Player Watch Wayne Milera

[AFC979810]

This is not about the club being soft. They're not accepting a penalty, or fining Milera, or anything like that. They're being proactive and saying "right, let's just nip this one in the bud" and then moving on. It's a non-issue.

Spot on stabby.

Milera use of 'rabble' was a poor choice of a word. Our CEO calling up the Sydney CEO and just saying we didn't mean any disrespect isnt weak or soft.

Slow news week.

 

[Brasher]

Spot on stabby.

Milera use of 'rabble' was a poor choice of a word. Our CEO calling up the Sydney CEO and just saying we didn't mean any disrespect isnt weak or soft.

Slow news week.

Nothing issue and a nothing response.

It didn't in any way detract from how relieved I was that that was how I want our newly extended Milera to play. The rabble comment only reinforced to me that he had his head in the game.

 

[radiojake]

If Milera had said 'they were a bit disorganised ', which, I think, was effectively what he meant - would anyone even know that he was interviewed by the ABC ?

 

[Pugsley]

The club ****ed it here, they could have just ignored it but chose to 'apologise' and in doing so made it a bigger deal than it needed to be tbh....

Adam Kelly can take Nicks with him and Silvers too.

 

[Scorpus]

Even Riewoldt never said that it was disgraceful, or that the club owed an apology, or anything like that. He said the comments were disrespectful - and he was right. They were disrespectful comments. Whether or not you think Sydney deserves respect is a separate issue.

I don't think the comments were disrespectful

 

[WeeBlake]

Now Jordan Dawson has had to defend Milera and his benign and correct comment

Good on Dawson, it’s his job to fly the flag for his teammates. Love to see it.

 

[Pugsley]

I don't think the comments were disrespectful

He needs a can of concrete.

 

[Pugsley]

Good on Dawson, it’s his job to fly the flag for his teammates. Love to see it.

The club won't do it so someone had to.

 

[DJ75]

The club ****ed it here, they could have just ignored it but chose to 'apologise' and in doing so made it a bigger deal than it needed to be tbh....

Instead of operating like a football club, we operate like a corporation that is shit scared of any negative press. We panic at the first sign of anything that might be even the slightly negative.
It's also why we are so incredibly conservative as an organisatioin. We are too scared to try anything new, or to be a leader in absolutely anything.

We should be a dominant club and organisation, but we are too scared to do it.

 

[DJ75]

Reiwoldt if you listen to the comments again, was saying that we should drop Milera this week given we dropped Rachele for something 'similar'.

Ridiculous from him.

As always we hold senior players to a far different standard than younger players.

Not saying Milera should be suspended - that's ridiculous, but neither should Rachele have been suspended.

 

[StonesThrow]

If Milera had said 'they were a bit disorganised ', which, I think, was effectively what he meant - would anyone even know that he was interviewed by the ABC ?

Exactly. Dysfunctional even.

 

[MaccaKnowsBest]

No, the club chose to apologise, because they wanted to blunt it as a motivating factor for Sydney against us going forward.

I think the Crows needed to do more to put the fire out. But I'm afraid it's too late. You are about to wake the sleeping giant and the Swans are about to come out and breathe fire. The league won't know what hit them.

Just wait until we meet in the finals. Just look what happened to Port. It will be the 2024 prelim all over again*

*all tongue in cheek as the Swans are really a rabble and no chance to make finals.

 

[SugarShane]

I know I'm in the minority opinion on this, but Aiston is off-base here. He's acting like the club felt they had to apologise, because the game is too sanitised, etc. Like the club felt that Milera had done something unacceptable that must be atoned for.

No, the club chose to apologise, because they wanted to blunt it as a motivating factor for Sydney against us going forward. They didn't need to, nobody would have said anything if they didn't. They chose to.

Even Riewoldt never said that it was disgraceful, or that the club owed an apology, or anything like that. He said the comments were disrespectful - and he was right. They were disrespectful comments. Whether or not you think Sydney deserves respect is a separate issue.

This is not about the club being soft. They're not accepting a penalty, or fining Milera, or anything like that. They're being proactive and saying "right, let's just nip this one in the bud" and then moving on. It's a non-issue.

Nailed it. The whole thing has just been an exercise in media heads trying to get their heads and soundbytes on air with faux outrage.

How often in your life do you apologise for things that aren't really that bad or weren't intended to be disrespectful? "Oops sorry, that came out wrong. I didn't mean it like that." "Ok, thanks."

