Another thread about the Melbourne media having NFI about Sydney Footy...

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  • Doctor
    Bay 29
    • Sep 2003
    • 2757

    Originally posted by ugg
    It's all falling into place for the Swans

    If it was Teddy I'd be a little more forgiving.
    ...or someone actually in the 22.
    Today's a draft of your epitaph

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    • dimelb
      pr. dim-melb; m not f
      • Jun 2003
      • 6889

      Originally posted by swanwolf
      WE ARE THE BLOODS. HE HAS BEEN ASSIMILATED.
      He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)

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      • baskin
        Long Term Injury List
        • Jan 2008
        • 286

        I nearly choked on my cuppa at 6am this morning. Today's Age has a review of club injuries and The Swans write up begins 'Leroy Jetta suffered a minor setback last week.......' Doesn't look like the coverage is going to be any better this year with a start like that!

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        • Sandridge
          Outer wing, Lake Oval
          • Apr 2010
          • 2076

          Originally posted by baskin
          I nearly choked on my cuppa at 6am this morning. Today's Age has a review of club injuries and The Swans write up begins 'Leroy Jetta suffered a minor setback last week.......' Doesn't look like the coverage is going to be any better this year with a start like that!
          I don't recall us recruiting Leroy but the Buddy thing did tend to dominate the off season news!

          I actually think the Melbourne media treats us quite favourably but I was bemused about an article in today's Melbourne Herald Sun. It was about Mike Pyke becoming an Australian citizen and included a lovely colour pic of Pykey with Aussie accessories given to him by Ted Richards. For some strange reason, a separate picture of Buddy Franklin accompanied the article. The article wasn't about Buddy and he wasn't even mentioned in it! It seems that we are now the Buddy Swans!

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          • janem
            Pushing for Selection
            • Oct 2006
            • 81

            Originally posted by baskin
            I nearly choked on my cuppa at 6am this morning. Today's Age has a review of club injuries and The Swans write up begins 'Leroy Jetta suffered a minor setback last week.......' Doesn't look like the coverage is going to be any better this year with a start like that!
            Not sure if anyone's already mentioned it but I saw a Swans 2014 calendar the other week and mr July was the big Mummy!
            Looks like no one has a clue.

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            • liz
              Veteran
              Site Admin
              • Jan 2003
              • 16772

              Originally posted by janem
              Not sure if anyone's already mentioned it but I saw a Swans 2014 calendar the other week and mr July was the big Mummy!
              Looks like no one has a clue.
              To be fair, they almost certainly start preparing / printing these midway through the year. Buddy will almost certainly be featured in the Hawks' calendar.

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              • janem
                Pushing for Selection
                • Oct 2006
                • 81

                Originally posted by liz
                To be fair, they almost certainly start preparing / printing these midway through the year. Buddy will almost certainly be featured in the Hawks' calendar.
                That early? Oh ok. Guess I'm clueless about calendar printing.
                I guess they would have no idea or indeed care about rumours and goings on in football anyway. Pity. Even though I am a fan of Mummy I didn't buy the calendar because of it.
                Anyway... just an observation.

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                • ScottH
                  It's Goodes to cheer!!
                  • Sep 2003
                  • 23665

                  Originally posted by janem
                  That early? Oh ok. Guess I'm clueless about calendar printing.
                  I guess they would have no idea or indeed care about rumours and goings on in football anyway. Pity. Even though I am a fan of Mummy I didn't buy the calendar because of it.
                  Anyway... just an observation.
                  Just skip July and go straight to August.
                  Closer to September.

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                  • dimelb
                    pr. dim-melb; m not f
                    • Jun 2003
                    • 6889

                    Here we go again. This time it's Michael Gleeson from The Age. I thought a Fairfax publication would do a bit better.

                    That leaves Sydney with the best of all - Sam Reid, Adam Goodes and, of course, Tippett and Franklin.
                    The resentment to the Swans and their cost of living allowance by rival cubs was that this allowance not only added life, it added power forwards. The Swans were able to buy Tippett and Franklin at a time when other clubs were scratching about to find one forward.

                    Read more: Power forwards in great demand

                    Don't these people keep up with the rest of the media?
                    He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)

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                    • Melb Blood Bro
                      On the Rookie List
                      • Jun 2014
                      • 204

                      Originally posted by dimelb
                      Here we go again. This time it's Michael Gleeson from The Age. I thought a Fairfax publication would do a bit better.




                      Read more: Power forwards in great demand

                      Don't these people keep up with the rest of the media?
                      Never let the truth get in the way of a good story Di, especially with Fairfax. They're not much better than the ABC when it comes to bias.

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                      • YvonneH
                        Senior Player
                        • Sep 2011
                        • 1141

                        An article in the Age about Jake Lloyd's nomination for Rising Star has (I am pretty sure) a picture of Shane Biggs.
                        Media regarding the Swans doesn't get any better.

                        Hardly a mention about Buddy's 9 goals, but his car accident was front page news.

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                        • BobLog
                          Pushing for Selection
                          • Apr 2014
                          • 63

                          The Age has had some good articles this year about us in all fairness. LRT had a great one. Rohan Connely has probably done 3-4. 2012/13 there were hardly any and I was critical. Lloyd Biggs pic is unacceptable though. Pretty poor effort
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                          • dimelb
                            pr. dim-melb; m not f
                            • Jun 2003
                            • 6889

                            I'm pretty sure the pic in my edition of The Age is Jake; hair is the most obvious feature.
                            He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)

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                            • Mel_C
                              Veterans List
                              • Jan 2003
                              • 4470

                              Originally posted by YvonneH
                              An article in the Age about Jake Lloyd's nomination for Rising Star has (I am pretty sure) a picture of Shane Biggs.
                              Media regarding the Swans doesn't get any better.
                              At least he got a mention in the Age. In the Herald Sun newspaper there was no mention. They also didn't have an article about LRT retiring. He was only mentioned in a sentence in an article about Goodes possibly playing on.

                              For people like us that can access the internet it's not a big issue but for someone like my dad he relies on the newspaper. I had to tell him about Lloyd being nominated.

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                              • southsideswan
                                Warming the Bench
                                • Oct 2012
                                • 237

                                Back in June the Fairfax media ran a story on Jake. It was written by Andrew Wu. I contacted him to say the pic looked like Shane Biggs not Jake Lloyd. He agreed it was Shane.

                                I looked at the Age photo from yesterday and it is of Jake.

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