Won't work. The AFL control the media so they control the agenda. We'll be portrayed as whinging, petulant sooks who refuse to take responsibility for our own actions. It won't be like when Eddie went public because he owned, or had significant influence over a large portion of the AFL media as well.
Any media type that picks up our cause, like showing the home game free kick stats posted in another thread which clearly shows bias, will be admonished by the AFL, be threatened with their AFL Media credentials which will ultimately screw with their career.
The backchannels is all we have really. Hopefully with Gil out of the way, the new bloke, supposedly a Richmond man, will slowly behind the scenes start making changes.
Sorry, but what are they going to do to us? The free kick count has been out of control for at least 5 years and it is clear that the club has questioned this behind closed doors and it has got us, precisely . . . nowhere.
Stuff 'em, stuff the media (go for an avalanche on social media) and go public. Go public and go big.
If they can't take advice from one of the most respected figures in football, Neil Balme, who knows more about football than the likes of Gill, Dill and Goyder put together then they simply don't want to be told.
Plus, they can background some of the less compromised media, websites like the Roar, Mongrel Punt etc who might take some notice.
Enough is enough and continuing to just complain behind closed doors which has not worked smacks of not learning from mistakes. Let's start by attacking the "undisciplined" narrative on 50m penalties for a start - a nice video of Shai pointing at the scoreboard (50m penalty) compared with some of the over the top remonstrating with umps with no 50m penalty would get the ball rolling.
Time to pro-actively change the narrative.
I'm sick of the incompetence of the umpires and it is not good enough for a professional football code.
DS
