Footy SA - New Channel 9 TV Show on SA Football

Don't have to be dead to be stiff, do you?

You blokes are pretty hard to please. I'll admit the show is pretty shitty, it's from Victoria and its got Hutchy on it, but it is a show produced to promote, discuss, preview and review footy in SA.

Now if Adelaide and Port get top billing, fair enough, they have over 100,000 members between them.

How long since any station has had a show completely dedicated to football in SA including AFL, SANFL, SAAFL, Country footy etc etc?

the Crows show

"Total SANFL" on Channel 44 (former C31) in 2006, hosted by CK and with many other SANFL journalists/commentators. Show continued in 2007 with different hosts.

Simply Footy with Rob Popplestone and Corey Wingard was also around that time.

Simply Footy, that's the one. IIRC, it made almost no mention of the SANFL and was purely about the AFL and advertising the Casino, yes?

Booney wrote:Don't have to be dead to be stiff, do you?

You blokes are pretty hard to please. I'll admit the show is pretty shitty, it's from Victoria and its got Hutchy on it, but it is a show produced to promote, discuss, preview and review footy in SA.

Now if Adelaide and Port get top billing, fair enough, they have over 100,000 members between them.

How long since any station has had a show completely dedicated to football in SA including AFL, SANFL, SAAFL, Country footy etc etc?

my point Mr Booney is how can people vote on players in matches that they haven't seen play ? i'd suggest they are either looking at the stats, papers or from friends that are actually going to the matches or a combination of all three....if they are serious let the coaches vote on it, after all they'll at least be at the matches every week......if Sundays show has been the same format all year then your answer to your question is sadly just a token gesture, granted they have ch 9 advertised on the back of the umpires shirts in the ''lower grades''

Chambo Off To Work We Go wrote:Those panelists I saw on it were;
Balme
James Fantasia
Dean Brogan
Sean Wellman
Simon Goodwin among others

All them based in Victoria where it is of course made.
Tredders probably the only contributor from SA.

It was ordinary and probably just Hutchy's attempt to capitalise on his would-be media empire. Hopefully it doesn't return.

James Fantasia was the other panelist I was thinking of. Fanta has a real feel for SANFL football he has good knowledge of our football. As much as he is a bit of a knob at times, Dwayne Russell could easily host the show. It needs a lot more polish if it returns next year, Have there been any ratings reports so far?

i wouldn't think Dwayne Russell would be leaving fox footy to host this show

Wouldnt need to leave fox to host the show. Many commentators cross over the different media outlets

true but isn't one of his jobs calling a Sunday match ? wouldn't have the time on some days to do it

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/craig-hutchisons-crocmedia-fined-for-ripping-off-uni-students/story-fni0fit3-1227201262532?nk=774223c4b0224c3f413186acaddb8b9b

Crocmedia in court in Victoria due to not correctly paying people involved in a production.

eartotheground wrote:http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/craig-hutchisons-crocmedia-fined-for-ripping-off-uni-students/story-fni0fit3-1227201262532?nk=774223c4b0224c3f413186acaddb8b9b

Crocmedia in court in Victoria due to not correctly paying people involved in a production.

so what happened in court ?

is this program being shown again in 2015 ?

From The Age

Crocmedia fined $24,000 for exploiting young workers
Date January 29, 2015

A media company run by prominent broadcaster and businessman Craig Hutchison has been penalised for illegally exploiting young workers.

In a significant test of how interns can be treated under industrial law, Crocmedia faced court action after the workplace watchdog found the company had grossly underpaid two workers tens of thousands of dollars.

The Federal Circuit Court on Thursday handed down fines of $24,000 against the Melbourne-based media company, which develops and sells radio, TV and online content.

A probe by the Fair Work Ombudsman revealed serious underpayments of two young people who approached Crocmedia seeking work experience in the industry.


For between six months to a year, the workers produced radio programs for the SEN network and routinely worked multiple weekly shifts, including the "graveyard" shifts from midnight to 6am.

Crocmedia classed the employees as "volunteers" and made reimbursement-for-expenses payments to them for each shift, but did not pay them any wages.

One of the producers was a 20-year-old sports journalism student when she started. The Ombudsman said she should have been paid nearly $6000 but was paid nothing. The other producer when he started was a 23-year-old recent graduate from a university journalism course, who was entitled to $16,400.

Fair Work inspectors told Crocmedia that because the pair had performed productive work for the company that was not a formal part of their university studies they were entitled to be paid minimum wages.

Crocmedia co-operated with the investigation and admitted breaching workplace laws. The company back-paid the two workers fully in 2013 and has now replaced all unpaid work positions with paid positions. It also agreed to back-pay more than $28,000 to a third worker who had been engaged as a "volunteer" radio producer.

The case is the latest example of what a recent report identified as a growing trend of employers improperly using internships and other forms of unpaid work experience. It said employees must be paid for work not linked with an educational or training program.

The Adelaide University report determined that the worst offenders in Australia were industries such as media, retail, hospitality and law.

Fair Work Ombudsman Natalie James said the watchdog launched legal proceedings against Crocmedia because of the strong public interest in deterring employers from underpaying young workers through unpaid work arrangements.

"When a worker moves beyond merely learning and observing and starts assisting with business outputs and productivity, workplace laws dictate that the worker must be paid minimum employee entitlements," Ms James said.

"We don't want to stifle genuine learning opportunities that help young people get a foot in the door but we also don't want to see young people being treated unfairly through unpaid work schemes ... we want to educate employers and workers about what genuine learning opportunities look like."

In his ruling, Judge Grant Riethmuller found that Crocmedia had engaged in an arrangement that it thought avoided the consequences of the minimum wages requirements.

"However, [Crocmedia] cannot avoid the proposition that it is, at best, dishonourable to profit from the work of volunteers and, at worst, exploitative," he said.

"I am not persuaded that [Crocmedia] engaged in a deliberate strategy to exploit the employees, although it is clear that [Crocmedia] was content to receive the benefits that flowed from the arrangement, and that the arrangement itself, when viewed objectively, was exploitative."

Interns Australia, which lobbies for the fair treatment of interns, said the ruling was an important step in ensuring greater protections for young and vulnerable job-seekers.

"While internships can provide valuable hands-on experience for students and job-seekers, the lack of provision in employment laws for interns and very high youth unemployment means that we are seeing more and more cases of interns working for free in positions when they should be paid a wage," group co-founder Colleen Chen said.  

Crocmedia has been approached for comment.

thanks Phil