Following the AFL’s decision to scrap the Foxtel Cup, fancied pay TV reality series The Recruit has also been given the bump.
It was confirmed in November that Foxtel would withdraw funding from the knock-out state-league competition, which had the allure of a $100,000 prize for the eventual winners.
The competition which ran from 2011 through until 2014 most recently featured nine teams, with Victoria’s Williamstown Football Club crowned this season’s champions.
Despite the competition’s early success, the format has since been deemed too difficult to sustain for broadcasters and the clubs, who had placed a preference on focussing on their respective state competition fixtures.
“… As the competition has continued through multiple seasons, the demands of the Foxtel Cup have had to work alongside the goals of senior state league sides, in regards to seeking team success within their state competition, which has proven to be an ongoing challenge,” said Simon Lethlean, the AFL’s General Manager of Broadcasting, Scheduling and Major Projects.
In the wake of the fallout, it was understood that Foxtel would allocate the funds to its reality series The Recruit. However that too has been cut, “based on a number of factors”, a statement from the AFL read.
While The Recruit had been deemed a “huge success” by both the network and the AFL, the series will in the meantime be placed on hiatus, set for a return in season 2016.
“The break between series will also enable both Foxtel and McGuire Media to find a comparable replacement for Michael Voss in the coach role,” Foxtel told AFL.com.au.
Voss vacated his position as the show’s head coach having secured a ‘midfield manager’ role with the Port Adelaide Football Club in October.
Across the four years of the Foxtel cup, 25 players who had played in teams from the competition were drafted to AFL lists.
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