Blues 2005,


good point about games from 1988 to 90.

I would be more than happy to watch Carlton matches from that period.

Meldrum, Kernahan, Naley etc all played in that period.

There was also a match against Geelong around that period where the blues were down by 40 points at half time (or thereabouts) and came back to win. Why don't they show these matches instead of the matches from 2001-2003 over and over again?

Oh, anyone know why Anthony Hudson and Clintin Grybas appear to have less time on air this year? Grybas shits me a bit, he moves around in his bloody chair too much on WLF and is rarely open to an alternate view to his won. But as a match day caller I don't mind him. Same with Huddo, I don't him, either as a show host or match caller.

Jim Wilson was clearly struggling to get the hang of The Winners last Sunday, hopefully he'll get better and develop some new cliche's so the cycle runs arounf a bit slower when there's more than a handful in regular rotation. He'll get there, don't you worry about that!

It's really strange, they have NEVER as far as I know, shown ANY footage from the years 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1992. It's as if these years don't exist.

I'm just curious, more than anything, as to the reasoning behind this. I've been tempted to write in and ask but never have got around to it. Does anyone actually know?

The more Carlton people in the footy media the better. I get a bit sick of having to listen to all the Essendon* cronies.

Getting back to the original post, when they last showed the 79 grand final, it was the channel 2 version (not the channel 7 version which I already have on tape).

Anthony Hudson has a regular afternoon spot on SEN with Dermie and Matt Hardy, so with his Channel 10 work, I think he may have taken this job over a spot on Fox Footy (not fact just my assumption). Don't know about Grybas, he doesn't work on SEN. Jim Wilson is an interesting one he lost his sports news reading gig on Channel 7 to Beverly O'Conner during the Olympics and didn't get it back when he returned. She's now been given the flick for of all people, Sandy Roberts. But it would appear Jim has moved on to a gig on Fox Footy, maybe replacing Grybas and/or Hudson.

somethings not quite right???

On analogue, they would run Fox Footy and Fox footy Extra. Now with digital, where that is an easier process, they only run one station...

Are they planning to "launch" ANOTHER channel that you pay extra for??? The cynic in me wonders

Just my wild crazy imagination running wild but is it out of the question that Foxtel, who are currently struggling financially big time, might wind up foxfooty, sell all their foxfooty assets (cameras, equiptment, etc.) to the AFL who would start their own pay tv channel ie. foxsports, and lease their AFL pay tv channel programming back to foxtel.
Who knows what sort of programming that could lead to??

IMO pay tv/pay per view programming will move to online broadband distribution in the future. Telstra have got the game sown up coz they own all the infrastructure.

It is not Fox Footy's fault but it peeves me that in the bush where the free to air channel refuses to air live coverage the AFL should have the option to allow a pay TV service to show it.

I am a subscriber to Austar which shows Fox footy in darwin yet have to view many games on FTA a number of hours after the event when there is a "Winners with Flares" program on Fox.