What do you guys think of Rucci?

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I think he's SA's version of Mike Sheehan, only WORSE!

The guy knows NOTHING about football and every article he writes about the Crows make my eyes roll all the way up to the top of my head.

And unless he reads this and decides to change his writing style, he has a disturbing penchant for using the word 'revealing' everytime he wants to bag something.

This is 'revealing' of the AFC. This is 'revealing' of Nick Stevens etc, etc.

I think he needs to go back to being laughed at for being a Port Adelaide supporter rather than spend his time abusing his position as a journalist to criticise the Crows for no reason other than the fact that he dislikes them.
 

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He is an A Grade t wat.

For one he often gets his facts wrong which is inexcusable never mind his lamentable "opinion" pieces.

Also he called me a Norwood member in the paper which I was not happy about.
 

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Michelangelo Rucci has reached a new level in biased reporting and lack of objectivity this football season.

He is a disgrace to his profession. He is singlehandedly trying to talk Port Adelaide up in every article he writes about them, and simultaneously assassinating the Crows at every attempt.

Anybody doubting the above should get a copy of his articles over the last 2 to 3 weeks - he has really lost it this season. He has zero credibility.

Further examples. On the Saturday Sports show after the Glenelg and Norwood trial matches, when asked by KG to comment on them, he refused to make any comment on them whatsoever, as he said they revealed nothing and it was like dancing with your sister.

BUT 2 days later he wrote a glowing report in the 'tiser on Port Power's INTERNAL trial and all the things that revealed about the Power for 2004. HYPOCRITE!!

When the Power lost to Geelong in the Wizzer, I nearly fell over when I read his article. It was such a glowing report about the Power you would have thought that they won by 22 goals rather than lost.

The Advertiser MUST replace this self-appointed Port Power propoganda machine and appoint a chief football writer who can write with objectivity, be that praise or criticism.

Rucci retains none of those qualities or virtues. He has to go!!
 

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I couldn't agree more Macca23 - he has been disgraceful this year in terms of his bias towards Port. I was wondering whether he thought Adelaide had become a one team town because every article he wrote was on Port Adelaide. I have no problem with him being harsh on the Crows, it's just the rubbish that comes out about Port that is offensive.

I also agree strongly with Jars458 - his errors in fact are disgraceful and kill off any credibility he may have had. Only a couple of weeks ago when he turned a Malcolm Blight speech from a crowd to a personal message to Port Adelaide he referred to Blight's premiership years with Adelaide as 96 and 97. What a joke.
 

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We're not developing a persecution complex are we?

Typical, the one shining light in this town's Crowcentric media has all the Fruit Tingles supporters in a tissy. If anyone dares to criticise the Adelaide Football Corporation for being the bunch of over-rated hacks that they currently are and everyone throws a K G.

There is not one sports writer outside this state that actually rates The Cows chances this season. Do some homework and look it up!

By the way, Rucci's never criticised Port Adelaide has he!
 

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Re: We're not developing a persecution complex are we?

Originally posted by beenreal
Typical, the one shining light in this town's Crowcentric media has all the Fruit Tingles supporters in a tissy. If anyone dares to criticise the Adelaide Football Corporation for being the bunch of over-rated hacks that they currently are and everyone throws a K G.

There is not one sports writer outside this state that actually rates The Cows chances this season. Do some homework and look it up!

By the way, Rucci's never criticised Port Adelaide has he!
I do not have a problem with journos critising Adelaide. Plenty have. What I do have a problem with is that Rucci for some reason obviously has a chip on his shoulder when it comes to Adelaide with all or most of his articles completely over the top such as calling the Crows preseason training a 'holiday'. Sure they may not have gotten it right but such exagerations are uncalled for.

As for Rucci's 'criticisms' of Port Adelaide, it's pretty blatantly obvious that they are nowhere near as vile.
 

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Being neither a Crow or Port supporter and living in SA i read the articles from Mr. rucci unbiasedly and from where I stand I would have thought that the articles by aforementioned Journo were nearly always biased toward the Crows. If i didnt know differently I would have thought Mr Rucci was indeed a Crow supporter. What really gets "my goat" is the continual whinging by various media people and indeed most crow supporters if any person ala R.Walls criticises the precious Adelaide Football Club.
 

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Rucci is a poor journo.

I don't care if his opinions differ to mine or anyone elses. That stuff is all subjective.

It's just the continual factual errors in his articles that make him poor.

Just last week he noted the Adelaide Crows premiership years of 1996 and 1997.

That's one example in the last week. Errors like that crop up all too often.

He's budget.


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Re: We're not developing a persecution complex are we?

