Darius Boyd

WHY is it that we in the media think professional sports people are obliged to speak to us?

Can't talk. Playing.

We pay our money at the gate, watch them perform masterful feats on the footy field or cricket pitch, then go home elated or mad as hell, depending on the result. Athletes could be forgiven for thinking the transaction ends there, but clearly it doesn’t.

This week we saw the public flaying of Dragons player Darius Boyd, whose 42-second press conference showed that he’s not likely to sit for his bar examinations any time soon.

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  • Baldasshole says:

    08:28pm | 08/09/09

    If sportspeople say what they think - they are lambasted.  If they shut up - they get lambasted.  I vomit whenever Michael Clarke speaks, talk about toe-ing the party line.  Darius just let it be known that he’d rather be at the pub or in their toilets with some lady. … Read more »

  • Your name: says:

    06:09pm | 23/08/09

    I don’t expect big boofy blokes to say anything interesting or worthwhile.  Journalists do.  Which makes you wonder which is the brighter subspecies - the big boofy blokes or the journalists. Read more »

 

It’s been described as footy’s worst interview. Dragons fullback Darius Boyd managed just 28 words in response to eight questions during a press conference to promote this Friday night’s clash against his old club the Brisbane Broncos. It’s saying something that his notoriously monosyllabic coach Wayne Bennett felt the need to chip him about it.


But since when, particularly footy players, given good interview? Most of them impart about the same amount of information as Boyd managed it just takes longer to get through all the clichés. He needs some intensive media training so that next time his reponses are more like the sort of stuff we expect from the great minds of our sporting elites.

With a little more training, next time it might go something more like this:

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  • Mr Pastry says:

    08:47pm | 22/08/09

    Ned and Bill - settle down Read more »

  • Bill Steamshovel says:

    10:57am | 22/08/09

    Quality stuff, Ned! What’s next? I know you are but what am I? Read more »

 

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