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Xander McGuire

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Tandy said:
He’s now on the AFL.com.au the Round So Far. Regardless, he is improving. I’d say Kate McCarthys addition is more questionable as she’s just not up to it imo.
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I don't even know who Kate McCarthy is!
I didn't mind the round so far on a Sunday morning. Something tells me I won't be bothered this year.
 
Few things help in ol' Melbourne town like a last name. He's not the first, he won't be the last - but denying any nepotism is beyond ridiculous.
 

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troybe said:
Fox had brother Joe on the NRL Vegas coverage yesterday, I wonder what insight he brought
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My first thought was "Jesus, he looks really bloody in that suit!"

I didn't have a second thought, he didn't say a single thing that was remotely interesting or memorably, it was literal in one ear, out the other durge.
 
It’s not that he got there that people have a problem with it’s that he was accelerated so quickly and jumped over a bunch of people who would’ve done the hard yards for a number of years that people would have a problem with at such a young age.
 
Plat the Rat said:
It’s not that he got there that people have a problem with it’s that he was accelerated so quickly and jumped over a bunch of people who would’ve done the hard yards for a number of years that people would have a problem with at such a young age.
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Yep. Many tried the same path and were pissed out because they were nobodies.
 
Borussia Teeth said:
Really weird watching him interview Darcy Moore last Sunday… they look very similar.
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Darce looks Moore like a McGuire than he does his parent.
 

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Plat the Rat said:
It’s not that he got there that people have a problem with it’s that he was accelerated so quickly and jumped over a bunch of people who would’ve done the hard yards for a number of years that people would have a problem with at such a young age.
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Plus he has a face you'd never ever get sick of hitting.
 
Plat the Rat said:
It’s not that he got there that people have a problem with it’s that he was accelerated so quickly and jumped over a bunch of people who would’ve done the hard yards for a number of years that people would have a problem with at such a young age.
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Yeah, exactly.

This is ridiculous - the AFL media landscape is absolutely dominated by family connections. McLure, Browne, McGuire, Wilson, Malthouse, Lane, all have "who you know" connections. Any nobody - no matter how good - has practically zero hope.
 
iameviljez said:
Yeah, exactly.

This is ridiculous - the AFL media landscape is absolutely dominated by family connections. McLure, Browne, McGuire, Wilson, Malthouse, Lane, all have "who you know" connections. Any nobody - no matter how good - has practically zero hope.
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Even those who do make it..I always wonder, who do they know?
 
The Golden Glenferrie said:
Even those who do make it..I always wonder, who do they know?
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Usually they do it the really hard way through local radio etc.

It shits me that you have journos who slog away as a labour of love doing the hard yards during the witching hours on SEN, calling the VFL or the local footy leagues for years, meanwhile someone like Tom Browne knows Caroline Wilson who is the daughter of Ian Wilson and hey presto, here's your career.
 
iameviljez said:
Usually they do it the really hard way through local radio etc.

It shits me that you have journos who slog away as a labour of love doing the hard yards during the witching hours on SEN, calling the VFL or the local footy leagues for years, meanwhile someone like Tom Browne knows Caroline Wilson who is the daughter of Ian Wilson and hey presto, here's your career.
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Now Brownie is probably a senior manager at NAB
 

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ReturningHawk said:
Xander McGuire, Tom Morris, Sam McClure... the scourge of the Toorak-cast, teflon-coated grammar-school babies continues.
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And the number of others who fell into plum AFL/sports media jobs.

Sam Lane, Christi Malthouse, Caroline Wilson, Seb Costello...
 
iameviljez said:
And the number of others who fell into plum AFL/sports media jobs.

Sam Lane, Christi Malthouse, Caroline Wilson, Seb Costello...
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Abbey Gelmi, Sarah Jones
 
ReturningHawk said:
Xander McGuire, Tom Morris, Sam McClure... the scourge of the Toorak-cast, teflon-coated grammar-school babies continues.
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A nobody wouldn't come back from what Morris did let alone be handed plum job/s at Nine. Wouldn't happen no matter how hard they worked, so it's all about those 'right school' connections and nepotism.

McClure is wrong so often and has no distinguishable talent so he would've been spat out ages ago.

McGuire was an actor who got his foot in the door because of his surname. Wouldn't have mattered if he had no talent at all, he got his start and that allows him opportunities others would never have access to.
 

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