by Grahaml » Sat Feb 05, 2011 12:12 am
Whether the AFL or SANFL pay blokes to work in certain zones does not excuse a club from working hard to make the best of the kids it has. And if the dogs were asked to stop, I'd be furious if they stopped. Unless a club is actually forced somehow to stop, they should be busting their nuts to get the best of the kids around. And I doubt the SANFL or AFL would be anything but ecstatic about that happening.
So enough of the excuses from South, get on with it.
As for Centurion's case about drugs being an issue, how about not crying foul about what was said, but instead addressing the issue he has raise. Fair enough if he's talking crap call him out on it. But the bottom line is simply whether that's right or not? Do young men in the southern suburbs have a high rate of drug abuse? So far the talk is about whether he's able to say that, whether he's stereotyping or not, but nothing about whether he's simply correct. If the discussion was about the lack of Northern Suburbs teenagers entering university and we said too many of them were preferring to hit the end of a dole queue and work at McDonald's would that be scandalous or simply a reasonably accurate assessment of an issue?
FWIW, Fuller's article seems like a veiled whinge about why his job is harder than most, even perhaps loading up an excuse for failure before it happens. At the least, as a public article it serves no purpose and he might as well draw some pretty pictures. But what I would like to know is, what will he directly do to amend the issues he raises? He offers no solutions or evidence to suggest he or his club are doing anything about it. Instead he seems to be writing a piece that appears to be an expert observation, just from the perspective of someone who is no expert. It's really just about as useful as a Perez Hilton blog about the latest celebrity; All spin and rumour, no substance.
