I thought focusing on rugby league issues and less on the "comedy" sketches improved the show from the last couple of years. The that's gold section grew stale after about 2 weeks.

Russell Crowe did seem to get quite a bit of applause after he suggested that State of Origin should be held after the Grand Final.

yeah shame you missed nrl on fox on wednesday night it was a beauty

nine try their best but they just miss the mark all the time

he was an idiot to suggest that.

hes right about the problem, hes wrong about the solution.

the solution is to go with split rounds

and given all the idiots on here who think aussies are so upset at the WC loss.

did people see how many people wished NZ well for winning the World Cup?

chief has left

thats gold!

Read on web that he didnt like the "part" that he'd been offered on the new improved

show so he left.

It looks like 2 games will be norm. Probably at least until after the IPL cricket.

Thanks for that, damn my Sky + box for freezing on this recording and on the Bronco's from this morning too!!! Just had to rebuild everything!!! Just what you want when you wanna watch something!

Few problems...
Would play until late december unless NRL season was shortened
What about players that are out of finals series, could be 6 weeks without a game going into origin
32 regular season games + finals + rep = injury tolls... hasnt thought about it really.

what role was he offered?

he was axed.

the role they offered him was nuthin

Yeh those olden days when you did a days work, two nights training, played 32 league games, county cups, county championships, play offs, tests and challange cup were pretty soft.

The current crop arn't half doing it the hard way compared to those softies

Free footy show?

So you can watch it even if you don't subscribe to setanta?