Matty Johns Show looks at Storm drama
Updated: The Matty Johns Show and The Footy Show will both analyse Melbourne Storm’s salary cap breach.
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Tonight’s episode of The Matty Johns Show will be extended following this afternoon’s breaking news about Melbourne Storm’s salary cap breach.
Johns and Shane Webcke will analyse the developments and delve further into the $1.7 million salary cap breaches, with commentators Ray Hadley and Mark Geyer and Controversy Corner panellist Paul Kent.
Brian McFadden, Erin McNaught, Jamie Soward, Nathan Friend and Greg Bird will also appear.
Cougar Town is currently scheduled for 8:45 and How I Met Your Mother 9:15 in Sydney and Brissy markets. The Matty Johns Show airs 7:30pm tonight on Seven.
Nine has also advised:
Tonight THE FOOTY SHOW has a special presentation on the salary cap breach by the Melbourne Storm – one of the greatest sensations in the history of Australian sport.
Following the NRL announcement this afternoon that Melbourne Storm has been found guilty of repeated breaches of the salary cap and stripped of two premierships and three minor premierships, as well as their 2010 competition points, must repay $1.1 million in prize money, and will be fined $500,000, THE FOOTY SHOW will take a comprehensive look at the scandal with the biggest names in rugby league.
With the investigation revealing the Storm’s breach of at least $1.7 million over five years, THE FOOTY SHOW’S Phil Gould will be in the studio, joining host Paul Vautin, Darryl Brohman, Wendell Sailor and special guest panelist, Bulldog Michael Ennis, to discuss the scandal, what it means to the team, the sport and the fans.
THE FOOTY SHOW will cross live to Nine Sport Reporter Tony Jones in Melbourne for all the latest news on the announcement today and in Sydney, Nine Sport Reporter Danny Weidler will report live from NRL headquarters.
Also on the show tonight, Roosters star Todd Carney, the Morris twins – Dragon Brett and Bulldog Josh – are all in the studio. Plus THE FOOTY SHOW crosses to the Bronco camp to speak to Corey Parker.
Hypnotist Peter Powers will put his powers to the test on Wests Tigers Beau Ryan and Chris Heighington and THE FOOTY SHOW panel.
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What you said about Ricky Stuart was disgusting. I have a severely disabled son who attends s school called Bates Drive. Ricky Stuart and Sharks not only donate money to the school they are at the school every school sports carnival and the sharks players actually spend time with the kids. Ricky Stuart and the Sharks reach out to the kids in my community. He will be sadly missed.
Yes Peter, the salary cap scandal does validate a station cutting short its coverage of a national sporting event. Seriously…….
The AFL footy show was wrost having saying it was “a big story” and giving no more than 5 mins an hour into the show to just reinterating what we already knew.
Also since the Storm no longer have the 09 Premiership title, does this validate Ch 9 in Melbourne not showing the after match presentation last year?
philm, completely agree with you. I only watched the Matty Johns show for the first time last night, and I was really impressed with the way the issues were covered. When I turned it over to the Footy Show later, expecting to be even more impressed, I found myself getting more and more frustrated – why Phil Gould felt the need to ignore Melbourne’s crime and attack the admin of the NRL I will never know. It was just ridiculous – the story is the rort, the rules are in place, this is not the time to slam the rules, it’s time to consider how to approach the rest of the season with these punishments (fitting or otherwise, they will stand) in place. Big fail, Footy Show. Glad that the Matty Johns show has been beating you now!
I agree with Rod below that Danny ‘my mail tells me’ Wiedler added nothing to the report, he simply regurgitated the same points you had heard all afternoon. Standing outside a closed office door doesn’t provide any greater credibility.
The Matt Johns show was much more unbiased even with a new limited employee on the panel. They seemed to discuss the impact on the league and the actual corruption whereas the footy show went on their usual salary cap/ NRL management rant.
Many people will have watched MasterChef. There are parents of children out there who wish, that their children not have to continually hear about this. I also think because of the fact it is a national ratings system and that some shows will make light of this anyway.
🙁 Shocking day for NRL/RugbyLeague
I watched it and was pretty satisfied with that early part of the show that covered this sad event before it lapsed into its usual crapulousness. It was then a relief to switch it off. Pity that such a limp show should benefit from the misery of others.
In terms of quality of discussion on this issue Matty Johns was the clear winner over the Footy Show- reason… they actually talked about the issue and not attacking the admin of the game. thats a seperate discussion. Phil Gould has no idea.
Will be interesting to see the ratings results tomorrow morning- it may just be enough to topple masterchef in Sydney and Brisbane.
“The Footy Show will cross live to Nine Sport Reporter Tony Jones . . . Sport Reporter Danny Weidler will report live from NRL headquarters.”
Looks like TFS has caught the same disease as the news bulletins – the one which compels them to have a live cross to a reporter whose only job is to summarise what happened there several hours ago and whose presence “on the scene” adds three-fifths of bugger all to our collective knowledge.
it wont be No 1. because its not Nationally on during prime time. but it will rate higher than probably ever.
yes they should have fast tracked it…
Yeh it would make sense for seven to at least air the show live on Seven2 for the non-nrl states.
Although i’m not a storm supporter, I still feel sorry for the fans and the players, I really hope this doesn’t destroy the team and I hope it doesn’t destroy victoria’s nrl following.
Watched it right through so far. First half hour was great. Then they started will all the other stuff and I’ve lost more and more interest as it has gone on.
I reckon the nrl footy show will gets its biggest ratings tonight. So will John’s show. Well at least the storm scandal will deliver the nrl show a winner.
‘Thursday Night Live’ on ONE HD has just finished talking about the Melbourne Storm (they talked about it for half an hour), and will talk about it even further in the NRL segment a little later on
It is probably going to topple Master Chef from the number one spot tonight.
Seven should consider not screening or screening a shortened edition of The Bounce into Melb tonight, with Matty Johns fasttracked into Melbourne (i.e not at midnight.)
since it was melbourne storm there is probably a lot of melb viewers that would be interested, they should air it on 7two at 8:30 and cut prime suspect.
I imagine they would bump one of the episodes of How I Met Your Mother, or maybe the American Dad repeat at 11.30pm…no changes on the EPG as yet…
Could be the making of the show if they get rid of the rubbish and focus on the big issue. I’ll be turning in….I reckon its make or break for this show tonight!