Originally posted by beenreal
Typical, the one shining light in this town's Crowcentric media has all the Fruit Tingles supporters in a tissy. If anyone dares to criticise the Adelaide Football Corporation for being the bunch of over-rated hacks that they currently are and everyone throws a K G.

There is not one sports writer outside this state that actually rates The Cows chances this season. Do some homework and look it up!

By the way, Rucci's never criticised Port Adelaide has he!
Is that you Michelangelo?
 

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Originally posted by panthers
What really gets "my goat" is the continual whinging by various media people and indeed most crow supporters if any person ala R.Walls criticises the precious Adelaide Football Club.
The problem with Walls is he lacks consistency. His opinion one week contradicts his opinions the following week.

Very few respect Walls' opinions mainly for this exact reason. He also lets personal issues get in the way of his judgegment. Last year he couldn't bring himself to admit that Collingwood and Essendon were the best Victorian sides so he makes a total fool of himself and proclaims the Western Bulldogs the best in Victoria. History shows he was more than slightly off the mark with that one.

All we can do is laugh.


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Re: We're not developing a persecution complex are we?

Originally posted by beenreal
the one shining light in this town's Crowcentric media
Sorry, Mr unreal.

After this statement the rest became irrelevant as by then YOU had zero credibility!! :rolleyes:

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Re: We're not developing a persecution complex are we?

Originally posted by beenreal
Typical, the one shining light in this town's Crowcentric media !
THat's the funniest statement I have ever seen.

I don't care that he criticses us that's fair enough - he should just be consistent.

One day we win - he says we are the best thing since sliced bread and the next week .we lose and we have irreprebable structural flaws

What he is, is a journalist that writes about things AFTER they happen and never has an opinion BEFORE it happens or one that stays consistent.

He gets so many facts wrong its not funny

Surely getting facts right is a fundamental requirement of any credible journalist??
 

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Some of the crap people are writing here is ridiculous.

Rucci is the one writer the Advertiser has that isnt permanantly stuck up everyones arses at West Lakes. Hes just about the only writer there that will say anything negative about the Crows.

Neil Kerleys double standards when talking about the Crows and the Power is ridiculous. Not to mention some of the crap that Lance Campball has come up with at times. THen some of the other writers are just as bad at times, yet you rarely hear any Port supporters complaining about their anti-Port/pro-Crow writings.

You are all on drugs if you think he is overly biased towards Port Adelaide. Ive read more venemous, spiteful, vicious tripe come out of his articles towards Port Adelaide than any other writer ive read in the Advertiser or other newspapers and thats a fact. Over the course of a year Rucci would write many more negative articles about Port than he does about the Crows. That has certainly been the case for the last 3 seasons anyway.

God forbid theres actually one writer at the Advertiser not willing to drop to their knees and open wide to the people down at Crowland. Considering every other writer is blatantly pro-Adelaide, i wouldnt be complaining.
 

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Re: Re: We're not developing a persecution complex are we?

Ill just add that there is no doubt I think he is a poor journalist. But for people to state he is blatantly pro-Power is just plain wrong considering some of the stuff he writes about us.


I also dont agree with some of you people here saying 'I dont care what anyone writes about us'. It seems whenever a negative article or poor prediction comes out about the Crows the people on this board are the first to bring it up and debate about how pathetic it is.
 

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Originally posted by Macca19
Some of the crap people are writing here is ridiculous.

Rucci is the one writer the Advertiser has that isnt permanantly stuck up everyones arses at West Lakes. Hes just about the only writer there that will say anything negative about the Crows.
I actually don't mind what he writes about the Crows. Some of it may appear harsh at first but if you really think about what he says it is normally not far off the mark.


Originally posted by Macca19
Neil Kerleys double standards when talking about the Crows and the Power is ridiculous. Not to mention some of the crap that Lance Campball has come up with at times. THen some of the other writers are just as bad at times, yet you rarely hear any Port supporters complaining about their anti-Port/pro-Crow writings..
What a load of crap. For a start Neil Kerley rates Port very highly and rightly so - they are a good team. Secondly, Port supporters are perpetual whingers with regards to the media space they get, what gets written, what gets said etc. If newspaper space is allocated based on who is interested then they get too much. They still have a far smaller following than the Crows and should get less coverage as a result.

Originally posted by Macca19
You are all on drugs if you think he is overly biased towards Port Adelaide. Ive read more venemous, spiteful, vicious tripe come out of his articles towards Port Adelaide than any other writer ive read in the Advertiser or other newspapers and thats a fact. Over the course of a year Rucci would write many more negative articles about Port than he does about the Crows. That has certainly been the case for the last 3 seasons anyway.
I agree that he is sometimes over the top with his criticism of Port Adelaide. What he then does is balance that out with some suck job article, which is basically all he has written this year.

