Can't wait for the real footy to start & Marngrook (SBS) is a pleasent low key change.

I could not agree more. I have watched Marngrook for 2 years and despite its B grade set and appearance, it truly grows on you each time you watch it. They take the [censored] out of each other briefly which at times can be classic, but they move on very quickly to footy matters. I have njoyed Thursday nights in the past starting off with marngrook and then switching to TFS but after Thursdays show, along with most others on this forum, I doubt I will be switching to channel 9 at 930pm any more. TV will be switched off and I will get another hour of guitar in which i otherwise would not!

By the way DL I think it is on Channel 31??? Correct me if wrong!

I could not agree more. I have watched Marngrook for 2 years and despite its B grade set and appearance, it truly grows on you each time you watch it. They take the [censored] out of each other briefly which at times can be classic, but they move on very quickly to footy matters. I have njoyed Thursday nights in the past starting off with marngrook and then switching to TFS but after Thursdays show, along with most others on this forum, I doubt I will be switching to channel 9 at 930pm any more. TV will be switched off and I will get another hour of guitar in which i otherwise would not!

By the way DL I think it is on Channel 31??? Correct me if wrong!

I'd watch it but I get very poor reception on Channel 31.

The Foxtel AFL teams show which is on this year @ 6.30pm is essential viewing. You get the teams, good serious footy discussion, a bit of humour and very little of the trite schoolboy smut that characterises TFS.

Adam Cooney was the best thing about that show on Thursday night.

Last year I watched the sow for the first time in years to see a segment on the MFC Debt demolition.

The show began with a juvenile no humour phallic joke. Its was not funny when first said but that did not prevent the joke from being recycled ad nauseam for the next half hour.

The guest players brainlessly read off idiot cards (appropriate?) even when what they had to say was out of context to what was said before.

It seems the show is now hooked on an unsuccessful formula. Good riddance.

i dont mind the sunday footy show

the marngrook footy show is a beauty! and i love how they recognise the indiginouse football world. one thing i lookforward to watching when coming home from footy training

I also recorded it on Foxtel IQ, WJ, and sped through it , only to see them give scant attention to our great sponsorship news.

There was one segment which interested me though , where a few players were interviewed and asked if they could name 5 AFL umpires.Only Stuart Dew had a clue.

Does it still happen where the umps come into the teams room(formerly to check safety of footy boot stops, and presence of sharp rings etc)?

They did the only time I've been in the rooms before an AFL game(in Adelaide about 6 yrs ago.)

If so, I think players should be informed beforehand who the Umps are, their first names, if it's a milestone game for them etc.

They should be treated with respect, and wished luck, etc.

Apart from being common decency, it could just add that one percent, which could end up being significant. (It strikes me that a lot of umpires are easily affected by outside influences!)

I thought the way the players on the Footy Show talked about them was appalling(no Dees, I'm glad to say).

Well it seems I am not the only one of the opinion that this is time that could be better spent. I am very disappointed with GL as a host because I just don't think he fills the role very well. I am not an Eddie fan but he was certainly much better, especially the pathetic co-host. Average cricketer and less so as a personality.

Terrible to have to admit it but I also watched the rugby equivalent and it was so superior it was unbelievable. When the likes of Newman make Could play the game and knew when to quit but unfortunately he has forgotten now.

Anyone else as impressed with Russel Crowe as I am. Certainly knows the game and his insight into the future of the game makes me wish he was involved in AFL. Wonder if he would like to get aboard the Deewagon?

Ironic that it is called The Footy Show when that is the least talked about topic!!

I watched it for our sponsor announcement, the preseason lunch and also Hutchy... and of course the news on sylvia!!

Marmalade used the same jokes from year to year and was old and boring - just look at the circles under the clowns eyes.. the bloke in the warmups, jeremy cawley, is much funnier...

Hutchy is honest and think that his stories should be treated by the show with greater respect, hence the new set for him.

as for the players, it just confirms that if they did not make it as footballers, then the unemployment rate would be up a few more percent!!