a lot of people in the media have no idea about the game i noticed the same with tennis so they just don't say anything or bag it 

It is common among the people from the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to bag Football. 

The rest of the world doesn't, to my knowledge. 

Has anyone noticed this year Footballs coverage on News & Fairfax papers and web sites is down and as for 7, 9 & 10 their coverage is no where near what it has been recently.

Two things I noticed last week… twas waiting for a coffee and picked up the TerrORgraph [Ok newspapers readship down I understand] so went looking for the A-League it was roughly a third of one page 12 to 14 pages from the back… in nightly news shows the A-League coverage seems a lot latter in the sports reports and a fair bit less.

Given that 9, own Fairfax and since the take over Fairfax has gone from calling it Football back to having a soccer tag…

You're the TROLL

You are the one that has tried to damage football in this country

You are the one that opposes everything that football strives for in this country

GO

You are the one uttering profanities, yet you are inclined to get me banned?

That is an odd set of morals you have there.

P1SS OFF

I will get you banned before the week is out

Edited by girtXc: 28/7/2010 10:25:34 AM

To date, I can't see that anyone has disproven anything that The Age published.

I've heard Buckley pronounce that it's "unhelpful" (well, greater scrutiny is never desired by anyone spending public money!), but I haven't seen anyone stand up and say: this specific matter reported by The Age is false.

I've heard plenty say: well, you need to do this sort of thing, don't be naive, etc

But that's not a really solid basis for a defamation suit.

I hope the FFA go after The Age for what they did. Even bigger case for it now.

I am glad with this course of action

At least it will cause them to be more cautious the next time the Bogans proceed to misinform

Problem is the damage has already been done.Throw enough mud and some will stick.

I don't see anyone talking about the millions Qatar are spending to host Brazil v Argentina in November,or infact their unbelievable tactics with CAF or even why Bin Hammann is announcing the host of the Asian Cup 2015 in January next year.
I don't see them talking about Qatars unbelievable CO2 emissions which are the worst in the world per capita by a huge margin,over double the next nation,or how Bin Hammann lends his helicopter to Sepp.
All other bids have deficiencies yet I'm not seeing any investigative journalism into them

Vested interests:oops: :oops:

:lol:

It is good to get words spelt and used correctly. A correct use for deformation is given in the sentence below.

Deformation that Pim used against Germany played straight into their hands. He should have stuck with his normal 4-2-3-1.

Its actually defamation taken from the word defamed. not deformation taken from the word deformed. ](*,) \:d/ ](*,) \:d/ ](*,) :cool: :cool: :cool:

Edited by spathi: 23/7/2010 02:15:37 PM

http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-sport/australias-2022-world-cup-bid-cleared-20100723-10n96.html

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/football/australias-2022-world-cup-bid-cleared-20100723-10nna.html

http://www.watoday.com.au/breaking-news-sport/australias-2022-world-cup-bid-cleared-20100723-10n96.html

FIFA has cleared its WC bid investigation and there is very little about it on the news unlike the big newspaper story about the allegations. Good luck Lowy with the deformation case hope you send them broke. Another proof of anti-football agendas by mainstream media.
Football is undisputed by far biggest sport in the world. FIFA has more countries participating in the WC competition than the UN members. Something so big and the media has so little positive to say about it in Australia.
Shame some people on this forum can not see this and please take your who is who dicusion on another tread
:-({|=

Nup-thats a photo of the only person that has made Barklys blog a favourite-thats his entire fan club despite the incredible amount of crap hes spewed out

That is not Mr Football, he was a blogger for MV on this site for goodness sake people. Kapow! & socceroossupporter are not Mr Football.

Deleted photo at request of a friend.

Edited by General Ashnak: 22/7/2010 03:39:19 PM

Edited by General Ashnak: 23/7/2010 11:51:21 AM

Edited by General Ashnak: 23/7/2010 04:25:57 PM

Can you not see the evil in his eyes? :evil:

if that is a photograph of Misterfootball/barklystreetend then he looks surprisingly normal :-k

If you still insist with the ridiculous notion i'm a multi of a poster i consistently and fervently disagree with in my posts, you are either a twerp with little skill of comprehension, or a one of the many teens whose balls are yet to drop. Or maybe it's a combination of those, together your oft displayed poor literacy skills and inability to debate that leads you to attempt to destroy the credibility of the arguer rather than the argument.

What do you do when someone disagrees with you when in your company? Grow some brain cells and debate like a man, tell them they're opinion doesn't matter because they're in disguise or lock yourself in your room and have a tantrum? I'd tend to think mummy gave little girt his own way far too often.

Kapow/Misterfootball/barklystreebullshit/skeptic/socceroossupporter
just bugger off back to big foody,or alternately go back to your blog where you have a massive loyal following of 1 person

I was simply pointing out the fact that you were incorrect in saying that the NRL is not a spectator sport and that their crowds are irrelevant.

The person who quoted my post was arguing that sydney FC got higher crowds than some rugby league teams so therefore should of recieved more news coverage, i was simply pointy out that crowds do not represents RL's support levels as it has a high TV viewing audience, therefore high news coverage. If you disagree with that then you are wrong. If you thought it was a shot at RL then you were also wrong.


Edited by kapow!: 22/7/2010 01:43:52 AM

You might want to tell the 3.4 million that went to NRL games in 2009 that it is a TV sport and they should stay home.

Just to remind you again... your game, AFL, is only a minor sport in the two states that make up 55% of Australia's population.



Edited by gyfox: 22/7/2010 12:56:57 AM

I dont need sources to substantiate that there is no bias towards AFL because i'm not making a case for it, infact they probably are biased towards them, but its because they’re trying to milk every dollar out of their viewers or readers. That was the basis of my point, the logical explanation for high AFL coverage is due to high interest levels from the public, assuming there is a anti-soccer campaign doesn’t make sense.

One of the things you might be confusing an anit-soccer media campaign with is AFL or specialised sport writers coming out with pot shots at the game during world cups for instance, their motivation would be because their job is supported by a strong AFL industry and because they are somewhat foreign to the sport. Those sorts of snipes are not consistent with a media campaign against the sport.


As for your points:
-High sport participation levels does not mean there is high interest and therefore high media coverage, some sports are spectator sports others are participant sports or both. For instance netball has high participation but low spectator interest.

-High AFL content in columns doesn’t mean anything, people in victoria are interested in AFL and whats going on.

There is a lot of upside to our game considering we haven’t even been selling it in the right format for any more than 5 years, but we shouldnt be blaming others or expecting a free ride, we'll get coverage when we earn it.

Barkly StBS and all his multis posted in the one afternoon](*,)
The Edude of 442:oops:

He's only come here because the highlight of his life-the anti football sub forum at big foody(with 400 threads-about 200 started by him)has been moved to the back blocks as it no longer has any relevance at all with Barkly repeating himself again and again and again.
Hes so popular that he started his own blog and after a few years hes already had 1 person favourite his site.
Incredibly popular bloke

Thought you promised ](*,)

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Hi bse

I know that you really love the best game in the world ;)

It is pretty obvious that Kapow! isn't Pips - thought it was a strange conclusion to reach, Decentic is normally better than that.

Decentric

Not that I care too much, just thought I would let you know that I am not Kapow!

Not having read the whole thread, I probably lean to his side that the media will run stories that ultimately appeal to their readership, or will attract more readers.

Any notion that the media is somehow biased towards the AFL, while at the same time acting against its own commercial interest, is an extremely silly notion.

If you want to make money, you go and cover the biggest comp in the land.

Yours truly

Mister Football

Edited by Mister Football: 21/7/2010 05:30:01 PM