Luke Beveridge launches extraordinary tirade at journalist - Footy on Nine 

Agreed. Given at least 50% of afl media these days is focussed on opinion / click bait headlines / faux scandals - it’s good to see a coach standing up to it. Have a read of an old newspaper’s sports section and it’s clear how far sports journalism has deteriorated .

i respect Luke Beveridge even more now. I love it when Coaches stand up for their club and themselves. need more of this

He has done nothing wrong but stand up for his club. A player's coach through and through.

He's not wrong, and he explained other reporters integrity how they approach each other. Now if you had someone consistently poking your shoulder what would you do?? Professional or not, call trash out when trash is needed to be called out.

I miss the days were people would pull others up for their bad behaviour?! Good onya Bevo.

Where is the tirade? He's controlled and stating facts with a calm speaking tone.

He was quite calm the way he went about it. Hilarious how the media portray him as out of line. Not surprising when the word accountability comes calling for THEM.

I can just hear Caroline Wilson trotting out her worn out cliched BS phrase, ”Don't shoot the messenger."

Whoever Tom Morris' mate is that leaked the audio of him that lead to him being flattened by the Karma Bus should be the King Of Moomba for the next 10 years!!! Hail to the Chief!! Bevo was right and beautifully measured in his deserved spray of this absolute muckraker of a journalist. Gawn!!!

Reporters are becoming like parking inspectors gaining and profiting off and not caring about the damage they cause .. Bevo has to protect young footballers who have way to much personal information brought out to the public by leech reporters like Tom It has nothing to do with football

With a mustache and handle comes newly formed power and an abundance of knowledge on a worldly scale!

“fox footy backs me” not anymore, Tommy. not anymore.

Fantastic. I see he's apologized since. I don't know why. And This Tom Norris had since been removed from his position at Fox Footy. Well played To you sir

There's more to the story behind the scenes. He wouldn't just go off for no reason. Good put them in there place. 👏

Scotty Palmer wouldn't have leaked sensitive information just to break a story like this. Tom Morris gets 50% wrong and then just moves on to the next story. Cut from the same cloth as Caroline Wilson and Damian Barratt. To them the story is more important than the people who may be hurt by the story. Bevo in the right for calling this flog out and happy to see he was stood down.

God I love footy. Inject this into my veins

You have nothing to apologise about Bevo!

A complete professional is Bevo. These Journo's have no better pleasure than to bring people down at any cost. You have a coach like Goodwin who has helped Melbourne to a flag after 1000 years in the wilderness & you get this BS from Journo's over the summer wanting to bring him down. Good to see it get turned back at them.

I completely understand Bevo's rage, but the target of his fury should be the leak at his own club. Don't expect decency from reporters Bevo, you will only succeed in forever being disappointed.

WELL SAID LUKE BEVERIDGE.

I don’t follow any football but that guy up there is the real deal. There is no place for mud racking journalists that create news rather than report it.

Bevo is 100% right

Bevo: whack us in private, I’ll whack you in public

I dont think anyone has much sympathy for so called "journalists" these days.

Hats off to bevo He had stood up to his club like a true coach and people need to give he all the respect for that

“Tom was just doing his job” So I can get a job as a journalist tomorrow, set up a network of relationships with snakes and grubs that will leak inside information to me and not do any of the work myself and that’s the definition of me doing my job… Where can I sign up?

Bevo is a genius coach, Ive no doubt abt that. Extraordunarily creative and lateral thinking. It's interesting and ironic he mentioned Horse, who displays great selfrestraint and wisdom. Time for Bevo in this regard still.

Well done Bevo, it's called freedom of speech.

Good stuff Bevo. Morris is a grub

Bombers fan here, back beverage all the way 👍🏼

There are two sides to this. On one hand, Beveridge is frustrated and his attitude is unbecoming of himself and his football club, ironically making himself disgraced in the process of accusing a journalist of the same thing. On the other hand, it is commendable that his action to stand up against biased reporting results in exposing the reporter for his previous actions. I personally believe that although he may have gone about making his point with slightly more decorum, Luke Beveridge is in fact, in the right to call out reporting bias. Enough is enough, the masses don't want click bait, and clubs are sick of being harassed. Obviously the true irony of this situation is that Beveridge is taking aim at the very industry that will retell this story; in their own light... so I do hope people can see through the fact that intrinsically there will be another bias featured on reporting this very story itself, and that Luke is in actual fact, not incorrect. Please note, I am not a Western Bulldogs supporter, but am a supporter of free speech and democracy.

Hands down Bevo, that was true, bloody awesome, and it shows that he wants to stand up for his club. What a legend.

He’s fairly cynical in his own rights. I bet he sniffs that leak out.

An intelligent and insightful tirade of a questionable journalist known to overstep the boundaries, both ethically and personally. Especially considering the Morris' stand down. Right behind you Bevo.

100% agree with Bevo. To hell with Fox Sports

Why is this even news?

Let him say what he wants, this younger generation can't handle it when you do, so I bet he gets a fine or warning, which is disgraceful.

Luke nailed it … and then has to publicly apologise for speaking his mind. What a joke.

Beveridge has lost his head and placed massive distrust on staff after he admitted that there are leaks at the club after round 1 just a good way to set the tone for a Premiership tilt....

