Wonder What The NRL Thought Of The Footy Show?

[antonius]

Talk about pushing the limit. I thought the p!ss taking of Chechin in the footy show last night was the dumbest thing Harragon and Johns could have associated themselves with. After all the effort put in to get Johns charge downgraded they then become associated with that crap. Seriously do the blokes on that show have any brains? I know Joey and Chief weren't dirrectly involved in it, but they would've known it was coming, talk about pushing boundries, I think Chechin is a p!ss ant too, but I reckon it was a case of well enough left alone. There is nothing to stop the NRL taking action over stuff like that, and with three ex or present Knights people involved it did us no favours IMO.

 

[Misanthrope]

What can they do? The NRL don't have the power to get the show pulled. They can't stop players from going on it. Hell, anything they attempt to do will make them look like overbearing parents.

What happens on The Footy Show has nothing to do with what happens in the game, and the NRL should be aware of that.

I didn't see the segment, but satire (even the poorly done satire of The Footy Show) is part of Australian culture. Nothing will come of it.

 

[antonius]

Nothing will come of it, you're right, but it certainly didn't do the Knights image much good. The whole tone of it was off, and downgrading towards Chechin. Harragon is a member of the Knights board, and like I said it wasn't a good look.

 

[Misanthrope]

What exactly was said?

 

[antonius]

Not so much what was said, as the tone of it. Basically made Chechin look like a bit of a weasel. Matty Johns dressed up as him, had the big thick monobrow, and basically took the p!ss out of him. I thought it was something that would've been best left alone. Joey disappeared after it I might add, I was under the impression that he was doing the whole show on the panel, but like I said he was gone after that bit. Not sure if he came back on I went to bed.

 

[Baron Vo Mandor]

To be honest Tone what real pissed me off, was Sterlo and Fatty to a lesser degree where to trying to ask some really good questions and Joey would attempt to answer, then Matty even b4 the take off of Chechin, was butting in with stupid unfunny comments, was making me furious.

If they got rid of that goose or atleast got him to tone it done a bit the footy show could potentially be a very good program again - hell watched it last week and this week and its improved leaps and bounds since last year.

But when they went to the Matty section dressed up as Chechin, I couldnt switch it fast enough.

 

[antonius]

I never watch the show usually, only watched last night because I've been in hospital all week and wanted to catch up on what was going on with it all. Have to say the show is still a crock! LOL.

 

[les norton]

I never watch the show usually, only watched last night because I've been in hospital all week and wanted to catch up on what was going on with it all. Have to say the show is still a crock! LOL.

Slightly off topic...but I hope all is ok tony.

 

[cram]

It was interesting watching the Footy Show basically taking the piss out of the whole incident. Another classic example of the media pushing an agenda.

Its been interesting this week watching the hands that feed the NRL basically giving it a mauling, ala Daily Telegraph and Channel 9...

 

[macavity]

Slightly off topic...but I hope all is ok tony.

dont worry its just his gout playing up ;-)

 

[antonius]

Slightly off topic...but I hope all is ok tony.

Yep Les, it's all good now. Back home, and ready to go again.

 

[ShadesOfTheSun]

It was vindictive and petty, but there's really nothing the NRL can do about it. They can't express displeasure with the program overtly, simply because it'd make them look overly sensitive and touchy, and they can't take more subtle action either, since the media would jump on any story about unfair treatment of the Newcastle Knights with all the suspicion instilled by Johns' claim that he was being made a scapegoat already present. The only real option left to them is to shut up and act as though the stunt is not worth the time of responding to. In terms of publicity, Johns and the Knights came out well ahead of the NRL in this matter.

 

[reginald.p]

yo you mean a comedy program made a joke about something..

The horror.

 

[antonius]

yo you mean a comedy program made a joke about something..

The horror.

I wouldn't refer to the footy show as a "comedy program"

 

[[furrycat]]

They asked Cecchin if it was OK to do that.

 

[RAM]

I felt sorry for Joey. There he was, all uncomfortable and what I believe as truly trying to show some remorse. And then his halfwit brother turns the whole thing into a debacle.