Marngrook Footy Show Axed

[Spongebob]

Announced due to poor ratings and cost...nothing of quality left to watch on FTA

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/abc-axes-marngrook-footy-show-20121115-29efl.html

 

[Kram]

Well that's a shame.

 

[SC_GC]

Only football show on at a decent time up here (except for BTG, which doesn't count). Dissapointing.

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Cant they just go back to C31? TBH I reckon it was better back then, more relaxed and didn't try so hard

 

[Scotland]

'Tens of people disappointed'

 

[j0rdy1]

Theres 7 footy shows on a Thursday? Wow. Other then The Footy Show and Marngrook I can't think of any others. I assume Marngrook will go back to C31 where it belongs.

 

[theRainbowGame]

Back to C31 hopefully.
I would love to see the minutes of the meeting to decide the axing though.
Plenty of anti-football decisions from the ABC in the last 5 years. Most notably the axing of State League broadcasts.
The ABC should start showing the womens leagues.

 

[peejay]

Back to C31 hopefully.
I would love to see the minutes of the meeting to decide the axing though.
Plenty of anti-football decisions from the ABC in the last 5 years. Most notably the axing of State League broadcasts.
The ABC should start showing the womens leagues.

It was the most expensive show to produce on ABC2 and rated like ten people were watching it.

Correct decision. IMO

 

[Rusty22]

They need a VFL footy show

 

[Ichabod Noodle]

Really stupid decision. Great show just a bad time slot. I always ended up catching up with it on NITV or iView.

 

[Sprout]

I don't understand those who praised it as a great show. Part of me suspects they did so due to it being outside the mainstream, and on the grounds of not being TFS.

At the end of the day it was a rubbish show. Utter rubbish.

 

[St 07]

I don't understand those who praised it as a great show. Part of me suspects they did so due to it being outside the mainstream, and on the grounds of not being TFS.

At the end of the day it was a rubbish show. Utter rubbish.

Don't come here sprouting that crap, they actually talked quality football in that show. A nice change from TFS complete lack of said football discussion.

 

[Natho]

Thats disappointing.

 

[Byron_Clanger]

I also never got why people thought Marngrook was so good, I could only stand it for 5 minutes before I quickly changed the channel

 

[Sprout]

Don't come here sprouting that crap, they actually talked quality football in that show. A nice change from TFS complete lack of said football discussion.

I must have missed the episodes where they "talked quality football". Half the panelists didn't have an effing clue what they were on about.

Anyhow I wpn't hang s**t on it now that it's axed. Suffice to say I won't miss it.

 

[Underdog]

'Tens of people disappointed'

Hansen raised a good point about the demographics of those with rating boxes.

Shows like Before the Game and TFS don't really discuss footy but are more light entertainment and thus draw a more widespread audience.

Marngrook would be more limited in audience but I also think would largely have an audience that are less likely to be involved in the ratings process.

I didn't watch it often but it was OK and more interesting then TFS.

 

[neroblack]

I don't understand those who praised it as a great show. Part of me suspects they did so due to it being outside the mainstream, and on the grounds of not being TFS.

At the end of the day it was a rubbish show. Utter rubbish.

I was with you until the last line...

 

[Mitchell Madness]

It was the most expensive show to produce on ABC2 and rated like ten people were watching it.

Correct decision. IMO

Because no one knew it was on
TV isn't a business which works on the "build it and they will come" motto

I saw one TVC for the show the entire season
ABC has 4 unique channels

Hope fox footy picks it up in place of, or even following AFL teams, would be a ratings winner

 

[BLPC08]

It was a really amateurish show. I liked the interviews with past players, Gilbert was funny in a Doug Hawkins esque manner. The other panel members were fairly boring, although the panel members on the Footy Show these days are hopeless as well.

 

[Donakebab]

Won''t die completely. Will move back to C31, SBS or purely NITV.

 

[Hawkinspired]

I stopped watching it years ago because I couldn't stand the bias from Gilbert and Hansen when their respective sides were performing well. Now that they are both cellar dwellers it may have been worth the watch this year?

 

[MaccaKnowsBest]

Good. Watched it about 3 times and that was it.

Waiting for those responsible for the axing to be called racists..

 

[le dominateur]

Back to C31 hopefully.
I would love to see the minutes of the meeting to decide the axing though.
Plenty of anti-football decisions from the ABC in the last 5 years. Most notably the axing of State League broadcasts.
The ABC should start showing the womens leagues.

The bias against Australian Football is getting stronger.

 

[Underdog]

Good. Watched it about 3 times and that was it.

Why would you be happy that a program you don't watch on an obscure channel is axed?

A normal person wouldn't care rather then draw pleasure from it.

 

[Kim Hagdorn]

A bit rough around the edges but I thought it was alright, better than a lot of other football show crap on TV, usually got some decent guests on.