Should Joey be retained by Channel Nine as a commentator

[Dazzat]

What's everyone's view on this?

I personally think Channel Nine should immediately sack him from all TV duties, not only to keep any semblance of credibility, but for Joey's long-term well-being.

There is now way he can continue offering respected, unbiased commentary on all rugby league players, because everything he says will be filtered by all members of the public and rugby league community.

A media career is no place for a man with Joey's issues.

 

[Mr Saab]

He should not have been hired in the first place. His delivery is as worst as Paul Harragon

 

[gronkathon]

I want him gone but it has nothing to do with his Origin camp comments

 

[Bobby DIGital]

I never want to see him on my TV screen again.

He needs to fade into the background like say...a Rod Wishart in retirement.

 

[El Diablo]

sack him

9 keep going on about this "Rugby League racism row" and carrying on like RL is the spawn of Satan yet they won't sack Johns

 

[myanonymoususername]

A media career is no place for a man with Joey's issues.

The main one being complete absence of ability for the job.

 

[Light Reflections]

Hopefully he won't be around for a while after this incident. He'll no doubt be back eventually though.

 

[diddi kong]

He should NOT be sacked. he is one of the smartest player ever. i respect every word he says. anyone who pretends they haven't said something like this is lying. f**k timana tahu, with out joey he would be nothing.

 

[Fibroman]

I'm tipping all those out there in fantasy land calling for Joey's sacking:

a/ Never laced on a boot
b/ If they did put boots on, played in the backs
c/ Never went on the end of season trip
d/ Told their wife or girlfriend about what happened on the footy trip
e/ Didn't catch the team bus to the game, got a lift with the wife
f/ Don't drink or swear
g/ Live in the eastern suburbs or northern beaches
h/ Use moisturiser
i/ Are lactose intollerant
j/ Wore shoulder pads and strapped your wrists
k/ Drink soft drink through a straw
l/ Crush your medicine up and put it in a tea spoon of jam
m/ Vote for the Greens
n/ Go on holidays just to show off the photos when you get back
o/ Wash and polish your car every Saturday morning
p/ Live your dreams through your kids
q/ Are school teachers
r/ Had your rattle taken away from you as a baby
s/ Tuck your singlet into your Y-fronts
t/ Need nasal delivery technology
u/ File your fingernails
v/ Don't know how to iron a shirt
w/ Use half the toilet roll after a number 2
x/ Cheated in the cross country carnival
y/ Are an only child
z/ All of the above.

 

[DeeJ]

What's wrong with playing in the backs?!

 

[perverse]

I'm tipping all those out there in fantasy land calling for Joey's sacking:

a/ Never laced on a boot
b/ If they did put boots on, played in the backs
c/ Never went on the end of season trip
d/ Told their wife or girlfriend about what happened on the footy trip
e/ Didn't catch the team bus to the game, got a lift with the wife
f/ Don't drink or swear
g/ Live in the eastern suburbs or northern beaches
h/ Use moisturiser
i/ Are lactose intollerant
j/ Wore shoulder pads and strapped your wrists
k/ Drink soft drink through a straw
l/ Crush your medicine up and put it in a tea spoon of jam
m/ Vote for the Greens
n/ Go on holidays just to show off the photos when you get back
o/ Wash and polish your car every Saturday morning
p/ Live your dreams through your kids
q/ Are school teachers
r/ Had your rattle taken away from you as a baby
s/ Tuck your singlet into your Y-fronts
t/ Need nasal delivery technology
u/ File your fingernails
v/ Don't know how to iron a shirt
w/ Use half the toilet roll after a number 2
x/ Cheated in the cross country carnival
y/ Are an only child
z/ All of the above.

:lol:

 

[whalan12]

don't care how smart he is or what he has done for rugby league. This has to be the last straw. SACK the racist f**k!!

