Ever Wondered Why So Many Australian
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Consumer
sovereignty?
A recent
survey published in the Business Review Weekly showed that football viewing
on the
limited timeslots has increased from 33 per cent in 1993 to 39 per cent in
1997. The main coverage of
football
is on a non-commercial network with limited access to the public due to
limitations of its signals which
are
often weak and shadowy. This occurred despite saturation coverage of
the other codes both of which
decreased
in viewers. In
this
saturated coverage in a media that is uncompetitive and has monopoly power.
In the
March 99 edition
Now on the
front page of the Channel Seven Home Page.
What's
your favourite football code?
AFL 30%
Rugby
union 4%
Rugby
league 12%
Soccer
37%
I
prefer cricket 4%
Don't
like any sort of footy 5%
Don't
like sports 4%
And
yet they still blackout football coverage!
Why
is that mate?
Then
because soccer was the code- zip, off the net with the poll.
Can't have those wogs having a say can we?
In the
opening to 1998 season a sell out crowd at Northern Spirit attended with some
page three coverage in the local newspapers. Yet reports later in news
bulletins left the result to last despite the crowds out-numbering the
packielackey game that was played on the same night. Prejudice runs deep
in the Australian media and consumer sovereignty is not an issue when the media
is an effective monopoly.
When
the biggest match of the Australian soccer league was to be played on
Wednesday (
Or
as fans commented:
Dear
listees,
Does
anybody know who IS screening the Sth Melb v
Is ANYONE showing it live?
and
the reply
No,
no-one is showing it, live or otherwise.
I
could comment, but I'll leave that to all of you!
The
the Murdoch Australian- (he btw is one of the owners of packielackey)
managed in reluctatnt style to report only 20 words the following
day. Now this game has
Now
of course the tiddleywinks want to use their ground and destroy its surface so
that Spirit cannot play.
As
a fan pointed out:
"Just
read on the SMH web site that the AFL want to use North
Sydney Oval for games during their season &train during the
summer !"(
How's
that for ignorance!
Another
attempt to stifle competition.
Take
away the ground of
This is
followed by tiddleywink's attempt to stop the
Manchester United Tour Downunder 1999, to
BTW,
the SMH is now effectively controlled by the packielackey stable.
Isn't
it amazing how the richest bigots in the country are able get around media
laws?
Recent
government protection given to existing owners of Australian
media from competition creates absolute
control
of access to sports information in
horizon
its move was hardly surprising in an already concentrated market.
Now of
course there is a government attempt to limit free speech and content on the
internet.
Guess
who has just moved into the internet market in 1999?
The result
is that the media in
These
are clearly demonstrated by the attitudes that have already been presented
here. The attitude by the owner is "Buy your TV network!" A bit
difficult when it is a protected monopoly.
Newspaper
views: (often owned by the same interests as the TV media)
Greek
Goons to Attend Final- A headline by the well-known anti-ethnic protagonist
Jeff Wells in the
Australian
Newspaper. This was even though there was no hint of any trouble, merely
because the team
Melbourne
Yet
one doesn't hear him wanting to ban bagpipes at the Australian Rules fixtures.
The ignorance ran so deep
that
the writer did not even realize the qualities of Ferenc Puskas who was the
coach of the team at the time. It
was
also the team that had Paul Wade, the Australian Captain - hardly 'Greek
Goons'.
This
is a typical ploy by the media. Carlton Football (soccer) Club is a
classic example.
Yet
the packielackey team gets saturation coverage.
Reason:
the media owns packielackie(rugby league) and tiddleywinks (Victorian rules)
and do not allow competition. The Murdoch press concentration alone
is 60 per cent.
They
restrict competition by blackouts of soccer information and their attacks on
the players' and followers' background. These attacks are totally irrational.
Ever
wondered if these attacks are due to ignorance or bigotry?
Can
people coming to
Current
experience of soccer followers is abuse by the media and so the answer
suggests an affirmative.
Can
you imagine the reception that
They
will pretend that they do not exist- it will be a blackout!
Failure to
report the qualifying of the Olympic Team for Atlanta played in Sydney by the
Sydney Morning Herald
the
newspaper of the' Olympic 2000' typifies the approach by the effective
monopoly. Then this paper calls itself
-the
Sydney 2000 paper. One can only wonder about the extent and nature of its
football coverage in 2000. In
fairness,
its recent coverage of the game has improved but is still minimalist in its
approach to the Australian
based
competition. Although recent front page pictures of Pauline "fact
free zone" Hanson in the Olympic city of
The usual
blackout of reporting the National League competition is standard practice.
