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Re: Players cop a blogging - not from this site, or do we?
doesnt jjordan suffer from being a little emotional anyway, so wouldnt help
doesnt jjordan suffer from being a little emotional anyway, so wouldnt help
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Re: Players cop a blogging - not from this site, or do we?
I save some of my more extreme views (most of which I'm taking the piss with anyway) for Bay 13 on BF, where its not just tolerated but encouraged, with the knowledge that its the lighter side of the main board.
I'd like to think I keep myself to a pretty high standard otherwise.Comment
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Re: Players cop a blogging - not from this site, or do we?
I always thought of these type of sites as fan sites which is why i do not go to B F .I will leave that to the people who do not buy memberships but sook and cry when their team plays badly!Comment
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Re: Players cop a blogging - not from this site, or do we?
Theres a horrible thread started on a Bulldogs group on myspace, called
"How s*** is Farren Ray?"
It has 183 posts on that thread, the majority standing up for Farren, but thats horrible to have your own supporters start a thread about you like that.Comment
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Re: Players cop a blogging - not from this site, or do we?
I know McMahon left the club with a few parting shots to the club, but to see what those Richmond supporters were saying against him was disgusting. I felt really sorry for him being and said as much on our BF site, mentioning that it wouldn't help his depression if he saw that trash. Next thing you know players are told not to look in case they get depressed
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Re: Players cop a blogging - not from this site, or do we?
I take no enjoyment from reading some of the comments written about some of the players but since I have found this site I enjoying visiting it.
Mark's article today was about letting people know that their callous comments can have an impact on players especially the younger ones. This might get people thinking first before they rip into a player but it probably won't. I don't know of one player that doesn't try his best so a lot of the comments directed at players is simply not accurate.
Like most people I get frustrated when things don't go our way but focusing on one or two players and calling them all sorts of names is at best juvenile.Comment
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Re: Players cop a blogging - not from this site, or do we?
I found it interesting that the WOOF wasn't mentioned in the paper's short group of team specific sites.
Is this site like the Stonecutters or something
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Re: Players cop a blogging - not from this site, or do we?
I was in and out of the car today and heard Sen talking about the issue non stop. Quite a few bloggers from BF rang up including some of the mods. If I wasn't working I would have rung up and given WOOF a plug, and also point out that on BF the bulldogs site is easily the most rational and sensible (85% anyway) - with Richmond's being the worst
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Re: Players cop a blogging - not from this site, or do we?
Whilst Robbo's article is spot on about internet forum's being a truly annonymous means for people to take pot shots at players and officials, what he fails to acknowledge is a fundemental reason why people flock to these sites, including journalists themselves. Its not simply because people want to be able to extend talking footy to beyond the workplace, schoolyard or pub, but largely because the discussions generated on sites like Woof are generally not subject to the same rules as journalists are subject too.....and I'm not referring to the rules relating to defamation, but to the rules governing the relationships which journalists have with clubs, officials and players.
In 1997 in the post match interview to the WB's R1 loss to Freo at Optus Oval, Rohan Connolly asked Terry Wallace whether the loss would have signifciant ramifications for the future of the football club (or something to that effect). Wallace's reactions was annoyance and dismissive and effectively said to Connolly if you keep asking cr*p like that he would be effectively blackballed by the club. In 1997 as a sports writer Connolly's livelihood depended upon him maintaining a relationship with all of the 10 Victorian based clubs. Failure to do so would have significantly affected his ability to write articles for The Age. His suggestion that the loss could have a significant impact on the financial future of the WB was a real issue, but one which was quelled by Wallace. Hence, his critical and indpendent journalism was compromised.
Forum's represent direct competition for journalists like Connolly. Forum's however do not have these limitations. People who watch games or go to training or see players out in the public arena come on here to provide information to interested viewers/readers, but in most cases without the limitation of having to maintain a close relationship with the club. Forum's also provide a very current medium for the diseminiation of information to a wide range of people. If you take this board for example you have people from all walks of like, from all States of Australia and a number of us who reside abroad who come here for tit bits and gossip about the Bulldogs and their players. We come here because we know that the information we receive is often going to be more incisive, often no less accurate, but importantly much more timely than other forms of media. Where did you hear first that Ayce Cordy had done his shoulder......as reported in today's Herald-Sun?
Yes there is the negative aspect, the annonymous blogger who rants and raves and piles cr*p on every player in the team.....much like that annoying pessimistic bloke/lady at the footy always does. On this site we are relatively lucky, the discussion's generated are typically of a high standard and where there is criticism of players it is usually not personal criticism, but constructive. I think that's a real positive which our mod's enforce, but moreover something which allof us who post here recognise as a key part of making the Woof Board a place where discussion reigns supreme and rarely (if ever ) degenerates into mudslinging, name-calling etc.Comment
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Re: Players cop a blogging - not from this site, or do we?
By managing people or a group of people you are managing a culture. It's kinda like managing an ideal or a belief and the way you are viewed from the outside. Every club has a culture, some are known as being better than others. One example might be the Bulldogs have a good culture, they rescue people from drowning, stand up for women's rights, their players are never found drink driving, fighting in nightclubs where an opposition club might go through all of these things in one season (Richmond and Hawthorn's drink driving record, Alan Didak, Eagles drug scandals etc). So I guess managing a culture at a club is about managing the values of that club and it is represented by the actions of its players and officials.
But then again, I'm an Internet poster and Bevo is a premiership coach so draw your own conclusions.Comment
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