Average effort, regardless of whether the Herald Sun did it off their own bat or AFL Victoria paid for it to go in there.
A huge photo of Sandringham after the Grand Final win, plus photos of Cloke and Koulouriotis (in their AFL club jumpers) almost seem to be fillers cos they didnt have enough content to fill two pages. Surely it would have been better replaced with a fixture for the entire 2007 VFL season which (hopefully) people might cut out and stick on the fridge. Or a free entry coupon that fans could use to any match this season.
As for the level of detail about player arrivals - well apparently Sandringham have none and only one departure. Yeah right!!! Five blank lines appear underneath. In fact most of the team boxes have a number of blank lines underneath them. Surely they could've been filled with something!!!! It looks like a VCE 3000 word school project which the student has only done 2000 words for. Bare!!!
Half the article on the left hand side simply repeats the arrivals and departures which are covered elsewhere in the feature. How about profiling some players, covering a few interesting stories about coaches and players in the competition?
There's also no mention that VFL games are on ABC TV every week (assuming everybody knows but how about giving them a plug anyway!).
I probably said much the same stuff last year, but if the VFL are going to use the same design and standard as their 2006 season preview, then I reckon I can get away with repeating myself again too.
If the league paid for that rubbish, they were ripped off.
That's a nice way of putting it.
Other things that could have gone in (or should have gone in)
- Club phone contact details for further enquiries on matches/memberships
- Club website addresses
- Ground locations
Must have had some grade one students put it together, or the people in charge of it didnt go to the first lecture of Marketing Theories and Practices at uni.
Poulter's coverage of VFL always been below par in my opinion and as a certain fellow Werribee person has said to me "he gives us nothing".
Several times we have been the television game or something else like that, but has not even written a word about us.
In my weekly round wraps, I ensure that the VFL listed players get a fair go as well because too many times it's the AFL listed players who get mentions even if they struggled. I will say though that the Herald Sun's piece on Yze turning out for Sandringham was a good read.
Rebecca Williams should be bought back to write about the VFL, I thought she gave players and teams a fair hearing when she covered the competition. It seems like it's the younger journalists who cover the VFL and they want to get out of it almost as soon as they enter it.
Paul Amy is invaluable and the double page spread he writes for Inside Footall each week should never be discouned for anyone interested in having a read about the strongest league outside the AFL.
Hi All,
Without sounding too negative it was a complete waste of space. I am a person who loved/loves the old VFA who knew all of the 'gun' players from the opposition because you would read about them every Monday. Now though (perhaps it is my ignorance) but I can't tell you too much about any (obvious) quality players that Frankston must have. Knowing the Port list very well, I thought that we would give them a flogging. But it just goes to show how there is no publicity for the VFL players who have played consistently for many years.
One wonders how many of the "Footballing Public" knew that Ryan McMahon has played over 100 games for Port? Many years ago the general public would know who the player was or at least have heard of him.
But then again I am not too sure what the reporters are suppose to do, in particular when some clubs have up to 18 AFL listed players 'representing' their club.
WIA
Banny, Benny, Benny, Benny!
You have reached a new level now.
Williams did a huge diservice to the VFL with her utter inablilty to even understand the competition, let alone report on it with any knowledge.
She simply wrote rubbish.
Poulters article today actually had some knowledgable comments that Williams probably couldn't even read, let alone write.
I thought that Williams gave Werribee a fairer run compared to Poulter though, Dolphin.
If Poulter gives us a fairer run, I might be forced to change my mind and retract such comments.
I agree, the article today was very good. Plenty of quotes from the coaches which I really like reading.
Hopefully the bar stays that high all year.
At least Poulter has been around journalism for a while, I think a few of the cadet journalists covering the VFL over the past five years haven't always done justice to the competition.
What are everyone's thoughts on Sean Cusick's work for The Age?