Then there
is usual 'naughty wogs' attack by the packielackey (aka rugby league)
commercial radio media. Is it
any
coincidence that this radio station broadcasts packielackey where all the
scratching and loss of gonads
occurs?
A quote from a football fan.
"Here
we go again. Mike Gibson is on his 2GB radio programme at present
about
the recent findings of a study by sociologist John Hughson which
stated
that the Croatians who rioted at the
final
were just "youngsters living an para-military existence out to
impress
their mums and dads"."
What was
the methodology used? Ask the packielackies at the government protected
media?
There were
no reports of the riot at
Expect the
wogball treatment when visiting the
A comment
from a fan:
Whilst on
the subject of media morons:
>Over
the weekend either channel 7 or 9 reported on football crowd violence
>in
>someone,
I cant remember or care, but anyway I later heard on the BBC, that
>the
final score was actually 1-1 and the team won 4-2 on penalties.....
>Things'll
never change....
>See
you all in
...Well
whilst we're whinging..
Did anyone
else notice at least 2 commercial radio news reports saying the
Socceroos
had moved from 50th to 33rd? Actually we have been in the 30's all
year,
and they should know that. One of them has looked up the FIFA site
which
shows we were at 50 last year, next to the current result. Of course
they
all just copy each other, without any checking of sources. Bastards.
'Re SMH
and reference to Sydney teams not embracing any of the current NSL sides....
I'm
not a Marconi supporter, but have been to a couple of games recently and I
would refute that they have not
been
embraced by other fans. I'm a dinky di Aussie and a couple of mates also, and
they have enjoyed going to
Marconi
matches.
And,
judging from the reaction around us on the hill, I'd say there are others like
us.
As
well, Marconi seem to me to draw a wide range of support, not just the
Italians.
Cheers.'
Saw a
Murdoch Telemoron lying on a seat
Friday
before the A-League
Not a
mention anywhere in its 147 pages
You
can't even use it for dunny paper
No
wonder they hired Wells
Wells
in the Murdoch telemoron described Olympic football as "diving on
grass.." in an article about the availability of tickets at the Olympics-
well is that ignorance or bigotry?
Why Wells
do they send players off in Victorian rules (aka tiddleywinks) for tripping?
Where
is his comment about the opening game on the Olympic Stadium by Murdoch's
packielackey 'diving in human poop'?
A
rule for one and not the other?
A view
from a football fan in
not
have a bar with anything other than that of their hereditary AFL club. Still
with
large
non Anglo Saxon following ("We are the dago Blues... you know they're
banners
are in Italian" etc. etc.) I'd expected the crowds they would be getting
would be well over
what
they are now. Have they successfully approached their AFL supporters, caus
they've always
had a
group of Pommy singers at AFL matches. And they AREN'T there for the soccer.
" Out of the Australian
newsgroup.
In the
lead up to the 1998 Grand Final a
"For
those fortunate or unfortunate enough to read Ron Reed's article in
the
Herald-Sun today, I've got one thing to say.
Fancy
placing an article on the back page of the herald-sun and
continued
inside about how SM supporters have been racially abusing him
and
his family....
Clearly
Jonsey is being vindictive. That is to be expected. But what
on
earth is Ron Reed doing printing this shit now. WHAT IS HIS
INSPERATION
BEHIND IT????
Why
now? Why at all? Why have a huge article on Eddie K one day and a
slaging
one on Souths the next? Yes I think it is a conspiracy against
SM.
As to who is behind it, I don't know, but why else would somebody
do
this. What Reed conveniently overlooked is that SM has a Turk and a
Macedonian
in its team. Not to mention Croatians, Italian's (including
it's
captain) and Greeks. 20% of our members are from a non-Greek
Background
(I've seen the members list myself). "
Typical
bull that footballers have to put up with in
Now
football has been played in
Perhaps
this is because of the media. The soc*ial game was played here
first! Soccer was first with green and gold and black!
Brought to
you by fosters the anti-football lager.
