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Re: Media Bias Towards the Bulldogs
Originally Posted by
bulldogtragic
Picked up the Hun while waiting for a coffee, so it's my mistake. But wtf is is with the back page all being about Tom Boyd (inc. a photo of him and not Hunter) and others having to get paid less and a cartoon having a go at Boyd? Pissed me off royally.
Sam Landsberger is a doggie supporter too
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Re: Media Bias Towards the Bulldogs
Originally Posted by
Ghost Dog
Our win was as exciting foot as we saw over the weekend.
Yet Access All areas gave a really poor wrap.
"Is the Bulldogs gamestyle sustainable throughout the year? "
I think last year we played quite freely, but ours was more a lock in in the 50 job against Freo.
Ours is not a play on at all costs style, we are capable of slowing it up.
I think pegging us as a 'run and gun' side is dog-whistling us as a 'flakey' side.
"Is their gamestyle transportable to the MCG?"
If we played Freo in a final on Sunday I can't imagine the result would have been that different. Again, it's just another put down.
Instead we get more coverage on the show about Dane Swan's foot, Stevie J's selfishness - there are 30,000 fans who would have liked a non-biased commentary about the game. How about Easton Wood's mark? Stringer's 5? I know it's a short segment but it was poor.
I hear what you are saying GD, but we have also had a lot of positive stories the last season and a bit.
Good with the bad, swings and round-a-bouts that sort of thing.
Really we on Woof know we are on track for something special but until this group prove something and start to win big matches consistently and eventually finals the nee sayers will still pop up.
Hawks lost one game and Slobbo had them already done and dusted.
It's better to die on our feet than live on our knees.
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Re: Media Bias Towards the Bulldogs
sometimes I am just happy to read anything in any paper about my team...
Anyone can support a team that is winning, it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team, to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage, so lets always be behind our boys and girls in red, white and blue.
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Re: Media Bias Towards the Bulldogs
Originally Posted by
bulldogtragic
Picked up the Hun while waiting for a coffee, so it's my mistake. But wtf is is with the back page all being about Tom Boyd (inc. a photo of him and not Hunter) and others having to get paid less and a cartoon having a go at Boyd? Pissed me off royally.
I also liked the fact there was another article today on Gold Coast re-signing Tom Lynch on $800k per season without any mention of how they are going to retain all their young stars (and that's without taking into account Ablett's contract).
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Re: Media Bias Towards the Bulldogs
Originally Posted by
Axe Man
I also liked the fact there was another article today on Gold Coast re-signing Tom Lynch on $800k per season without any mention of how they are going to retain all their young stars (and that's without taking into account Ablett's contract).
Thought the same thing myself.
Anyone can support a team that is winning, it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team, to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage, so lets always be behind our boys and girls in red, white and blue.
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Re: Media Bias Towards the Bulldogs
Originally Posted by
Axe Man
I also liked the fact there was another article today on Gold Coast re-signing Tom Lynch on $800k per season without any mention of how they are going to retain all their young stars (and that's without taking into account Ablett's contract).
Jaegear o'Meara, Lynch, Ablett, Jarrad Grant, Prestia, Swallow, Jack Martin... Whatever do you mean about salary cap issues? And Lynch, he's the best KPF is the comp because that price tag can only be for Pendelbry, Buddy types and anything less is stealing from team mates.
It takes some seriously inept, incompetent, unprofessional arseholes to turn a positive story about Lachie Hunter resigning for 3 years into another negative pot shot at Tom Boyd who played well and kicked 3 goals on the weekend despite being assaulted on numerous occasions without free kicks.
