One-Eyed Richmond Forum
Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: yellowandback on February 13, 2014, 07:16:12 PM
-
What on earth is this crap?
Why would he publicly state this?
I don't get the logic other than by coming out the way he did, it just proved he doesn't belong in our leadership group.
I love Jack the player but stuff
me, what a me man.
-
correctamundo
-
Good on him
-
Good on him
agree, stuffing media rat pricks waiting out the front of his house because he's not a stuffing suck prefect fire warden anymore
WGAF
i throw his shoe at the media
-
How were we supposed to know he's on a media ban if he doesn't tell the media there's a ban. :shh
-
How were we supposed to know he's on a media ban if he doesn't tell the media there's a ban. :shh
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3530/5847332037_8db5082aff_s.jpg)
-
How were we supposed to know he's on a media ban if he doesn't tell the media there's a ban. :shh
Yesssssssssss :clapping
-
WGAFF
-
Great work Jack and I'd like to give a big shout out to that Collingwood sack of sheet media knob Tony Jones who comes on the news last night after the story about Jack and says in the most patronising , wanky way.
" come on Jack , you're better than that "
Hahaaa ! suck it up Jones you flog. Not all players have to cowtow to the media.
-
Great work Jack and I'd like to give a big shout out to that Collingwood sack of sheet media knob Tony Jones who comes on the news last night after the story about Jack and says in the most patronising , wanky way.
" come on Jack , you're better than that "
Hahaaa ! suck it up Jones you flog. Not all players have to cowtow to the media.
Im pretty sure its Toby Jones you mean
-
is Toby Jones the one whose parents left him in the gutter as a baby because they didnt want him?
-
yeah, but he was 20 at the time
-
Aye 20 stone is a huge baby
-
u gotta look at it this way -
He's an annoying prikc.
-
u gotta look at it this way -
He's an annoying prikc.
He is an absolute flog. Wonder if he will still do the "go you tigers" rubbish during the song?
Can play football though. I thought he was good last year for the most part.
-
Imagine how much of an behindhole he would be if he had have gone to stkilda
-
met him at club80 and he was a true gentleman, gave me the shirt off his back and enough money for a mrs mac's sausage roll from the servo after i got chucked out
-
met him at club80 and he was a true gentleman, gave me the shirt off his back and enough money for a mrs mac's sausage roll from the servo after i got chucked out
Please refrain from posting Club 80 information on forums or those events simply will not happen.
I'm sure I don't need to remind anyone how much money Club 80 has generated for our club.
-
Gerks, you were sworn to secrecy. First rule of Club80, do not talk about Club80...
-
It is people like Greg that ruin these exciting opportunities to meet players and coaches up close.
I have become genuine friends with many players I've met at Club 80, not just a fan but a genuine friend.
I even call them by their nicknames!
Please don't disturb this precious event any further.
-
FFS even TBR can see it. :banghead
-
Shouldn't have chucked me out then EAD
-
Get rid of the bubble around AFL players
Will Brodie
The Age
February 17, 2014 - 12:11PM
... And two days into the faux season, the first reminder that Melbourne, and Aussie Rules, needs some perspective: the Jack Riewoldt 'media ban'.
Riewoldt's Richmond coach Damien Hardwick had this to say about this major issue:
"I think we've probably got to lay off some guys a little bit. These guys live in a bubble and it's very hard, a lot of people don't understand how people feel within these situations," he said.
Blimey. It is February. Jaromir Jagr is scoring goals for the Czech Republic at the Olympic Games. Here are the names tearing it up on NAB Challenge fields: Langdon; Miles; Michie.
I know we all love our footy, but let's take a deep breath.
Let's skewer, pierce, slash, explode that terrible 'bubble' constricting our footy players! Who created it? Who wants it? Get rid of the bubble!
It is February. It is 25 degrees at night. Do we really need this level of angst over a 'leadership group' demotion now? Or at any time? Have we all lost our collective sports minds?
If Jack Riewoldt thinks he is so poorly served by those obliged to stick a mic under his nose, maybe we need to re-appraise this whole venture.
What was the media's crime in this instance?
According to Jack's reported words, they did not pay enough attention to Troy Chaplin being placed in the Richmond leadership group (possibly at Jack's expense).
If Jack is actually aggrieved at not being in this treasured posse, it would have been just as efficient, media-wise, for him to have said so.
(We'll include his quotes on the matter in full at the end of this article in case you think we're being unfair.)
All that has occurred instead is an annoying news story for the Tigers, and a reminder for the rest of us that we really DO need to be paying attention to some matters other than AFL. Clearly, the AFL has succeeded too well in becoming Melbourne's major sports news focus for 11 months of the year.
Jack's rationale for going mute is that he doesn't like how he has been portrayed in the media over the past year. This said in his weekly slot on Gold 104.3, a gig he will now jettison, after three years. An outgoing, lively personality, Jack had also been a fixture on TV's Footy Show.
Via the media, I have this image of Jack: He appears to be a happy, well-adjusted, well-paid individual who occasionally displays his on-field disappointment. He seems to enjoy the spotlight without being a braggart or attention-hog. My image of him is of a good bloke, a passionate teammate, someone the team might roll its eyes at once or twice a year, but who they respect and enjoy having around. I don't think that I am alone in possessing that sense of the Tiger full-forward.
Does such a depiction serve him so badly? Has the media, which he has apparently enjoyed working in and profiting from, really become such a dreadful imposition on his life?
I'd like to take Jack's initiative a step further. How about every well-paid, over-sensitive, well-coached media performer in AFL ranks be relieved of the onerous duty of public speech? How about we place a blanket ban on reporting anything an AFL player has to say until the first premiership match commences? Would the world really stop spinning?
I think we'd cope.
And for the rest of the 2014 season, here's a suggested AFL media policy:
If you have nothing to say, don't say it.
If you have something to say, and you say it, don't blame the medium if it is reported.
JACK RIEWOLDT'S LAST WORDS
"Something I've really struggled with over the last year and certainly the last week is really how I've been portrayed in the media," Riewoldt told Gold 104.3.
"I've taken it upon myself to make my own decision that if I can't be portrayed the way I want to be portrayed, then, I'll give it a miss."
"I find it hard to deal with those sort of things, that the main focus was on the individual, on me not making it into the leadership group obviously," Riewoldt said.
"I felt sorry for a guy like Troy Chaplin, and it just shows the character of that guy, who I would have right up there as one of our best leaders, if not the most natural-born leaders, at the moment of our football club.
"He didn't get the recognition that he deserved from the media and the outside world. That was the thing that cut me a little bit deep.
"We have five very, very capable blokes there and they are going to lead this club to some really big success this year."
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/get-rid-of-the-bubble-around-afl-players-20140217-32v5n.html
-
sounds like the media people are a little peeved that someone may dictate to them how much they deal with the media :nopity
Yet when it comes to the big, important issues, and not just in sport, they dont have the bollocks to put the hard questions to the powerful elite, or if they do, just accept any old dribble that doesnt actually address the question. Why not, coz they are afraid that they will get them off side and perhaps get a media ban?
Suck up to the rich and powerful, and bully the easier targets.
Respect brah, respect!
-
correct al, they're worried about getting their afl media accreditation revoked