Robert Walls

linz · Post: # 1142894Post **linz** » Sat 17 Sep 2011 3:16am

No point buying the Age tomorrow because I'll tell you what Rob "THE PREDICTABLE HEADLINE master reporter" and MENTOR to our departed coach will say: Lyon did the right thing by leaving St Kilda because:

1) Ross's players betrayed his trust in New Zealand particularly Zac Dawson, Jack Steven and fill in the dots ........... Ross should have left then or at the very least at the end of the year. (As i recommended at the time)

2) SAINT Kildas management of the St Kilda schoolgirl scandal was not good enough. (Ross Lyon should leave the club 'cause it's culture is so bad)

3) Both sides have got the best out of each other and have got nothing to offer each other anymore. 2 Gf''s blah blah ......... and ....... blah

AND NOW THE TRUTH (in my opinion): A conversation which possibly/probably took place in the past month or so:

RL: Robert, I have been offered 1.25m + incentives per year to coach Freo.

RW: Take it Ross because St Kilda is a crap club and you can set yourself up for life. Besides, you will never win a flag at the Saints because they don't have enough money. Believe me, there is no longer loyalty in football. Take what you can while you can. A club with money can always find ways to keep/get required players. Nothing has changed since my Carlton days. MONEY SPEAKS.

RL: I have always respected your advise Robert. ( thinking: you did get me the Saints gig afterall)

Verdun66 · Post: # 1142895Post **Verdun66** » Sat 17 Sep 2011 3:31am

So coaches should resign every time a player transgresses. Yeah right.....

Con Gorozidis · Sat 17 Sep 2011 5:00am

On that logic malthouse would have quit after the didak shaw incident. But I agree with ur scenario between those two guys. Probably how it went down. Lyon is a used car salesman. Reckons he is mr reservoir hard knocks integrity but deep down just a conservative bogan. Sos and tudor realised the charade after a while. And walls is deeply old school conservative. Malthouse is way more progressive and down with the times than most saints will admit.

PaytonPlace · Sat 17 Sep 2011 8:07am

Well the article is up...

You can either read it, or go on Youtube and watch a monkey ride a pushbike

I know which one I'm gonna do

meher baba · Sat 17 Sep 2011 8:13am

PaytonPlace wrote:Well the article is up...

You can either read it, or go on Youtube and watch a monkey ride a pushbike

I know which one I'm gonna do

Just about post of the year IMO!

But where's the link (to the monkey video)?

wolfpup · Post: # 1142933Post **wolfpup** » Sat 17 Sep 2011 8:26am

lol walls is a funny bloke

when bomber thompsons players were running nightclubs with cocaine and getting arrested and driving around unlicensed and blind drunk then its ok for his players to act up?

meher baba · Sat 17 Sep 2011 8:28am

I was looking at news items on The Age website and happened across Walls's article, which brought to mind not so much the monkey on the bicycle as what would invariably be left behind on the ground when both monkey and bicycle have moved on.

The gist of the article seemed to be that it is reasonable behaviour to promise the world to women when they are young and pretty and then, once they develop a few wrinkles, run off with your secretary. And, guess what, the woman you dumped will be better off too because they won't have had to go through all the trauma of feeling that you were drifting away from them because they weren't as pretty any more.

Something like that, anyway. Thanks for all you did for our club, Wallsy. Now be a pet, run off and stick your head up a dead bear's bum.

PaytonPlace · Sat 17 Sep 2011 8:48am

meher baba wrote:
PaytonPlace wrote:Well the article is up...

You can either read it, or go on Youtube and watch a monkey ride a pushbike

I know which one I'm gonna do
Just about post of the year IMO!

But where's the link (to the monkey video)?

Sorry I certaintly shouldn't deprive the world of monkey/bike antics...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzm64Nlw ... re=related

Officially better than every Robert Walls article ever written...

ark · Post: # 1142954Post **ark** » Sat 17 Sep 2011 9:21am

At least he's not on TV next year (he said so on radio).
So we don't need to hear his rubbish, or read it (change station, don't read the paper)

All he's been on about over the last few years re the Saints has been slanted towards pumping up his mate Lyon. The inbred and conflicted nature of football media is a pathetic part of Australian Rules football.

plugger66 · Post: # 1142955Post **plugger66** » Sat 17 Sep 2011 9:23am

ark wrote:At least he's not on TV next year (he said so on radio).
So we don't need to hear his rubbish, or read it (change station, don't read the paper)

All he's been on about over the last few years re the Saints has been slanted towards pumping up his mate Lyon. The inbred and conflicted nature of football media is a pathetic part of Australian Rules football.

