Before I respond to several posts since I posted here last night, I must say that the Ch9 research department need to be more accurate in their research. Regarding what was attributed to 1996 last night, Hanson's "Mmmbop" came out in 1997 and the incident where flour was dumped on Mario was in 1998 (when he had the "What's doin?" segment and where Fatty regularly paid out on him with all these stunts)
It was just such a bizarre show tonight. Despite having eleven hosts and around 20 current or former players on as guests, almost none of them were given the time to say more than a sentence or two.
One of my biggest beefs and why I'm not a fan of shows which have large panels. The quality of the discussion decreases as each person, on average, has less talk time. Although I'm not holding my hopes up high that it will change next year, this is something the producers of TFS will have to change in the off-season if there's any hope of improving the show next year.
Hell, they had Terry Lam on, a legend of the game who's played in a truckload of grand finals, and stuck him in a quiz! No interview, no look back at his grand finals, he just stood there with seven other blokes while Mario and Langmack had an argument. Who could possibly think that was a good idea?
THIS x 10000
Instead of having that stupid quiz (which was derailed by the Mario-Langmack stoush), it would've been far more productive and relevant to the Grand Final theme of the show to have had a discussion with those former players. And yeah, how awkward would've it have been if you were Terry Lamb standing in the middle of all that! He was just pretty much standing there doing nothing 99% of the time. In fact, I think he barely said a word at all. You get invited to the show, and you travel all the way just to do....nothing:lol:
Another strange thing I've noticed is that players who have come on over the last few months are treated as characters, rather than footy players. Very little reference is made to how they're playing etc, and instead references are only made to things they've done on The Footy Show. James Maloney isn't a premiership-winning player, he's a bloke who got caught wanking etc. Not only does it sideline rugby league, but also leads to a really crazy atmosphere where The Footy Show seems to be a universe of its own.
One of the things which, unfortunately, tarnishes RL's reputation and gives media organisations like News Ltd a field day.
The two lengthy musical segments were f**ken dreadful, too. Bring back The Game Plan.
This.
In addition, whoever thought it was a good idea to have Tracey Grimshaw involved in the intro needs to be sacked.
The number 1 moment of the season was Beau hosting the show starkers, sigh!!
Sums up this steaming pile of shit to a tee.
Yep, goes to show how far TFS has fallen since the halcyon days of the '90s.
the show went on for too long. It ran for over three hours long. AT LEAST 2 hours of it were highlight package from throughout the year. That's way too much pre-recorded crap. As others said in here, I do feel sorry for those who paid for the tickets to be there in the audience. They barely watched much of the show live.
This.
To be exact, on tv it went for 3 hours and 20 minutes. I thought Hey Hey It's Saturday's 4 hour record (which went one hour overtime) for it's farewell episode in '99 was going to be broken there at one stage.
And fancy Ch9 had the audacity to promote the show as being "live" during the week. Again, it wasn't. It started at 7:30pm.
