Rothfool

[nightster]

Looks like she made it to the end zone

the dead end zone

 

[Frogz]

Cant someone twitter him or something and ask him for an explanation for this.

 

[MadMarcus]

At least Manly went indoors privately to a strip joint in Gladstone. And didn't he flog us for that for months.

I bet that’s not the only thing he’s been flogging

 

[Class of 96]

Cant someone twitter him or something and ask him for an explanation for this.

Don’t think you’d get any response at this time of night

 

[tookey]

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[tookey]

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[Rodo]

PHIL ROTHFIELD’S NEW JOB https://www.4bc.com.au/phil-rothfields-new-job/

 

[pt73]

I hope she took a long shower after that ..........

 

[Rackets]

Anyone able to send that photo to Graeme Hughes for his Controversy Corner segment "please explain"? I reckon Graeme and the panel will embarrass the crap out of Rothtool and make for great tv viewing...

 

[Mrs D]

Would have to be the biggest hypocrite going around! Will write things about other people and try and tarnish them so it’s kind of nice to see him in the spotlight for once.
I’m sure this photo he begged Kate to remove from twitter and I’m so glad she didn’t. So I have re tweeted it and I may have also heard he wanted her to post that he did it for charity!

This is a weekly occurrence for the man. No charity event. But I could be wrong?!?!

 

[The Wheel]

Great to see the telegraph put Wabbits on front page but are happy enough to have their sports editor happily handle a young lady from “sex bomb”. Interesting stuff indeed

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Funny as!!

Hypocrisy at its finest.

 

[Tomay]

Good article at The Roar on Rothfield
https://www.theroar.com.au/2018/09/13/2018-the-year-rugby-league-turned-on-buzz-rothfield/

 

[Harvies elbow]

Good article at The Roar on Rothfield
https://www.theroar.com.au/2018/09/13/2018-the-year-rugby-league-turned-on-buzz-rothfield/

He's got thick skin because when you've been hammered with the ugly stick like he has you'd have to.
Gives him a license to write what he likes.

 

[Woodsie]

Good article at The Roar on Rothfield
https://www.theroar.com.au/2018/09/13/2018-the-year-rugby-league-turned-on-buzz-rothfield/

Tomay, that was worth reproducing ... cheers

There is no real way to prove it, but there is an undeniable feeling that 2018 is the year a large portion of the rugby league community said “enough” to News Corp journalist Phil ‘Buzz’ Rothfield.

Though hard to quantify without an expensive study into the topic, it’s difficult to deny that there currently seems to be a groundswell of increasing criticism of Buzz, and backlash against his brand of rugby league journalism.

It’s worth pointing out that Buzz has long had his detractors. It would be disingenuous to suggest that suddenly this year, everyone has turned on him. Firstly, not everyone has. And secondly, given his penchant for controversial and polarising opinions, he’s always had vocal critics, not just recently.

Facebook Twitter Whatsapp Reddit AJ Mithen quoted that the Daily Telegraph’s cross-platform audience had dropped by 5.1 per cent from June 2017 to June 2018. Now, of course, that’s far from just Buzz’s issue alone, but the numbers don’t lie: almost 175,000 fewer people are reading the publication. Does that sound like the Tele is really giving people what they want, Buzz?

Fox Sports commentator Warren Smith received a lot of support when he called out Buzz – and others – for the media’s role in ‘ref bashing’, but Buzz’s reaction was simply sarcastic and childish tweets, so he clearly wasn’t taking Smith’s feedback onboard either.


On Monday’s Controversy Corner, Buzz was torn to shreds by fellow panellists Graeme Hughes, Steve Roach and Bill Harrigan, over the Tele’s coverage of the Bulldogs Mad Monday celebrations.


Though a small sample size, that’s three out of four people on the panel that were critical of the story being covered. Did Buzz heed that criticism from his media peers? No, he staunchly defended his organisation’s coverage on the story, and then doubled down on Twitter afterwards.

If you’d like a larger sample size than four people, then fair enough. How about 75 per cent of the Tele’s own readers believing the Bulldogs behaviour wasn’t bad and that “boys will be boys”. Is Buzz digesting those numbers?



While Buzz can claim that he’s simply giving the people what they want, there is growing evidence that this is simply not true. At the very least, there is a large percentage of people that actually don’t seem to want a lot of what Buzz serves up. If that number continues to rise, Buzz will need to change, or he’ll be out of a job.

Given this is an opinion site, it would be remiss of me not to finish with my own opinion.

I have nothing personal against Buzz Rothfield, but I do think he is, currently, largely bad for the game of rugby league. I don’t deny he has an enviable list of contacts and sources, and he therefore has a tremendous ability to break a story because of them.

However, far too often those stories are mere muckraking, rather than about player movement, coaching dramas, or anything to do with the on-field action.

Hughes and Rothfield’s heated debate gets personal

Combined with his propensity to have opinions that are negative and agenda-based, it ensures that Buzz is often actually hurting the sport he professes to love.

