You make some fundamental assumptions, thats your right, but it doesnt make you right.plugger66 wrote:You guys cannot be serious. He is a paid special comments person. Agenda why would he have one. I cannot beleive people think as a ex Saints player he should lie to the public and himself just to please the club and supporters. He must be honest withself and say what he thinks. And him being a GT man well there were rumours at one stage GT tried to get rid of him and now he is a GT man.Teflon wrote:Agreed Joffa, would have appreciated it if the interviewers had bothered to ask Aussie id he KNEW this from information hed been told by players or was it his assumption?joffaboy wrote:I heard it and thought he was a bit over the top. What involvement does Aussie have with the STKFC at the moment?Teflon wrote: Interesting magic but I guess its beside the point when,like Aussie, its about getting a job.....I was hoping hed be at least balanced and smart enough to know the rot set in with our list before now.....but he was a GT fan as a player and I reckon that shows.
If nothing, how would he know about not playing for the coach? I mean really it did sound a bit premeditated and a bit of an old boy agenda going on.
Wasn't really impressed that even if he did know something he would air the clubs dirty laundry. If he was surmising he should then STFU.
Like Libba great player for the club but STFU if you dont know whats going on.
There wasnt a lot to it and Im an unashamed Aussie fan but I dont reckon he did himself many favours....and Aussie should know all about muck raking and rumours.....he wore a few of his own.
Who cares what former players say. Does it matter at all to anyone. No. Not one person at the club would give a stuff about what Aussie said.
I can see obvious reason why Aussies would have an agenda - he's clearly on the coaching/media merry go round and theres a career beckoning. I dont think thats a stretch and consider it logical?
To me IMHO the comments were sensationalist (clubs in big trouble for next 5 years etc) the language was alarmist and he focussed only on club recruiting over the last year and a half - hardly what you'd call a "balanced media assessment" of where St Kilda is at. Yes you can say he feels that ALL our problems occured after we drafted Sneider/Dempster - I dont think most reasonable people would see things that way.
Perhaps I expect a little more from football commentators in the media than you - thats ok. Your after an honest opinion (thats wanted no question) I look for a little more in terms of some insight or maybe even some logic. Its how I differentiate good commentators from cr@p - Swarze gives you nothing IMHO - Buckley can pin point a moment a game turns and why.
To me the assertions Aussie served up were no better than the Caroline Wilson "rumours" and "sources close to the club" type drivel that if he was going to make such bold statements at least have the balls to back them up with some fact (no not name names but at least indicate HES BEEN TOLD by players they arent playing for Lyon) then we'd be having quite a different chat.