Reds 2016
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Mark Ella (57)
Marto has no clarity of thought..
He says dumb shit all the time at least when espousing rugby and Australian players.
He hold himself out as an "expert" but in the big scheme played fuckall tests for the Wallabies (9 I think)
Bloke seems to have a good personality - quick witted
My mate just reckons he's dim-witted
pretty harsh I reckon. Having a go at someone for "only" playing 9 tests? It was the amateur age and he played a British Lions series (scored 2 tries in 3 tests), and that famous series v the French later that year when Timmy and Jason first played together.
9 is around the same as Illie Tabua, Ross Reynolds and Tony Darcy. All legit Wallabies. Plus it discounts the many Wallaby tours he went on when he did get capped, and his 65 games for the Reds. Writing him off because he played 'fuckall' tests is ignorance to the max. Kafer only played 12. Buddha Handy only played 6. How many did Clarke and Bray play?
As for being saying "dumb shit all the time" I actually think he's doing a pretty darn good job on Rugby 360 or whatever its called.
As for what your "mate" reckons, that has slightly less relevance than how many tests a guy plays as a determinant to being an 'expert'
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Tony Shaw (54)
Thanks Reg. This is all the stuff I didn't know I wanted to say in reply to that post. You can say a lot about Marto and most do, but to have a crack for 'only playing 9 tests' is shit.
He played his Tests in '89 and '90 (according to ESPN) and it's worth noting that while on Tour in Italy in '92 he was found to have cancer in his leg and was sent home for immediate surgery. The sort of thing that would've likely impacted on his desire and ability to play amateur Rugby at international level.
FilthRugby
Nicholas Shehadie (39)
Tony D'arcy was regarded as the next big thing in Australian rugby at the time. A very talented front-rower who ended up going to league.
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Mark Ella (57)
Agree and think he was playing thirds at the end of his first year in Sydney (at league)
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Mark Ella (57)
Wow - Marto is Gog-like to a lot of you blokes.
Not to me - one of our poorer commentators and "baggers"
Scoey
Tony Shaw (54)
Marto is indeed a nation under the dominion of Satan to me. It's the only explanation!
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I'm still trying to work out what a 'gog' is....
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Mark Ella (57)
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Fred Wood (13)
Do the ARU and/or QRU media teams provide free to air television news with stories about Rugby? I just watched nine news sport and again saw nothing stories about Rugby League, including a local Intrust Cup story yet nothing about Super Rugby or the upcoming Las Vegas 7s. Every night there are stories about League and only rarely stories about what is arguably a higher level Super Rugby competition. Does Andrew Slack try to push Rugby stories or is it news producers cutting Union out of the news?
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In short... Yes they do, teams have media managers who handle media relations and have direct contact with certain reporters.. Some like Jim Tucker are practically on the Reds payroll and are given inside gossip and exclusives to get more articles done on the team. Teams will release media statements for certain things like player re-signings and team announcements, favoured journalist are provided this before the rest, a more recent tactic is for teams to also release their own articles or videos on their websites which some news agencies will recycle and publish it on their own site.
At the end of the day it's up to the editor as to what actually gets in the paper, and with the NRL about to kick off there is greater demand for mungo articles.
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Fred Wood (13)
Thanks for that but I am more interested in vision rather than written media (which is the easy way out for media departments to meet their KPIs). Vision for media (particularly TV) takes far more effort but the rewards in terms of exposure are far greater. League will continue to be popular to the masses if it is the only Rugby they see on TV.
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Bob Loudon (25)
I get what you're saying Serge, I too despair at the coverage of rugby on tv news broadcasts -in Qld league just gets huge coverage, it always annoys me how they will cover all the NRL teams regardless of where they are located but only Qld rugby coverage if there is any on tv and print. It would be interesting to speak to someone like Andrew Slack about it to find out what the constraints are.
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If you think it's bad in QLD you ought to see what it's like in NSW
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Peter Sullivan (51)
I guess at least we would get news abut scrums, since you guys in NSW go uncontested, I imagine you only get stories abut the backs
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