Welcome

Thankyou for entering Dalts world of Sport, its where i will give my opinions and my opinions only on all the sports i love. From Rugby league, Australian Rules Football, Cricket, Tennis, Golf, Triathlon, Athletics & Swimming you will read all the goings on from around the world.
I started the blog because i believe a lot of sports media in Australia are limited by the old mates act or because they are worried they will never get an interview from the subject again if they are to critical.
The days of journos out drinking or travelling with teams and forming friendships with athletes/players is long gone in this professional age. Press conferences after matches are very sterile environments compared to the "good old days" of Barry Ross interviewing the man of the match in the shower with a can of KB in his hand & the camera fogging up. Now the captains & coaches have the obligatory sponsors cap on & give the usual grunts and groans saying "full credit to the opposition", "yeah definately" or "we were a bit lucky to get there in the end", usually after a 40 - 0 or 20 goal thumping.

I have to laugh when hearing of a Sydney Sports radio show, who asked for one player of the Australian Cricket team to give them 5 minutes after a recent T20, only to be told "noone in the squad has any time to give sorry". Not even in this ultra competitive sporting environment could even the 12th man come on and give his thoughts on the previous night's match. Christ, Robbie Maddison only seconds before he jumps over the Harbour Bridge will have a few words with a broadcaster, even if it is only to say "im shitting myself".
Through social media such as Facebook & Twitter it would seem the fan has greater access to the athlete but is that really the case. In previous era's the athlete had to work and had that social interaction with his colleagues who were probably the first ones of a monday to tell him/her is they went well or badly the previous weekend. In the previous era you would see the Carlton captain on the dancefloor of the Tunnel nightclub of a saturday night or the Dragons second rower downing schooners in the back corner of the Cool Room with his opponent from only hours earlier. The athletes i believe were more "visible" back then, than now when its either reading to kids in a school or visiting sick kids in hospital. Very noble and im sure heavily appreciated by the community but it seems stage managed. Unlike waiting for a pizza at 1am outside Gillies Pizza in Cronulla with the Sharks gun half back still with sticthes in his head from being belted that night.
The media, apart from say Phil Goulds SMH or Martin Blake's Age column on a monday,dont really tell us why a team won, they tell us who won yes, but its not broken down to a level a fan now wants. There are media darlings, who underperform but for what ever reason are let off the hook while if a certain player misses one tackle is pillared and labeled for his career.
My blog will highlight this when it happens and the aim of the blog is to separate media myth to what actually happens.
SO i hope you enjoy it, and the guarantee i will give is you will never read "its not his go".