The 'Oracle' Speaks!

[Sttew]

Crawf is paid to sell the Herald Sun. I wouldn't be suprised if he has simply put his name to the "article" that was written by someone else.

 

[GFC1859]

Eerrr. He wasn't alone there.

At the start of the season he said they would struggle. Also by the end of last year he was predicting we would win it.

Still, I don't agree and not making the top four is a bit rich.

 

[catters078]

at about round 18 last year he was one of the few media people who still liked us for the flag..

but his opinion this year is clearly wrong...

 

[bulletproof]

These pre-season guides are going to be full of this sort of stuff this year. It is our own fault for reading it. To be fair to the journalists, they are just looking for an angle. 'Geelong to drop off', that's an easy 250 words, next. Most people don't really believe what they write.

What is a our record against the dogs over the last 3 years? Is it 6-2? We are a mile ahead of them. Their problem is not their forward line, their problem is their desperation and will for the contest when it's at its hottest.

They often get blown away in first quarters. Sure they work their way back often, but I doubt their mental strength.

Good team, doubtful Premiers.

 

[AM]

Like ‘em or hate ‘em the most read opinion writers deal in polemics. That’s what gets our juices running. Frankly, I don’t mind other teams having to carry the weight of being pushed-up as the teams to beat. At this very early stage a fit and firing Hawthorn and a Bullies out to redeem a poor 2009 finals performance would be the ones hardest to toss for the 2010 silverware IMHO.

 

[JUBJUB]

Crawf is paid to sell the Herald Sun.

Does he stand on the steps of Flinders St station or Southern Cross station ?

 

[Darwin Cat]

Crawf is paid to sell the Herald Sun. I wouldn't be suprised if he has simply put his name to the "article" that was written by someone else.

Yup,,I agree with you Sttew,,my guess is Terry Wallace wrote this story for Crawf. Both living legends of the game and the media.

 

[Sinner]

the 'Oriface' speaks?

 

[randyzany]

Like ‘em or hate ‘em the most read opinion writers deal in polemics. That’s what gets our juices running. Frankly, I don’t mind other teams having to carry the weight of being pushed-up as the teams to beat. At this very early stage a fit and firing Hawthorn and a Bullies out to redeem a poor 2009 finals performance would be the ones hardest to toss for the 2010 silverware IMHO.

Words and ill informed prediction are utterly meaningless as past history suggests*cough*throbbie balls, cometti*cough*. Love to be underestimated than WHAMO they won't know what hit'em.

 

[Copernicus]

Ah, Shane. You silly boy.

 

[highflyingcat]

Just an opinion from an ex footballer trying to graft out a career in the media - take it for what it is worth, which is sweet fa

 

[CatTricks]

Crawf is the worlds biggest f*ckhead anyway. who cares what he thinks? absolute loser. Hope Sammy Newman flogs him on the footy show at some stage this year

 

[Frappe]

You all have very short memories.

Last year Crawford was the one journo who stuck with the Cats and commented we were only focussed on the GF and were peaking etc.

Don't necessarily agree with him but he calls it as he sees it.

 

[GFC1859]

You all have very short memories.

Last year Crawford was the one journo who stuck with the Cats and commented we were only focussed on the GF and were peaking etc.

Don't necessarily agree with him but he calls it as he sees it.

He didn't 'stick with us' exactly. In the early stages of the season until just before finals he was saying the Saints would win it, then he changed to Geelong.

 

[MontyMensch]

His comments here aside, methinks Shane has more nous than you give him credit for. He plays the fool on the poor man's excuse for a footy show to great effect. However, he's cut out a very lucrative post footy career for himself in the media and in horse breeding. Not that many ex players are so successful post footy.

Come off it! As the grandson of a real football journalist you have got to be joking.

To suggest Shane Crawford plays fool in that say Red Symons has for years played the mean judge as an act is a joke.

As soon as "Crawf's" footy career ended and the Footy Show pushed his antics on to the main stage he got the overexposure he was always due.. and his "Funny Man" antics have seen less less funny and more and more a 3 joke wonder. This has not gone unoticed by the audience of the show. It is obvious he is on his way to being the next Dougie Hawkins.

If he was intelligent enough to play such an act, then by Round 3 he could of thought of some new jokes as his others went beyond dead!

Shane Crawford's momentary presence in media is a great example part of a greater problem with the workings of the AFL in general. This is where retiring good players get plum media and coaching job's despite not being tested first and qualified as a good anyalists of the game.

If you look at sports in the states and increasingly in Europe often many top coaches never played at the highest of levels. They often have had to earn their postions going through the coaching grades. The same can be said for many media postions, ex-players certaintly get media gigs over their but not to the extent that they do here.

Not many people would argue that Dennis Commetti has not been the best commentator in the game for years now - and his football expeirence is particularly light on.

The actual turn over of the recently retired stars in the AFL media like Crawford indicates how a lot of them should earn their spots by showing the required skills before they get such postions. On the otherhand those from a purely journalist background tend to be the constants in the media.

Personally I think its the public that suffer from instant hiring of the Crawford's in this world as our football experts. It is quite obvious that in tactics, and postional formations that the average AFL supporter speaks a very different lanuage to those on the inside of their side's coaching panels.