The Footy Show was going down the toilet thanks to becoming a school review standard variety show, due in no small part to the egos of messrs Vautin and co. Prior to the show Wilson sat in on, when was the last time they spent more than 5 seconds actually talking football? League needs all the support it can get, yet the sub-Benny Hill cr*p would guarantee most women wouldn't give it a second glance. Reading a fair few of the posts above suggests misogyny isn't restricted to TV either.
Ch 9 decided to do something to boost the ratings, and look to bring in Rebecca Wilson. Probably not a good choice, but it certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons. Any woman was going to struggle in the blokey environment of the show.
In any event it was patently obvious to anyone that she was being frozen out by the other hosts - none of them even looked at her during the show, let alone 'tried to get her involved'. One half-hearted link to her in an hour and a half doesn't constitute helping a new panel member out. Compare and contrast to the first shows of Chief and Matt Johns - entire segments for themselves, being fed lines left right and centre.
I'm not for a minute suggesting that Wilson is that great, but if I were a C9 head honcho, and the supposedly professional hosts of a show attempted to sabotage a new host brought in to specifically pull them out of the mire, I'd fire the lot of them. Overnight. In fact the most gutless aspect of this has been C9 themselves for not showing Fatty and co the door straight after that show.
As for Wilson herself, I hope she fries them regularly, as those 'boys' showed the collective gonads of a swarm of mosquitos.
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