So what's wrong with having some open practices, and some closed ones where "secret" plays can be worked on?Rammer wrote:Except as fans we don't want the practices to be shut down, they are very intimate with the players and coaches, plus give us an inside look to what is going on with player movement. As for anyone stalking around as a spy, well the Lions are welll aware of who is looking on, so that isn't a problem.DanoT wrote:IMHO it is ethical journalism. If there was anything sensitive or secretive going on at practice that the BC Lions did not want the opposition to know about, then the Lions should hold a closed practice. As long as the public and reporters are allowed at practice, then it is safe to assume that there are opposition team's spys present.
I've said it before, it's silly to try or even want to restrict what reporters write about open practices (or as we've seen before, to complain about videos being posted and the like), because an OPEN practice is just that - other teams that really want that info will have people of their own present, and if they're going to video things, they'll probably be a lot more discreet about it and end up with something a lot better quality than some clip they watch on YouTube.
It doesn't mean you lock everyone out of every practice, it just means you hold the occasional private sessions for working on stuff you want to keep under wraps.
In this case, yeah, it might be "unethical" of MB to report stuff that the coach has asked the media not to report on; I'm all for following the coach's wishes on what we post and don't post publicly, but that's just out of respect for the coach. It's ridiculous to think that it's really keeping the information away from other teams.