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First grade footballers have plenty of people offering them advice. They get it from their parents, their coaches, their mates, and their fans.
So far be it from me to tell a first grade footballer what they should and should not do, but if I were to offer them one piece of advice it would simply be this – don’t talk to Gorden Tallis.
By revealing what Robbie Farah did or didn’t say – and the jury’s still out on that one – “Scoop” Tallis showed the same amount of disrespect to a player willing to talk to him as a journalist (and I use the word loosely) as he did for the contract he had with St George back in 1996.
He is a breaker of unwritten codes such as ‘being as good as your word’ and ‘not revealing your sources’.
He is not to be trusted. One can only wonder what motivation there was for him to hang Farah out to dry in such a manner.
Here is a premiership-winning player who has captained his state at State of Origin level and represented his country.
If he rolls a line like “my sources tell me…” out in the future, you’d be forgiven for thinking that either some poor kid naïve enough to give him some inside dope on his club is going to cop it in the neck real soon – or that he’s just making stuff up.
What Tallis did this week would have past rugby league writers like the great Peter (Chippy) Frilingos rolling in his grave. If you want to stay credible with your informants, you never tell who they are.
Albert Einstein was one quoted as saying, “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” Wise advice I’d say, and advice that Tallis would have been prudent to heed.
I can’t believe I actually mentioned Gorden Tallis and Albert Einstein in the same paragraph. That has to be a first.
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