Comments on: Carey and Denton — a media match worth $2.21 million

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

It’s just possible that everything Carey said was true. Time may reveal that it wasn’t but for a moment let’s assume it is. What we have is a man with an alcohol problem who has got himself into trouble on several occasions whilst drunk. The media has had a field day, drooling in self righteousness and hypocrisy. Did anyone bother to check if he’d been paid $180,000 no need just hang him for it anyway. Did anyone bother to check the explanation for his alleged ‘glassing’ his girlfriend. His account is far more believable than the one in the media - that he deliberately smashed his girlfriend in the face with a broken glass. Once the media get the public’s interest in a character like Carey they go on a feeding frenzy and truth is sacrificed.
I’m sick of media hacks reducing everything to spin.
Personally I’d like to give Carey the benefit of the doubt and respect his courage in presenting himself so candidly and let him get on with his life.

By: Patricia Weston

Patricia Weston — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Carey came across as a straightforward decent bloke too good looking and too successful for his own good. Learning about his early life made him more understandable. His siblings were decent caring people who could forgive and understand their Dad, let alone Wayne and his escapades. If only journalists had the same generosity of spirit. Amazing that his family and he weren’t more bitter about the media’s feeding frenzy around him. Yes, I did start to feel sorry for him.

By: lews dowell

lews dowell — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Carey was a great footballer, regulary named as one of the all time greats. however, his football career and his hard up bringing doesn’t give him a ‘get out of jail free’ card every time he slips up. i bet ben cousins wishes his father was an alcoholic.

By: Paul Arnott

Paul Arnott — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

It took real guts for Wayne Carey to go on Denton’s show. But as suggested it may have been a bit too early in his road to recovery. It would have been good to have seen him 6 months down the track, post the US court case, when he may have had the opportunity to get in touch with those feelings that many of us Alpha males struggle to identify and work through.

By: Tony Papafilis

Tony Papafilis — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Why was Denton hung up on whether Carey got paid by magazine? So what? If they want to pay him, it’s their choice. Petty financial envy? Can we expect the same treatment for other public figures or was Carey singled out because he does not grovel to the little men and women of the media? Remember the way a woman Corby was treated - as a saint - by the same media pack.

By: Tom McLoughlin

Tom McLoughlin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Crikey alert, Brett has too much comment space? Hang on, I have too much now too? Oh well I’ll run with it. Cool. The thing with Mr Carey is that he’s grown into a man via a contact sport I know a bit about up to teenager years. And he was real good at same and probably addicted to it. Quite possibly even punchy now as in medically brain injured. Especially the knocks one gets in the younger years of brain growth carried forward. What a price to pay for sporting fame. Cousins too? The fearsome courage and whacks must hurt something inside I reckon.
Secondly just to say I have moderate respect for Denton. He is using that emotional intelligence for his own ambitions now, and there is quite a deal of career vulture in this exercise.
I didn’t watch it but I agree its good for exposing domestic violence. Teach Gandhi in school I reckon.

By: Anne Lampe

Anne Lampe — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

I had judged Carey to be an idiot and a mysoginist, but after hearing about his emotionaly deprived family background - no mother role model after he was 6 years of age and a cruel father and disciplinarian who refused to allow his children to have friends visit the Carey home, I understood this guy better. Shy, emotionally deprived, but goodlooking, fit and a top good sportsman, he was bound to attract a raft of women he could not handle. It doesn’t excuse his behaviour, but it shines a light on why he behaved like he did.
The worst bit was Wayne giving his father tickets to his football matches and he refused to turn up, except for once, selling the tickets to the other matches. What a dismissal of his son.
A lot of Wayne’s bad behaviour was his fault, but not all of it.
I hope that the help he gets puts gives him a firm foothold and a better life.