Last night Rove did something that really shits me. Really shits me! He claimed sole ownership to Fremantle Docker tragicdom.
Rove barracks for the Dockers, see, and his brother, cousin, pet monkey, whatever plays for Freo. What you didn't know, was that he was the only Freo fan at Telstra Stadium last Friday night. Well, according to Rove, he was.
This is a patently dishonest claim. Patently. Matt Price and his family were there. I assume Kim Beazley was, too, not to mention various Freo officials and hangers-on and, for that matter, the Freo cheer squad and assorted fans sprinkled about the stadium. That's at least a hundred.
What made his try-hard monologue move from "humerous" exaggeration to outright deceit was the claim his lone cheers were met by howls of derision from hoards of feral Pinks fans. That we were meant to believe Rove at Telstra was akin to the likes of a Liverpool fan stuck terrified at the Stretford End. What he should have realised was that they were not mocking him for being on the FREO speedwagon, they were mocking him for his lame television program. If Rove was the genuine article he would have known this - Sydney Sydney fans mock no visiting fan, certainly not en masse. Trust me, I've tried many times to rile them, but they are immune to rilement, all they do is shrug.
One can only conclude that Rove was trying to garner himself some footy-oaf cred, what with Zoo, Ralph, Alpha, etc being the prevailing thing. But while he may have fooled the white trash who watch Channel Ten or the imbeciles who make up studio audiences and who need to be told when to laugh, he wouldn't have fooled proper footy fans.
What are you doing what that dipstick's program anyway?
FREO Speedwagon - nice.
Posted by: RT | 27 September 2006 at 16:49
Just flipping after CSI. Don't worry, I only watched about 5 minutes worth, if that.
Posted by: Tony.T | 27 September 2006 at 17:28
What RT says. Serves you right.
Posted by: ThirdCat | 27 September 2006 at 17:48
Actually, that wasn't a very nice thing I just said, was it? Hope there's no kiddies reading this.
Posted by: ThirdCat | 27 September 2006 at 17:49
No, it was the right thing to say. It serves me right.
Posted by: Tony.T | 27 September 2006 at 17:58
Yeah, Tony, how did you manage to endure five whole minutes of the cunt? That's quite a feat. Is there some training regimen involved, like watching videos of Daryl Somers singing?
Posted by: Clem Snide | 27 September 2006 at 22:19
I've only seen the odd five minutes of the nuffy before I realised what I was watching. Seriously though they must frequently be pressing the "APPLAUSE" button to prompt the audience to laugh because in his opening monologue/speel/attempt at humour he didn't tell a decent gag for a whole 5 minutes and you would swear by the audience that it was Monty Python at its best.
He can have the Barry Crockers as far as I'm concerned.
Posted by: Adsy | 28 September 2006 at 11:34
He needs a fatwa placed on him.
Yes, another one.
Posted by: gav | 28 September 2006 at 11:52
Thankfully here in the top bit of TV Australia we are Roveless for much of the year. We have no 'TEN' button on our plasmas, you see. However we are partially exposed to Mr Rove at Logies time, if it doesn't clash with crab-tying night.
Posted by: Wicking | 28 September 2006 at 13:31
And to think Rove has won a swathe of Logies. They must be giving those fuckers away these days, going by the talent he displays. They'll soon be giving them away for crab-tying.
Posted by: Tony.T | 28 September 2006 at 16:34