Ray Chesterton - out of touch

[big bear]

Originally posted by GoSouth33
To rework an old expression:-
You can take the Swans out of South Melbourne but you CAN'T take South Melbourne out of the Swans.
To do so we deny our heritage.

Spot on. My sentiments exactly.

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Originally posted by The Undertaker
As a league supporter and a reader of the daily telegraph,i usually don't mind Ray Chesterton articles.

They are entertaining.

But the one on the Swans was dumb IMO.

He should seriously stick to covering RL, a code he actually knows something about.

It is when he attempts to cover soccer that his journalistic standards sink to new depths. Kind of like Peter Fitzsimons but minus the interlect and quit wit. Seriously, the guy cannot even spell!

What would a Sydney RL journo know about our club's history at the Lake Oval? The "AFL has only existed since 1982" line of thinking will only help denude the game of its rich sense of tribalism and history in the eyes of its more impressionable followers, newer supporters to the game in NSW. That serves the Telegraph well, methinks.

As a sticker I saw in Newtown said, "Are you informed? Or is your News Limited?"

JF

[lescygnes]

or a sticker from the kennett era in victoria (and may those days be an advertisement for the disgusting policies of the neo liberals.........)

"is that the truth.....or did you hear it from the herald sun?"

says it all......

[Doctor]

While people buy their papers it makes them think we actually give a rats what they think. Don't read them! Chesterton is a dull old barfly 20 years past his use-by date. I'm sick of lazy sports journos who know less about their supposed special subject than the fans do, and then claim their ignorance is because that sport is not valid.

[Go Swannies]

Originally posted by JF_Bay22_SCG

As a sticker I saw in Newtown said, "Are you informed? Or is your News Limited?"

JF

I remember the bumper stickers: "Murdoch is Bad News".