Audio from ABC: How the Saints Convinced the skeptics

[doggerel]

Gerard Whateley, Tim Lane, David Parkin and Peter Schwab analyse the factors that underpin the current success of Ross Lyon's troops and how they have become believers.

http://blogs.abc.net.au/grandstand/2009 ... l?site=afl

[mbogo]

Did anyone listen to our rating on ABC sport last Saturday? Did we get five stars for our improvement?
David Parkin re Saints defence stats "that's extraordinary" ...

[saint66au]

Tim cant help himself "Their depth doesnt look that good even with their best 22 on the park" ..talking about us like we are some sort of one-hit novelty act

[st.byron]

Thanks for posting that Doggerel.
Cheres mate.

[saintsRrising]

Tim Lane hates us... that must have hurt him deeply.

But what a tosser....still maintains that the Pies were better than us last year.

[aussierules0k]

[gooner]

Tim cant help himself "Their depth doesnt look that good even with their best 22 on the park" ..talking about us like we are some sort of one-hit novelty act

Can someone explain this to me as someone who arrived in Melbourne in 2003 (but been a Saint since my gap year here in 96.)
I can accept that past players and coaches with roles in the media will look favourably on their own club.
I'll even accept that a club president or two can commentate on their own club's games. Their allegiances are out in the open.
But how can it be that a supposed journalist who has never played a game for a league club be so blatant about who they support. I mean for god's sake they're about the only people in the bloody footy media who could be impartial.
I actually had to wikipedia Tim Lane to be certain that he hadn't played for Carlton at some time or other. (BTW check his bio. I mean, how dumb do you have to be to fail the first year at the University of Tasmania?)

[Quixote]

Tim Lane is Carlton through and through. Once a slave, always a slave. Born and bred scum is Lane.


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