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Wallabies v France - June 14 Etihad Stadium

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Mark Ella (57)
Is there a way we can get more health affected players in the side to increase publicity? Perhaps we could inject Hooper with Hep C or something. Pretty sure Kepu suffers from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ;)

Shit BDA - something about "minefields"

I have a great mongrel response but I'll just leave that one alone.
 

GaffaCHinO

Peter Sullivan (51)
Is there a way we can get more health affected players in the side to increase publicity? Perhaps we could inject Hooper with Hep C or something. Pretty sure Kepu suffers from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ;)
Well hooper has a case of the crazy eyes does that count?
 
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Train Without a Station

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Is there a way we can get more health affected players in the side to increase publicity? Perhaps we could inject Hooper with Hep C or something. Pretty sure Kepu suffers from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ;)

There's a couple of young single blokes in the squad. I'm sure they're doing the best they can. I would be!
 

BarneySF

Bob Loudon (25)
The fact is the Wallabies wouldn't get a mention on any Melbourne news tonight if it wasn't for the "special interest" story....


Likely in between the weather and a story on some demented yokel who's taught his cat to peel oranges or a look at Victoria's oldest beekeeper
 

en_force_er

Geoff Shaw (53)
Likely in between the weather and a story on some demented yokel who's taught his cat to peel oranges or a look at Victoria's oldest beekeeper


Then it's the Wallaby PR team's job to find more special interest stories.

Americans are great at creating a narrative out of sport and the ARU would do well to adopt that mindset and make more of a story out of their media work.
 
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Train Without a Station

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Yeah I've read a million articles about how some NRL knucklehead is setting himself up for life after footy because he's doing an intensive 6 week tafe course.
 

barbarian

Phil Kearns (64)
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It's not just about the story though. Shitty NRL and AFL stories can get up because that is the leading sport in the city. It's not as easy for rugby, which means the interest threshold is higher- so only the Charles-esque stories have a chance of appearing.

I'm sure the PR guys are trying, but you can't manufacture interesting stories if they just aren't there. And they need to be bloody interesting to break into the Melbourne nightly news.
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Train Without a Station

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People want to read about players breaking the mould though. Rugby player who went to <insert exclusive GPS school> transitioning into white collar career isn't too exciting or interesting either.
 

Braveheart81

Will Genia (78)
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Maybe the ARU should have sent one of the players to have lunch with Mick Gatto then?

I've always thought the NRL should just embrace their sordid episodes and make money from them. The tell all interview about the night Nate Myles pooed in a hotel corridor. The 60 Minutes interview with Julian O'Neill as to why he set a kid in a dolphin costume alight. The adults only story of four blokes having a gang bang with a paralytic woman.
 
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Geoff Shaw (53)
It's not just about the story though. Shitty NRL and AFL stories can get up because that is the leading sport in the city. It's not as easy for rugby, which means the interest threshold is higher- so only the Charles-esque stories have a chance of appearing.

I'm sure the PR guys are trying, but you can't manufacture interesting stories if they just aren't there. And they need to be bloody interesting to break into the Melbourne nightly news.
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The ARU's PR don't do a bad job but if you read their news releases it's all pretty mundane.

I think they're more guilty of not thinking outside the box, the Charles story was given to them on a platter but all their other stories are stuff like "Country boy makes it big and plays for Wallabies" or other stories that are uninteresting to anyone that isn't from that pocket of the world.
 

Braveheart81

Will Genia (78)
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Maybe the ARU needs to start plucking talented rugby players out of year 12 at St Joseph's College and sending them to [insert worst high school in the state] to create a rags to riches story down the track when they play for the Wallabies.
 

en_force_er

Geoff Shaw (53)
Maybe the ARU needs to start plucking talented rugby players out of year 12 at St Joseph's College and sending them to [insert worst high school in the state] to create a rags to riches story down the track when they play for the Wallabies.


Matt Hodgson is (to my knowledge) the only player to make it big out of the indigenous representative program.

Surely the ARU could have done a story with him and Kurtley for Mabo Day about opportunities for indigenous peoples through rugby. Sadly that's been and gone (June 3).
 

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Stirling Mortlock (74)
Just read a pleasing statistic - Wallabies averaged 4.5 tries over their last 8 matches. The French are really going to have to make a mess of our ball if they are going to stop us from scoring tries. And they'll need to score a few of their own. They might edge the forward battle but I just cant see them getting up.

Ever since the away game to Argentina we've scored over 30 points every game apart from against England. Oops that's wrong, only 21 against Scotland but that was in poor conditions.

Average of 35 across 8 games.
 

Hugh Jarse

Rocky Elsom (76)
Need to take a leaf from Vince McMahon (WWF or WWE or whatever incarnation of letters they call themselves now) and artificially create some bad as dudes to become "hated" and loved.

The Badger personality is one that could be exploited. There are enough tattooed dudes in the squad to roster one or two as scary dudes. It doesn't take much imagination to create a bit of hype.

Unfortunately ARU are in the process of establishing a point of difference from mungoball in that you can trust rugby players to do the right thing, particularly with respect to treatment of women, and alcohol that creating a bad dude could back fire and undermine that campaign.

For myself, I'd rather rugby be a minority sport that has players who do not bash women, crap in hotel corridors, turn up pissed in public (I'm looking at you Bieber), and have enough sense to take a taxi home rather than driving under the influence of grog.

As a parent, I'd rather have my sons behave along the lines of the ARU point of difference, as opposed to follow what we read about in the papers about what the dark side players get up to in their off duty hours. La Jarse thinks so as well.
 

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Charlie Fox (21)
Not sure, France can be sublime or absolute KaK, They are in need of a coach that can bring the best out of them because for sure on their day they can and have beaten anyone.
 
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