 

[Dazzat]

I'm tipping all those out there in fantasy land calling for Joey's sacking:

a/ Never laced on a boot
b/ If they did put boots on, played in the backs
c/ Never went on the end of season trip
d/ Told their wife or girlfriend about what happened on the footy trip
e/ Didn't catch the team bus to the game, got a lift with the wife
f/ Don't drink or swear
g/ Live in the eastern suburbs or northern beaches
h/ Use moisturiser
i/ Are lactose intollerant
j/ Wore shoulder pads and strapped your wrists
k/ Drink soft drink through a straw
l/ Crush your medicine up and put it in a tea spoon of jam
m/ Vote for the Greens
n/ Go on holidays just to show off the photos when you get back
o/ Wash and polish your car every Saturday morning
p/ Live your dreams through your kids
q/ Are school teachers
r/ Had your rattle taken away from you as a baby
s/ Tuck your singlet into your Y-fronts
t/ Need nasal delivery technology
u/ File your fingernails
v/ Don't know how to iron a shirt
w/ Use half the toilet roll after a number 2
x/ Cheated in the cross country carnival
y/ Are an only child
z/ All of the above.

Me ... seven out of 26.

Anyone who writes this:
a/ Never stepped foot on an Aboriginal community
b/ If you did, probably looked for the escape route after five minutes
c/ Your idea of 'social inclusion' is eating Chinese takeaway
d/ Misses the good old days, of the White Australian policy
e/ Reckons Aboriginals deserve everything they get
f/ Reckons it's perfectly OK to verbally abuse others if they are different than you because, hey, it's funny (for you)
g/ Knows just enough about Australia's history to be dangerous
h/ Likes to boast, "I've got Aboriginal friends and I call them 'black ---s' all the time!"

 

[Gippsy]

Anyone who has trouble stringing two words together should not be a commentator.

Him & Fittler should both go.

 

[perverse]

a/ Never stepped foot on an Aboriginal community

i would love to hear about your experiences in an aboriginal community verses my 12 years living in one.

curious to know why this would be in your list.

 

[Dazzat]

i would love to hear about your experiences in an aboriginal community verses my 12 years living in one.

curious to know why this would be in your list.

Sure ... let's play "I'm more racially inclusive than you" at 20 paces. :roll:

 

[perverse]

Sure ... let's play "I'm more racially inclusive than you" at 20 paces. :roll:

i'm not saying that at all. i want to know what relevance it has, if any.

 

[Dazzat]

i'm not saying that at all. i want to know what relevance it has, if any.

Yeah sorry for jumping the gun there.

a/ and b/ go together. It's one thing to set foot on an Aboriginal community, and another to b/ feel comfortable doing so. Can't see Joey or anyone who approves of his comments, doing so.

Fibroman's A-Z post implies that if you're "tough" (according to his definitions of the word) than you can tolerate radical remarks and those who make them.

Personally, I'd rather continue getting my wife to take me to the end of season trip ... she's hot and I love her.

 

[perverse]

Yeah sorry for jumping the gun there.

a/ and b/ go together. It's one thing to set foot on an Aboriginal community, and another to b/ feel comfortable doing so. Can't see Joey or anyone who approves of his comments, doing so.

Fibroman's A-Z post implies that if you're "tough" (according to his definitions of the word) than you can tolerate radical remarks and those who make them.

Personally, I'd rather continue getting my wife to take me to the end of season trip ... she's hot and I love her.

from what i've heard Joey has been involved in all sorts of Indiginous and other "coloured skin" type initiatives involving football in the past. i can't vouch for that at all... much like most people can't vouch for anything to do with this subject outside of what they've read in the paper or heard on the radio. i don't believe that there is anything to suggest that Joey, or Fibroman for that matter, would have any problem in an indiginous community or otherwise. if they started throwing terms like black merkin around they soon would, for sure... but something tells me they would have the brains, regardless of their level of ignorance, to not do such a thing. they probably wouldn't be compelled to do so, anyway.

i don't find Joeys comments acceptable... although i do recognise that context is very much important with such things. to label someone racist, in my mind, there has to be hatred or a feeling of superiority involved towards a particular race. i'm not sure Joey is a racist person, in spite of using racial, potentially derogatory terms to describe a person. i'm not sure what has been claimed suggests that there is any hatred involved... nor has he made any generalisations regarding a particular race.

should he be villified for the comment? sure. it was a f**king dumb thing to say. i would label him ignorant and careless before i would label him racist, though. it is hardly news that Joey is an arsehole.

at the end of the day, i could be very wrong... but given the lack of information we really have on the topic i could equally be right. it's all just assumptions based on 2 words - black merkin. i've heard these words plenty of times in all sorts of contexts, hateful, ignorant and jokingly.

 

[ANTiLAG]

Was it not part of Joeys deal to stay with league as opposed to union to get a lucrative media deal post retirement.

Might be pretty hard to fire him. Those contracts could be wound up tightly.