redandwhiteonline.com mentioned in article in AFL magazine

[Mel_C]

Not sure if anyone has read the latest edition of the AFL Magazine "4 Quarters" but there is an article from Martin Blake who is the uncle of Jude Bolton. He makes several references to redandwhiteonline.com, in particular Nico for bagging Jude every week!! He says that he and his family read the forums regularly and aren't impressed with Nico and some of the other swans supporters who post here.
He says he also feels sorry for McVeigh's and Mathew's family and hope they are smart enough to ignore the site. He said unfortunately he can't because "he is drawn to it" and that "the passion has a hold on him". Just like it does to the rest of us I suspect .

Here is a little of what he wrote:

Here's what I'd like to do to "Nico", that nasty piece of rat excrement. I'd have him banned from any future Swans game, because the Swannies deserve a better class of supporter, someone with a semblance of loyalty....it's one thing to slag off people you don't know; it's another to do it behind an alias like a coward.

Nico, as he calls himself, is a contributor to redandwhiteonline.com, a website for Swans fans. He's just one of hundreds of sydney supporters who have the licence to slander and whinge and hero-worship the players who run out in the colours each weekend.

Nico's favourite whipping boy is Jude Bolton who is my nephew. Nico isn't just critical. He's like this: If Jude had 25 disposals in a game, cleared the ball from the centre a half-dozen times and separated the AC joint in his shoulder while running headlong into a pack to bail out a teammate trailing behind his man, Nico would whinge about the two kicks he booted to the opposition. He's one of those "tear my membership up" supporters and in particular, he hammers Jude. "Got lucky" was Nico's resonse when Jude kicked the winning goal for Sydney against West Coast in Perth in round 11.

[DeadlyAkkuret]

Precious.

[reigning premier]

Poor little darling....

Nico you really need to take a good long hard look at urself... Fancy using a public forum to single out someone and criticise them...

[reigning premier]

God... I hope McVeigh's family weren't reading this last year....

[ROK Lobster]

Martin Blake was clearly playing on Nico the day Nico had the game of his life. Either that, or Nico stole his bride sometime in the 1950s.

(Personally I'm a little disappointed I missed out on a mention.)

[satchmopugdog]

Yeh but...we do say good things too surely.

I love the Swans and will never change teams...so this is a way of venting my spleen...at times. Some posters are also very tongue in cheek.

Ok....Jude is having a better year this year without as many niggling injuries. He is good eye candy and I enjoy the interviews he does in the magazine. I remember his first game at Princes Park as it was one of the first I was able to fly over Bass Strait to see to help me rebuild my life after my divorce. Saw him at the airport the next day and thought how small he was so he does a good job going into those packs.


If I was his uncle I would be very Proud..no matter what you say if you play 200 games you must have something and what he has fits in well with the club ethos.

[TheMase]

Rubbish. If he cannot write quality football publications, he should put down the pen and get on with his life.

Nobody has a 'personal attack' towards players. Some people believe that the team could benefit by an individual being replaced by another.

This game is about the team, not the individual.

[TheMase]

Oh, and the only game Jude has had 25 possessions in (year high) was against Port Adelaide back in round 9. I have not seen a lot of criticism towards Jude in recent times.

[Glenn]

Would have thought any criticism by fans was part and parcel of professional sport.

[reigning premier]

Martin Blake was clearly playing on Nico the day Nico had the game of his life. Either that, or Nico stole his bride sometime in the 1950s.

(Personally I'm a little disappointed I missed out on a mention.)

I would of thought you were a shoe in for a mention ROK....

[Big Al]

I thought Roos told his players not to read fan forums. Jude should spend time in the Reserves for not observing team rules.

Also why single out Nico, most people on here have strong opinions about Bolton.

What a hypocrite this bloke is...he bemoans the fact that Nico calls Bolton names but proceeds to call Nico a name that would most probably get him banned if he posted it on RWO.

[ROK Lobster]

I would of thought you were a shoe in for a mention ROK....

