Dunstall V Quartermain MMM Argument (Footy Classified Vision)

[smasha]

My god how about if Dunstall and Quarters were involved at Richmond it will be all over the news with the Headline "Richmond in Turmoil"!
It seems as though it's good for some and not for others, because there were 5 pages in the Herald Sun on the Cousins finger including the front page????????????

It's official, that Richmond are the whipping boys of both the AFL and the media

Herald Sun are in sour grapes mode after failing so badly a few weeks ago.

Andrew D just seems to hate us.

 

[theScabman]

agree 100% - where is the "please explain" for Hawthorn??

Why would Hawthorn have a 'please explain' issued to them? Dunstall was working in his capacity as a media personality.

If Anthony Mithen made a slip up while commentating a Geelong game, would you want the 'please explain' directed at Richmond?

btw, there is a big difference between a player with a history like Cousins( surely he was/is aware that the media are just waiting for him to slip up, ever so slightly - even if the act was more stupid than harmful) flipping the bird at a camera, than there is a commentator saying the word '*smile*' on air.

 

[Disco08]

No matter what capacity Dunstall was working in, his behavior should be judged on his position at Hawthorn. As a high profile leader of his club his actions reflect not only on the club but on the AFL itself.

 

[theScabman]

No matter what capacity Dunstall was working in, his behavior should be judged on his position at Hawthorn. As a high profile leader of his club his actions reflect not only on the club but on the AFL itself.

Perhaps you just want some heat to be on other clubs for a while after this week. I can understand that, but to say the Hawthorn Football Club should be responsible for what Jason Dunstall says on MMM is ludicrous.
He is a paid commentator, he is not working in his capacity as a Hawthorn board member when he is calling a game. Anything he says or does, be it as minute as this latest 'issue' can and should addressed by Jason Dunstall and no one else.

Regardless, with a simple 'it was all a set up' from either Quartermain or Piggy it becomes a non-story and we move onto something else.

 

[Disco08]

I don't want heat on other clubs at all. I was just pointing out what I see as the responsibilities that come with being elected to a position such as Dunstall's. IMO saying the actions of high ranking representatives don't reflect on their club/company is ludicrous.

 

[theScabman]

IMO saying the actions of high ranking representatives don't reflect on their club/company is ludicrous.

So what you're saying is that the next time Anthony Mithen rocks up to Skilled stadium to commentate a Geelong game, gets involved in an argument about the umpiring while on air, and slags one of them off as 'pitiful', that you want a 'please explain' sent to the RFC?

 

[Disco08]

If the comment brought the game into disrepute, absolutely.

 

[theScabman]

I think this is where I should ask if you've even heard the argument in question?

 

[Legends of 2017]

I would be interested in what the afl's reaction would be if cousins swore on air at his radio gig

 

[Tiger74]

I would be interested in what the afl's reaction would be if cousins swore on air at his radio gig

don't forget throwing the special fried rice

Why would Hawthorn have a 'please explain' issued to them? Dunstall was working in his capacity as a media personality.

If Anthony Mithen made a slip up while commentating a Geelong game, would you want the 'please explain' directed at Richmond?

btw, there is a big difference between a player with a history like Cousins( surely he was/is aware that the media are just waiting for him to slip up, ever so slightly - even if the act was more stupid than harmful) flipping the bird at a camera, than there is a commentator saying the word 'sh!t' on air.

He was answering questions in his capacity of a Hawthorn person - why was he being questioned so hard by Quarters if he was just another media knob. This is the issue of conflict of interest - Dunstall cannot disassociate himself from the Hawthorn role to be a media commentator, he is still a Hawk office while on the clock for MMM

 

[Disco08]

I think this is where I should ask if you've even heard the argument in question?

Why? I haven't said anything about it either way. I was only responding to your assertion that Dunstall (or any other official) could, as 74 says, disassociate himself from his Hawthorn commitments simply because he was working in a different capacity.