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What a week for the pathetic football media in Melbourne.
Before I start...this doesnt include Gerard Healy or Rob Walls...so I will look forward to On the Couch this Monday as a result. Healy got it right on Geelong from about round 10 this season...great call using proper football stats relevant to the modern game, said we looked the premiers then. Rob Walls as far as I know was the only media person to call Geelong would win the GF comfortably. His reasoning was the important bit...Geelong played rope-a-dope with Port Adelaide in round 21 showing them nothing, no tags, resting players and just sitting back and watching their game plan unfold. Walls picked this up and suggested this would see Geelong win with comfort...as they did.
Lets get started...The Australian/Patrick Smith. Re-hashed his 10 point plan to beat Geelong in Grand Final week that he printed prior to the Qualifying Final. Made to look completely foolish now as a result....seriously should be sacked as a guy who understands little about modern footy. Spends all his time talking about what is symptomatic about the game rather than what beats at its heart and soul...the midfield. Collingwood did well against Geelong but we were coming off 3 weeks of non competitive footy and no doubt we got an attack of nerves in front of the big crowd and the umpires cost us 3-4 goals which does happen too. We were well off our best game yet still won. His inability to read this PF scenario saw him dive straight back to his completely flawed notes on how to stop the Cats. Deserves to bare his arse in the Centre square at Skilled as the flag gets unveiled next season.
To add to this...The Australian, Herald Sun and Caro Wilson all suggested Geelong didnt handle GF week well because regardless of what the media felt we ought to be doing all week...we were going to stick to our weekly process which meant stuffing what anyone else thinks. Williams and Port were held up as poster boys for how to handle the hype and pressure of GF week...by talking rubbish all week to the media, throwing them dog bones and horse sh1t and baiting fish hooks for Mark Thompson that were as tasty as Patrick Smith's hairy balls after he had dribbled his Old Man River on them.
Mark Stevens at the Herald Sun got in a real flap about being asked to leave the stadium grass at Skilled...even though they were told well in advance it was off limits. Wrote a big article about it...how our media guy became a story...try this...How about just follow what your directions are for the day and you might get an interview AFTER training. Stevens tried to imagine it the other way round...but sorry mate...you didnt get an interview because THE MEDIA STUFFED UP THE WHOLE THING. What very poor form.
Finally the Herald Sun running the article about Jimmy's Dad. Does it ever occur to these D1ckheads....this might have cost them friendship for the week also? What a pathetic article to run and spoil the Brownlow for a fantastic guy in Jimmy Bartel..and for his Mum...and to have Mike Sheahan back the story on Saturday morning saying we cant feel responsible for Bartel's feelings we just had to run the story.
The Geelong footy club offered enough interviews during the week when and as it suited them. We were always polite and gracious. We were focused too...sorry about that.
The media on the other hand....were unprofessional, uneducated and amoral in their approach to GF week. You have proven bar a few exceptions you have no class and have no idea about what goes on at footy clubs on a weekly basis. You have rare clues about how modern footy is actually played and you have no etiquette when it comes to young champions of the game who absolutely have carried themself in the highest order for all their career. Yet the first chance you get for no reason than the lowest motives you try to embarrass Jim and his family when they should have been celebrating.
Shame the media cant get dropped or scrutinised like AFL players...because the media is a soft 'boys club' with very soft standards...and weak morals...just fat arse checks that arent worth the paper they are printed on because on the whole you guys/gals in the media have got nothing and it was proven this week for all to see.
In closing for the 2007 season I would like to congratulate the Geelong Footy Club for keeping their nerve all year, doing what was right for the club and the supporters all year. Just being a professional outfit all year was fantastic to see. To the whole club I congratulate you on your/our Premiership, it was well deserved and in the face of media stupidity and adversity you handled yourselves brilliantly.
Well done GFC on a fine season you are all to be thanked and congratulated.
Before I start...this doesnt include Gerard Healy or Rob Walls...so I will look forward to On the Couch this Monday as a result. Healy got it right on Geelong from about round 10 this season...great call using proper football stats relevant to the modern game, said we looked the premiers then. Rob Walls as far as I know was the only media person to call Geelong would win the GF comfortably. His reasoning was the important bit...Geelong played rope-a-dope with Port Adelaide in round 21 showing them nothing, no tags, resting players and just sitting back and watching their game plan unfold. Walls picked this up and suggested this would see Geelong win with comfort...as they did.
Lets get started...The Australian/Patrick Smith. Re-hashed his 10 point plan to beat Geelong in Grand Final week that he printed prior to the Qualifying Final. Made to look completely foolish now as a result....seriously should be sacked as a guy who understands little about modern footy. Spends all his time talking about what is symptomatic about the game rather than what beats at its heart and soul...the midfield. Collingwood did well against Geelong but we were coming off 3 weeks of non competitive footy and no doubt we got an attack of nerves in front of the big crowd and the umpires cost us 3-4 goals which does happen too. We were well off our best game yet still won. His inability to read this PF scenario saw him dive straight back to his completely flawed notes on how to stop the Cats. Deserves to bare his arse in the Centre square at Skilled as the flag gets unveiled next season.
To add to this...The Australian, Herald Sun and Caro Wilson all suggested Geelong didnt handle GF week well because regardless of what the media felt we ought to be doing all week...we were going to stick to our weekly process which meant stuffing what anyone else thinks. Williams and Port were held up as poster boys for how to handle the hype and pressure of GF week...by talking rubbish all week to the media, throwing them dog bones and horse sh1t and baiting fish hooks for Mark Thompson that were as tasty as Patrick Smith's hairy balls after he had dribbled his Old Man River on them.
Mark Stevens at the Herald Sun got in a real flap about being asked to leave the stadium grass at Skilled...even though they were told well in advance it was off limits. Wrote a big article about it...how our media guy became a story...try this...How about just follow what your directions are for the day and you might get an interview AFTER training. Stevens tried to imagine it the other way round...but sorry mate...you didnt get an interview because THE MEDIA STUFFED UP THE WHOLE THING. What very poor form.
Finally the Herald Sun running the article about Jimmy's Dad. Does it ever occur to these D1ckheads....this might have cost them friendship for the week also? What a pathetic article to run and spoil the Brownlow for a fantastic guy in Jimmy Bartel..and for his Mum...and to have Mike Sheahan back the story on Saturday morning saying we cant feel responsible for Bartel's feelings we just had to run the story.
The Geelong footy club offered enough interviews during the week when and as it suited them. We were always polite and gracious. We were focused too...sorry about that.
The media on the other hand....were unprofessional, uneducated and amoral in their approach to GF week. You have proven bar a few exceptions you have no class and have no idea about what goes on at footy clubs on a weekly basis. You have rare clues about how modern footy is actually played and you have no etiquette when it comes to young champions of the game who absolutely have carried themself in the highest order for all their career. Yet the first chance you get for no reason than the lowest motives you try to embarrass Jim and his family when they should have been celebrating.
Shame the media cant get dropped or scrutinised like AFL players...because the media is a soft 'boys club' with very soft standards...and weak morals...just fat arse checks that arent worth the paper they are printed on because on the whole you guys/gals in the media have got nothing and it was proven this week for all to see.
In closing for the 2007 season I would like to congratulate the Geelong Footy Club for keeping their nerve all year, doing what was right for the club and the supporters all year. Just being a professional outfit all year was fantastic to see. To the whole club I congratulate you on your/our Premiership, it was well deserved and in the face of media stupidity and adversity you handled yourselves brilliantly.
Well done GFC on a fine season you are all to be thanked and congratulated.