It's like the seriously jealous friend or family member. They say they love and support you, but the second you do something good they compete or try to undermine you. We have a brilliant start to they year, big wins and the second best defensive start ever, the best in 60 years, players re-signing and the stories are Tahleeya and Tom Boyd being a thief. I've stopped watching the news and this is incentive enough to avoid watching footy coverage. All last year's success was underpinned by how good we were... Considering we lost our captain, Brownlow medalist, CEO, coach, assistant coaches and players... It's like the media are only happy when they get to kick us around. Fits Newbold's narrative about us bring 'small' 'battlers' and Eddie's view we are after 'footy socialism' that attacks the big clubs. Over 1,000 days without a Friday night game, no blockbuster game, shit deals, shit fixturing and still we're going to break membership records in the face of that tsunami. I am BT's furious anger. Rant over, for now.
Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023
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Re: Media Bias Towards the Bulldogs
Originally Posted by
Bulldog4life
Sam Landsberger is a doggie supporter too
Yep. Weird stuff coming from a Doggies man. I thought he'd have more of a clue.
The curse is dead.
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Re: Media Bias Towards the Bulldogs
Honestly I have just completely zoned out of all football media now. It's complete and utter hyperbole and as I think Remi mentioned they just swing in the breeze. I'm surprised by how many ppl still pay attention to it
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Re: Media Bias Towards the Bulldogs
I didn't see it, but I doubt Landsburger drew the picture and asked for it in the article.
More of an In Bruges guy?
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Re: Media Bias Towards the Bulldogs
Cartoonists are a law onto themselves.
Have you been reading those Roddy Doyle books again, Dougal!?
I have, yeah Ted, you big gobshite
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Re: Media Bias Towards the Bulldogs
Originally Posted by
Axe Man
I also liked the fact there was another article today on Gold Coast re-signing Tom Lynch on $800k per season without any mention of how they are going to retain all their young stars (and that's without taking into account Ablett's contract).
Lynch is their best young player and that payment is pretty fair of what he is worth.
We have probably over paid Boyd on output, but it needed to be done to get him across.
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Re: Media Bias Towards the Bulldogs
I can remember when Craig Bradley came across from SA the wage Carlton were paying him was fairly common knowledge. The Coodabeens divided the amount of kicks he got (no one was that interested in handballs back then) and divided it by the payment and it came to something like 157 bucks a kick or something. Tony Leonard just kept saying "he's never played a proper game of footy in his life and he's getting paid more than the Prime Minister" (the PM was very poorly paid back then, I was a 22 yo public servant and was making almost as much as the PM was then). People who carried on about how much Bradley was getting now look a bit previous. Carlton did a brilliant piece of business getting him at the price they did.
Craig Bradley turned out alright and so will Tom Boyd.
Have you been reading those Roddy Doyle books again, Dougal!?
I have, yeah Ted, you big gobshite
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Re: Media Bias Towards the Bulldogs
Originally Posted by
Twodogs
Cartoonists are a law onto themselves.
Careful
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Re: Media Bias Towards the Bulldogs
Originally Posted by
Mantis
Lynch is their best young player and that payment is pretty fair of what he is worth.
We have probably over paid Boyd on output, but it needed to be done to get him across.
That's the key to it. Bit like buying stocks that are going to explode and people are doubting you in buying them but you feel confident about them. The journalist scribes are basing the million dollar a season on the current output from Tom. We have taken the risk. It is not a usual thing for a Club to do usually a player gets a million a season when they are worth it at the time. Bevo has come from a risk management background too so I'm sure he is not totally against it either.
As Tom keeps producing we will hear less of it. We just have to wait and put up with it till he does. If he doesn't.....well that's another story for another day. I personally think he will explode. When it will happen I'm not sure.
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Re: Media Bias Towards the Bulldogs
Tom is already a significantly better player than he was last year. He's played 25 games now, his next 25 should see him really come on in leaps and bounds.
Arguably our best two players of the year so far are Johannisen (49 games) and Hunter (38 games) - when they had played 25 games, we were talking about different players entirely - now they're emerging stars.
Its very encouraging to see him get to so many contests on Saturday night. It will click soon, and he'll start taking an extra 3 or 4 marks a game - which is a combination of confidence, and handling the workload better.
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