(05-30-2019, 03:59 AM)LP link Wrote:Yes I agree.
Further fans are reacting to this news after the fact.
The media and the club clearly knew about this before the weekend, it raises questions around why it took so long to surface. In the old days it would have been in the Saturday morning editions! It's pretty clear the club approved the excursion.
MLG and Lloyd were both active in the broadcast media on Saturday and Sunday before the game, but there was NADA in that content! They had the opportunity to cut off the serpents head but instead by inaction they offered it a sacrifice!
It would have been as simple as one of them steering a conversation and making some proactive statement like this on Saturday,
"At Carlton, we want to be part of the wider community, for example Daisy spent last night volunteering his time at a charity diner to raise funds for Camp Quality!"
Sorted, issue dead and buried, it's that simple! If any smart-ar5e blogger or journo tries to raise the drinking issue after that sort of public pronunciation they just make themselves look like an asshole! Because making a football issue around a charity fund raiser for sick children means you are an asshole, Caro!
When it broke the way it broke Monday, all we had to pose as a question was this on Tuesday,
"Why is Caro(or The Media if you wish to be less personal) politicising a children's cancer charity fund-raiser, is that really how low we are prepared to go?"
Yet NADA!
McGuire, as much as I hate him, has us covered in spades. I don't know who manages or advises our club on media issues but they are dead-set worthless!
We really don't know how much and when the club knew.
Judd seemed 'not too sure' on the TV Monday night.
Wilson suggested that after an initial inquiry the club were going back to Thomas for clarification.
The clubs integrity manager Craig Millar conducted an investigation.
So it was probably a bit premature for the club to go on the front foot on Saturday morning
Judd on Monday night...
Quote:Judd said he had no problems with a player having one or two drinks before a game, but acknowledged it was a bad look given Carlton's plight.
Thomas allegedly has told the club he had two glasses of wine at the dinner.
"I'm not one to 'infantise' players - if players have a single beer or a couple of wines over dinner, I don't have a huge problem," Judd told Channel Nine's Footy Classified.
"Needless to say, drinking, full-stop, in public, two days before a game when you're 1-9, fails the stupidity test clearly.
"So we'll wait and see what the result of the investigations are - I actually don't have the detail, I'm not spinning that.
If we had taken this tack
"Why is Caro(or The Media if you wish to be less personal) politicising a children's cancer charity fund-raiser, is that really how low we are prepared to go?"
I reckon we would have been cut to pieces for trying to deflect it using 'cancer charity' as a cover. It would backfire.
You see the wider community doesn't regard the media as biased against Carlton...they just see them as reporting on a struggling club having another issue to deal with with.
I agree we need to be more proactive but this one isn't a battle we would win.