General Rugby Discussion II

Squidgy Black

Buer wrote: »

Am I missing something here? That's a fairly normal hashtag for them to use; it's used on lots of their articles where someone has been found/plead guilty. The guy who named the complainant plead guilty.

Not for a second do I think they were alluding to anything else if that's what people are suggesting.

It's an oversight given the context but it's not really that big of a deal, they took it down fairly quickly.

errlloyd

So I think on Social media the article had a picture of PJ, SO et al, and the headline began with #guilty.

Of course, I don't particularly care. Guy got fined 300 pounds.

Buer

Squidgy Black wrote: »

It's an oversight given the context but it's not really that big of a deal, they took it down fairly quickly.

It's still a hashtag at the top of the article when you click into it. I don't think they're bothered whatsoever.

I imagine the issue was them having that hashtag on show over a photograph of the accused players but the headline right next to it was obviously regarding the naming of the complainant by a 3rd party.

Squidgy Black

Buer wrote: »

It's still a hashtag at the top of the article when you click into it. I don't think they're bothered whatsoever.

I imagine the issue was them having that hashtag on show over a photograph of the accused players but the headline right next to it was obviously regarding the naming of the complainant by a 3rd party.

Doesn't show on the app, they previously had it there when scrolling through it was below the headline, but they've changed it to #PSNI instead.

Paul Smeenus

Squidgy Black wrote: »

There was an article in thejournal.ie about the man who released the name of the complainant in the Belfast trial being fined £300.

The author of the piece decided to lead with #guilty as his clickbait.

The hashtag was put over a pictures Jackson and Olding. It was basically their faces with #guilty on it.

Former Former

Judge for yourselves.

Paul Smeenus

Former Former wrote: »

Judge for yourselves.

That's not it. It was in white over Olding's face. I got a screen grab but have left work so can't access it.

Squidgy Black

Paul Smeenus wrote: »

That's not it. It was in white over Olding's face. I got a screen grab but have left work so can't access it.

It renders differently on the website, and across different OS apps.

Paul Smeenus

Squidgy Black wrote: »

It renders differently on the website, and across different OS apps.

Yeah. There's no issue with what you've posted there. Eariler, on the desktop website, it was across Olding's head.

No one is going to lose their job over that. It's hard to believe it's innocent but it's had the desired effect so they don't care.

Buer

The Journal use that hashtag every single week and always put it in white over a photo of someone/something associated with the piece. Ill judged to how it potentially could be interpreted but a complete load of nothing in reality which was subsequently changed when someone highlighted it. They used that particular photo to generate clicks. I would imagine it was encouraged if anything; nobody will be reprimanded let alone fired.

irishbucsfan

Buer wrote: »

The Journal use that hashtag every single week and always put it in white over a photo of someone/something associated with the piece. Ill judged to how it potentially could be interpreted but a complete load of nothing in reality which was subsequently changed when someone highlighted it. They used that particular photo to generate clicks. I would imagine it was encouraged if anything; nobody will be reprimanded let alone fired.

I’ll judged to how people want to interpret it, more like.

Storm in a teacup

Paul Smeenus

irishbucsfan wrote: »

I’ll judged to how people want to interpret it, more like.

Storm in a teacup

Certainly under British law, Jackson and Olding could take legal action. Don’t know about the law down South. Can’t imagine they’d want to do anything to draw attention to themselves, though.

irishbucsfan

Paul Smeenus wrote: »

Certainly under British law, Jackson and Olding could take legal action. Don’t know about the law down South. Can’t imagine they’d want to do anything to draw attention to themselves, though.

thegreycity

Anyone who posts content regularly can tell you it's incredibly easy to end up doing something like that. The guy posting the content is likely some bored intern filling out fields in a CMS and has no agenda.

Tigerandahalf

Ex-Springbok Shot Three Times During Robbery
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ScrubsfanChris

Completely forgot about the Baabaas game, kicking myself.
Looked like a cracker of a game too.

Dubinusa

Bristol hammered Leicester. Madigan was at oh.
Sarries taking a dump on Wasps.
Sarries are a real good side.

sydthebeat

Dubinusa wrote: »

Bristol hammered Leicester. Madigan was at oh.
Sarries taking a dump on Wasps.
Sarries are a real good side.

Bristol back row had a combined age of 97 years

What has happened to Toulon? 12th in the top 14????

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

What has happened to Toulon? 12th in the top 14????

They built a skyscraper with no foundation.

Wait til you see - Boudjallal will pay Joe Schmidt his actual weight in gold to stave off coaching retirement for a year...

Buer

Dubinusa wrote: »

Bristol hammered Leicester. Madigan was at oh.

Leicester played majority of the game with 14 players after a high tackle on Madigan.

Watched the highlights. He went well. Involved in 2 tries showing very good hands. His scrum half, Harry Randall, was star of the show. Still only 20.

ScrubsfanChris

Deleted User wrote: »

What has happened to Toulon? 12th in the top 14????

In short, they signed big names instead of promoting their academy, so the good academy players just said screw this and signed with teams like LaRochelle and others.

That's only part of the problem but a major factor.

razorblunt

Buer wrote: »

Leicester played majority of the game with 14 players after a high tackle on Madigan.

Watched the highlights. He went well. Involved in 2 tries showing very good hands. His scrum half, Harry Randall, was star of the show. Still only 20.

Very poor form from Leicester's Social Media Team:

https://twitter.com/LeicesterTigers/status/1068861057572184064

Bridge93

Leicester as a club have really let themselves down the last year or so dating back to the comments around the Conway incident when they played munster last year. MOC and Geordan Murphy regularly said stuff that made them out to be whiny twats. Can’t say I’m upset to see them sinking despite the player pool they have being decent

Clegg

sydthebeat wrote: »

Dubinusa wrote: »

Bristol hammered Leicester. Madigan was at oh.
Sarries taking a dump on Wasps.
Sarries are a real good side.

Bristol back row had a combined age of 97 years

38 year old George Smith played for them yesterday.

Doris and Penny started for Leinster in the backrow. Their combined age is 39.

Buer

Poor from the Tigers. The tackle in question was a swinging arm to the neck/jaw area. There was force but not a massive amount. Definitely one for the physio to check Madigan out but also one that conceivably wouldn't have needed any HIA.

In fairness to Murphy, he had no complaints about the card in his post match interview.

Former Former

The guy running the Twitter feed during a match is a nobody. If he was somebody, he'd be doing something more important during the match.

It's bad form but let's keep it in perspective. It's not really reflective of the coaches, the players or the club.

irishbucsfan

Former Former wrote: »

The guy running the Twitter feed during a match is a nobody. If he was somebody, he'd be doing something more important during the match.

It's bad form but let's keep it in perspective. It's not really reflective of the coaches, the players or the club.

Absolutely correct.

Small proviso that they could have taken it down but it’s not important