We haven't given back premiership points. We haven't "thrown Milera under the bus". We've gotten on the front foot with a gentle "Oops, soz."

 

[ftmch]

I know I'm in the minority opinion on this, but Aiston is off-base here. He's acting like the club felt they had to apologise, because the game is too sanitised, etc. Like the club felt that Milera had done something unacceptable that must be atoned for.

No, the club chose to apologise, because they wanted to blunt it as a motivating factor for Sydney against us going forward. They didn't need to, nobody would have said anything if they didn't. They chose to.

Even Riewoldt never said that it was disgraceful, or that the club owed an apology, or anything like that. He said the comments were disrespectful - and he was right. They were disrespectful comments. Whether or not you think Sydney deserves respect is a separate issue.

This is not about the club being soft. They're not accepting a penalty, or fining Milera, or anything like that. They're being proactive and saying "right, let's just nip this one in the bud" and then moving on. It's a non-issue.

Yep, agree with all of that.

Are we even sure that it was an actual apology, as opposed to a simple call to clarify Jnr's comments and to highlight that there was no disrespect intended (which is not an apology)? I've only heard the word 'apology' used by the media - is it possible they've just run with that after hearing Tim Silvers called Tom Harley about it?

Or has the club formally come out and specified that we offered an apology to Sydney?

 

[GameofSloanes]

I don't think the comments were disrespectful

I think most people who saw the game would agree with the comments, including Sydney

 

[SugarShane]

I think most people who saw the game would agree with the comments, including Sydney

I think that's half the problem. Sydney weren't offended. They agreed, hence the early morning ocean training session.

Which further proves the apology isn't weak, it's just a "Hey, they're saying this. We didn't mean that, we cool?"

The whole thing reeks of being offended on behalf of someone who really wasn't that bothered themselves.

 

[Nepotism]

You shouldn't have to apologise for telling The Truth!

It is so Woke.

 

[GameofSloanes]

I think that's half the problem. Sydney weren't offended. They agreed, hence the early morning ocean training session.

Which further proves the apology isn't weak, it's just a "Hey, they're saying this. We didn't mean that, we cool?"

The whole thing reeks of being offended on behalf of someone who really wasn't that bothered themselves.

Probably, but it's just not that big a deal either way imo. The only people who are trying to make it into something are the media

 

[Nepotism]

I mean modern society is thus that people apologise for anything these days.

If the Swans didn't play like rabble then Wayne wouldn't have called them rabble.

 

[cmndstab]

Reiwoldt if you listen to the comments again, was saying that we should drop Milera this week given we dropped Rachele for something 'similar'.

Ridiculous from him.

Definitely ridiculous, but perhaps the real issue here is that he can quite rightly say "hey, you guys have already established that you will drop a player for complete non-issues in the past, if it's good for a junior player then surely it's good for a senior player?"

The mistake was the Crows dropping Rachele last year, fortunately they've not repeated that mistake here.

You shouldn't have to apologise for telling The Truth!

It is so Woke.

Again, they didn't have to apologise. Nobody made them. Nobody would have cried foul if they didn't.

There is nothing "woke" about this, to the extent that the term even has any meaning left anymore.

 

[Milo Cyrus]

Let's hope we never hear Riewoldt criticize a club or player again. Good luck with his media career if this is the environment he wants to work in.

Might want to look in his own backyard... Remember the "They're not so tough now" inserted into their 2017 flag video.

 

[Pugsley]

I think the Crows needed to do more to put the fire out. But I'm afraid it's too late. You are about to wake the sleeping giant and the Swans are about to come out and breathe fire. The league won't know what hit them.

Just wait until we meet in the finals. Just look what happened to Port. It will be the 2024 prelim all over again*

*all tongue in cheek as the Swans are really a rabble and no chance to make finals.

Thanks.

 

[Pugsley]

Definitely ridiculous, but perhaps the real issue here is that he can quite rightly say "hey, you guys have already established that you will drop a player for complete non-issues in the past, if it's good for a junior player then surely it's good for a senior player?"

The mistake was the Crows dropping Rachele last year, fortunately they've not repeated that mistake here.



Again, they didn't have to apologise. Nobody made them. Nobody would have cried foul if they didn't.

There is nothing "woke" about this, to the extent that the term even has any meaning left anymore.

Agree to disagree with woke.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

Was he even referring directly to their footy? He seemed to be talking about how they were arguing amongst themselves.

 

[Mostyn]

H

Now here's a comment I can agree with.