Fosters is
conspicuous by it absence at football matches, even those with world-wide
audiences such as the
v
Australia World Cup Qualifier 1998 for the final
In the
first match of the 1999 playoffs, the SMH didn't even report the result
of the Spirit v Marconi match despite it having more spectators than those who
went to the packielackey, yet it devoted nearly a whole page to them! It
did though amazingly preview the match between Spirit and Marconi which must be
a first.
But
really, is the failure to report the result surprising given the past record of
the paper?
The match
which was shown live on pay TV , but during the break they saturated the screen
with tiddleywinks propaganda. The viewers were football fans! But
those who saw the match realise how tiddleywinks is really tiddleywimps when it
is compared to real football. It is amazing that Spirit had so few bookings!
As the
final draws near in
"Finals
fever has hit
game
sold out within hours of tickets going on sale to the general
public.
The Glory
mailing list is now full of mail as to which pubs we are going
to
meet up at, when we are going to get to the ground and what the
atmosphere
is going to be like without a real Shed area.
Glory's
move to Leederville Oval from Perth Oval now looks to have been dumped. Glory
are
holding out on the State Government building a purpose built stadium. With
Will the
murdoch media recognise it?
Amazingly
there was even very short preview! Nearly 1/6th of a page!
But how
about the news headlines for the Grand Final 1999 Preview?
All
about the hooligans at the soccer.
And
they judge the clubs on a few people only.
Why
did they not do that when the tiddleywimps TEAM attacked unprovoked the
Vietnamese hotel?
Do they judge that game's supporters on the behaviour of the PLAYERS?
What
colour are swans in
Black and white.
So
why are the Sydney Swans red and white?
Because they come from
Now
haven't Sydney United proven one of the most important tenets of football as
they reached the 1999 Grand Final?
They fail
at the final hurdle but prove the point: ticker, ticker, ticker and the heart
continues to throb despite the move to stop it.
What
counts is performance on the field; not crowd support, money, artificial salary
caps or bureaucratic interference. These are the province of minor
leagues.
Speaking
of minor leagues;
From a
tiddleywimps newsgroup:
" >In the last few years one player in the AFL really makes me
want to jump
>thru the tv or on the ground
>and punch the poncy bastards lights out for his soccer like
overacting
>falling on the ground rolling over
>like the typical overpaid,
Now is
this jealousy, ignorance or simply inadequacy from the tiddleywimp?
BTW Why do
they ban players in tiddleywimps for tripping?
The
predictions made a year earlier about the 'official opening' of the Olympic
Stadium on June 12, 1999 with the FIFA World Stars v Australia were proved - it
was a deliberate attempt to downgrade football, and that the Olympic movement
and FIFA have been duped by the SOCOG packielackeys in charge of the
promotion. The pitch was a sandy multilined patchwork of blacked out
signs with a divoted surface that looked more like a dairy yard than a
football field. The pitch had a game of crappy packielackey played
on it three days earlier in the rain completely destroying an already poor
surface. It was only marginally better than the one
The
media was full of "It's been opened already when they had the league (sic)
'crappy packielackey' game and many people have been there before anyway".
Or
as reported in the
"The
match was to officially open the Australian Olympic
stadium which seats over 110,000, despite the fact that it has
been in use for over three months."
The
media virtually blacked out the previews to the game and derided the concept of
the official opening.
The
pre-match entertainment can only be described as abysmally poor.
All planned by the packielackeys on SOCOG who control the promotion of
the Olympic Games?
It
seems all these predictions have come true.
The,
at every opportunity attack the Manchester United v. Socceroos Down under
Series 1999 campaign by the media in
All
this and Manchester United have signed a contract with the Australian Wool
Board and yet Manu were treated like sheep dung.
Every
paper, television network (with the exception of SBS) went on a football
mauling exercise in an attempt to discredit and belittle the Socceroos
claiming players like Colosimo and Lazaridis as second-rate.
However, who was second-rate?
The
MCG for its appalling surface.
The ignorant James O'Brian for his what's on in sport segment on the
Manchester United team.
The Australian media for their undisguised attack of the players of
Manchester United and the Socceroos.
Imagine calling Stam, Giggs, Urwin, Cole, Yorke, Bosnich, et
al second rate?
Is
this another case of Australian sports media ignorance or is it a matter
of ostriches with their heads buried in dung?
