Tahs MOM v Crusaders

[Hawko]

Good call, Hawko.

I note that you have been over at The Roar setting a few people straight. I used to be quite involved with their site but eventually found it to be totally unproductive posting there. Logical argument has no influence on the attitudes or opinions of many of their members. I hadn't been there for months but yesterday someone drew my attention to a particularly outrageous article by Spiro.

I think it is worthwhile taking issue with professional journos because people naïvely assume they know what they're talking about. So I fired a shot across Spiro's bows and received in return a very lame response which included:

“The fact that none of Carter’s ‘tackles’ actually registered to viewers, or to this viewer, means as far as I’m concerned, that they were tackles in name only.”

Then I noticed last night from the email notifications of responses that you had also entered the fray.

Maybe its not very productive but I did feel a whole lot better when I had finished. What was written was the sort of lowest common denominator stuff that shock jocks love to spout. Problem with it is that it seems to gain its own momentum and actually discourages coaches from picking their best team because they are sensitive to the roaring. Spiro is rapidly becoming the Alan Jones of rugby and its totally destructive because he actually knows better but doesn't say so because he'd rather score brownie points with the readers on his son's blog.

I found and used to post on the Roar for quite a while before I found G&GR. Now I often read the articles/blog to get a broader view of what people are saying but I only post there very selectively. G&GR is my first port of call.

 

[MrMouse]

Spiro is rapidly becoming the Alan Jones of rugby

...Isn't Alan Jones the Alan Jones of rugby?

Just sayin'

 

[Hawko]

...Isn't Alan Jones the Alan Jones of rugby?

Just sayin'

Alan Jones the shock jock; I know he also has rugby interests but I was more referring to his ability to get to the lowest common denominator people and rile them up to incandescent rage against people who are just trying to do the best job they can. That's the sense in which I meant Spiro is like AJ.

Despite the fact he wanted the Wallabies job back, I don't see him as part of the rugby world. And I still blame him for Mark Ellas early retirement, despite the smokescreen that's been erected.

 

[Bruce Ross]

Alan Jones the shock jock; ... And I still blame him for Mark Ellas early retirement, despite the smokescreen that's been erected.

I don't think that Jones was the only Wallaby coach that failed to appreciate Ella's genius, Hawko.

 

[TheTruth]

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