i don't have setanta but yes so i hear there is only two, but as the season gets closer to finals they will progress to 3 or 4 games a week.

i have seen snips of it and its very good

looks like a match of the day set from 1984 !!

i'm expecting bob wilson popping up telling us about kerry dixon scoring twice for chelsea against newport county !!

Yes I'm just making sure I've sky plussed them as I put it on series link up but it sometimes missed some games last season.

I've got the two guaranteed this weekend. So far so good.

or Russel crowe try sell something else

You could see a minute or so ago when he was plugging the sponsors the presenter wanted to jump in and stop it and probably had his director shouting 'DON'T IT'S RUSSEL CROWE'.

and jimmy hill in a woolly brown jumper telling us how he did a great job when he was at coventry.

TBH i'm not that impressed by this show - seems to me like they dont really wanna do it

its sh|t !! am off to bed

read on a website that they had rebranded the show following poor viewing figures for last season!

What's happened to the Chief? My Sky+ keeps freezing every few seconds, most annoying!!!

wasnt too impressed by the first show, the stewart saga was too drawn out... and it looks like the budget for the show has been slashed by the look of the set

still better then boots n all

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?

you could last night

No he didn't, as a 16 team league would have 30 games in a full home and away season. Didn't he say there would be 2 rounds per week?

yes . midweek games is what he said