Nine drops AFL Footy Show after eight rounds of 2019 season

rude, crude, and often nude. the show had no place on TV in modern australia

Rude, crude & nude is what delivered the ratings, consistently. As soon as that was curbed, in response to the perpetually outraged PC brigade, so was the enthusiasm from the viewing audience. This audience naturally migrated to The Front Bar with it’s no frills and no bullshit approach, just three humorous footy fans with authentic chemistry taking the piss out of everything including each other – eureka!

I remember The Footy Show used to be first with the teams for the weekend. I tuned in for the team information and stayed for the interviews.

Today; without information, interviews or insight – I have a lot of other places to go (including The Front Bar) to get this. This was the demise of the show. Readers of The Oz have a different view though…(as evidenced by the comments under the story on The Oz website)

Back in the day of running through the games, they always used to cover the Non-Melbourne based teams games last in the running order. Wonder if that caused a long term hit to national ratings.

Let’s not forget… 9 made an award winning AFL show, without having access to AFL match content, other than that covered in their Limited News content sharing agreements.

This bugged the heck out of Seven, who for decades, had unlimited access to AFL content, yet only until recently, could kick a goal with their AFL show.

True testament to the creative ability of TV producers and management who also listened to what viewers wanted to see as ‘entertainment’ in their program content.

Good that this has been taken off air. No place for it on Australian channels.