As such, he’s certainly not giving me what I want, so a few weeks ago I made the decision to stop “feeding the beast”. I have blocked Buzz on Twitter, refuse to read his articles, and no longer watch any show he’s on.

It’s my version of ‘voting with my feet’, because I’d like to see a change in the way rugby league is covered in Australia.



It does feel like I’m far from alone in that viewpoint, and should that actually be the case, hopefully Buzz has enough self-awareness to recognise that the tide might be turning, and that he should adjust accordingly.

Or more succinctly, give the people what they want . . .

 

[globaleagle]

Tomay, that was worth reproducing ... cheers

There is no real way to prove it, but there is an undeniable feeling that 2018 is the year a large portion of the rugby league community said “enough” to News Corp journalist Phil ‘Buzz’ Rothfield.

Though hard to quantify without an expensive study into the topic, it’s difficult to deny that there currently seems to be a groundswell of increasing criticism of Buzz, and backlash against his brand of rugby league journalism.

It’s worth pointing out that Buzz has long had his detractors. It would be disingenuous to suggest that suddenly this year, everyone has turned on him. Firstly, not everyone has. And secondly, given his penchant for controversial and polarising opinions, he’s always had vocal critics, not just recently.

Facebook Twitter Whatsapp Reddit AJ Mithen quoted that the Daily Telegraph’s cross-platform audience had dropped by 5.1 per cent from June 2017 to June 2018. Now, of course, that’s far from just Buzz’s issue alone, but the numbers don’t lie: almost 175,000 fewer people are reading the publication. Does that sound like the Tele is really giving people what they want, Buzz?

Fox Sports commentator Warren Smith received a lot of support when he called out Buzz – and others – for the media’s role in ‘ref bashing’, but Buzz’s reaction was simply sarcastic and childish tweets, so he clearly wasn’t taking Smith’s feedback onboard either.


On Monday’s Controversy Corner, Buzz was torn to shreds by fellow panellists Graeme Hughes, Steve Roach and Bill Harrigan, over the Tele’s coverage of the Bulldogs Mad Monday celebrations.


Though a small sample size, that’s three out of four people on the panel that were critical of the story being covered. Did Buzz heed that criticism from his media peers? No, he staunchly defended his organisation’s coverage on the story, and then doubled down on Twitter afterwards.

If you’d like a larger sample size than four people, then fair enough. How about 75 per cent of the Tele’s own readers believing the Bulldogs behaviour wasn’t bad and that “boys will be boys”. Is Buzz digesting those numbers?



While Buzz can claim that he’s simply giving the people what they want, there is growing evidence that this is simply not true. At the very least, there is a large percentage of people that actually don’t seem to want a lot of what Buzz serves up. If that number continues to rise, Buzz will need to change, or he’ll be out of a job.

Given this is an opinion site, it would be remiss of me not to finish with my own opinion.

I have nothing personal against Buzz Rothfield, but I do think he is, currently, largely bad for the game of rugby league. I don’t deny he has an enviable list of contacts and sources, and he therefore has a tremendous ability to break a story because of them.

However, far too often those stories are mere muckraking, rather than about player movement, coaching dramas, or anything to do with the on-field action.

Hughes and Rothfield’s heated debate gets personal

Combined with his propensity to have opinions that are negative and agenda-based, it ensures that Buzz is often actually hurting the sport he professes to love.

As such, he’s certainly not giving me what I want, so a few weeks ago I made the decision to stop “feeding the beast”. I have blocked Buzz on Twitter, refuse to read his articles, and no longer watch any show he’s on.

It’s my version of ‘voting with my feet’, because I’d like to see a change in the way rugby league is covered in Australia.



It does feel like I’m far from alone in that viewpoint, and should that actually be the case, hopefully Buzz has enough self-awareness to recognise that the tide might be turning, and that he should adjust accordingly.

Or more succinctly, give the people what they want . . .

I guess one day I should let people on here know my thoughts on sports 'journos'.

Anyway, I liked this bit:

When it comes to Twitter, Buzz is renowned for being extremely prolific on two fronts: blocking people that criticise him, and retweeting those that agree with him. I’m also willing to bet the former far outweighs the latter, which doesn’t really suggest he’s listening to the fans; or if so, is being extremely selective.

 

[The '47ers]

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Classic @tookey

 

[Stevo]

When did Joanne Lees become a stripper?

 

[Wombat64]

Yuck!

It's creepy isn't it.... really sick. Poor girl.

 

[Rackets]

Would have to be the biggest hypocrite going around! Will write things about other people and try and tarnish them so it’s kind of nice to see him in the spotlight for once.
I’m sure this photo he begged Kate to remove from twitter and I’m so glad she didn’t. So I have re tweeted it and I may have also heard he wanted her to post that he did it for charity!

This is a weekly occurrence for the man. No charity event. But I could be wrong?!?!

I highly doubt it was for charity Mrs D. That picture shows a room full of men drinking and eating while being served by lingerie woman. (unless of coarse there's a new charity known as "Gladstone").
The old fool couldn't wait for his lap dance....