Not see any issue with it.
Maybe they had no free reporter to send out to the scene or maybe Tom was the closest reporter at the time.
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Yes same issue.
This issue is outlined in the preceding posts, the sport presenter got sent out to cover a story far away so another reporter had to jump in to read sport. Imagine like James Bracy getting caught out covering a housefire or something in regional NSW so a reporter had to sub in for him.
It’s illogical to compare a big market like Sydney to a smaller market like Tasmania. You’ll find that most of their reporters/presenters aren’t specialized in sport.
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I’m sure if there was an endless supply of reporters or that all of the current reporters were not on leave that it would have been possible to have somebody else out there but we have Victoria Eastoe who has done general news reporting, sports presenting and weather presenting in the past. While they have their main gigs, it’s good that they are versatile to be able to cover other things.
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Michael Maney doing 9 days straight of presenting. It’s stupid that they’re making him work more than 5 days when they have other people available who’d do a great job filling in this weekend like Mark Zita or Ruby Cairns.
Well Michael doesn’t normally read in general so he’s possibly going on break after reading this long? I’m sure he agreed to it so it isn’t stupid.
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It’s just bizarre that they’re getting him to work more than 5 days when they’ve got other people available.
People are on leave or away, you can’t just assume people are “available”/
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You have people present like Ruby Cairns and Mark Zita who’d do a good job filling in. Even you would Daniel.
even “good” people aren’t always available.
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Flattering…i think
To be honest, whenever I see you on an update I shout “It’s Techster!” mainly just so I can appear cool and knowledgable with my family and I tell them that you message me.
I feel like I have a lot of street cred in the home with it. You’re lucky I haven’t found you and asked for an autograph!
It really doesn’t take much to be seen as a celebrity in Tasmania!
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I do feel sorry for those who see me at Macca’s while I’m scoffing down a Big Mac. 
Apologies to those people.
The fact they bring in a casual to do it (during summer) shows that they’re not just gonna throw any old person in the main chair… which I know is shocking for Southern Cross. Michael has obviously come back for some work over summer and is taking what he gets. He’s not saving babies or driving semis across country so I am sure he’s managing.
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There was in July last year in the last 2 weeks of the month until Peter Murphy returned from 8 weeks leave where Kiah Wicks presented weather for 14 days straight. It was bizarre they couldn’t use Jackie Harvey, Carmen Wilkin, Chelsea Freestone or Victoria Eastoe to present the weekend weather.
Why is that bizarre? As has been pointed out to me before too, this is a regional network, there aren’t just hoards of people there.
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It’s not stupid or bizarre. Just saying.
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It’s just my opinion. We all have our own opinions.
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Agreed 
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