(08-19-2021, 03:40 AM)Baggers date Wrote:I just watched The TT pre game media conference and the very first thing I thought after a few minutes was, 'FFS, David, don't get drawn into the leading questions from salivating headline hunters.' Once they realised his naive honesty, they were like hyenas. He's got to learn to get them dancing to his tune, not he, theirs.Been saying it for years, it's an aspect of our club that remains in the rank amateur category.
Our fans keep wondering why Handbaggers or Ferals get off at the MRP, they think they are lucky, or they think our blokes are guilty and theirs aren't!
It's absolutely nothing to do with any of that, it's a cause and effect driven by our media presence.
The first thing I would do if I was Teague would be to make journalists and bloggers accountable for their questions. That is when they raise a hand, tell them to announce their name and organisation before they pose the questions, you'll find the replacing any partially perceived anonymity with accountability and responsibility changes the very questions raised in the debate! Usually, the old heads in the game, the likes of Flubbo, Hunchy or Caro, will then force some poor cadet spud or work experience kid to pose the dumb questions, which then just let's someone like Teague control the debate. It's media 101, and our club seems to be ignorant of it!
btw., It doesn't have to be done in a combative way, Teague can illiterate that in the absence of vision fans may not be familiar with voices, or a Teague type can even claim it is "to help me remember names"!
None of it matters, if the Board and Exec do no0t support the staff in the media, and there is the problem because our Board and Exec are ethereal, they are crickets chirping or rabbits in headlights!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"