Very disapointing to see that both the Age and the Herald-Sun had no mention of yesterdays game in their papers today.
With only the Essendon / Collingwood game being played against, surely they papers could have found some space for a post-match write-up.
Shows what they really think of the VFL/ AFL reserves. The papers would have saved the overtime for the reporters as well :cry:
There was a report by Rebecca Williams above the sport results section of Herald Sun but not much. Very poor.
I agree it is frustrating that the newspapers do little to promote the VFL.
That probably won't change, how about a few of the clubs lift their game with their websites - maybe that needs to be an avenue where the VFL is promoted. You log onto half the AFL club sites and you see nothing about their VFL side, and you click on the VFL club site and you get a year old match report.
There wasn't even any scores reported on channels 9 or 10 about yesterdays game. Channel 9 didn't even give the scores from sundays games. What hope do we have!!!
I'm puzzled about how Richard Tambling could be the focus of the article in the Herald Sun given he was flogged for most of the day by Sam Rudolph.
Couldn't agree more about the abysmal lack of coverage given to the VFL generally and to this week's clash in particular.
At the risk of blowing the brown and gold trumpet , I should point out that the Hawthorn FC website carries a lively Box Hill Hawks section with both previews and reviews published a day either side of each weeks match......written incidentally by our very own mattyc2422 and chuggg respectively. It didn't happen by accident though , clubs need to work harder at building relationships with their AFL counterparts.
The media is probably the most cynical and commercially driven aspect of today's society ( Real Estate Agents aside !!!!) and if we think a competition attracting crowds measured in hundreds rather than tens of thousands is ever going to get significant coverage on it's own , we're either living in a bubble or we've been smoking our socks again !
No one bemoans the demise of the old VFA more than I , but we HAVE to be realistic , it's gone and you either walk away or you embrace the new structure and try to work from within to get the best possible deal for State level footy.
Build a relationship with your AFL club and use some of THEIR clout......and , of course , continue to support resources like this one ( still cant thank onslaught enough for getting this off the ground ) at every turn.
If you're a stand alone club , good luck.....and I REALLY mean that because you'll need it. I truly admire your your efforts to hold on but ....good luck.
Channel 9 appear to have altogether stopped giving VFL scores and channel 10 weekend news is from sydney, so can't see much hope of the VFL getting a mention.
Listened to the SEN coverage on Monday and thought it was good except for David Schwartz. His hard on the ear, just doesn't know enough players and really struggles to get any flow into the call.
The coverage in papers generally in very poor. In Monday's Herald Sun I big write up about Sandringham smashing Geelong but probably the best game of the year to date between Tasmania and Frankston gets 1 line in the paper. The papers are too much for the AFL aligned clubs why not the stand alone clubs get a go particually when they perform well as Frankston did on last Sunday.
Our ABC tv ignored ANZAC Day match in its 7pm news.
SEN ignores Sunday VFL games - doesn't give scores. (At least, not in real time, anyway.) If they do, well after matches have finished, they may as well tell us Hitler lost the war!
At least Ballarat Courier and Bendigo Advertiser gives good coverage to their VFL teams.
We all sit here whinging about it, who's actually contacted the Herald Sun to tell them we're not happy with it. Let's do something, or we'll sit here complaining for years. Tambling was easily beaten by Sammy Rudolph, ran off him, looked great, about the only thing that did for Box Hill, and yeah, Tambling gets the headline. Should have been more done, it was a good day, pity about the contests, but a big crowd of probably 3,000 or so, the VFL needs to give us more than a double page spread at the start of the year.