what is Patrick Smith's problem?

[len_jet]

listening to Fatprick Smith spill his crap what is his beef with the Carlton football club?

I must add even thought I detest KB i have to admit he sat very much perched on the fence during that interview and I commened him for taking that point of view. As a radio commentator I, he is allowed to be opinionative but it was good to hear him sit there and FINALLY be impartial...

Fatprick needs to get the pole out of his ass and start producing some realistic and decent journalism... then again he write for the Australian which has no credibility anyway!

 

[Salaryman]

It's quite simple, he's a talentless, pig headed, biased, pr1ck, who isn't a real journalist so relies on tryinig to forge a reputation as the "shock jock" of AFL.

At least he acknowledges it is an issue wider than CFC alone......but It's funny how they failed to mention Richmond's round 22 performance

It is even funnier how the microscope is being pointed at the clubs....with talk of AFL investigations. Simple fact of the matter is they are the morons who have a system that is failing...it is the draft system itself that is causing the concerns, time to have a closer look at that than the AFL clubs who are simply working with a ridiculous system. AFL is run by people as pig-headed as Fatprick.....issue won't be solved until the draft incentives are lessened.

Not the best analogy but it would be kind of like the dole being raised, so what are people on minumum wage in shit jobs going to do?? Work their butts off when there is a system in place that would reward them being lazy at work??

My favourite line was that we forced Thornton to have ankle surgery when there was nothing wrong with him....yep and the US bombed their own twin towers and the moon landing never happened

 

[Beloved]

A case of trying to hard. I thank Pat though, as he's setting an example for what I shouldn't do/be as a journalist.

 

[C4[2]Yo`DooR]

LMAO Patrick Smith thinks that there should be a royal commission into tanking ... !!!!!

 

[thylacine60]

LMAO Patrick Smith thinks that there should be a royal commission into tanking ... !!!!!

How about a Royal Commission into food and drink prices at the footy?

 

[4blues]

How about a Royal Commission into food and drink prices at the footy?

Gold, dont get much change out of $20 for a pie and coke, then again couldnt see patrick eating in the outer.

 

[Donstuie]

How about a Royal Commission into food and drink prices at the footy?

Or how Ron Evans purchased a small catering outlet at Subiaco before anyone knew that the Eagles were going to move there.

 

[cjfc]

Or how Ron Evans purchased a small catering outlet at Subiaco before anyone knew that the Eagles were going to move there.

dont be silly. mr evans had links with fatpricks beloved essendon, everyone knows he bags everyone but them. he has become so predictable with his mumbling. massive tosser writing for a shit newspaper.

 

[jj1978]

Caro chose Wallet over him.... he still hasn't had s3x for 50 years and was hoping Caro was the one to break that streak.

He also finds it depressing that he doesn't remember what his d!ck looks like anymore.

 

[Bee]

LMAO Patrick Smith thinks that there should be a royal commission into tanking ... !!!!!

Geez, I thought they were called Commissions of Inquiry now and not Royal Commissions.

Anyhow, maybe there should be an inquiry (Royal or whatever) into people who pretend to have qualifications in journalism.

 

[Thrawn]

Royal Commission?

Will Prince Harry organise the bombing runs against the battalion of tanks?

 

[as0l0]

How about a Royal Commission into food and drink prices at the footy?

that should be filling the air waves 24 hours a day. seriously!

 

[Silvagnis]

Sycophants strut, Tigers earn stripes

EVERYTHING about football fascinates Terry Wallace. As Richmond coach that is his job. That does not mean he has all the answers, merely all the questions. Before his Tigers took on the Sycophants on Thursday night, Wallace considered the summer build-up to the season.

Richmond had been routinely ridiculed. The list was poor, the recruiting inadequate. Wallace himself was into his fourth year of a five-year contract. He had been left alone in years one to three because the media and supporters knew the club could not move on the coach for the payout would be massive and unaffordable.

So the media and the supporters marked time. Ten wins in his first season, 11 in his second and then last year just three. Everyone cocked their pistols.

Across town, Carlton was more than bullish. And that is despite finishing last or second last for the previous three years. Chris Judd had been wooed to the club. The Sycophants had managed to ensure they would get the most talented young big man in the land, Matthew Kreuzer, first up in the draft. Then there was The Price Fixer. He was paying the bills. And running the show was Greg Swann, one of the AFL's most capable administrators.

The optimism was palpable, talkback radio bubbled about the return to power of one of the great clubs in AFL history. Football was back, though some might say it never went away.

Wallace wondered how all of this emotion would play out on Thursday night. Would the Sycophants be irrepressible? Would they strut when last year they slinked? And would Richmond be timid, its confidence smothered by a pre-season of pessimism?

