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Hutchy Junior Following in his Hero's Steps
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3AW today stated he had been dismissed for reporting a situation that was not fact. They completely deny the Adrian Anderson story Howard put up.
Read the piece, its clear he has an axe to grind and considers himself bigger than the story now. All that talk about journos being sent back from Beijing :rofl. What has happened to him? The AFL stopped sending him EMAILS!!! He is still acreditted, he can still attend AFL sanctioned pressies, so what exactly is this exile he has been given??
The guy is a joke, and is making Hutchy look credible.
Read the piece, its clear he has an axe to grind and considers himself bigger than the story now. All that talk about journos being sent back from Beijing :rofl. What has happened to him? The AFL stopped sending him EMAILS!!! He is still acreditted, he can still attend AFL sanctioned pressies, so what exactly is this exile he has been given??
The guy is a joke, and is making Hutchy look credible.
mb64 said:
This makes no sense and I cannot believe you are buying it from a BS machine on "extended leave" now with 7.
He says the AFL had issues with Shaws comments, so do they speak to Shaw? No. Do they speak to the producer? No. They speak to two hosts of the show for some daffy reason. The producer is the one you would raise these issues with, and the fact that this dweeb cannot get this right shows how full of cr@p he is.
Also AW fired him for this. If it was false they could be sued for breach of contract. The fact that Howard is now playing secret squirrel me thinks shows how credible this is.
Patrick Smith spends half his time bagging the AFL powerbrokers, hell even Sheehan & Wilson have a go occasionally. Howard’s the Jerry Springer of the AFL pool of hacks, a self aggrandising parasite cloaking himself as a lone voice journalist. In an industry notorious for protecting its own his colleagues and employers are washing their hands. Maybe now he can try and improve his media credentials and become a pap, camp up a tree overlooking celebrity backyards and take pictures of family christenings or other such tripe.mb64 said:
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,22368354%255E20322,00.html
Channel 7 presenter interviewed by police
05 September 2007 Herald Sun
THE television journalist who presented an article alleging that several players at an AFL club were involved in drug-taking has been questioned by Victorian detectives.
Seven Network sports reporter Dylan Howard was today interviewed by police about the allegedly stolen medicals records on which his August 24 article was based.
After the report went to air, two people were charged with stealing the records, which they sold to the Seven Network for $3000.
Police said no charges had been laid against Mr Howard, but their investigations were continuing.
Mr Howard's lawyer Andrew McKenna said he was interviewed at Heidelberg police station in Melbourne's north, at about 4pm today.
"Mr Howard has asked me to stress that he acted honestly and with integrity throughout this matter," Mr McKenna said.
"He reported the story because he believed it was in the legitimate public interest to do so.
"He reported it with the concurrence of his employer and after taking senior legal advice."
Mr McKenna said Mr Howard would fight any charges if police decided that they should be laid against him.
"In the event that any charges are laid, they will be vigorously defended with the full support of his employer, and he is grateful to his employer for that support," Mr McKenna said.
The Seven Network announced late yesterday that it would drop its legal challenge to a Victorian Supreme Court injunction taken out by the doctor treating several players, which prevented publication of their names or their club.
The network pledged not to report any of the details it had obtained from medical records again.
Channel 7 presenter interviewed by police
05 September 2007 Herald Sun
THE television journalist who presented an article alleging that several players at an AFL club were involved in drug-taking has been questioned by Victorian detectives.
Seven Network sports reporter Dylan Howard was today interviewed by police about the allegedly stolen medicals records on which his August 24 article was based.
After the report went to air, two people were charged with stealing the records, which they sold to the Seven Network for $3000.
Police said no charges had been laid against Mr Howard, but their investigations were continuing.
Mr Howard's lawyer Andrew McKenna said he was interviewed at Heidelberg police station in Melbourne's north, at about 4pm today.
"Mr Howard has asked me to stress that he acted honestly and with integrity throughout this matter," Mr McKenna said.
"He reported the story because he believed it was in the legitimate public interest to do so.
"He reported it with the concurrence of his employer and after taking senior legal advice."
Mr McKenna said Mr Howard would fight any charges if police decided that they should be laid against him.
"In the event that any charges are laid, they will be vigorously defended with the full support of his employer, and he is grateful to his employer for that support," Mr McKenna said.
The Seven Network announced late yesterday that it would drop its legal challenge to a Victorian Supreme Court injunction taken out by the doctor treating several players, which prevented publication of their names or their club.
The network pledged not to report any of the details it had obtained from medical records again.
While channel 7 got it wrong, it was a story that needs to be aired, but it could have been done without publishing players private medical records.
However anyone who comes out and says that Johns would have been picked up under the AFL drug testing system, after the cousin episode, is obviously in denial.
It not about the players its about the reputation of the game.
People need to start admitting thing could be improved before they starting trying to drive nails in individual coffins.
Trying to cover up any drug problems in player ranks will only turn around and bite you on the bum big time like the Johns story has done to rugby.
However anyone who comes out and says that Johns would have been picked up under the AFL drug testing system, after the cousin episode, is obviously in denial.
It not about the players its about the reputation of the game.
People need to start admitting thing could be improved before they starting trying to drive nails in individual coffins.
Trying to cover up any drug problems in player ranks will only turn around and bite you on the bum big time like the Johns story has done to rugby.
Well said gus.
I certainly don't agree with airing players private medicals records but that doesn't hide the fact that a certain Victorian based club has a serious drug problem amongst some of it's players.
Demetriou and co are either very lucky or very clever in deflecting attention away from this.
I certainly don't agree with airing players private medicals records but that doesn't hide the fact that a certain Victorian based club has a serious drug problem amongst some of it's players.
Demetriou and co are either very lucky or very clever in deflecting attention away from this.
Irrespective of what Howard has to say does any of us doubt that Demeitrou uses ham-fisted tactics to suppress information that may be detrimental to the AFL's public image?
Wish Caro would fire up on whatever she's got on the AW thing.
As for Smith, he's a droob. He might fire up but IMO his work lacks substance he couldn't hit the side of a barn with a spray.
Wish Caro would fire up on whatever she's got on the AW thing.
As for Smith, he's a droob. He might fire up but IMO his work lacks substance he couldn't hit the side of a barn with a spray.
Dimi and his boys are happy to break the balls of anyone who steps over their party line.
Howard stepped over the line and copped it.
Remember when Hirdy slagged off at the maggot on the footy show, he got nailed.
What about when Hutchy said telstra dump was like the sahara desert, kaboom shot down in flames.
Sheedy when he lost it and did the throat slit gesture, dragged to the tribunal. FFS the kiwi's do it when they do the haka and no-one really takes them that seriously.
Any and every time someone breaks wind and Dimi gets a sniff of it there's dramas and people being penalised.
When Dimi and his mates get it wrong, like the changes to the tribunal system, the implementation of the new hands in the back rule or the tanking situation the berlin wall immediately goes up and nothing moves.
Howard stepped over the line and copped it.
Remember when Hirdy slagged off at the maggot on the footy show, he got nailed.
What about when Hutchy said telstra dump was like the sahara desert, kaboom shot down in flames.
Sheedy when he lost it and did the throat slit gesture, dragged to the tribunal. FFS the kiwi's do it when they do the haka and no-one really takes them that seriously.
Any and every time someone breaks wind and Dimi gets a sniff of it there's dramas and people being penalised.
When Dimi and his mates get it wrong, like the changes to the tribunal system, the implementation of the new hands in the back rule or the tanking situation the berlin wall immediately goes up and nothing moves.