Yep no other sport would have that.

ark · Post: # 1142958Post **ark** » Sat 17 Sep 2011 9:26am

That's not the issue. You have made an irrelevant comment.

Bono · Post: # 1142962Post **Bono** » Sat 17 Sep 2011 9:33am

Walls is just an arrogant bore. Probably has his nose out of joint because he had. Nothing to do with Lyon going to Freo. Walls has never liked St Kildare and never has a positive word to say about anyone or anything.

plugger66 · Post: # 1142965Post **plugger66** » Sat 17 Sep 2011 9:35am

ark wrote:That's not the issue. You have made an irrelevant comment.

The point is every sport is conflicted because the media get people who were involved in the game to write about the game and that makes complete sense. There is no way around it.

ark · Post: # 1142996Post **ark** » Sat 17 Sep 2011 10:24am

That doesn't mean people who push their conflicted opinions should not be called out.

Whether it happens in other sports or walks of life is entirely irrelevant, as is your comment.

plugger66 · Sat 17 Sep 2011 10:26am

ark wrote:That doesn't mean people who push their conflicted opinions should not be called out.

Whether it happens in other sports or walks of life is entirely irrelevant, as is your comment.

Keep going. It is funny.

ark · Post: # 1143003Post **ark** » Sat 17 Sep 2011 10:29am

Guess that's your last comment. Glad to amuse you so easily

donthglfa · Sat 17 Sep 2011 10:46am

PaytonPlace wrote:
meher baba wrote:
PaytonPlace wrote:Well the article is up...

You can either read it, or go on Youtube and watch a monkey ride a pushbike

I know which one I'm gonna do
Just about post of the year IMO!

But where's the link (to the monkey video)?
Sorry I certaintly shouldn't deprive the world of monkey/bike antics...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzm64Nlw ... re=related

Officially better than every Robert Walls article ever written...

LMFAO

SaintPav · Post: # 1143014Post **SaintPav** » Sat 17 Sep 2011 10:50am

plugger66 wrote:
ark wrote:That's not the issue. You have made an irrelevant comment.
The point is every sport is conflicted because the media get people who were involved in the game to write about the game and that makes complete sense. There is no way around it.

Walls is just being loyal to his mate.

Kerry Packer once said something like: "If there's no conflict, there's no interest".

The conflict of interest throughout the AFL and the media is no different to any industry in Australia. It's just a lot more obvious in the AFL because we can see it before our eyes.

That doesn't make it good or ethical.

Wrote for Luck · Sat 17 Sep 2011 11:11am

PaytonPlace wrote:
meher baba wrote:
PaytonPlace wrote:Well the article is up...

You can either read it, or go on Youtube and watch a monkey ride a pushbike

I know which one I'm gonna do
Just about post of the year IMO!

But where's the link (to the monkey video)?
Sorry I certaintly shouldn't deprive the world of monkey/bike antics...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzm64Nlw ... re=related

Officially better than every Robert Walls article ever written...

man that monkey is bad

Majority · Post: # 1143082Post **Majority** » Sat 17 Sep 2011 11:46am

I was going to start a new thread, but I will add it here.

Robert Walls was always negative about anything St.Kilda. Then his mate Lyon was named coach. Walls quickly started to say glowing things about the Sainters. I could not believe my ears listening to him on 1 HD and could not believe my eyes reading his comments in the Age . After a few years Walls had conned me and I thought he really did have a balanced view about football. Within hours of Lyon walking, Walls is back to his true colours and sayâ€™s â€˜â€™The likelihood is the Saints will decline into mediocrity over the next few years.â€

St Lenny · Post: # 1143106Post **St Lenny** » Sat 17 Sep 2011 12:15pm

Walls has stuck the boots into us many times since Ro$$ was there. He hates us and that article is typical of him. Thank god we dont have to put up with him next year.

faircatfan · Sat 17 Sep 2011 12:16pm

Robert Walls ! What is/was he worse at

1) As a footballer? ( he was a sniper)

2) His coaching record?... or

3) His role as a media afl expert?

The man is a goose, who with that arrogant condescending voice thinks he is some sort of god.

borderbarry · Sat 17 Sep 2011 12:18pm

Hmm.. I thought someone was suggesting that we get Wallsy as our new coach!

White Winmar · Sat 17 Sep 2011 12:19pm

Love the You Tube footage of Walls riding that bike. His dress sense has improved dramatically and he's looking more handsome somehow. More co-ordinated than in his playing days as well. Thanks PP.

Moccha · Post: # 1143114Post **Moccha** » Sat 17 Sep 2011 12:22pm

is a complete farkwit. I can't believe he gets paid for his services to bulls***.