Ray Hadley talks down match

[Helen]

Why?

Originally posted by PatFoyFanClub
Nice posts people's....too funny...

To be honest it's great to see you lot coming out in support of the AFL up against the RL....

Just need more of it......

Rubbish.

I love league and live in Melbourne and also follow the Swans.
Pretty poor really.

League in Melbourne gets very little cover as afl did in Sydney originally. Hope that changes soon too.

I luv both codes and hope league in Melb. prospers. It hurts me to hear you people speak like this.

[Doctor J.]

Looks like you will be hurting a lot more in the future.

League is a toilet sport.

AFL will always dominate Melbourne sports coverage. NRL doesn't even come close enough to be considered a minority sport.

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Originally posted by Nico
Never heard of Ray Hadley. If he is typical of NSW reporters, then anything that has some notoriety with Melbourne gets a belting.

He is probably one of those tossers who think the Sydney Cup has far more significance than the Melbourne Cup.

I wouldn't give him the credit for even that. He is just a total headcase. During my rugby league league days myself went up in the Grandstand outside the commentary box to razz him for his stick-in-the-mud ARL stance. We even stuck a placard on his box window saying "For unbiased commentary, switch to 2GB." Zorba and Hollywood from 2GB were loving it and were stirring us us to keep the Hadley taunts up. He was seething, and got security to get rid of us.

The silliest thing I've heard is him attempting to commentate the Swans-Essendon prelim back in 1996. He kept on getting players mied up, the rules wrong.

He will be commentating at some unimportant match up the road while everybody will be more focused on our match. To somebody who loves the spotlight like he does, that would hurt I'm sure.

Our big crowd tonight is a victory over people like Ray Hadley, Mike Gibson and Roy Masters, who wish to try and portray footy as a "foreign southern game" and those who have seen its qualities as "traitors".

I know there will be one person happier than everybody when the crowd figure goes up on the screen tonight-Wayne Jackson. It is a victory not just for the Swans, and not just AFL, but for the underdog. Proof that if you believe and are passionate about something, that you WILL succeed over all obstacles.

When you sit there tonight, take a look at the crowd. It was only 9 years ago that we were getting 6000 crowds at the SCG against the Brisbane Bears and Fitzroy etc.

We've come a long way baby! We should ALL be very very proud of that!

JF

[neored]

Re: Why?

Originally posted by Helen
Rubbish.

I love league and live in Melbourne and also follow the Swans.
Pretty poor really.

League in Melbourne gets very little cover as afl did in Sydney originally. Hope that changes soon too.

I luv both codes and hope league in Melb. prospers. It hurts me to hear you people speak like this.

RL in Melbourne gets way too much coverage, especially from the News Limited owned Herald Scum.

The fact is Storm average 9,000 at their games at Olympic Park, that hardly justifies the amount of coverage that is given. It does not have broad support from Melbourne people , most of their supporters are ex Kiwis.

[liz]

Originally posted by JF_Bay22_SCG

Our big crowd tonight is a victory over people like Ray Hadley, Mike Gibson and Roy Masters, who wish to try and portray footy as a "foreign southern game" and those who have seen its qualities as "traitors".

I get the impression that Roy Masters quite likes the Swans, actually.

[Dave]

Originally posted by lizz
I get the impression that Roy Masters quite likes the Swans, actually.

His probably got a Swannies doona on his bed!

[Richo]

Roy Masters lives in Jan Juc and is married to an AFL-supporting Victorian isn't he?

With Masters it's always struck me more as friendly rivaly than the naked vitriol from Hadley or Darryl Eastlake (lift boy, LIFT).

Hadley is an utter spastic.

[hammo]

Originally posted by JF_Bay22_SCG


Our big crowd tonight is a victory over people like Ray Hadley, Mike Gibson and Roy Masters, who wish to try and portray footy as a "foreign southern game" and those who have seen its qualities as "traitors".

JF

Well said!! Mike Gibson is like a broken record. He has been calling Australian Rules "aerial ping pong" for 25 years and still writes that crap at every oppurtunity. I'd add Ray Chesterton into the mix as well. You'd think Mike would have adopted a more open mind after the RL kicked his beloved North Sydney out of the comp but no, he's still up on his one man soapboax. Thankfully "journalists" of his ilk are a dying breed. The coverage of the Swans this week has been phenomenal and that is only possible because the football media now has a much more open mind, messrs Hadley, Gibson excluded of course.

[footyhead]

Originally posted by Richo
Roy Masters lives in Jan Juc and is married to an AFL-supporting Victorian isn't he?

With Masters it's always struck me more as friendly rivaly than the naked vitriol from Hadley or Darryl Eastlake (lift boy, LIFT).

Hadley is an utter spastic.

