Caroline Wilson has won the Australian Football Media Association’s most outstanding football writer and most outstanding feature writer (2000, 2003, 2005). And she was awarded the AFL Players Association inaugural media award in 1999. You don’t get those for “not getting the game” or “sensationalist articles”.

Plus, the only reason why she gets picked on, on Footy Classifieds is that her sensationalist articles have so many flaws in them.

Let’s ignore the human dree shall we?

I stopped watching the Footy Show a dozen years ago. As Newman said in the youtube clip, they’ve been doing this sort of thing for 15 years. The show is blokey rubbish that shouldn’t be on air.

1) Wilson is one of the best footy journos in the country.

2) Lyon should have known better, and stopped the skit before it went anywhere.

3) If not Lyon, someone (a producer) at 9 should have had respect for one of 9′s other on-air personalities (ie Wilson) and pulled the pin on the skit.

4) Wilson gets treated appallingly on Footy Classified by both Lyon and Hutchison. I don’t know how she survives.

Frankly, Newman is an embarrassment, and the sooner 9 release him, the better the show will be.