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The Footy Show officially axed.

dazzledavey36
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Thoughts?

I hadn't watched the show about 3 years now. The best period for me was when it was Brayshaw, Lyon and Sam. Good quality banter but Brayshaw and Lyon had the ability bring it down to a serious note at times.

I must admit when i saw this years line up, i thought it was a bizzare set up..

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    Like a fossilised turd that wouldn’t flush, it has finally broken apart and dissolved in the toilet bowl that is channel 9. 

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    I thought it was axed a decade ago.

    One of the worst shows to ever make it on to TV screens.

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    Sam Newman for me was the killer. Clearly didn't actually watch football, but had a opinion on everything. Weird relaunch with the latest line-up that didn't hit the mark. Like most haven't really followed the show since teams were named during the news.

    Good show during its popular days and that it is how it should be remembered. 

     

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    Sometimes you don't have to kill the zombies, you can just go somewhere safe and wait for them to decay on their own.

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    It's been [censored] since Trevor left.

    Get woke, go broke.

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    1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    Thoughts?

    I hadn't watched the show about 3 years now. The best period for me was when it was Brayshaw, Lyon and Sam. Good quality banter but Brayshaw and Lyon had the ability bring it down to a serious note at times.

    I must admit when i saw this years line up, i thought it was a bizzare set up..

    Final nail was the Front Bar.  That show is perfectly cast and fills the nonsensical void so popular with footy followers, and  hell, even my non-football wife loves that show.

    The FS was mandatory viewing under the Eddie/Trevor Marmalade configuration and drifted after that time of the late 90's/ early 2000's.

     

     

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    Yes, when Trevor Marmalade left, the show changed direction. Talking about football decreased, the journalists began to gain profile and all those annoying political stories and Sam became the central focus. I have rarely watched it since. 

     

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    45 minutes ago, Demon17 said:

    Final nail was the Front Bar.  That show is perfectly cast and fills the nonsensical void so popular with footy followers, and  hell, even my non-football wife loves that show.

    The FS was mandatory viewing under the Eddie/Trevor Marmalade configuration and drifted after that time of the late 90's/ early 2000's.

     

     

    Correct. Front bar is a great laugh.

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    Good viewing in the 90s but became completely ego driven this century.  Very little football, zero insight, one dimensional humour... basically an hour of [censored] measuring.

     

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    It was a slow death hastened by the Lyon/Brownless fiasco and once Newman left it was on borrowed time. People who watched TFS didn’t watch it for niceties. They watched it to listen and laugh at the old dinosaur being revved up by Lyon, Brayshaw and the like and revel in the political incorrectness. That and the success of a genuinely funny show in The Front Bar were the final nails in the coffin.

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    Sam Newman embodied everything I dislike in a person. Arrogance, pseudo-intellectualism, vanity, intolerance and the list goes on. The whole idea that he was some kind of charming raconteur is a joke. He had a Pamela Anderson mural on his front wall ffs. He was the William F. Buckley to any given Monster-drinking dude with a pair of Oakleys glued to the back of his neck, and talking about him in the past tense is extremely enjoyable. 

    The rest of the [censored] can [censored] off too. 

    My wife isn’t a football lover. I’d try to convince her of it’s value from time to time, but she always had the perfect rebuttal, which was simply pointing in the direction of that godawful lowest-common-denominator horsesh&t and saying “I rest my case”. 

     

     

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    3 hours ago, Petraccattack said:

    I thought it was axed a decade ago.

    One of the worst shows to ever make it on to TV screens.

    26 years on air would suggest otherwise. Take it you didnt like it but it was far from one of the worst shows to ever make it on TV screens.

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    4 hours ago, SPC said:

    Sam Newman for me was the killer. Clearly didn't actually watch football, but had a opinion on everything. Weird relaunch with the latest line-up that didn't hit the mark. Like most haven't really followed the show since teams were named during the news.

    Good show during its popular days and that it is how it should be remembered. 

     

    Wrong, unfortunately Newman allowed himself to be turned into a caricature, he was well paid to do it

    If you got to speak to him away from the limelight, you would have found he knew a lot more about footy than some of the other experts we have now, I did

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    was very good back in the 90's. I especially liked when the Ox pushed Sam over.

    last 10-15 years it degraded into the worst type of humour - Garry is hairy, Dunstall is a gorilla. really??

    Fantastic to see the Front Bar come on the scene with genuine humour and revelling in what we love about footy, the banter, the history, the characters

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    3 hours ago, Little Goffy said:

    Sometimes you don't have to kill the zombies, you can just go somewhere safe and wait for them to decay on their own.

    Always thought that it was a show for the toothless dribblers (ie: Filth fans) that had little to do with the rest of the football public. 

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