How would you rate, the media coverage in your local papers on the VFL?
Following on from a post in another thread, do local comps get more coverage than your VFL side?
I work in the City of Moreland, and the Moreland leader has very little Burgers news in comparison to the Soccer, and even the U18s.
I picked up a copy of the Emerald Hill times (Port Melbourne) and they seem to have dropped Sport altogether. It's nothing more than a glossy mag which is 90% real estate.
In the Western suburbs, there is good coverage of Footscray, Williamstown and Werribees game, as well as the WRFL games on the weekend. The Footscray Mail, Western Times and the Star (I think its called that).
What local papers do you receive, and what is their footy coverage like?
Ons,
Your spot on with the local papers. Im living in the Williamstown area at the moment and the Star, Williamstown advertiser, and western times always put a decent write up about VFL footy and also the local WRFL. Even if the VFL teams are not performing well they at least still get a mention and usually a bagging!!
The Emerald hill times has dropped off badly. We normally just get a small scoreboard and best players list. Oh and if we make the finals we get some colour photos. Wow.
When I was younger Tommy Lahiff used to write a whole page on each game. Now the paper is 3 times as thick but thats used for real estate.
There is virtually no sport section.
The Port phillip leader sometimes have articles.
has anyone contacted their local paper and asked for more VFL stories? How do these papers know what we want to read if we aren't telling them?
As for the Real Estate - thats a matter of sense ... they pay for the coverage they get!
Both Dandenong Journal & Leader Newpapers give excellent coverage of VFL Scorpians, TAC Stringrays & suburban competition games.
The Whitehorse Leader gives Box Hill quite a good write up, and home games usually come with a colour pic. Stories aren't just about AFL listed players, they get a mention if they play well, and that's what we want. They often re-use photos and expect us to believe it, but i'm not that silly, and every now and then for some reason there's just nothig. But overall, Box Hill and Eastern Rangers get good coverage.
When Box Hill makes finals, there's often a fair bit in the local Weekender, they had a great 3-4 page spread when we played our 1000th match, which happened to be a final, and we were on front of the Leader as well. I've still got the local front page when we won our premiership in '01 as well!
I love newspapers!
We have above average coverage of Frankston Dolphins and Dandenong Stingrays in the local newspapers down on the Peninsula.
Mostly MPNFL news but hopefully with the Scorpians moving to Cranbourne, we'll get news from them.