Patrick - you missed out the best bit from Gareth's answers:
"I can understand your despair. We have some great sports journos out there – Veitch, Telfer, Pine just to name a few. But then there’s the lesser lights – those so keen to please their bosses and desperate to get an edgy story that they make things up. Sam Worthington at the Dom Post is what I’d call a gossip columnist and I have little time for such lightweights. He turns up to training and unilaterally decides I’m running it. Hilarious really, I’d be flattered if his agenda wasn’t so poisonous – I have written about him before.
There were 2 owners there, I was standing between two separate training sessions watching each one in turn. I had been embedded in the football side of things for about a week trying to get a better understanding of the needs of that department, in particular on that particular day video facilities at training. And then, believing his colleagues invented theory about what I was doing, some other tosser the Dom Post employs goes on about what “bad form” it is for owners to be on the training field. Really you’d think we were still in the days of the British class system where owners stick to lounges and look down on their property as if still Lords of the Manor. Ghastly, arrogant values like that have no place in my repertoire. But anything for some more column inches I giuess".