Can you imagine the media outrage if this was a rugby league story

[El Diablo]

i wonder what Rugby League atrocity the DT has been holding back so they coould release it in Origin week

 

[cumberlandsashes81]

The problem examples being raised all point to one culprit - the Daily Telegraph. The solution is simple - stop buying it.

It doesn't stop the paper being a major source of content on Rugby league for the rest of the News Ltd. newspapers - thereby spreading it's sensationalist reporting to the rest of the country when those papers pick up the stories for their websites or print editions.

The Tele doesn't confine it's sensationalism to rugby league. Look at the hysterical articles about the NSW State Government, lebanese crime, P plate drivers, bikie gangs & refugees/illegal immigrants.

Yes, and it's potentially damaging to those groups (rightly or wrongly) just like it is to our game. Due to this being a Rugby league forum most people are concerned about how the Daily Terror reports on our code.

Wishing the same garbage on other sports wont cut it either.

Who said that? I just want to see some sanity and restraint like AFL stories seem to enjoy in The Age or the Herald Sun.

Anyone who reads past the headlines knows that AFL has produce more sordid, and serious issues in the recent past that any other Aussie sport. You don't need sensationalism to tell you that.

I'm not confident that this notional "Anyone" would know that.

 

[Noa]

In Sydney it would be big news if it was league.

It's a league town.

Brutus, you keep making aussie rules comparisons like it matters outside of Victoria & SA. It doesn't.

You just dont get it do you.

Down here the spin from journalists and the AFL is how positive it is there is only 12 and that the policy is working.

If it was League the headlines in all states would be

"Another Black Eye for League"

"NRL DISGRACE"

"Drugs Rife in NRL"

 

[El Diablo]

this spin from the Courier Mail http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/sport/afl/story/0,27046,25557807-5016169,00.html

Secondly, the annual report of the game's illicit drugs code. It has been popular to pot, pardon the pun, the AFL's controversial three strikes policy but there can be no doubt it is working. Twelve positive tests, down from 14 despite a considerable increase in testing, shows the education and rehabilitation policy works.

There wouldn't be an organisation in the country that could boast such impressive figures. Especially considering we are talking about wealthy young men aged between 18-30.

:roll:

f**king junkies

 

[ibeme]

this spin from the Courier Mail http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/sport/afl/story/0,27046,25557807-5016169,00.html



:roll:

f**king junkies

lol. Couldn't find any organisation in the world with better stats? If the NRL had the same stats, there'd be seven players named and suspended. As that hasn't happened, it's fair to say that the NRL is cleaner. It's had no second strikes.

 

[El Diablo]

lol. Couldn't find any organisation in the world with better stats? If the NRL had the same stats, there'd be seven players named and suspended. As that hasn't happened, it's fair to say that the NRL is cleaner. It's had no second strikes.

exactly. they get lauded despite being chock a block full of druggies and what does League get?

headlines like this


NSW State of Origin team slammed for standing up school kids

maybe they should've arrived early and sat down smoking cones with the kids to please the media

 

[Brutus]

Front page from Today's Herald Sun

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/

Not one mention of the drug story at all on the website today. As per usual the Melbourne media just moves on/buries it with no hysteria lasting a week.

One can only imagine how hard the Sydney papers would salivating over NRL DRUG CRISIS stories this across the entire weekend.

 

[MsStorm]

You just dont get it do you.

Down here the spin from journalists and the AFL is how positive it is there is only 12 and that the policy is working.

If it was League the headlines in all states would be

"Another Black Eye for League"

"NRL DISGRACE"

"Drugs Rife in NRL"

Parra simply doesn't understand it at all...be good if he lived here in Melbourne for a few years.

There are so many posts on rugby league forums from people living here in Melbourne that confirm exactly what you typed above.
Believe it or not, I have even spoken to some people who follow afl, agree that the afl are shonky.

 

[Dazraider]

Cant blame them taking drugs playing that boring soft game.

 

[KHunt]

Great to see MG saying it how it is on the Sunday Roast today.

They were talking about Ben Cousins giving the camera in the dressing room the ups and the 12 players getting Illicit drugs and MG had a rant about how if this happened in the NRL it would be front and back pages stories of how bad this is and exclaiming the double standards.

 

[Brutus]

MG says it how it is. That was a great call on the Roast today. MG, Vossy and Gus are three hardcore league people.

Long live the Roast!!

 

[Sam I Am]

Great to see MG saying it how it is on the Sunday Roast today.

They were talking about Ben Cousins giving the camera in the dressing room the ups and the 12 players getting Illicit drugs and MG had a rant about how if this happened in the NRL it would be front and back pages stories of how bad this is and exclaiming the double standards.

People in the media talking about how bad the media are. Hmmm...

 

[The Tank]

MG was great. Unfortunate they didn't give more examples of double standards though.

 

[dontmakemeangry]

MG says it how it is. That was a great call on the Roast today. MG, Vossy and Gus are three hardcore league people.

Long live the Roast!!

I love The Roast!

Doesn't matter where i am or what state (seedy) i'm in, it is the highlight of the footy week.

Should go for 2 hours!

Am even warming to Teekay.........slightly :roll:

 

[Brutus]

TK is better on the Roast than he is on the BSB.

 

[hineyrulz]

MG was great. Unfortunate they didn't give more examples of double standards though.

The roast only goes for an hour, they would need at least 6 just to scratch the surface.

 

[Chook Norris]

MG says it how it is. That was a great call on the Roast today. MG, Vossy and Gus are three hardcore league people.

Long live the Roast!!

he was at it yesterday on Triple M as well (saying the exact same thing as today)

good to have people like him out there speaking out for our game, no doubt channel 9 wouldn't have been happy

 

[Hanscholo]

You should have seen David koch blowing up about this last week on sunrise. Clearly a league supporter, he was just giving it to the AFL and making the point that league has had to endure a completely bare bones analysis this season, meanwhile the AFL have taken the high moral ground whilst condoning drug use. Telling people they have 3 f**king chances, that is condoning it. Sure, some NRL players get chances if they are caught, but they get a huge suspension to go with it and if they do it again its career over. Not withstanding the fact that they are publicly humiliated and put through hell by a feaverish media. How long ago was it that one AFL side had 10 players all testing positive to cocaine at once...it was a massive story and the AFL refused outright to talk about it and the story just went away. They are a disgrace.

 

[El Diablo]

Koch is a yawnion fan

 

[dontmakemeangry]

he was at it yesterday on Triple M as well (saying the exact same thing as today)

good to have people like him out there speaking out for our game, no doubt channel 9 wouldn't have been happy

Why would 9 have the sh*ts?

AFL are 7,10, and fox are they not?