The Footy Show

[GVGjr]

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Record ratings tonight.

I don't think I would have watched more than 1 hour combined all season and I doubt that I would watch much of it tonight.
Incidents like this is what the Footy Show is all about now and it will rate well.

[BulldogBelle]

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What a great team player BBBB is. I'm sorry that I didn't express that months ago when he was giving away those goals and doing the team stuff.

I think that most of us believe that he is a team player.

[LostDoggy]

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Big JB is on the panel tonight aswell..

This is going to be one interesting Footy Show.

[Missing-Dog]

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This is going to be one interesting Footy Show.

first time for everything

[Before I Die]

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Barry Hall will not appear on The Footy Show tonight. The decision not to appear was taken by Barry himself & not the club, despite what may be alledged elsewhere.

I understand the former TFS host is winding up Aker in a city hotel this afternoon in order to get him to 'tip a bucket' on the Western Bulldogs.

Are we talking about the President of a rival club? In particular, one who attacks anyone who has the temerity to question any aspect of his own club?

[Rocco Jones]

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Barry is beloved.

I wish he had gone on. He would have handled himself beautifully.

An official? Wont carry the same weight as Barry saying 'I love Aker but the group was unanimous in this decision'.

Me too. Many fans who disagree with the decision seem to think we were being 'bitchy' for use of a better word and the blokey bloke that is Hall would have been the perfect person to defend it.

[Flamethrower]

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Record ratings tonight.

I didn't know that that garbage was still on. Is it still Collingwood centric with Everywhere Eddie?

Jono Brown and Aker in the same room....could be very interesting considering the amount of hate the Lions still have for Aker.

[comrade]

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I won't be watching (principles and all) but I hope that Brown cuts through any BS that Aker tries on.

[LostDoggy]

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The Footy Show now has more b*****t content than relevant footy talk, well done Bazza for making the right decision not to appear.
No doubt the media will find another target for a story soon.

Go Dogs!

[LostDoggy]

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I doubt there will be any Western Bulldog's official on the show tonight. If Hall isn't going on he has probably been replaced with another footy panelist from another club. I doubt Smorgon or Fantasia will go on.

[The Coon Dog]

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Are we talking about the President of a rival club? In particular, one who attacks anyone who has the temerity to question any aspect of his own club?

Yup, that's him.

[The Coon Dog]

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UPDATE 4.41pm: CHANNEL 9 says the Western Bulldogs compelled Barry Hall into ditching an appearance on The Footy Show opposite Jason Akermanis.

"Barry only became uncomfortable after he was advised by president David Smorgon at a function last night that it would be inappropriate if he appeared on the show. Little wonder he was uncomfortable," Channel Nine's head of entertainment Tim Cleary said.

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[The Pie Man]

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UPDATE 4.41pm: CHANNEL 9 says the Western Bulldogs compelled Barry Hall into ditching an appearance on The Footy Show opposite Jason Akermanis.

"Barry only became uncomfortable after he was advised by president David Smorgon at a function last night that it would be inappropriate if he appeared on the show. Little wonder he was uncomfortable," Channel Nine's head of entertainment Tim Cleary said.

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Needlessly inflammatory remark from someone working in the media

Blind Freddy could see the initial panel proposed had awkward written all over it

[Dancin' Douggy]

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Where's the introspection?
If I had just been thrown out the door by the second AFL club in six years,
I would at the very least take a couple of weeks to mull over the situation I found myself in.
Maybe a long road trip.
But to go straight on the footy show the next night is really quite sad.
Aker, is there no off switch in your head?
Is there no self criticism?
No self assessment?
Footy clubs don't just sack players for fun or to be petulant.
And even if ONE did. Two in a row don't.
This is serious Aker.
Just STFU for at least a couple of days.
Seems you can't. Can't help yourself.
And Steve Price is happily steering you into shallower and shallower water.
Oh Aker, this is a tragedy.

[Missing-Dog]

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Sam Newman is going very hard on the aker thing. Not a surprise.

Apparently, the club is corrupt and has been leaking to the media. Jason is a person of integrity and hasn't leaked a thing.

Sam Newman is pretty much the worst example of the AFL community going around. What a leech.