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ChitChat: Cheap shots aren’t cool

13 Aug, 2010 01:00 AM
MATT CRAM: Err, look, this is a bit awkward, but there’s something we need to talk about.

BRENT GODDE: Gosh, this sounds serious.

MC: Well, it is serious. I was browsing Facebook yesterday and I came across the status “Brent Godde thinks M. Cram is a jerk, a joke and a jockey wannabe”.

BG: Yeah, sorry about that, it was a typo — it should have read “journalist, joker and slightly taller than a jockey”.

MC: That’s a terrible lie.

BG: Yes it is. I guess that’s two of us this week who have learnt that nothing is private on the internet.

MC: So do you think Steven Cigana’s expletive-laden outburst towards the Albury-Wodonga Football Association on Facebook deserves a hefty penalty?

BG: The possibility of a three-year suspension seems harsh, but I’m a fan of the phrase “execute one to educate 1000”. Kids and young adults and everybody else have to learn that the internet is a public space.

MC: And if you wouldn’t say it to someone’s face, don’t type it.

BG: Similar to the cheap shots that continue to get fired on Bigfooty each week.

MC: Or the cheap shots we take at each other every week. But on Bigfooty, apparently a hot topic is the Doug Strang medal. Who’s your money on to claim the gong, Tony “Plugger” Pierri or Matty Fowler?

BG: Hopefully Plugger, it would be one of the feel-good stories of the season. He has developed a bit of a cult following down at Birallee Park. You?

MC: Well it could be decided this week when Albury and Wodonga Raiders play each other. Who would you rather play on, Lloyd Shepherd or Nathan Matsinos?

BG: If I had the bulk of Matty or Tony I’d prefer Lloyd, but only because he’s probably the lighter of the two.

MC: You do have their bulk — you just have an amber ale-induced bulk.

BG: Well if you want to be like that, how do you explain the Facebook photos of you at a Justin Bieber concert?

MC: My, err, sister had, err, a spare ticket and so I ...

BG: Now you are the liar.

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Ah the dangers of facebook! We all need to think very carefully about what we post online. Steven Cigana is a lesson to all of us.
Posted by steph, 13/08/2010 10:20:49 AM, on The Border Mail
I'm tipping Matt Fowler for the Doug Strang medal. Given Albury's season this year, he's gotta be a certainty!!
Posted by brad, 13/08/2010 10:35:59 AM, on The Border Mail
Matt Cram, you're my hero.
Posted by cram fan, 13/08/2010 3:17:07 PM, on The Border Mail

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