Saints kosy

Dolphin wrote:Benny boy, for goodness sake. Need I explain to an aspiring young journo such as yourself the meaning of newsworthy. What is of interest is what gets covered. Just accept that the VFL is getting coverage at the moment. That of itself is good. To have the Scorpions on the front of the paper is good vavlue. To have people realise that there are plyers of this calibre playing at VFL is good coverage. Don't bitch about the reasons why, just accept that the coverage is of value. ...and in any vent, I don't think the coverage is actually about anything "bad".

Have to agree dolphin, as the old Hollywood saying goes"any publicity is good publicity" and this is very true of the VFL atm struggling to make its voice heard above the massive AFL media bombardment.

Fair dinkum , why don't you all get off your high horses for a second or so. Umpires these days put themselves in awkward positions , way too close to the action. Granted , kosi may have poor peripheral vision , but he had eyes only for the ball and the umpire was where he should not have been in the first place. The player came off second best and it should have been left at that. P.S. I do not barrack for the scorpions.

foz wrote:Fair dinkum , why don't you all get off your high horses for a second or so. Umpires these days put themselves in awkward positions , way too close to the action. Granted , kosi may have poor peripheral vision , but he had eyes only for the ball and the umpire was where he should not have been in the first place. The player came off second best and it should have been left at that. P.S. I do not barrack for the scorpions.

Not that I care too much about umpires, but if the umpire was bouncing the ball, where do you think he could have been other than where he was. And if JK knewthe umpire was bouncing the ball, then he should have been aware that he was there and paid a bit more attention. It seems that he might have a poor attention span rather than a vision problem.

Lets remember a few facts, Kosi is 198cm, not sure how tall the ump is, but am guessing he is shorter, Kosi's eyes were glued straight on the Ball which was at full height upon impact, The umpires run towards the Boundary in the AFL and towards the centre in the VFL. In that particular game i saw 3 other players make contact with an umpire during play, on one occasion an umpire got bumped to the ground by a williamstown player only to get up move a step to the right and get bumped to the ground by the scorpion opponent directly afterwards, none got reported, fined etc. I'm sure St. Kilda will take no risks with him, the injuries sustained from the weekend wont set kosi back directly. I am sure if he is fit to play this season he will play, if he's not then he wont. Don't you think that if the Saints weren't prepared to be patient with his return than he wouldn't have been playing VFL reserves on the Weekend for the second week in a row??

Dolphin wrote:To have the Scorpions on the front of the paper is good vavlue.

Too right it is. I'm sure the VFL, the Casey Scorpions (which has made the hard decision to relocate and establish a new identity) and the City of Casey (which has put a lot of funds into the Casey Scorpions project) are very pleased with the exposure. Pleased that Kosi was wearing the promotional jumper for all the photos. Just wish the media scrum had assembled at Casey Fields instead of Preston and Williamstown. The only disappointed party is, no doubt, the St Kilda FC.