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The Footy Show 2014

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undertaker

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st george dragons said:
When the Thursday Night Footy isn't on (which is a majority of the time), it usually goes for two-and-a-half hours long week in week out, which was way too long.
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undertaker said:
But in saying that, The Footy Show now drags out waaaay too long with all these useless segments. Even when it commenced at 8:30pm, it didn't finish until 11pm. 2 1/2hrs is way too long. IMO, it shouldn't be any longer than 1 to 1 1/2 hrs max.
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In addition to what I said, having the show for 1 1/2hrs max (which would be about 65-70 minutes of viewing time and the other 20-25 mins being ads) - which is what it was for many years when it was at 9:30pm - would get rid of the crap segments (e.g. The Molan Files) and also the segments which drag on for too long.

On another note, as discussed in here not that long ago, there are too many people on the panel each week. Not needed. Tonight, there were 8 panellists for the whole show (Fatty, Slats, Tallis, James Maloney, Erin Molan, Beau Ryan, Finchy and Big Man). Plus, you had the player who did the "Perfect Partners segment" and David Middleton join the panel at certain times. Also, you have Joel Caine with the Sportsbet garbage. Clearly that's too many people on the show each week.
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undertaker said:
Overall, the biggest problem to start with is that there are way too many people on the panel, and as a result the quality of the discussion and flow of the show suffers. Reminds me a lot of when Beauty and the Beast expanded a panel of 5 to 7. Should be no more than 4 or 5 permanent panelists (which would include Fat and Slats) throughout the show at most.
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Accompanying the shortened length of the show would be a decrease in the panel. Besides Fat and Slats as co-hosts, no more than 3 others of the panel at the very most (2 would be more ideal, one on either side of Fatty and Slats). If Molan was retained in any capacity on the show, I would just keep her for the pre-recorded interviews with players during the week, Big Marn for the "Small Talk" segment with the kids, Beau Ryan for his "Beau Knows" pre-recorded segment (if it is still crap, can it and replace his segment with a professional stand-up comedian performing live on the show), and that's three less pannelists right there. Regarding the other 2-3 pannelists (which one of them would be Yvonne, and the other 1-2 would be rotated throughout the year), they need to be rotated and have more new faces on the show, rather than the same personnel like Tallis, Gallen, Benji, Maloney etc. There are other RL personalities and players who can also speak the English language besides them. And as I've already said, I would give Yvonne Sampson the role of the resident female on the show, taking Molan's spot as she contributes far more value to the show than Molan.
 
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ggmu

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I made I through about 90 seconds of tonight's show. I think I did pretty well.
 
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MacDougall

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I just don't know how this show thrives like this. Does it have a viewer base because of the bystander effect?
 
some11

some11

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Why in f**ks name are they promoting the swans?

Hey channel Nine, you own the rights to the NRL not AFL you f**king flogs.
 
Chook Norris

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Switched off after two minutes of PP. Don't understand one bit how people on TFS's FB page actually enjoyed that crap
 
Mr Saab

Mr Saab

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Have seen some bad episodes before, but last night was the worst of the worst. Moylan is not ready for TV yet - possum on pacific hwy
Fifita brothers are less funny than Beau. Whoever thought they would be good for perfect partners needs to go back to school

Mess of a show
 
cumberlandsashes81

cumberlandsashes81

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Mr Saab said:
Have seen some bad episodes before, but last night was the worst of the worst. Moylan is not ready for TV yet - possum on pacific hwy
Fifita brothers are less funny than Beau. Whoever thought they would be good for perfect partners needs to go back to school

Mess of a show
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The Fifita brothers were the only ones laughing - everyone else seemed to be cringing. There are some diseases funnier than those two.

Meanwhile, the random Swans v Fremantle semi-final promotion was just... wrong. Did the Swans / AFL pay for that five minute advertisement? If they did, well done, I now know there's an AFL semi-final this weekend in Sydney.
 
Mr Saab

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Fifita brothers would laugh at a fly laying eggs.
The producer for the perfect partners should be sacked....that was abysmal rubbish. Up there with Yasmins getting married from ch10 yrs ago.

And yes, the AFL promo was the kicker. Kill this show ASAP
 
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Boy

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didnt beau ryan retire this year from a neck injury ... why a few weeks later is he on a footy show bungee jumping seems a bit of a lie to sharks fans ?
 
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