Originally posted by Macca19
God forbid theres actually one writer at the Advertiser not willing to drop to their knees and open wide to the people down at Crowland. Considering every other writer is blatantly pro-Adelaide, i wouldnt be complaining.
My main complaint with Rucci, apart from his bias coming through so blatantly this year, is that he gets basic facts wrong so often. He is meant to be the chief football writer for The Advertiser - that's his job - but the cleaners would get more facts correct than he does.
 

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Re: Re: We're not developing a persecution complex are we?

Originally posted by Jars458
THat's the funniest statement I have ever seen.

I don't care that he criticses us that's fair enough - he should just be consistent.

One day we win - he says we are the best thing since sliced bread and the next week .we lose and we have irreprebable structural flaws

What he is, is a journalist that writes about things AFTER they happen and never has an opinion BEFORE it happens or one that stays consistent.

He gets so many facts wrong its not funny

Surely getting facts right is a fundamental requirement of any credible journalist??
You have hit the nail on the head Jars. Rucci overdramatises (& he is not alone) by reporting us as being premiership or wooden spoon material, but there is no middle ground. I stopped reading his article today part way through as it was unbelievably crap. Now he is trying to infer that the AFC staff are on different wavelengths to each other & that there is a feud. He is a poor excuse for a journalist (& I'm sure he has already read this thread :p ).
 

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I don't rate him as a jurno and that smugness he has about hi givem me the sh|ts.

BTW, who cares what he writes. He is a d1ckhead of the highest order.
 

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Originally posted by Macca19
Neil Kerleys double standards when talking about the Crows and the Power is ridiculous.
I am sure you can do beter than that because what you just said is the biggest load of crap that you ever expressed on these boards.
 

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Re: Re: Re: We're not developing a persecution complex are we?

Originally posted by Kane McGoodwin
You have hit the nail on the head Jars. Rucci overdramatises (& he is not alone) by reporting us as being premiership or wooden spoon material, but there is no middle ground. I stopped reading his article today part way through as it was unbelievably crap. Now he is trying to infer that the AFC staff are on different wavelengths to each other & that there is a feud. He is a poor excuse for a journalist (& I'm sure he has already read this thread :p ).
I hadn't read the article when I posted my last comment and now I see that he has backed me up today

He is a clown of the highest order. Before teh first game he was talking the Crows up big time and now he is doing the opposite

Just replace the word "Crows" with "Rucci" in that headline and it is spot on.
 

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Re: Re: Re: We're not developing a persecution complex are we?

Originally posted by Macca19
Ill just add that there is no doubt I think he is a poor journalist. But for people to state he is blatantly pro-Power is just plain wrong considering some of the stuff he writes about us.


I also dont agree with some of you people here saying 'I dont care what anyone writes about us'. It seems whenever a negative article or poor prediction comes out about the Crows the people on this board are the first to bring it up and debate about how pathetic it is.
I agre with your first paragraph

I think you should be specific about your second one though. If you are including me in that then I vhemnently deny it

I don't bother reading Adelaide media for opinon pieces on the Crows because as you say many are too scared to be objective.

The AGe is generally the best spot to get an objective view or the Australian but unfortunately all they seem to write about now is Carey

I have no problem wiht people criticising the AFC because I do it a lot myself. The people who sit next to me at games can confirm that:D
 

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Originally posted by panthers
What really gets "my goat" is the continual whinging by various media people and indeed most crow supporters if any person ala R.Walls criticises the precious Adelaide Football Club.
Personally I get a good laugh out of the likes of Walls & other media "personalities". I think you will find that mst Crows supporters on this board don't give a rat's toosbag what they think or take it to heart. All clubs though have their quota of precious supporters.
 

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Re: Re: Re: We're not developing a persecution complex are we?

Originally posted by Kane McGoodwin
:D :D

Shhhh, there is a chance you may in fact be correct! ;)
Probably, only Rucci would have the audacity to proclaim himself the 'one shining light'. Typical. It is certainly REVEALING of him to do so.
 

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Re: Re: Re: Re: We're not developing a persecution complex are we?

Originally posted by Jars458
I agre with your first paragraph

I think you should be specific about your second one though. If you are including me in that then I vhemnently deny it
Wasnt talking about one person in particular but more so just from my view what generally happens when something negative is said or written about the Crows.
 

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Originally posted by Macca19
Wasnt talking about one person in particular but more so just from my view what generally happens when something negative is said or written about the Crows.
Macca, I think you will find that people on this board are not backward in criticising the Crows (or agreeing to negative publicity) where they think it is appropriate. Just need to read a few of the threads to see for yourself (eg. general agreement with PAflwr on Carey). Perhaps Rucci should to & he could right some insightful articles for something different.
 
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