: Fri Mar 13, 2009 2:00 pm  

Red Red Robin wrote:

Russell Crowe did seem to get quite a bit of applause after he suggested that State of Origin should be held after the Grand Final.

Few problems...
Would play until late december unless NRL season was shortened
What about players that are out of finals series, could be 6 weeks without a game going into origin
32 regular season games + finals + rep = injury tolls... hasnt thought about it really.

: Fri Mar 13, 2009 3:19 pm  

griffax wrote:

Read on web that he didnt like the "part" that he'd been offered on the new improved show so he left.

what role was he offered?

he was axed.

the role they offered him was nuthin

: Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:50 pm  

hindyscrack wrote:

Few problems...
Would play until late december unless NRL season was shortened
What about players that are out of finals series, could be 6 weeks without a game going into origin
32 regular season games + finals + rep = injury tolls... hasnt thought about it really.

Yeh those olden days when you did a days work, two nights training, played 32 league games, county cups, county championships, play offs, tests and challange cup were pretty soft.

The current crop arn't half doing it the hard way compared to those softies

: Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:06 pm  

Free footy show?

So you can watch it even if you don't subscribe to setanta?

: Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:21 pm  

Loyal Leeds Fan wrote:

:?:

Free footy show?

So you can watch it even if you don't subscribe to setanta?

you could last night

: Sat Mar 14, 2009 2:10 am  

hindyscrack wrote:

Few problems...
Would play until late december unless NRL season was shortened
What about players that are out of finals series, could be 6 weeks without a game going into origin
32 regular season games + finals + rep = injury tolls... hasnt thought about it really.

No he didn't, as a 16 team league would have 30 games in a full home and away season. Didn't he say there would be 2 rounds per week?

: Sat Mar 14, 2009 3:35 am  

yes . midweek games is what he said

: Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:02 am  

It was the first time I had seen the show and I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed the fact that RL was discussed at an intelligent level.

Over here, Sky and the BBC position everything at the beginner, which is fine at first, but then it starts to grate. Many of the people watching the matches are RL fans and understand the technicalities. I don't feel we have the balance right here.

Also, on the Brett Stewart issue, it was very refreshing to see that the NRL CEO and the panel were happy to discuss this issue, rather than holding back, which would definitely have happened here.

: Thu Mar 19, 2009 9:09 am  

footy show soon .in an hour

: Thu Mar 19, 2009 9:40 am  

what channel was this on again? I thought only Setanta viewers got the Footy Show??

Series link if i can get it!!!!!!!