I am going to have to take responsibility for that and, in a nutshell, have a good hard look at myself and my attitude. I will go over some old threads to check, but I think it is my second and third efforts that have been letting me down. I suspect that I have become content to snipe and let the post stand or fail on its own legs (relying on premiership credits, and the glory of the being the first banner competition winner - the CS still owe me a trip onto the SCG), rather than getting back in there again and again (like Bevo/Connolly) to really drive the point home. Of course the moderators don't help but if I keep my eye on the ball and not on the posters I am sure I can regain some old form. I just hope Jude's uncle isn't done bagging RWO - when you read this Marty I think Jude is a good ordinary player who has a heart as big an elephant's and the silky skills to match.

[satchmopugdog]

I am going to have to take responsibility for that and, in a nutshell, have a good hard look at myself and my attitude. I will go over some old threads to check, but I think it is my second and third efforts that have been letting me down. I suspect that I have become content to snipe and let the post stand or fail on its own legs (relying on premiership credits, and the glory of the being the first banner competition winner - the CS still owe me a trip onto the SCG), rather than getting back in there again and again (like Bevo/Connolly) to really drive the point home. Of course the moderators don't help but if I keep my eye on the ball and not on the posters I am sure I can regain some old form. I just hope Jude's uncle isn't done bagging RWO - when you read this Marty I think Jude is a good ordinary player who has a heart as big an elephant's and the silky skills to match.

Excellent form in this passage of play...veiled hints to other threads...a bit of a personal dig and a bit of home truth. Lovely passage of play.

[Nico]

I thought Roos told his players not to read fan forums. Jude should spend time in the Reserves for not observing team rules.

Also why single out Nico, most people on here have strong opinions about Bolton.

What a hypocrite this bloke is...he bemoans the fact that Nico calls Bolton names but proceeds to call Nico a name that would most probably get him banned if he posted it on RWO.

I don't know that I have called Bolton names. For sure I have have given it to him for his poor form from 2006 onwards but Martin is a bit selective because I made comment earlier in the season after about Round 3 that his form had improved.

I may have mentioned that Jude might be better off doing a bit of K-Mart modelling in the Kid's Catalogue and I have praised him for his newsletter work on player interviews. For the most though I have criticised his play not the person. Perhaps Martin should look again at the 2007 EF and tally up the centre clearances Jude got.

On the tear up my membership reference I have never been guilty of that mentality and indeed still have my ticket from '77 with all holes punched with the Bond Corporation emblazoned on it. I wonder if Martin has ever left the ground before the final siren. Now that's the measure of a true and passionate supporter: not guilty your honour.

I have the great fortune of having spent many a time in the pub before and after a game with supporters of all Melbourne Clubs, and been able to discuss the merits of footballers all and sundry, good and ordinary, and class it as an induring highlight of my life. It just doesn't get any better. Just ask P46.

After the North game we ran into a bloke who originally barracked for Melbourne then swapped to North, we reckon he followed the Tiges also at some stage because he always turned up at Swans MCG games. Some of the banter we had over the years with this dude is legendary and I am sure other Swans supporters would remember his booming voice. He was the bloke who ran onto the ground to present the Carlton players with a wooden spoon a few years ago. He makes me look like a Kindergarten teacher when he gives it to North players, and he is usually right.

Martin appears to watch the game through rose coloured glasses and that's his right, but Martin you don't understand footy culture. Come and stand with us at the footy and find out what it is like to have a fun day at the game. I guess being related to a player he mixes with the "right people" and knows other players so of course he will take the party line.

Now let me see: Jude, yep refer above, Mathews, yes I along with others have never admired his work, Crouch, well I have questioned this year and last year whether his time was up and I nothing more than thought McVeigh wasn't hard enough at the contest. Leo, I have referred to as not having much up ground vision and Yeh I did make some tongue in check comments about BBH being rewarded with permission to go to Fiji after his lucky punch on Staker. But many thought I was wrong, very wrong with that one.

That makes 1,2,3,4,5,6 players over a couple of years and I am happy to say McVeigh proved me wrong.

But I accept Martin has his opinion as does Jim Main but I reckon I am equally as intelligent as them so I reckon I am right as often as they are. I wonder if they thought as we did as a collective at Princes Park one day watching the 2's, that one Brett Kirk had not a hope in the world of making it.

[monopoly19]

He obviously hasn't been reading recently...everyone loves McVeigh these days.

I think the smartest thing to do for all who have a thin skin regarding their beloved players (whether family members or not) would be to stay far, far away from RWO. Anonymity tends to bring out the worst in people!