Football Classified

[LostDoggy]

For some reason I'm attracted to watch this show even though the 4 hosts are worse than each other. I suppose its a serious football discussion and on the off chance they talk about the Bulldogs.

Caroline Wilson is possibly the best of a bad lot, and thats not saying much.
Hutchy is a sleaze bag, enough said.
Garry Lyon is a complete idiot, his lack of balls is the reason Thursday's footy show has gone from very bad to utter dribble.
Glen Archer might have been courageous on the field but I don't what he add in terms of insight to any football discussion. The guy wasn't known for his smarts so I don't know why he qualifies as an analyst? He thinks he is still on the field at times.

Last night they skipped over the Hall incident, with obvious anti Hall and pro Hall sides. No problem with that but its the extremes of both sides and very little sensible comments were made.

There was a Brayshaw issue(possibly a non issue). Any discussuion on North can't be negative as you'll upset Archer who thinks North can do no wrong.

In an effort to involve Archer positively, they pushed how he reved up Richmond to win- a real long arrow - cos last week he gave an off the cuff comment about the tigers individually playing for themselves. Thanks Arch our problems are solved now and forever.

What do others think? I suppose it gets my thoughs going late on a monday evening.

[Bulldog4life]

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For some reason I'm attracted to watch this show even though the 4 hosts are worse than each other. I suppose its a serious football discussion and on the off chance they talk about the Bulldogs.

Caroline Wilson is possibly the best of a bad lot, and thats not saying much.
Hutchy is a sleaze bag, enough said.
Garry Lyon is a complete idiot, his lack of balls is the reason Thursday's footy show has gone from very bad to utter dribble.
Glen Archer might have been courageous on the field but I don't what he add in terms of insight to any football discussion. The guy wasn't known for his smarts so I don't know why he qualifies as an analyst? He thinks he is still on the field at times.

Last night they skipped over the Hall incident, with obvious anti Hall and pro Hall sides. No problem with that but its the extremes of both sides and very little sensible comments were made.

There was a Brayshaw issue(possibly a non issue). Any discussuion on North can't be negative as you'll upset Archer who thinks North can do no wrong.

In an effort to involve Archer positively, they pushed how he reved up Richmond to win- a real long arrow - cos last week he gave an off the cuff comment about the tigers individually playing for themselves. Thanks Arch our problems are solved now and forever.

What do others think? I suppose it gets my thoughs going late on a monday evening.

I watch it every week too Ern. You are right about the off chance of mentioning the Bulldogs.....apart from Rocket being on the first show I can't recall a decent discussion about them....or even a small discussion!

Your summing up of the show is accurate.

[LostDoggy]

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Some guy on BF described it like a car crash. Shocking but you can't take your eyes off it.

[Sockeye Salmon]

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For some reason I'm attracted to watch this show even though the 4 hosts are worse than each other. I suppose its a serious football discussion and on the off chance they talk about the Bulldogs.

Caroline Wilson is possibly the best of a bad lot, and thats not saying much.
Hutchy is a sleaze bag, enough said.
Garry Lyon is a complete idiot, his lack of balls is the reason Thursday's footy show has gone from very bad to utter dribble.
Glen Archer might have been courageous on the field but I don't what he add in terms of insight to any football discussion. The guy wasn't known for his smarts so I don't know why he qualifies as an analyst? He thinks he is still on the field at times.

Last night they skipped over the Hall incident, with obvious anti Hall and pro Hall sides. No problem with that but its the extremes of both sides and very little sensible comments were made.

There was a Brayshaw issue(possibly a non issue). Any discussuion on North can't be negative as you'll upset Archer who thinks North can do no wrong.

In an effort to involve Archer positively, they pushed how he reved up Richmond to win- a real long arrow - cos last week he gave an off the cuff comment about the tigers individually playing for themselves. Thanks Arch our problems are solved now and forever.

What do others think? I suppose it gets my thoughs going late on a monday evening.

What he said.

The only really interesting bit is the coaches votes.

I can't stand Garry Lyon, he's hopeless, and the only people who don't seem to realise it is the GTV9 execs.

[The Underdog]

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I saw most of it last night and was just going, why is Glenn Archer on this program? He can't articulate a point, he seems overwhelmed by the other 3 and the only time he fires up is when North are criticised.
It says something that I often come out of watching it defending Caroline Wilson. Sometimes her points are daft but the with other 3 defending the status quo, especially of footballers behaviour makes her seem a genius.
Again though, like you Ern, I keep watching it.

[GVGjr]

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What he said.

The only really interesting bit is the coaches votes.

I can't stand Garry Lyon, he's hopeless, and the only people who don't seem to realise it is the GTV9 execs.

Garry Lyon irritates me.
Much like what Healy used to do, he loves his name being mentioned in dispatches as a potential coach but clearly he isn't prepared to have a crack at it and potentially jeopardise his reputation.
Now I have no problem with anyone wanting to earn more in the media than as a coach but clearly he should stop any speculation that he will coach by saying that he sees his future more so in the media.
As the host of two football shows he lacks leadership. Clearly he should have pulled Sam into line with his disgusting skit about Caroline Wilson or at least attempted to, but as normal he took the easy option and did nothing.
Even last night when the Newman rot was discussed he gave a less than impressive reason for not stopping him or at the least controlling it.

Even with serious football issues he typically sits on the fence unless there is an easy target.

[camwoof]

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I didnt see the show but didnt they talk about Barry Hall and the incident involving Chris Grant some years ago, what was said?

[hujsh]

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I haven't watched the show this year. It is rarely dogs (even when we were a bad news story we couldn't get a mention) and they just couldn't interest me with their discussions/arguments.

[GVGjr]

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I didnt see the show but didnt they talk about Barry Hall and the incident involving Chris Grant some years ago, what was said?

Nothing about Chris Grant

[LostDoggy]

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I do not think highly of this show but at least it is better than the footy show.

[LostDoggy]

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I didnt see the show but didnt they talk about Barry Hall and the incident involving Chris Grant some years ago, what was said?

I only saw the start of Footy Classified but I saw this bit. They tried to contact Grant but he never got back to them.

[LostDoggy]

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They did show the Grant/Hall incident, but all you saw was Chris on the ground and Hall in the vicinity.

I like footy classified, but I do agree with everyone comments re Hutchy, Lyon and Archer.

But Caroline Wilson does raise issues that don't seem to come up any other footy show, and she seems to be up on all the behind the scenes, political type issues that happen at the clubs. She can be a bit self rightous and hypocritical at times.

[1eyedog]

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In all seriousness I get a better analysis of football (especially the Dogs obviously) on this forum than I could ever hope to get on any of the football programs. I laugh at Before the game (which is the best of a bad lot which is really saying something as their main medium is comedy rather than football). I just watch all the games on the weekend and talk about them all with my well informed and very intelligent (at least they will tell you so) mates. I swear, Monday's experts live next door to me and just down the street.

[LostDoggy]

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I always forget its on.

[hujsh]

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I always forget its on.

Do people still call it Footy Confidential?