WB Game Day V Melbourne R1 2022

[angelopetraglia]

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Jake Lever hurt his foot on Sunday. No Journo called that out. Surely it was obvious he wasn't even training with a torn Plantar Fasciitis. Double standard?

[MrMahatma]

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I've been critical of Bevo in the past, and I still don't agree or like some of the things he does/says... But if the club comes out and issues an apology, or force Bevo to apologise, we'll have much bigger problems.

The club need to back Bevo, wear any fines, and find the leak.

This could go pretty pear shaped quickly and if we don't support Bevo, I could see him walking.

Did Bevo overreact? Probably, but Morris, Browne, Barrett and co continually chase the negative stories and have no regard for ethical practices. Let's call it out.

I agree. Why play the “way it needs to be done” card. Play it front on. Bevo went way over the top and that’s brilliant.

I hope we win next week!

[Dry Rot]

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I don't recall ever seeing Morris, so have no view of him.

But what has he done wrong? A journo given leaked info and publishes it?

[jazzadogs]

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We are probably taking away from the big issue of the night. Bont seemed to hurt himself in the third quarter.
What was the issue, and will he be okay?

[angelopetraglia]

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I don't recall ever seeing Morris, so have no view of him.

But what has he done wrong? A journo given leaked info and publishes it?

Supposedly there is an unwritten code that they run it past the club before they publish it for mental health reasons and he didn't follow this code. Reading in-between the lines of what Bevo said.

[Grantysghost]

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I don't recall ever seeing Morris, so have no view of him.

But what has he done wrong? A journo given leaked info and publishes it?

It's pretty crazy from Bevo.

Unless Morris cos played as a trainer and did rub downs mic'ed up he's not our biggest concern.

Classic diversion xD

[Eastdog]

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Dissapointed with the result tonight but it is only Round 1. That 2nd quarter was great. Need to play like that consistently throughout the whole game. I liked the games of Macrae, Dunks, English, Treloar, Bailey Smith, Naughton and Bont.

I was worried with how we started the match but we responded very well. 3rd quarter we did not score and lapsed back into old ways and I was hoping the final quarter we would find something more but it wasnt to be. Onto the Blues back at home next Thursday.

Go Bevo!

Go Dogs!

In saying that I hate losing to the Demons now. A few arrogant supporters around me I could overhear.

[soupman]

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F*ck me Bevo can you just not?

Just play a straight bat and the media this week is "geez Melbourne are as good as we thought" with a little "Bulldogs have a bit to work on but Naughton looks great, that headband sheesh". Instead we are gonna be the main story for the entire week and will unite the entire footy journalistic world against us. Can't wait for Caroline Wilson and Barrett to tee off on us, they must be so excited.

Sure Morris could have given us the heads up, and that could be addressed somewhat more tactfully even in public, but this was quite personal and completely unwarranted and completely unprofessional.

An embarrassment.

[Ghost Dog]

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Hey everyone! Go the mighty Bulldogs!

Not to forget it's been a taxing time with Covid and nobody can be sure how this is affecting coaches.
I hated Morris before knowing about him, and now I saw that Trump photo, yep, I definitely hate him!

Ghandi said once, if you have anger in your heart it's better to express it than to be impotent.
I don't applaud Bevo losing his cool but I applaud his heart. He went after Journos about Tom Boyd, and it has been going south ever since.

Greetings from Shanghai, about to be locked up again.

Carowhine Wilson will milk about a year of her hackneyed journalism out of this story.

[GVGjr]

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What did he say?

Morris: Talk us through the events of the last few days with a few players, JJ, Martin, Lachie Hunter in and out of the team, Melbourne were similar as well. Is that just normal Round 1 preparation to be uncertain of how you’re going to prepare?

Beveridge: You’ve got the nerve to ask me a question, and even be here? You’ve been preying on us the last two times.

You barrack for Melbourne, you’ve been preying on us. You’ve been opening us up, causing turmoil within our football club by declaring our team well before it needs to be declared. Is that the way Fox want you to operate? Is that the gutter journalist you want to be?

Other than JJ coming out in the warm-up, everything was according to plan from the Sunday, which somehow you’ve found out about again, so we need to get to the bottom of this.

