Maybe it rates badly because supporters of the premiers are recovering and in bed early.
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Footy media , love’m or hate’ m ?
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I feel the opposite. Everyone loves the tigers and there is finally acknowledgement that we are a great side. And a great club. And the 3rd has been ackowledged as the toughest and hardest earnt. They are fawning over themselves to praise the tigers IMO.
There are not many that have been on the tiger bandwagon since that first premiership - I think Nick Reiwoldt may be the only one?
The best of all is Kingsight. Got it wrong. Again.
I agree with much of your comment. I have also been a loyal Age reader. I was disturbed by the merge with CH.9 and, as I expected, my concerns have been justified. There is not much alternative in mainstream media.
Our behavior became topical and probably any journalist would realise his audience would be expecting him to include commentary on it in a season evaluation pre GF. Otherwise he'd be accused of bias perhaps.
Overall, though, the Age hasn't indulged in the sensationalist clickbait anywhere near as much. I found Jake's articles reasonably fair and giving us our dues usually. Other Age journos were similar or even more positive e.g. I came to appreciate the work of Daniel Cherny.
The players with their awesome win in the GF and their heartfelt gesture to Ablett after the game have left the media snookered. They're not even but, but, butting about the players behaviour during the season, they have been left smitten by our great win.
It's just us so called arrogant supporters that is annoying everyone....... how sweet it is. Suck it up everyone, suck it up.
It's just us so called arrogant supporters that is annoying everyone....... how sweet it is. Suck it up everyone, suck it up.
See other comments about the decline of The Age, they cannot afford editors any more who might have picked that up. There is more editing in a PRE post.
Is it Sam McClure or the editors that have trouble constructing a coherent sentence?
(from https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/adam-treloar-stuck-in-the-middle-20201027-p5695b.html)
Proofing in newspapers has been woeful for a while now. One irony of journos typing articles straight into computers is that, in the old days, the typesetters would do a little proofing as they went. I reckon they picked up typos just by habit as they put words into hot metal or the later versions of typesetting before computers took over. Just having that extra set of eyes helped a lot.
The reality is that we read words, not letters, and we read for meaning not for the pleasure of decoding a set of symbols. So picking up a misspelling or typo can be difficult. The worst are titles, notoriously difficult to proof.
DS
The reality is that we read words, not letters, and we read for meaning not for the pleasure of decoding a set of symbols. So picking up a misspelling or typo can be difficult. The worst are titles, notoriously difficult to proof.
DS
Titles?As is Sir, Dr or Wimbledon champion, triple Premiership player?
My great uncle was a compositor on one of the Sydney morning papers, owned by Frank Packer, said that Frank knew the name of every employee in the production dept, not something you associate with CEOs these days. (And it would be easier now, did a tour of Suns printing press at Port Melb 20 years ago, looked like about a dozen staff in the whole joint and I doubt any had ink stained hands like my uncle)
My great uncle was a compositor on one of the Sydney morning papers, owned by Frank Packer, said that Frank knew the name of every employee in the production dept, not something you associate with CEOs these days. (And it would be easier now, did a tour of Suns printing press at Port Melb 20 years ago, looked like about a dozen staff in the whole joint and I doubt any had ink stained hands like my uncle)
Just saw AFL Supercoach has an article about our bad trades FFS , want some anchovies on ya Salt 
Next they'll be reminding us about Tambling over Buddy while completely ignoring Scully &
Trengove over Dusty....
Trengove over Dusty....
We must be doing something ok with 3 flags in 4 years.Just saw AFL Supercoach has an article about our bad trades FFS , want some anchovies on ya Salt
What happened to that gracious, humble man we seen after the grand final?Just saw AFL Supercoach has an article about our bad trades FFS , want some anchovies on ya Salt
See the footy flogs, erm I mean journo's farking stuff up again. Some fool did a trade article about Saad leaving Essendrugs for Carlscum. Called him Adam about half a dozen times.
Guessing the journo might have had his computer set to auto translate n the name Ahmet kept coming out as Adam.
Guessing the journo might have had his computer set to auto translate n the name Ahmet kept coming out as Adam.
Yeah, still *smile* me. Fiona over Pavlich, Tambling over Buddy. Flora was no star but played 140 games, Tambling 124.
I can make a list of dozens of top 10 picks that played little to no games but never get mentioned.
Hadn't realised Fiora played that many games for St Kilda 62 to get to 140. Good on him.
But had a chuckle when reading his Wikipedia entry which includes this line about being drafted to Richmond :
“Considered at the time to be one of the most talented young footballers in the world .......”
Only on an annual basis. Sure those picks were rubbish but Scully & Trengove over Dusty make the others look like a masterstroke.
If they even did any homework at all they'd know we didn't want Buddy, Roughead was the one. Somehow Hawthorn got wind of that & took Roughy 1st.
They also expected to get Tambling at 5 because they believed we would go a mid and tall