But
the crowds still came and new Socceroos stars emerged. 71 000 in
Melbourne and 78 000 in Sydney.
All despite the media derision.
BTW
the coverage by Stoke's Joke was actually creditable.
But then, how much influence did the worry beads have on the management?
As
for the friendly- well for Colosimo it's a case of deja vu USA.
The tackle from Cole was uncalled for and he deserved a red card.
It
highlights who had the skill! And it wasn't Cole Voodoo!.
Then
along comes John.
The howardly coward.
The
Honourable PM of Australia with his powers of premonition, bans football
players from attending a human rights convention at Bondi and kicking footballs
in Australia. Why ? Because they are black West African
footballers! He bans them just because they are footballers using
the pretext that they will overstay their visa. Where in the soothsayer's
underworld did he see this premonition.? What if they were packielackey
or tiddleywimp players? Would he have banned them? Imagine if they
had played rugby!
Will
he ban all participants from Africa during the Sydney Olympics?
Now even the UN finds this behaviour disturbing.
But guess who is speaking at Bondi?
Tiddleywimps.
When
South Melbourne qualified for the World Club Championships in Brazil
after winning the Oceania zone there was not even a mention in the
packielackey/Stoke's joke of a media.
As
one fan commented:
"Also
very absent from most reports was South Melbourne's great result in
Nadi. Shameful really. Who do you blame? No excuse in my opinion."
As
another fan points out what the media ignored;
The
representatives, and how they qualified are as follows:
AFC:
Winner of the 1998 Asian Super Cup: Al-Nasr, Saudi Arabia
CAF: Winner of the Champions' League 1999 - 12.12.99
CONCACAF: Winner of the 1999 CONCACAF Champions' Cup: 03.10.99
CONMEBOL: Winner of the 1998 Copa Libertadores: Clube Regatas Vasco da
Gama, Brazil
UEFA: Winner of the 1999 Champions' League: Manchester United, England
OFC: Winner of the 1999 OFC Club Championship: South Melbourne,
Australia
Winner of the Toyota Cup 1998: Real Madrid, Spain
Brazil: Champions, Corinthians, Brazil
This
of course is not to mention the blackout of the new season. Murdoch's
Australian on Saturday 9th Oct 99 didn't even mention a word of preview or
report the results from the previous night. That's murdoch's packielacky
for you!
Is
it any wonder that Ange Postecoglou finds the lack of media recognition
for his side an affront?
Australia
v Brazil 0-2 , Australia v Brazil 2-2 and Kewell fails to front.
Have
things improved in the media?
As
a fan points out.
"Today's
SMH sports result page only published 4 of the weekend's results and
failed to include the competition table."
But
what can one expect from the Sydney 2000 media !
In
another football first the Matildas (Australia's women's Olympic football
team) release a nude Matildas Calendar, Sydney 2000?!
They
receive world -wide coverage but the packielackey/tiddleywimps of SOCOG attack
the football team because they dare seek publicity in the nude and attempt to
stop its publication!
Haven't
they ever been to a nude beach?!
Are they never naked?
Do they shower and bathe in their undies?
This
type of gutter journalism is to be expected from an organisation that is intent
on the blackout and abuse of football in Australia.
The
Murdoch's Australian claims it is a backward step for feminism- or should that
read feminazi intent on the control of women!?
But
then that's Murdoch's packielackey for you!!
The
facts are that there are not enough copies of the calendar to go around
and the Matildas are a competitive football team. They might not
win gold
and might be beaten by the USA and China but they are real
footballers.
They
play a real game!
In
fact the calendar is very artistic.
Here
is the view from one of the tiddleywimps posting to a real newsgroup:
"The
Australian Women's team who will be representing their country at the
Olympics next year have stooped to an all time low.
Getting
their gear off for a nudie calendar (showing everything not some art house
type shots).
Comes
with the sanction of Soccer Australia.
And
you wonder why people don't take soccer in Australia seriously?
Not
to mention the ridiculous comment by one player on the radio this morning
stating that 50% of the team was lesbian. Did we really need to
know that?"
How
rude!
They must be Continental wogs !
Imagine putting sex first!?
It
was so offensive that a quote from the calendar is in order.
"Wauchope,
family,
friends is where my
success comes from"
Tracie
McGovern"
And
she is a good looking sort!
They
might even go topless down the beach!
Viva
la football!
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