Dear Greg Growden

[Blue]

That was not Drew Mitchell in the picture in the SMH today. It was Hodgson's pic above the Mitchell caption.

Smalll difference I know, but why not get it right anyway? Yes, yes there is the matter of missing happy hour down at the pub if one spends too much time checking one's own work but it's just one beer ffs.

Yours in quality control

Blue.

 

[Aussie D]

While you're writing to him can you remind him he is a rugby writer and not a political correspondent or food critic.

 

[Reddy!]

Growden, don't listen to these people, you are my favourite rugby journalist...except when you write for the SMH, or show yourself in public, or steal my oxygen.

...or cause inflation of meat pie prices (had to throw in another one for good measure).

 

[topo]

That was not Drew Mitchell in the picture in the SMH today. It was Hodgson's pic above the Mitchell caption.

Smalll difference I know, but why not get it right anyway? Yes, yes there is the matter of missing happy hour down at the pub if one spends too much time checking one's own work but it's just one beer ffs.

Yours in quality control

Blue.

Yeah, saw that over the weetbix this morning and thought wtf? It's not like it's a small photo either. Surely Hodgson could sue for the damage to his reputation.

 

[Novocastrian]

There are more than enough things in his agenda driven gossip columns that he deserves abuse for, but I'm not sure this is one of them - I'm not sure how much (if any) control he has over a) the pictures that appear with his 'stories' or b) the captioning of those pics.

 

[RugbyReg]

yeah, it'd be the sub-editor I would've thought.

 

[daz]

yeah, it'd be the sub-editor I would've thought.

Geez RR and Novo, there was a really good chest beating about Grumbles going on here and you have ruined it with the truth.

Shame on you.

 

[Moses]

Surely a chief rugby correspondent would review the final copy before it goes to the presses?

 

[RugbyReg]

Surely a chief rugby correspondent would review the final copy before it goes to the presses?

I dunno, you're the media man! Didn't you ask him when you were downing rumbos with him in the press box last week?

 

[Gagger]

I don't think he chose the right font either

 

[Blue]

Surely a chief rugby correspondent would review the final copy before it goes to the presses?

Roughly speaking, yes. Only if you care about the quality of your own work and what the public sees.

 

[Blue]

I don't think he chose the right font either

and content, and opinions, and ...and...and......

 

[Henry]

Still was a fairly rubbish article... Even if they had the right picture...

 

[Gagger]

Surely a chief rugby correspondent would review the final copy before it goes to the presses?

That's exactly what a sub-editor's job is so that journo's can go find the next story while the paper gets put together late into the night.


BUT, IN FAIR BALANCE, I HAVE A CONFESSION

I've met Grumbles a few times now, and you know what - he was a nice bloke.

First time was at a Wallabies training session prior to the Sydney Bled last year. I walked up and introduced myself. He said "Oh yeah, Matt @ G&GR, you're the guy who bagged me out a coupla years ago!" (referring to this http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/the-many-faces-of-greg/ and other posts paying him out)

He laughed it off though and we had a good old chin wag till after the session ended, covering a bunch of stuff including how he thought we must have had a source inside the Tahs as this post apparently was so on the money http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/my-week-chris-hickey/ (Growden thinks Hickey is an idiot) and he showed me his note book where he and the other journo's had been playing Dingo Bingo http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/dingo-bingo/

I met him a coupla more times up here on the EOYT, and while going to the press conferences and interviewing a few players, it struck me just how fuck boring so much of his job must be: the same players and coaches saying the same old cliches in order to avoid saying anything, and then you've got to make a story out of it that is in some way interesting. If you write anything honest or controversial, those players/coaches get the shits and say even less to you next time.

I guess now from personal experience I have a better appreciation for why he deliberately stirs the pot - he's shit bored otherwise. And if you're writing for the SMH, your bread's buttered to stir it in a pro NSW direction. Doesn't mean I agree with it, or what he writes, I just understand better where it comes from.

This alongside my "naive" and irrational zeal for Deans will no doubt put me on a few hitlists, but fuck it, I live life on the edge

 

[cyclopath]

This alongside my "naive" and irrational zeal for Deans will no doubt put me on a few hitlists, but fuck it, I live life on the edge

To admit man-love for Grumbles on this forum, I refer to your signature, Gagger...minerals indeed!

 

[Blue]

That's exactly what a sub-editor's job is so that journo's can go find the next story while the paper gets put together late into the night.


BUT, IN FAIR BALANCE, I HAVE A CONFESSION

Fair enough, but until I have met him I can only go on what he writes and therefore consider him to be a twat.

 

[Coach]

Fair enough, but until I have met him I can only go on what he writes and therefore consider him to be a twat.

Have you considered that perhaps Gagger has spent just a little too long in ol' blighty and is now also a twat, hhmmmm ?

 

[Gagger]

Like I said above; same Coaches, same old cliches. Fuck boring.

 

[Blue]

Like I said above; same Coaches, same old cliches. Fuck boring.

Well if he's bored he can go get another job surely?