Bulldogs reach a compromise with their unrepantant veteran

[Mantis]

Re: Bulldogs reach a compromise with their unrepantant veteran

I'm not going to pretend that I have any idea what has happened over the last week but it wouldn't be the first (or last for that matter) that Caro has written an article without talking to anybody at the club.

Look I don't follow much of Caro's work, mainly due to the fact that she reports on Richmond & Carlton a whole lot and I tend to not waste my time reading about clubs I have no care about. However on this issue I care because she is writing about a subject I have an interest in and as such would take offence if I thought she had written a whole heap of garbage.

Personally I don't think she would have written such a piece unless she had some idea about she was talking about, but I guess we may not know the full story for some time, perhaps never. But I guess Aker will be retiring in 3 or 4 months time so I guess we may find out his version of the story shortly after his departure from the club.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Bulldogs reach a compromise with their unrepantant veteran

Why don't I read C. Wilson? Coz She's an opinionated old Tart!!!!!!!!! Have you ever played the game? Have a Chardoney and write some crap about anyone who has any opinion different to you.
C.W. I have no idea how you could be a Major sport writer. I never read your articles coz I hear your dribble on Monday night's

[Ghost Dog]

Re: Bulldogs reach a compromise with their unrepantant veteran

Why don't I read C. Wilson? Coz She's an opinionated old Tart!!!!!!!!! Have you ever played the game? Have a Chardoney and write some crap about anyone who has any opinion different to you.
C.W. I have no idea how you could be a Major sport writer. I never read your articles coz I hear your dribble on Monday night's

Hear Hear

[Mantis]

Re: Bulldogs reach a compromise with their unrepantant veteran

Why don't I read C. Wilson? Coz She's an opinionated old Tart!!!!!!!!! Have you ever played the game? Have a Chardoney and write some crap about anyone who has any opinion different to you.
C.W. I have no idea how you could be a Major sport writer. I never read your articles coz I hear your dribble on Monday night's

That post is an embarrassment to this forum.

[The Coon Dog]

Re: Bulldogs reach a compromise with their unrepantant veteran

That post is an embarrassment to this forum.

I agree, its as though it was written by someone on the piss.

[GVGjr]

Re: Bulldogs reach a compromise with their unrepantant veteran

Why don't I read C. Wilson? Coz She's an opinionated old Tart!!!!!!!!! Have you ever played the game? Have a Chardoney and write some crap about anyone who has any opinion different to you.
C.W. I have no idea how you could be a Major sport writer. I never read your articles coz I hear your dribble on Monday night's

There is no need to write comments like that.

[chef]

Re: Bulldogs reach a compromise with their unrepantant veteran

Why don't I read C. Wilson? Coz She's an opinionated old Tart!!!!!!!!! Have you ever played the game? Have a Chardoney and write some crap about anyone who has any opinion different to you.
C.W. I have no idea how you could be a Major sport writer. I never read your articles coz I hear your dribble on Monday night's

Does that matter?

Her father has involved with Richmond so she might have a bit of knowledge on the subject.

[alwaysadog]

Re: Bulldogs reach a compromise with their unrepantant veteran

Does that matter?

Her father has involved with Richmond so she might have a bit of knowledge on the subject.

I agree that it doesn't matter but football knowledge is neither constant nor is it inherited with one's genes, and as far as Richmond being a font of football knowledge, well if that equates with success it's running on empty.

[Scorlibo]

Re: Bulldogs reach a compromise with their unrepantant veteran

The relentless personal bias Wilson includes in her articles is amazing. Most of the time, as with this particular piece of verbal diarrhea, I stop reading after the first few lines and remind myself of who wrote it.

I have no idea how she has survived under the guise of a football journalist for so long, without ever writing anything to do with the game. The type of moralistic garbage she comes out with could be written towards just about any professional organisation in the country, and yet she is said to be a specialist AFL journalist? I sometimes wonder whether the whole Sam Newman fiasco has given her immunity from criticism. In any case the fact that no one wants to talk to her says a lot about the dwindling respect towards her in the football community.

[ledge]

Re: Bulldogs reach a compromise with their unrepantant veteran

Biggest laugh I have on Caro is last year when she said Richmond would not sack Wallace during the season, always on the claim of inside knowledge but she probably gets it right as much as any football fan would.
Most is just her opinions, doesnt go out and find any news at all.

At least Hutchy and Sheahan get out there and try and find out whats going on and bring stories to the table of some substance.

[ledge]

Re: Bulldogs reach a compromise with their unrepantant veteran

There is no need to write comments like that.

Can I ask why GVGjr, its his opinion (yes its strong)as we all have opinions, wrong or right.
Or is it the name calling "tart"?

[Sockeye Salmon]

Re: Bulldogs reach a compromise with their unrepantant veteran

Didn't Caro write something at one stage last year and Rocket had a crack at her about it. It came out she had not once set foot at the Whitten Oval for the season up until that point.

I remember Rocket saying something like "when was the last time you crossed the bridge?" and she hadn't.

[ledge]

Re: Bulldogs reach a compromise with their unrepantant veteran

Didn't Caro write something at one stage last year and Rocket had a crack at her about it. It came out she had not once set foot at the Whitten Oval for the season up until that point.

I remember Rocket saying something like "when was the last time you crossed the bridge?" and she hadn't.

Yes it put her in her place.

[Mantis]

Re: Bulldogs reach a compromise with their unrepantant veteran

At least Hutchy and Sheahan get out there and try and find out whats going on and bring stories to the table of some substance.

So do you think what she stated in this article was made up?

[The Underdog]

Re: Bulldogs reach a compromise with their unrepantant veteran

Don't we all value ourselves more than our employers? Anybody who said they didn't would be lying. He obviously does value his team mates and they value him, to the degree that people in a sports club do. What would you have him do? he was asked to write the article. Wasn't his idea.

Anyway, If he was kicking heaps of goals, nobody would care.

Yes but I'd argue that in the area of professional football, team building is important (whereas in most workplaces it's a pile of rubbish). Aker clearly puts himself before the team at most points. I assume you would have been quite happy with Nathan Brown leaving to go to Richmond for more money, because while he valued his team mates, he clearly valued himself more. Unless of course, this is more than just any old business.
He may not have been asked to write the article but he also wasn't asked to make it more inflammatory after the club had signed off on it and then lie to them about it either.

I don't think Caro gets the point and I think you might have missed it as well.

Yesterday everybody gave a bit of ground, that's what mature people do.

Nobody did the childish take it or leave it stuff, or the equally silly drawing of lines in the sand. In fact they worked on a win-win solution and in the end they showed the maturity and personal resources to maintain their focus on the football team and what Aker had to do to make a further contribution to it rather than on personalities or the multitude of supposed indiscretions committed or omitted.


Given that Aker earns more money off the football field if he had quit yesterday in high dudgeon, and really disrupted our season he would have been able to cash in big on the notoriety. So I can't see how not having done this can be represented as contemptuous of either the club or his team mates, rather the converse.

I'm fine with the outcome, what did concern me was Aker going on radio that morning and claiming he wasn't going to change and didn't know what he'd done wrong. If he didn't know by that point, he never was and if he'd been asked by the leadership group to cut the media stuff the day before then he was taking the mick by being there in the first place.