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[taipan]

Which major Australian news outlet do you suppose is the only one not carrying the Ben Cousins is arrested again story? hmm

It wouldn't be? No it couldn't be? Surely they are an ethical organisation, like the mafia.

 

[johnny plath]

Lovely fluff piece today on the AFL asian championships in vietnam. Refer to it as the Australian founded game. Meanwhile rl world Cup qualifiers and domestic comps springing up around the world remains in obscurity except to the die hards.

 

[T-Boon]

Channel Nine's 'the block - season 700' just had Brendan Favolar on as a guest. Has there ever been a reality TV show without a guest AFL player?

I mean, did Nine somehow manage to turn the 'NRL Rookie' into an AFL promotion?

 

[gUt]

Wrong thread.

And really who cares which washed up "celebrities" get their rent paid for another month by appearing on shit like that. Only geniuss watch anyway.

 

[LESStar58]

Channel Nine's 'the block - season 700' just had Brendan Favolar on as a guest. Has there ever been a reality TV show without a guest AFL player?

I mean, did Nine somehow manage to turn the 'NRL Rookie' into an AFL promotion?

Allegedly accost female journo in toilet and make a proper ass out of yourself at the casino, get a career in media when you are done with footy.

Only in Victoria

 

[Dodgy]

I can't be that bad...

 

[gUt]

With the NRL season kicking off in 2 days, I thought I'd check the Grandstand page on fb to read up on Australia's most watched winter sport. These are the sports the articles cover post by post, newest to oldest:

cricket
AFL
AFL
soccer
rugby
soccer
tennis
AFLW
F1
cricket
soccer
AFLW
skiing
cricket
soccer
rugby
AFLW
basketball
soccer
basketball
cricket
soccer
cricket
tennis
NRL

 

[insert.pause]

you only have to look at the grandstand website, in the last week they have had only 2 NRL stories compared to 12 for the AFL, and it's the week before the season starts!

The ABC is inherently biased to Victoria.

 

[taipan]

i watched the Back Page on and off last night.In between flicking it over to the Fox League
Agenda first Cricket
People falling over in sport
Lavish praise on the sellouts for the women's awful, trouble is "sellouts" are in fact "freeouts."
Oh the NRL had their opening ceremony, and they quickly discussed the Qld Fox program,the spent time on Foran and possibly Brisbane Broncos.
The bald headed so called comedian Spencer then went into overdrive"Never happen in AFL..Even when Buddy Franklin was going to the Swans,few knew and it took 2 years two years I. tell you not a few days."

5 Panelists .
3 full on AFL tragics .Underwood,Spencer and a lean flip Fitzy.
1 the moderator Squires 50/50 but is a Swan's fan foremost, laughs at his own comments.
1 Cricket/NRL fan journo from Brisbane.Who sucks up to the rest of the AFL inclined panel.
And one wonders why we have shots at the Offsiders and Back Page.

If bias was calories ,everyone on that panel would be twice the size of Barrel Brohman.

 

[Stormwarrior82]

I so wish the nrl would force fox to have a nrl person on the back page and grandstand and any other sports show that promotes themsleves as a sports show. They are losing out big time because the perception there are making is what ever the nrl does wrong is worse that the afl and whatever the nrl does good is not as good as the afl. And it's turning people off that are sitting on the fence about the nrl. That needs to be fixed

 

[Hawkins]

People falling over in sport

Tell me that's made up

 

[taipan]

Tell me that's made up

With that show ,anything can be made up,as long as fumble ball is show in the sunlight as the ultimate sport.

 

[mongoose]

I remember flicking on ABC one day last year and Leigh Sales and Scott Morrison were exchanging NRL banter on the 7.30 report. The ABC producers and lefty Victorian audience must have hated that..

 

[gUt]

This counts as a worthy news story on the main news page apparently:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-08/swans-fans-switch-clubs-until-womens-team-introduced/8337302

Sydney Swans fans forced to switch teams until club enters AFLW

Wendy Twaddell and her daughter Eliza are staunch Swans supporters.

But they have had to switch teams this summer because the Swans do not have a women's team.

"Very disappointed, I've been to a GWS (Greater Western Sydney) game and it was really exciting and really fun," Wendy said.

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So this is literally a "story" about 2 people who want a Swans womens' team. I wonder how the journo learned of this? srsly

 

[The Mad Hatter]

I remember flicking on ABC one day last year and Leigh Sales and Scott Morrison were exchanging NRL banter on the 7.30 report. The ABC producers and lefty Victorian audience must have hated that..

I'm surprised the world didn't implode. Or at least some producer's head at the ABC. LOL!

 

[mikeob]

This counts as a worthy news story on the main news page apparently:

Sydney Swans fans forced to switch teams until club enters AFLW

Wendy Twaddell and her daughter Eliza are staunch Swans supporters.

But they have had to switch teams this summer because the Swans do not have a women's team.

"Very disappointed, I've been to a GWS (Greater Western Sydney) game and it was really exciting and really fun," Wendy said.

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So this is literally a "story" about 2 people who want a Swans womens' team. I wonder how the journo learned of this? srsly

According to dictionary.com synonyms for twaddle are drivel,nonsense,prattle,rubbish.

 

[RL The greatest game]

This counts as a worthy news story on the main news page apparently:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-08/swans-fans-switch-clubs-until-womens-team-introduced/8337302

Sydney Swans fans forced to switch teams until club enters AFLW

Wendy Twaddell and her daughter Eliza are staunch Swans supporters.

But they have had to switch teams this summer because the Swans do not have a women's team.

"Very disappointed, I've been to a GWS (Greater Western Sydney) game and it was really exciting and really fun," Wendy said.

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So this is literally a "story" about 2 people who want a Swans womens' team. I wonder how the journo learned of this? srsly

"It was really exciting and really fun"said Wendy.
some people are easily pleased or not very bright.

 

[GAZF]

So this is literally a "story" about 2 people who want a Swans womens' team. I wonder how the journo learned of this? srsly

How impatient can you get? The Swans women's team plays Port Adelaide's women's team for points at the SCG on the 25th of March. 430 000 tickets will be distributed, Rip Taylor style, in schools and workplaces so don't miss out.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

"It was really exciting and really fun"said Wendy.
some people are easily pleased or not very bright.

Play Do would keep this pair interested by the sounds of it.

 

[Dodgy]

1 Cricket/NRL fan journo from Brisbane.Who sucks up to the rest of the AFL inclined panel.

Robert Craddock? You guys would hate listening to SEN1116 when he's on. You wouldn't recognise him as an NRL fan.