The NRL Footy Show tonight

[Spiff]

Clive James is hosting because Fatty is crook and Sterlo is with his sick da. It might actually be good for once!

 

[Bucko]

bull -is that true ...............

 

[Spiff]

According to the NRL section of the Sydney Morning Herald website, it is. They say:


The expatriate TV personality and life-long Dragons fan, Clive James, will host tonight's episode of The Footy Show in the absence of Paul Vautin and Peter Sterling.

Vautin suffered severe concussion after falling from the back of a truck during filming for the show on Tuesday, despite wearing a sumo suit. He is still in hospital; Sterling is on leave after the death of his father, Max.

Vautin has been told by doctors he will not be allowed home before the weekend, possibly not for another week.

With James in Australia to promote a new magazine, Channel Nine's director of sport, Steve Crawley, approached him yesterday to host the show. "He'll be terrific," Mr Crawley said. "He's a Kogarah boy and a keen St George follower, as well as an international television talent."

Mr Crawley said he hoped that Vautin would be back on deck next week but Vautin's manager and close friend, John Gibbs, said it was uncertain when Vautin would leave hospital.

"You would think a sumo suit would break your fall but it makes it worse because the padding comes down and your head goes back like whiplash," Mr Gibbs said.

 

[Winmar]

Ah he's a Dragon - I always knew he was a champ!

So no Rebecca Wilson then?! I heard they weren't very nice to her.

 

[Spiff]

She only lasted one night, then she either quit or got the sack after an interview she did for The Bulletin.

 

[Winmar]

What'd she say in the interview?

 

[Spiff]

Looks like Clive only lasted the first segment because he's gone now.

Here's Rebecca's take on it joining and leaving the Footy Show - http://www.sundaytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,9353,15439761-28778,00.html

 

[Bucko]

I thought the show was pretty good

 

[Winmar]

Pretty piss-weak effort by Vautin, from the sound of it. What did she say initially that pissed him and Sterlo off so much that they acted like that?

 

[Goreripper]

She wrote a column a few months back saying the show was tired and needed revamping, or something to that effect. Judging by the ratings slide it's suffered this year, she was right.

 

[Winmar]

Ah right. Fuck 'em, I say. She's got more brains than the lot of them put together.

 

[Goreripper]

She does pick fights though. No more than Fatty or Sterlo themselves, but she is a woman in a man's world dominated by boofheads. She has to expect they won't respect her.

 

[Winmar]

Yeah she does. Good that she's got a bit of pluck though. Someone needs to mix it up a bit; a lot of rugby league types have shown themselves to be wankers with no idea how to treat women.

 

[Goreripper]

Vautin doesn't take criticism too well. I'm not sure if you out of Staters will remember the Worlds Biggest BBQ that he acted as spokeman for. It was organised by Tooheys at Warwick Farm Racecourse with the promise of a free sausage sandwich and a beer for everyone who turned up on the day. Something like 100,000 people descended on the place like seagulls on hot chips. There was no parking, they ran out of food, beer, everything. It was a shambles of enormous proportions. Afterwards, Vautin just shrugged and said something like "What do you expect for free" or something to that effect. It's a wonder he ever worked in TV after that.

 

[Winmar]

Haha no I don't remember that! Sounds like Guns n' Roses at Calder Park in '93!

 

[Goreripper]

It was worse.