malleefowl wrote:
Sorry guys. You don't know how to accept praise when you get it. When was the last time that the Blues were on top of the ladder for two weeks in a row? Can you not remember? I can't. It is so long ago. We all know that our team is doing well. It is early days, but the signs are promising. Sheahan writes a positive article about our club and you bag him. You ungrateful lot. Are you baggin Kevin Rudd for giving you $900? Get a life people. And those that reply remember that I don't get on here often so it will be a week before I read your comments. I have to work for a living.
It's not so much that we're bagging him for writing a positive article, but I know I'm bagging him because he goes where the wind blows. He doesn't hold any particular opinions on anything, but gets them from the footy public. He's the worst kind of bandwagonner.
Other footy journos wrote articles during our black years putting the boots in, but because they were intelligent, insightful pieces, while they stung, the writer had to be given credit for telling it straight. So when those journos report on our rise, it's a documentation of our story, not a see-through attempt at currying favour with Carlton supporters.
We've seen the light at the end of the tunnel coming towards us for a year or 2 now, but Mike Sheahan paid no mind to that, preferring instead to write puff-pieces on Essendon*, or somesuch. Rohan Connolly and Jake Niall at The Age have seen our rise coming for some time now, and have been writing cautiously optimistic pieces for a while.
Mike Sheahan is the equivalent of the nerdy kid at school, bad at sport, no friends, and desperately trying to make people like him.