These kinds of characters are very typical of an eccentric egoic sydney media gluttens. I think we actually need a few of them in our game pushing there ego's and afl from a sydney perspective. If we could develope our own truely Sydney born and bread media personalities supporting the swans, we would get a different take on AFL up here wich would be good cos lets face it is is dominated by melboune personalities and sensibilities. When we get the sydney yobbo actually well presented and developed into a proffessional celebrity of AFL, then aussie rules will take a mojor step forward in sydney, cos all the yobbo's will get on bored, and then youll get a lot more noise during a Swans game !!

[Helen]

Originally posted by Doctor J.
Looks like you will be hurting a lot more in the future.

League is a toilet sport.

AFL will always dominate Melbourne sports coverage. NRL doesn't even come close enough to be considered a minority sport.

How dare you say league is a toilet sport.

I luv it as much as afl. A lot of my friends (afl) now follow league as well and its growing slowly in the minds of Melbourne people, even if you don't want to believe it.

I luv my swannies and I luv the Storm too.

Don't forget Sydney has had afl a lot longer than Melbourne has had rugby league and rugby.

[Helen]

Re: Re: Why?

Originally posted by neored
RL in Melbourne gets way too much coverage, especially from the News Limited owned Herald Scum.

The fact is Storm average 9,000 at their games at Olympic Park, that hardly justifies the amount of coverage that is given. It does not have broad support from Melbourne people , most of their supporters are ex Kiwis.

Fact : My team the Swans only got 6,000 or so and less people a few years ago too.

Just because 9000 people or so average for Storm games does not mean that those are the only 9000 people who go to every game you twit. Storm have a good support in Melbourne, even afl supporters who go to lots of games.

They dont have a dim view like you do.

You are also wrong about our supporter base being mainly Kiwis. Thats a joke in itself. Show you how little you know about league and the Storm in Melb.

You just seem jealous that people might luv both codes like me and you dont want rugby to succeed in Melbourne but you want afl to succeed in a league territory. To me that is hypocritical.

I watch the swans in Melb. all games and the same with Storm. A lot of my afl friends now are taking an interest in league too. And I hope it eventually does as well as afl is doing in Brisbane and Sydney.

Its good for the country to have lots of sports to follow and I find leauge and afl just great. Supporters are terrific at both games and I have made lots of friends (new ones) at the Storm games. There are very few Kiwis who go to Storm games, unless we play the Warriors mainly you see more of them.

Anyway, I am not going to change your mind about league but I find so many Melbourne afl people who are against rugby league because they have been brought up to dislike it because its from up Sydney way and yet now some of them are beginning to take notice.

Sounds like a bit like afl up in Sydney.

Go both Swannies and the Melbourne Storm. I love you to death.

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Re: Re: Why?

Originally posted by neored
RL in Melbourne gets way too much coverage, especially from the News Limited owned Herald Scum.

The fact is Storm average 9,000 at their games at Olympic Park, that hardly justifies the amount of coverage that is given. It does not have broad support from Melbourne people , most of their supporters are ex Kiwis.

Mate, they are pretty much in the position we were in back in the early 90s, niche market with very low media interest.

To say that they don't have decent support is a phurphy. I went to their game against the Broncos in Melbourne and was very impressed at the passion of the fans-both in the amount of people in jerseys,scarves etc. Their core support base is small, but it is very committed and passionate about the team.

I have a great deal of empathy for the Storm, because I know what it is like to be fighting for acceptance against sometimes insurmountable odds. That was things have been like in the past in Sydney. Hence why I'm so stoked that we could get 72000 to a match these days!

JF

JF

[Damien]

The Storms biggest problem is that they have won the title and been very consistent since entering the competition but for some reason still haven't caught the imagination of the masses.

I think it is great that they have a hardcore supporter base, but it seems their battle is very uphill from here. They haven't had an awful year yet - and I can't see how they are going to maintain support throughout one.

[penga]

Re: Re: Re: Why?

Originally posted by Helen
You just seem jealous that people might luv both codes like me and you dont want rugby to succeed in Melbourne but you want afl to succeed in a league territory. To me that is hypocritical.

personally id like to see league die...

[sharp9]

Re: Re: Re: Why?

Originally posted by Helen

Anyway, I am not going to change your mind about league but I find so many Melbourne afl people who are against rugby league because they have been brought up to dislike it because its from up Sydney way and yet now some of them are beginning to take notice.

Have to disaggree, Helen (I'm a Kiwi BTW)...league is just a pathetic game with absolutely nothing going for it, I'm afraid.

If one really needs a game with more body on body than AFL then at least a game like Rugby Union has some sort of finesse and structure.

League will die in our lifetime. What's the point of playing it?