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The axing is as much a symptom of Leagues bigger struggle with it’s image as anything else.
The format and the legacy of the presenters style (prior to Erin) was too much baggage for it to continue floating.
Australia is growing out of ‘larikinism’ and in the main no longer venerates and lifts footy-boofheads-behaving-poorly onto a pedestal as ‘the best people’ like we once did. They aren’t and they never were.
Only 14 comments by Roarers reveals how few here give a rats-ass about The Footy Show. It’s time is over.
Nine axe NRL Footy Show after 25 years
The irony of a Headspace preroll advert just adds to the lolz!
Bloke knocks his melon on pole after 'run it straight' challenge inside a TAB!
Change the font size down with the font size changer, top of article next to the date published, there are Three A’s. Tap the smallest.
Larger fonts are everywhere online now because Google actually rewards larger fonts in search results. Plus.. old people with worn out eyes read this site too.
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but after that the endless conveyor belt of doomed also-ran doggies stops (at least in NSW, until the other states inevitably follow).
NSW bans greyhound racing: Who is hit hardest?
Anyone been to a horse racecourse lately? No one is there except for two days a year. Not much different at the dogs.
There is nothing economic about the business of running a track anymore without the TAB underwriting it all. There should be no doubt that the TAB is the true puppet master here.
Gamblers don’t need real animals to gamble, same as they don’t need real spinning reels on poker machines. The rise of animated dogs in the TAB is a factor not to be underestimated in all this. Shift the gambling to computer generated animations and the live racing and tracks are worthless. The business of being a bookmaker is pure mathematics. Payout 85% of what you receive. 15% return. So much easier to ensure consistent ROI when the computer fixes the win in aggregate across the state (aka animated dog races). So why bother with dealing with the shit that comes with a grossly corrupt live racing industry?
Banning the live dogs is the thin edge of the wedge for trots and horse racing, but will probably take another 20 years for those to fade. Just the land value pressure alone on suburban race tracks will turn the tide. At some point it will be irresistible to not sell out, same as the loss of tennis courts in our cities.
The dog folks may launch an appeal, but in the end, they are a small industry with small economic footprint of which most of the value can be shifted sideways – and they simply don’t exist without the state owned TAB underwriting it all.
The ‘cruelty’ aspect is just very useful social catalyst to garner public support to pass the laws.
(2c deposited – great article Tristo)
NSW bans greyhound racing: Who is hit hardest?
Glad you are not an epidemiologist advising our State & Fed governments. It’s clear you don’t understand either what could have happened, nor why it didn’t
Great to have NRL back, but it always had to stop