Posts Tagged "The Footy Show"

The AFL wants to help clubs rid themselves of their links to poker machines. The AFL is seeking consortiums to buy the poker machines and take over the leases, Nine’s The Footy Show reported on Thursday night.

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We never thought it was possible for Nine to further alienate NRL’s extensive fan base. If the delayed games, strewn with lengthy ad breaks and unpalatable in-game cross-promotions for Centrebet, didn’t do it, the questionable appointment of Ray Hadley and Michael Slater to their NRL coverage this year surely will.

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The recent verbal attack on Paul Vautin by both Matty Johns and John Singleton showed a lack of respect, and leaves us in no doubt at all that there is no love lost between them.

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As soon as Brendan Fevola’s dynamic interview with Craig Hutchison came to an end on Thursday night during The Footy Show, the likes of Sam Newman and Garry Lyon berated the ex-football superstar, insinuating that he is a bad role model and disgraceful.

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The baggage that comes with a player like Brendan Fevola is well-documented, and it is no secret that there is a high chance that some of these issues will raise their head should a club take a risk on him.

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During recent times I have noticed a huge spike in the prevalence of advertising relating to placing a bet on games when watching the football. Gambling has been always been part of sport growing up as a lad, but it was mainly isolated to horse racing.

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First, some background. I’m probably a fairly unlikely candidate to review such a program. I haven’t watched its rival The Footy Show for years and normally view ‘Family Entertainment’ in the same way I view ‘Family Restaurants’. No thanks.

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Well, the season is about to start and all us NRL nuts cannot wait. We also have the “pleasure” of looking forward to the “champion” of our great game, Channel 9, running their Footy Show.

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Brett Seymour’s NRL career is on the scrapheap after Cronulla became the second club in the last four years to sack the 24-year-old for repeated alcohol-related incidents.

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Former Bulldogs NRL star Sonny Bill Williams has apologised to the teammates and fans he abandoned when he walked out on the club and the code last year.

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If there’s a media outlet that’s given the Matthew Johns story a bigger run in the last week than the Daily Telegraph, I must have missed it. Front and back page, and with such prominence on their website that the layout at the top of the page changed to accommodate a much bigger photo, links [...]

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Another week, and yet another controversy. Well, if we were to be precise, there’s been more than one. Again, The Footy Show was on the receiving end of a myriad of complaints from outraged viewers on Thursday night.

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