Who is your favorite footballer in the media?

Kate · Post: # 752968Post **Kate** » Sat 06 Jun 2009 10:03pm

Nathan Thompson.

A rare gem......Doesn't speak total crap.

Munga · Post: # 752970Post **Munga** » Sat 06 Jun 2009 10:06pm

Aker is good value. I like Cambell Brown on TFS. Richo is a classic.

battye · Post: # 752975Post **battye** » Sat 06 Jun 2009 10:11pm

Shane Crawford.

maverick · Post: # 752977Post **maverick** » Sat 06 Jun 2009 10:14pm

Kate wrote:Nathan Thompson.

A rare gem......Doesn't speak total crap.

I agree he speaks very well, and gives very good insight

Stephen Theodore · Sat 06 Jun 2009 10:15pm

Being a QLDer, am glad that the tossbag Aker is down south. His comments are based around his next gig after footy finishes. The more contraversy, the better. Keep him down there .....

saint66au · Post: # 752986Post **saint66au** » Sat 06 Jun 2009 10:17pm

Robert Murphy is good value

Dean Bailey has a very dry droll sense of humour

Stephen Theodore · Sat 06 Jun 2009 10:20pm

saint66au wrote:
Dean Bailey has a very dry droll sense of humour

Understatement if ever I heard one

Solar · Post: # 752990Post **Solar** » Sat 06 Jun 2009 10:21pm

entertainment it has to be bob murphy but for pure football knowledge you can't go past buckley

Stephen Theodore · Sat 06 Jun 2009 10:25pm

solar wrote:
but for pure football knowledge you can't go past buckley

Agree 100%.

ace · Post: # 753007Post **ace** » Sat 06 Jun 2009 10:53pm

GT
AFL HQ don't like him.
I can't stand Demetriou and Anderson (you wouldn't guess that from my posts would you).

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

clarky449 · Post: # 753009Post **clarky449** » Sat 06 Jun 2009 10:54pm

I dont mind Tom Harley

henno · Post: # 753012Post **henno** » Sat 06 Jun 2009 10:58pm

all of the above?

does billy brownless count?

absoultely hilarious!

yeah many of the footballers already mentioned are great, because in many of their interviews they don't give cliched responses!

happy feet · Sat 06 Jun 2009 11:00pm

Has to be Timmy Watson, especially when Essendon are playing.

Legendary · Post: # 753021Post **Legendary** » Sat 06 Jun 2009 11:07pm

Nathan Buckley for pure football knowledge and insight.

Grant Thomas for honesty and telling it like it is ... 'shoving it up 'em'

Brian Taylor for calling footy.

Billy Brownless for entertainment value.

Understand they are "ex" footballers, but there aren't too many of the current bunch who actually work in the media while playing.

stinger · Post: # 753105Post **stinger** » Sun 07 Jun 2009 12:09am

grant thomas

st.byron · Post: # 753108Post **st.byron** » Sun 07 Jun 2009 12:11am

stinger wrote:grant thomas

u r a shyte stirrer

st.byron · Post: # 753110Post **st.byron** » Sun 07 Jun 2009 12:15am

anyone who talks about the game and doesn't try and be a 'celebrity'. Shane Crawford, Newman, Fev and their cranium vacant mates on the footy show give me the shytes.
Hird is good, Richo comes across as fairly humble and genuine, Buckley is knowledgeable. I like Matthews. Straight forward and knows the game backwards.

Scottish Saint · Sun 07 Jun 2009 1:56am

Akermanis is absolutely appalling. It's the easiest thing in the world to be "controversial" just for the sake of it. He has never said anything even remotely interesting and I can't believe he is being praised for his "wit." He is a single figure IQ moron.

Hird and Buckley have both been very good in the media. Voss, of course, was a huge disappointment - he can hardly string a sentence together. Shane Crawford and Billy "couple of frothies" Brownless should not be allowed near a camera or a microphone.

plugger66 · Post: # 753212Post **plugger66** » Sun 07 Jun 2009 2:00am

Scottish Saint wrote:Akermanis is absolutely appalling. It's the easiest thing in the world to be "controversial" just for the sake of it. He has never said anything even remotely interesting and I can't believe he is being praised for his "wit." He is a single figure IQ moron.

Hird and Buckley have both been very good in the media. Voss, of course, was a huge disappointment - he can hardly string a sentence together. Shane Crawford and Billy "couple of frothies" Brownless should not be allowed near a camera or a microphone.

You obviously like listening to ex footballers then. Billy is good at what he does as is Craw. Voss was average but obviously has done well as a coach and Aker is excellent.

Otiman · Post: # 753221Post **Otiman** » Sun 07 Jun 2009 2:13am

From the ex players.

Nathan Thompson
Luke Darcy
Nathan Buckley (when Collingwood isn't involved)

Then probably daylight.

As for current players, I wouldn't call any of them overly good with the media.

st.byron · Post: # 753222Post **st.byron** » Sun 07 Jun 2009 2:15am

plugger66 wrote:
You obviously like listening to ex footballers then. Billy is good at what he does as is Craw. Voss was average but obviously has done well as a coach and Aker is excellent.

It takes all sorts doesn't it. Brownless is an appalling caricature of a knockabout larrikin more interested in his own regular bloke image than commenting on the game and Crawford is full of his own 'celebrity' status. Good footballer does not necessarily = celebrity. They've both swallowed their own petty celebrity, drummed up by Channel 9, hook line and sinker. Ditto Newman, Fevola, Garry Lyon. Absolute trollops.

Winmarvellous · Sun 07 Jun 2009 2:25am

Gilbert McAdam..Marngrook.

claystreet · Post: # 753265Post **claystreet** » Sun 07 Jun 2009 8:07am

Winmarvellous wrote:Gilbert McAdam..Marngrook.

I fixed Gillies car on the side of the rd one Saturday at about 12pm he was trying to get to Moorabbin, had driven straight through from Western Victoria and had the missus and kids on board. I spotted them sitting there steam all over the place and it wasnt until i approached them i realised who it was. He made it we lost

For me the best footy media guy is Figjam ui used to hate him with a passion now i like the guy ...go figure

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