Obviously we need to put our hand up and say there’s some leakage going on, but you’re preying on it, and it’s a team you barrack for, your conflict of interest here is considerable. Your gutter journalism at the moment is killing us behind the scenes.

This is why the health and wellbeing of people in the game is caught up in this, because we’ve got things to concentrate on performance-wise, we’ve got to look after our own and then you cause all this muckraking trash that happens behind the scenes and names get caught up into it, and all we’re doing is planning for a football game. Are you proud of your self?

Morris: Yes, absolutely. Fox backs me.

Beveridge: Wow. That’s enough, next question please. Next question, mate, you’re not welcome.

Morris: This is the AFL’s press conference.

Beveridge: Yeah, OK, well I think we’ve got enough boys and girls. I think we’re probably done, aren’t we?

So this is what happens, because I know Sam Edmund does it, many of you, if you found something out you’d ring (the club) and say look, I know this, just to know that you know, something’s happened, it’s got out, and courtesy and integrity and the ethical way to go about it has happened in the past.

And this bloke here and what he’s doing is giving everybody else a bad name, and right when we’re trying to stabilise our competition and what we do, with everything that’s gone on behind the scenes, and us as coaches and a football program with the soft cap situation as it is, and this sort of stuff happens.

You’re an embarrassment to what you do, mate. You’re an embarrassment.

[soupman]

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He went after Journos about Tom Boyd, and it has been going south ever since.

It's hardly the Tom Boyd thing though. Morris reported Hunter got dropped...and was right. Maybe there's some detail I'm missing but any other journalist regardless of which club they supported would report that if they got their hands on it. Maybe they give the club a heads up, sure, great, but ultimately it's barely anything most people would even register as interesting.

And then to go off about mental health (I guess the Tom Boyd bit), while literally bullying and belittling a man on television for doing his job...I mean wtf.

[Grantysghost]

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It's hardly the Tom Boyd thing though. Morris reported Hunter got dropped...and was right. Maybe there's some detail I'm missing but any other journalist regardless of which club they supported would report that if they got their hands on it. Maybe they give the club a heads up, sure, great, but ultimately it's barely anything most people would even register as interesting.

And then to go off about mental health (I guess the Tom Boyd bit), while literally bullying and belittling a man on television for doing his job...I mean wtf.

You've nailed it.

Classic bullying. He had the power and used it to belittle.

I'm pretty dissapointed as a member to be honest.

[jazzadogs]

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It's hardly the Tom Boyd thing though. Morris reported Hunter got dropped...and was right. Maybe there's some detail I'm missing but any other journalist regardless of which club they supported would report that if they got their hands on it. Maybe they give the club a heads up, sure, great, but ultimately it's barely anything most people would even register as interesting.

And then to go off about mental health (I guess the Tom Boyd bit), while literally bullying and belittling a man on television for doing his job...I mean wtf.

After seeing him lose it like that, I think that comment could very easily be about his own mental health and the stress it has caused him.

[Bornadog]

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F*ck me Bevo can you just not?

Just play a straight bat and the media this week is "geez Melbourne are as good as we thought" with a little "Bulldogs have a bit to work on but Naughton looks great, that headband sheesh". Instead we are gonna be the main story for the entire week and will unite the entire footy journalistic world against us. Can't wait for Caroline Wilson and Barrett to tee off on us, they must be so excited.

Sure Morris could have given us the heads up, and that could be addressed somewhat more tactfully even in public, but this was quite personal and completely unwarranted and completely unprofessional.

An embarrassment.

I loved it, stuff the journo's they hover around trying to get scoops, and I will never forget the hounding Tom Boyd copped from idiots like Barret. Morris is the same, he is always trying to get the scoop. His video interview by a fox presenter on Hunter and why he thought he made the right call, but didn' t was pathetic. At the same tine didn't say a thing about Lever being out even though he knew on Sunday.

[ReLoad]

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I’m all for creating an Us Vs the world mentality. It’s so bulldog and it’s right where we want to be.

But….

That’s not how you do it. If Bevo was my employee I’d give him a spell, not for work reasons but for his own benefit.
Often genius means living on the edge of insanity, but that doesn’t excuse poor behaviour.
He did exactly what he was complaining about.

KWW and Granty need to have a action plan, as this ship is leaking. And it’s not because of the players.

We’re in for an interesting week.