Daily Telegraph back page declared a scandal free zone until end of NRL season
By Phil Rothfield From: The Daily Telegraph August 07, 2009 12:00AM
Phil Rothfield Source: The Daily Telegraph
Enough. From today until the Grand Final on October 4, the back page of The Daily Telegraph has been declared a scandal free zone.
From now until the premiership it’s the footy and nothing but the footy.
The race to the grand final has thrown up some of the best football stories in years.
Can The Dogs climb from the spoon to the premiership in a single season?
Can Wayne Bennett lead the Saints to victory in his first season in Sydney?
Can The Tigers claw their way back into the big show and can reigning champions Manly save their season?
What about the Eels? They were gone only a month ago.
From now on it’s all about Jarryd Hayne, Benji Marshall, Robbie Farah, Anthony Watmough, Scott Prince and Brett Noddy Kimmorley.
These are your heroes the The Daily Telegraph sports team will be concentrating on over the next eight weeks.
No more of the Brett Stewart sexual assault charges, the Tony Zappia sacking, Greg Bird glassing his girlfriend and Roosters on assault charges. We’re over it.
And now here is our challenge to rugby league, its clubs and its players.
Keep yourselves out of the news for the wrong reasons and we’ll put you on these pages for all the right reasons*.
The football season starts now!
*The editor makes no such promise. If you seriously stuff up expect to see yourselves on page one.
Phil Rothfield, Executive sports editor
Is that the same Anthony Watmough that got drunk and made a goose of himself at the Manly season launch?
Is it the same Jarrod Hayne that got shot at in Kings Cross?
The football season starts now!
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...nd-of-nrl-season/story-e6frexnr-1225758796972
**** off morons.
This little article really pisses me off, what a fluff piece. But it does give us an insight into the Telegraph's real objectives.
They are not interested in writing about anything but scandal until the "business end" of the season.
If a scandal comes up, they are obliged to cover it. I'm not going to argue about that. But this article indicates to me that they have had an agenda to cover scandal over football up until the finals..
Furthermore, I’m sick to death of their articles about “The 10 Biggest Sooks in the Game” and the “Biggest Chokers in Rugby League”.
Most of their “sports writers” are simply gossip columnists. How many articles do you see in the Tele that actually analyse the game? They need Rugby League experts that will comment on the actually game play, tactics and the strengths and weaknesses of each team.
I hate the fact that these bastards own part of our game. The only interest they have is to turn it into a soap opera.
Rothschild knows nothing about the game and his reporting is an absolute disgrace. It is farcical that this bloke is the "Executive Sports Editor"
The sooner they are out of the ownership of our game the better.
That’s my rant.
