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The League Lounge (on Fox Sports)

The 18th Man

The 18th Man

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Liked it, a nice change. Foxsport and OneHD are kicking goals in all their programming for rugby league as far as I am concerned. Comments re: Alexander are way off the mark. One of the elite analysts in the game today.
 
Whos Ya Daddy

Whos Ya Daddy

First Grade
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Big Pete said:
Phelan is fine in his role, he just keeps the conversation flowing and rarely adds to it.

Smith on the other hand will hold up talk and go into these huge diatribes to try and one up anyone who disagrees with him.

Didn't mind his promo though and taking the mickey out of himself.
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I accept that but Smith is usually on the right side of the argument when something winds him up.

Some people might not want to hear from him because he isn't an ex-player. That doesn't bother me because I would rather hear some logic no matter where it is coming from.
 
PARRA_FAN

PARRA_FAN

Coach
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TBH, I liked both One HD shows better than NRL on Fox and League Longue.

I thought OneGameAtaTime was pretty good, gave good reviews of all the games on the weekend (or most of em). Just the sort of show we need each week.

Also Game Plan was quite good spoke a lot of the state of the game and good to see Gallop give good answers.

Now in comparison to League Longue, I thought it was good but needs more league experts and less celebirities who know bugger all about the game.

And also IMO NRL on Fox is losing it a bit. All the panelists seem to talk more about themselves rather than the games.

Bring back Wazz, p1ss off Daley and leave the fun on Monday night league.
 
Marshall_magic

Marshall_magic

Coach
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I might be the only one here who misses it, but I wish they'd bring back NRL Scoreboard on Fox Sports. It was always a good wrap up of the weekend games, and of course the infamous Pumpkin of the week (although 90% of the time it seemed to go to Toopi) was always good value and seemed to wind up Freeman.
 
The Tank

The Tank

Bench
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I wish Fox had an NRL highlights show like the Premier League. Just a wrap of all the tries without hosts or anything and then have "try" of the week at the end.
 
skeepe

skeepe

Immortal
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PARRA_FAN said:
And also IMO NRL on Fox is losing it a bit. All the panelists seem to talk more about themselves rather than the games.
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This is the single biggest problem with the Fox Sports coverage. It started when Ryan Phelan took over the Monday Night duties from Gary Belcher.

What used to set Fox apart from 9 was that it was always about the football, and not about the "personalities" (and I use that term loosely) sitting in the studio. That has completely changed now. Whereas in the past I would probably watch the pre and post match stuff every day, now I'm much more likely to simply tune in when the game starts and turn off as soon as the referee blows full time.

It is absolutely woeful. They spend more than half the show talking about themselves, laughing at each other... if I wanted to see that, I'd watch the Footy Show on 9.

Plus, Ryan Phelan is the most annoying little prick on television.
 
Dragon

Dragon

Coach
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Thought it was a better show this week. Good mix of footy and laughs, bring in an NRL player every week. Oh and Jess Yates is hot
 
STG-MACCA

STG-MACCA

Bench
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Was an improvement this week. Show seemed to cruise along and was over quickly. Last week it seemed like some segments went on and on but with no real clear purpose.

I think it will keep getting better bit by bit each week.
 
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