As a fan of both the NRL and AFL (don't shoot) every Thursday night I sit infront of the TV for 4 hours and watch both footy shows back to back.
The AFL version is far and away the better one. And what I find interesting is 9 doesn't have AFL rights so they can't show any of the highlights, and yet the AFL version manages to talk about their game for so much more of the show than the NRL version which actually does have access to highlights.
The AFL show is maybe 85% footy 15% variety (and thats with no highlights to show) while if you timed it I'd be surprised if 50% of the NRL show is directly about the footy. Can someone please tell me who the f**k thought Brohman getting a tattoo on his fat backside would be funny, or would have any entertainment value what so ever for the viewers?
A few years back the NRL footy show was brilliant, IMO the better of the two, then they got rid of (or lost) the guys who made the show good, in Sterlo/Harrigan/Matty and the only one who survived was the worst of the lot (Fatty) and they replace quality talents like them with idiots like Brohman...no wonder Gus hardly shows up these days.
The NRL version seems to exist solely to have Fatty and the rest of the hosts entertain themselves instead of entertaining us.