Before the Game

[cancat]

What an awful show. It's neither funny nor informative and the panel is dire. Andrew Maher is a wimp. Sam Lane seems to be the token female whose role is to be outraged at male bad behaviour such as the chicken video. Amazing if Lehmo make a living from the media. Dave Hughes and Mick Molloy can be funny but they are continually turning round to Sam Lane as though to check if they can say stuff. Pete Hellier can be ok but it's about time the Strauchanie character was strung up.

 

[jonesy86]

Haven't watched it for a while, nothing will be the original 'After the Game' when they had Damien Callinan

 

[Zvim]

I don't watch it, has to be the worst football related show from people trying too hard.

 

[Roy Fitzlion]

Got to agree with you on most of that. Sam Lane just doesn't seem to be useful on TV or in print!

 

[jayaa01]

Worse show on TV, I hate SLane she's a useless try hard.

 

[Dont be a lemon]

It's an awful, awful show. Shit from a football perspective, even shitter from a comedy perspective.

 

[MacMum]

We really liked it when Huddo and Strauchnie were on it....Now its just pathetic....Mick Malloy makes my skin crawl, Andy Mahar tries too hard to be one of the boys, and he's not..

Fitzie should replace Malloy...He is funny and also a FOOTBALLER, which none of them are......it really is a terrible show now..

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

I used to watch it, and like it. However, I only watched it for a laugh, but I got less of that as it went on., Havent seen it this year ... not likely to.

I like Hughes, and also Molloy (unlike some others here), his style of humour appeals to me .... and why do they need to know anything about football? It's not that sort of show.

The 10 questions in 60 seconds (or whatever) is so lame, I really can't believe they persist with it. A footballer stands there for 60 seconds with a dumb look on his face answering "yeah" or "nah" with a giggle as Hughes rattles off 10 questions - a couple of them can be amusing, the others are just stupid.

Like others, I really don't understand the role of Lemo. It seems his sole role is to tell you about the Football Record that is on sale. Wow!! Really? They're selling the Football Record? Who would have guessed?

Strauchnie ... give it a rest, please!!! It was mildly amusing years ago to imagine this oaf who was accidentally drafted to a club and his early adventures. However, it's been done to death. Take it, cremate it, place the ashes in a box, and bury it in the back yard. It's over ... the moment has passed.

Andy Maher. I've never quite been able to work him out. For a start, how in hell did he score a job in the media in the first place? He's utterly frustrating and annoying. Is there any chance he really doesn't know how aggravating he is, or does he do it on purpose? Either way, I cannot stand him.

And finally ... Sam Lane ... the token female. That's okay, women are perfectly entitled to have an opinion on football, and report on it in the media. However, there ARE actually women out there with a clue .. I know, I've heard them .... but Sam isn't one of them. Yes, the show is meant to be funny, I guess that's why the biggest joke in the media is on there.

Someone with the skills of Tiffany Cherry would be supurb. She knows her football, and doesn't pretend to be an expert in fields with which she is unfamiliar. Every time Sam Lane appears on screen, it sets the women's movement back 20 years.

The way she reads out the notes that someone else has prepared for her ... it's obvious she didn't write them herself because she reads them like it's the first time she's seen them .... and sits there with that "look at the pretty balloons" look on her face when others are talking.

She may appeal to the pimply faced, randy 15 year old virgins on this forum, but she does nothing for me. Vacuous in every way imaginable. The only vocation that would be suitable for her is picking fly poop out of the pepper in a sheltered work shop. A classic example of how people score positions in the media because of who they know, not based on what they are able to deliver.

Nope, like every other brain dead football program in the media, this one is a dud as well. One day a network will actually deliver a football show for those of us who like to think a little about our footy.

 

[The Casey Cat]

It was ok for a while. But it's now one of the most painful shows out there. Hughes and Malloy can be funny at times but everyone else is excruciatingly annoying. None more so than the ####n Strauchnie. Just bloody kill it. Not funny, not one little bit.

 

[SunKing]

The irony is this lot (Hughsie & Molloy excepted) give out an award for the most toolish behaviour

And "straughnie" needs to be tortured

 

[ManUtd]

Would honestly rather they just showed the Simpsons or something before the game.

 

[Karbo]

Was a good show back a few years. Now, not so much. I watched last night and Andy 'you blokes' Maher would have to be the second most irritating man on television behind Rove. Lehmo would probably be third.

 

[damochandler]

i dont watch it. i have watched it a few times over the last couple of years and it aint funny. sam lane isnt a journo in footy terms and the people at 10 must forgot their brins the day they hired her. andy maher is the most clueless bloke going around when it comes to footy and sports in general. the comedians arent funny and straunchie was never funny. they just tried to copy reg ragen with that.

does anyone have a video of last nights show. i wonder what the wanna leader for the womens movement said last night. did she tell everyone how she tried to bribe the club before she wrote the artical

 

[Team Mo']

Geniune cringe-worthy TV. None of them are willing to say what they really want to say due to censorship and all that jazz.

Either move it o after the game so they can make some real jokes or get the crap of TV. God, Bold and the Beautiful would be better to watch...

 

[Burzum]

We all know that Sam Lane got her jobs in the media because of her father, but she is just plain horrible and annoying.

Haven't watched it for a while, nothing will be the original 'After the Game' when they had Damien Callinan

Hear hear.

 

[TelkoTheGreat]

Stopped watching 2 years ago, waste of time

 

[OzBomber]

Only good thing about it is the tool of the week.

 

[GOEAGLES 08]

i must be the only one that enjoys it..

 

[Bomber32]

Terribly unfunny show. It is a total waste of an evening.

 

[courtjester]

I really enjoy it. Wrap up of the day's games. A few laughs. Strauchnie is funny enough (although a complete rip-off of Dave Brent from the British Office)...

It doesn't try to take itself too seriously like the po-faced tools on some of the other footy shows. Footy is just a game after all.

I agree, Andy Maher is slightly irritating and Lehmo is unfunny completely. Might be time to look at getting someone from a real footy perspective on the panel to give it a bit more cred (James Hird or Akermanis when he retires maybe?)

But Andy Maher does a decent job of hosting, and Mick Molloy and Dave Hughes are funny. The 60 seconds spot is funny. I'd prefer it to the sad attempts of the Sunday Footy Show who are currently trying to turn the totally un-funny Shane Crawford into the next Lou Richards.

Lighten up. Grab a few beers and a pizza and ease into a Saturday night's footy entertainment.

 

[randyzany]

Have never liked the format and all the presenters have the personality of a wet blanket. Their jokes and dross dull banter are seldom entertaining let alone funny. And there's little to almost zero football content, makes all the other footy shows look like an intellectual gathering by comparison. lol

 

[SAAndy]

What an awful show. It's neither funny nor informative and the panel is dire. Andrew Maher is a wimp. Sam Lane seems to be the token female whose role is to be outraged at male bad behaviour such as the chicken video. Amazing if Lehmo make a living from the media. Dave Hughes and Mick Molloy can be funny but they are continually turning round to Sam Lane as though to check if they can say stuff. Pete Hellier can be ok but it's about time the Strauchanie character was strung up.

It's funny if your my age

 

[lions_den]

I actually really like this show.

 

[Johnson#26]

Still like it, but it was better with Pete and Huddo.

 

[wally funk]

Strauchnie is funny enough (although a complete rip-off of Dave Brent from the British Office)...

huh?? wha?? how? because its shot in documentary style?

agree with you about adding hirdy or aker though... a couple of genuine footy stars who say what they think and are almost always interesting to listen to