Wallace knows the answer now. His Tigers were a driven team, overwhelming the Sycophants in the second half. After the long break Richmond found the goal nine times, the Sycophants just twice. The Tigers worked harder, ran more fiercely. And more than 72,000 people watched from the stands.

It wasn't hard to work out how important this victory was to the Tigers. Pick up the paper and the newsagent is in shorts and T-shirt with a Richmond scarf around his neck. It is a wonder that he could find it.

The sense of relief at Punt Road must be substantial. A defeat would have been intolerable. The list was full, Carlton didn't have anyone taller than a shrub. Judd was underdone because of groin surgery, though he almost magically managed to get the first and third possessions of the game. Everybody involved with the Tigers had said it was time to deliver. Wallace had said if there was no improvement this season then, rightly, his role at the club should be questioned.

Matthew Richardson is 33 and no better now than when he arrived in 1993. That is not to denigrate him, for he has been brilliant from the start. He has kicked 748 goals in his 257 games. He got five against the Sycophants. Wobbly kick and all emotion, he is a champion of which the sport should be proud.

Wallace has been remarkably honest about his club, something that hurt him last year when he said the club would be at its most powerful in 2011. But there are nuances. When asked who would pick up Judd, Wallace's response was that the job had always fallen to skipper Kane Johnson. Which is right, but Daniel Jackson picked up the Brownlow medallist.

What either team takes from this match is problematic. If the Sycophants could not beat Richmond who will they topple this season? They do get Kreuzer into the line-up and ruckman Shaun Hampson back. Brad Fisher was missed, as was Adam Bentick.

For Richmond, Wallace would have liked the obvious development of his backline. Will Thursfield, Jake King, Kelvin Moore and Jay Schulz are young, no-one older than 23. They kept the Sycophants to just two goals in a half and if they remain fit the Tigers will have a solid, competent defensive core by the time this group reaches 25 and 26. Wallace can throw Graham Polak into that mix. Add Richard Tambling's defensive harassment and the improvement is obvious.

Schulz is in his sixth season with the Tigers. He is 22 and has been a defender and a forward, no-one sure whether he was coming or going. But just short of a month ago he broke a rib and punctured a lung. He was fierce against the Sycophants, constantly risking further injury. Wallace might think that his performance was symbolic of how the Tigers must play this year. If it is they will beat more than the Sycophants along the way

 

[mediumsizered]

Sycophants strut, Tigers earn stripes

Is Patrick Smith the most juvenile/immature journalist of all time? The Australian used to be a quality newspaper, once upon a time, but if they continue to allow this clown to write childish stuff like this, any respect they might have had will be well & truly erased.

Patrick Smith needs to grow up.

 

[XXX KINGS]

At the end of the day Patrick Smith is a failure as a journalist.

He writes for a newspaper that nobody reads.

 

[Uhumagoo]

i thought he was a comedian acting as a caricature of journalist, in the mould of Straughnie. I actually found him quite amusing. Then I learned he is an actual journalist.. Now he is even more amusing.

 

[thylacine60]

That article is proof he has finally lost it. He actually believed his little column had enough clout to bring Pratt down and when it didn't he spat the dummy and now calls us sycophants. I'm not even sure what he is getting at there. There is no joy or sense of occasion in his articles. Just bitterness and a sad litany of repetitive "theme" grudges.

 

[thegrach]

Sycophants strut, Tigers earn stripes

This is an insult to both our clubs, and this once and for all proves that he is a tosser of the highest order. Surely he is a week away from getting the sack, even at that shithouse newspaper that no-one reads.

 

[C4[2]Yo`DooR]

I just want to walk up to the clown one day on Bay st, and say hey Patrick ....

HADUUUUUKANNNNNNNNNNNNN

 

[XXX KINGS]

Finish Him!

 

[AlecDuncan]

That article is proof he has finally lost it. He actually believed his little column had enough clout to bring Pratt down and when it didn't he spat the dummy and now calls us sycophants.

From now on, can we refer to him exclusively as "The w***er"? It seems to fit his style.

 

[thylacine60]

From now on, can we refer to him exclusively as "The w***er"? It seems to fit his style.

Too easy. Hutchy might become a little miffed but.

 

[Silvagnis]

Tony Jones pathetic column in the Sunday Age which replaced Hutchy's column and flames Carlton for not suspending Fev is as bad as Smith's vitriol and rhetoric.

The perfect replacement for Hutchy.

 

[Rick18]

I think you'll find he's onto his next target. He tried North Melbourne, failed and was threatened with legal action.

Now onto Carlton

 

[EasternTiger]

What's a sycophant?