Journalism continues to sink to murkier depths and it takes a man like Bevo to call out this self-serving behaviour which generates clicks in preference to integrity, respect and support for the game and its people. Tom Morris was called out and then the karma gods struck him. Thank you Bevo for opening this important discussion about what it means to be a decent journalist and citizen and we can only hope that people like Tom and the muck-rackers (Caro, Damo, Robbo, Browny (both of them), Chompers, Garry, Eddie, Sam and the rest of them) do some self reflection and re-alignment of their moral compasses.

Bevo keeps up with the footy news, takes em personally

He was calm, controlled and reasonable. He questioned the ethics and integrity of a journalist. Who knows? He may be correct.

Journos would be the only people supporting Tom Morris

Nothing wrong with what Beveridge said

Why isnt he complaining about the leak?

Apparently Tom Morris is off to get his liquor license now that he’s out of a job.

Love it. Sticking up for our club and players.

That’s why he is a bulldog coach little machine he is

He's ready to go all way this year 2022 GO DOGS

Yeah I don't think the reporter will be getting anything answered by bevo ever again 🤣

Look it’s not how you go about it. But we can’t ll agree Tom Morris is a flog plus got a head you wanna hit

Bev absolutely munted that dude lol

That is exactly what every team wants from their coach. Bevo won’t let anyone screw with his club or undermine the preparation and integrity involved. God help whoever internally is leaking to the journos. Chopper is after you ! Good on ya Bevo and I’m a dees supporter 🤪

Funny how all the 'media' are hanging crap on him for this, Caro actually saying this shows he's not fit to oversee 30 'young men', (Yeah, standing up for yourself and your team is toxic these days everyone, that's the world we're living in),,,, yet there are 148 comments in here and 148 of them support Luke... Time everyone tuned out of the media, no clicking on their articles, see what they do about that...

Good on him. We’ll done Bevo. Football journalism needs to be checked.

I Dont see anything wrong with what Luke Said. ! The AFL has become part of the Nanny State Too !

It has been leaked that the Muckracker Reporter has been sacked. On top of this how can Gary Lyons the grub call out Bevo on integrity.

THAT.... WAS.... EXCELLENT!

That worm got owned by bevo

As pleasing as it was to hear Bevo rip a journo a new one, Its not a good look. "No comment, next question" is and has been pretty standard in the world of the media.

Bevo did nothing wrong but as usual in Australia you have no freedom of speech. Get em' Bvo ❤️❤️❤️❤️

A journalist is given information regarding team selection and reports it. Surely that's his job. Grow up Bevo.

The irony is..someone who makes a living from being critical of others cant take criticism...reminds me of Alex Ferguson haha

About time couches at back reporting n if I was Fox I would be telling reporter to pull his socks up, it’s bad enough hearing footy reporters been political about the stupid jab, just be respectful to others.

They are still going with Gardner? Wow shows they have zero defensive depth

Thats what the press does Bevo, look at the rubbish they reported on regarding the Demons coach about bullying, this is what they do, you should no that.

Totally unacceptable behaviour from a senior coach. Nobody should be treated that way in the workplace.

Beautiful well said

Boofhead.. tells Morris to leave an AFL presser; he's a joke.

I laughed when he told the reporter you’re a Melbourne supporter and there’s a conflict of interest. So what about if there was a bulldogs supporter amongst the reporters. What a stupid statement to make.

Well done Bevo!

Footys back lets go. Bevo wont say anything behind your back, he will just say it to your face.

Nice Maccas add.. didn’t get to the thing advertised

Fox Corp, say no more. Gutter journalism to the extreme.

He guessed right, they want McDonalds on it. Australian culture on display.

can somebody explain the conflict between Luke Beveridge and Tom Morris to me, i dnt understand what happened?

Love it from Bevo - still, go dees!

always amazes me how clubs preach integrity and respect, yet there’s always someone leaking information to the press…

Whoever is leaking the teams to Journos is the biggest Grub. What we’ve seen here is the end result- Both blokes just doing their job.

more coaches need to stand up and do this. too many of them talk like politicians. Respect for Beveridge

Proud of him.

Very unprofessional not a good look

So Tom Morris was sacked from Fox Sport around 12 months ago and here he is again working for Fox Sports. Both the company and the individual lack credibility in this case. He mentioned that Fox back him 100%. Disgrace.

When your best mate won’t kick on past midnight on a Wednesday and you’re forced to break up with them

someone buy this fella a beer!

Don't worry about him Luke, he's just one of Ruperts rent boys.

Tom is fired now, karma

Good onya Chopper or is it Bevo , Tom Morris probably hopped in his car and went to Mcdonalds and cried in his fries.

This was still so good, the media hate it because it highlights how bad it is.

Well said and it's a shame he's been forced to apologise.

He told it true. Kudos to Bevo for calling this bloke out👍👍

Bevo has officially lost the plot. He needs therapy.

reporters need to watch the topics they bring up at these confrences, instead of bringing up leaked information, just stick to questions about the game that has just happened

If you see this other than a baby having a sook you need to grow up. How are you going to let a reporter unravel you. It’s embarrassing. Reporter doing his job a whole lot better than bevo is doing his

They edited it out but at the end of this I said to Bevo, "hey Bevo lets just let bye gones be bye gones and I'll shout you a big mac".

Journalists are putrid. I'm proud of Luke sticking up for your team mate

Beveridge is right Morris wasn't thinking about anyone but himself and his career

So when are you reporting on that grub Tom Morris

Of course the media are so against a person putting accountability on them, bay misleading titles such as “out of line” aggressive” when he was calm the whole time. Media are truly disgusting

Tom may be able to pour drinks with the friend he knows that has a liquor license