Retired # 4: Jobe Watson - Now coach at Xavier College 28/11

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eth-dog said:
It's honestly really cringeworthy whenever people say that sh*t.
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It isn’t really. They are supporters of him and some do believe that he was wrongly done by. They are still allowed to have that belief that he is a Brownlow winner.

There are enough opposition supporters to remind us he isn’t a Brownlow Medal winner, I’m sure supporters on here don’t need reminders or to be told that is cringe from a fellow supporter.
 
bomberlegend2007 said:
It isn’t really. They are supporters of him and some do believe that he was wrongly done by. They are still allowed to have that belief that he is a Brownlow winner.

There are enough opposition supporters to remind us he isn’t a Brownlow Medal winner, I’m sure supporters on here don’t need reminders or to be told that is cringe from a fellow supporter.
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It really is. I love Jobe and always will, he was a fantastic player and is a fantastic person by all accounts. But it's cringeworthy when people say shit like that.

There are ways of appreciating the player he was without bringing up that stuff and I prefer to remember him that way. I'm not going to go to the masses and say Jobe isn't a Brownlow Medalist unprompted. Don't act like I was saying that. But don't boo-hoo me when I disagree with that shit.
 


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I Remember Bluey said:

Jobe Watson takes on head coaching role at Victorian school

The Essendon champion will return to his roots.
www.sen.com.au

Former Essendon captain Jobe Watson has returned to his roots, taking a job as the coach of Xavier College's First XVIII footy team for the 2023 season.
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i remember when the APS didn't allow coaches that weren't also teachers anywhere near their football programs. Should go back to the glory days of hiring barely literate ex footballers as PE teachers.
 

Jobe Watson opens up on lowest point during AFL drug ban

‘This idea that fear was going to be the overwhelming thing that dictated my life was not healthy.’
7news.com.au

You can watch the full episode of Unfiltered with Australia’s best sports interviewer Hamish McLachlan featuring former Essendon champion Jobe Watson, at 9.30pm tonight, straight after The Front Bar, on Seven
 

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So my question for Jobe is, given you float on a cloud high, high above everyone else and always have done, what possible reason do you have to debase yourself by talking to Hammer, what could you possibly gain from it apart from a negative reaction?
 
Online reaction has been pretty brutal from what I saw, like, he said all the right things and spoke well, but still, you open yourself up to that kind of reaction the minute you agree to sit down
 
Some people are never happy but you can't make your choices based on how they might react, especially if those people are objectively irrelevant to your life (e.g., dickheads on social media).

When I look at the headlines for Essendon in my news app there's actually **** all about this interview. There's two articles that look like relatively factual recounts (one from NewsCorp and one from NineFax), and then Channel 7's self-promotion article. That's it. Go back 10 years and it would've flooded every outlet and been dissected for months afterwards.

  • The Advertiser: 'Bombers' premiership player hopes for multimillion-dollar payday'
  • Code: 'Roos pull off season-eve coup with VFL signing' (pic of Jayden Davey)
  • The Sporting News: 'Does Essendon play today? Full schedule, live stream, free-to-air channel, for the next Bombers AFL match'
  • SEN: 'Who the coaches missed and Round 3's most damaging player' (pic of Redman)
  • Fox Sports: ''Looks like the tin man': The rogue tactic that riles up fans but 'works' for AFL gun' (photo of Draper shushing the crowd)
  • 7News: 'Jobe Watson opens up on lowest point during AFL drug ban'
  • Daily Telegraph: 'The Lowdown: Is it time to ask what Port can salvage from 2025?'
  • The Australian: 'Jobe reveals 'overbearing pain' of drugs saga, returning Brownlow'
  • The Age: ''I didn't really want to participate': Watson explains why he agreed to injecting program'
  • Zero Hangar: 'For Victorian clubs reportedly chasing interstate star' (Photo of Port's Butters)
  • Mercury: ''They missed one there': How Doc slid out of Tigers', Dons' clutches'
  • news.com.au: 'Bomber blow: Essendon forward suffers ACL'
  • Fox Sports: ''Deep' Blues hole may already be inescapable; Hawk's brilliant trait that people 'hate' – Talking Pts'
  • SEN: 'Trade talk: Could Bombers give up ruckman to enhance draft hand?'
  • SEN: 'Essendon's 'rebuild' is off to a flyer: The six things we learned from Round 3'
  • Herald Sun: 'Early Tackle: Are Ken and Port ready for what's about to hit them?'
  • SEN: 'Why premiership coach thinks Merrett is too hard to tag'
  • The Age: ''All of a sudden, it was a big issue': Stringer explains Dons exit, denies links to crime figure'
  • The Australian: 'Ex-AFL star calls out 'horrible' McKay boo boys'
  • The Age: ''Get around him': McKernan calls for caution after Essendon fans turn on McKay'

The good thing about this year is there are a thousand footy panel shows, so the media cycle is getting shorter and shorter as they have to keep finding new content for every day of the week in order to compete for viewers. Evidently, this ain't the story that sells ad space anymore.

Bonus point on the timing because Essendon isn't even playing this week, so it's not interrupting the player's preparation either.

If he feels like he wants to tell his truth and put that in the public domain then I think he has a right to, and the way he's done it is much better than doing it in like January when there's nothing else to talk about for 6 weeks+.
 

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