any. Fast food on the other hand had me paying attention.

 

[FunkyFreo2]

You gotta love his reaction to being told (1) he is too fat and (2) to do a KFC ad!

 

[Kingpin]

KFC chicken's only ever been good for constipation, speaking from experience.

 

[Father Jack]

Am i really seeing people in this thread arguing that all that marketing does is to encourage people to make a balanced decision on the options available in order to arrive at an outcome beneficial to the consumer as opposed to trying to subvert their thinking process in order to have the consumer arrive at a purchasing decision advantageous to the advertiser?

I really hope not.

 

[peternorth]

feel like kfc now

 

[Father Jack]

so do i.