Tom's punting podcast clashing with Club's anti gambling stance. Hope this is just a storm in a tea cup.
AFL 2023: Tom Papley, Sydney Swans rocked by gambling scandal over SEN Podcast | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
Tom's punting podcast clashing with Club's anti gambling stance. Hope this is just a storm in a tea cup.
AFL 2023: Tom Papley, Sydney Swans rocked by gambling scandal over SEN Podcast | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
Ha - won’t someone think of the children!
Move on, nothing to see here.
His grandfather, Max, was a bookie for some time so an interest in horse racing must run in the family.
Some of the criticism seems overblown and guilty of conflating different things.
The Swans have taken a stand against gambling advertising at matches and the saturating effect of that. It doesn't make them anti-gambling, per se, nor does it require any or all of their employees to be anti-gambling.
I don't gamble but not because I think it's morally corrupt. I do think the betting industry is morally corrupt and I'm very happy with the Swans' stance on advertising at matches. But I don't think any less of Tom Papley if he enjoys a flutter (on anything other than AFL) and wants to make a podcast about that, any more than I would think less of someone who wanted to make a podcast on brewing home beer (I don't drink beer).
I haven't listened to Papley's podcast and I have no intention of doing so. It sounds like they might have gone a little overboard with some of the language. But there are a few commentators jumping on moral high horses with their comments. Surely it just needs a quiet word with Papley on where he overstepped the mark. It's hardly a "scandal".
Agree totally over blown.
Was actually Fairfax/Nine that reported all this originally. See the Fin Review earlier in the week.
Totally a non news story.
I totally applaud the clubs gambling stance.
But it doesn’t mean players can’t own horses if they want or have a punt.
Just terrible journalism
I don't mind a flutter, but not on the nags - they're too hard to follow.
But this seems overblown regardless, even if they hyped up their first podcast with a bit of florid language.
Besides, Swans players have a tradition to uphold going back to Plugger and his greyhounds.
Tony Lockett's Love of Greyhound Racing St Kilda Football Club Plugger - YouTube
'Delicious' is a fun word to say
A sad reflection on just how parlous the state of journalism is in Australia, and on how the Fairfax/Nine group have degenerated. The SMH didn’t even bother with last weekend’s important and feisty local derby, apart from a paragraph reporting the result. No other story or coverage whatsoever. Just a dismal effort.
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All mainstream media now very shallow.
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