Safe to watch AFL360 on a Monday again

[kosifantutti]

I’m not a Richo basher but I just could not watch him when we were playing so poorly last year.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/sai ... 50w38.html

In a year that will determine whether he continues as coach of the Saints, Alan Richardson has chosen to give up his weekly appearances on AFL 360, the flagship program of Fox Footy.

[stonecold]

Shame it didn't work out, club could use the exposure, good, bad or otherwise!!!!!

Right call all the same!!!!!

[Impatient Sainter]

I’m not a Richo basher but I just could not watch him when we were playing so poorly last year.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/sai ... 50w38.html

In a year that will determine whether he continues as coach of the Saints, Alan Richardson has chosen to give up his weekly appearances on AFL 360, the flagship program of Fox Footy.

Couldn't be happier means I can watch each night again. Richo was nothing but embarrassment to the club on the show!

[Yorkeys]

So some casting notes: replacement has to be from a Melb. based side. Buckley, Clarkson and Hardwick can't stand either host. Bolton makes AR look charismatic; Woosha dislikes media and too savvy to put himself in a position to be quizzed about performance enhancing drugs regimes (Essendon and W. Coast); Bevo highly emotional so possibly loose cannon when Robbo waxes shmaltzy crap; having twins on might be too cute and a little unsettling for viewers new to the game; has to be Simon Goodwin. Ring him and ask if he would be ok with Robbo asking him every week about the flogging the Dees got in Perth to miss the GF. As a fall back how about getting Guy McKenna and Brendon McCartney on as a former coaches panel and ask them to regularly pay out on Blight and their former charges as well as discuss how it feels to build a premiership list only to be booted. Or we could ask Alan to reconsider on the promise we won't use the S word and live the magnificent journey the Saints are on in the Year of the Pig.

[WellardSaint]

Oh thank you to whoever at the club told him to stop!!

[Premium89]

Love 360, Richo was hard to watch, BUT because he and roo were both on there, saints always got a decent run of coverage.

Wondering if this will affect the coverage we get there? Though if nick and bob continue we’ll still get a bit of saints focus there.

[skeptic]

Haven’t heard a single negative response to this decision btw here, FB and BF

[Cairnsman]

Oh thank you to whoever at the club told him to stop!!

I think you'll find it was the other way around, Alan is allocated tasks like you are allocated task by your boss, I'm assuming you have an employer so apologies if you are self made, but you get my point, some tasks are carried out gleefully, some not so much, mostly because it doesn't play to your strength. He's on the record as saying he performs tasks like certain media because the CEO requires him to, something about it's the modern world we live in blah blah blah. Fair enough.

Alan is not the only coach that would love to just focus on football and is not a natural media performer.

[Aussie Jonestown]

Alan is not the only coach that would love to just focus on football and is not a natural media performer.

He's not a natural coach either!

[The_Dud]

Alan Richardson has chosen to give up his weekly appearances on AFL 360

“Chosen to give up”, yeah, sure, ok...

[Jacks Back]

Thank heavens for that. Is Ratten available?

[SaintPav]

When Richo was on it should have been called AFL 180

[tedtheodorelogan2018]

Foxtel...seriously...

[The Fireman]

When Richo was on it should have been called AFL 180

very good

[samuraisaint]

I never watched it anyway. Absolute drivel.

[Sanctorum]

I am really happy that AR is not going to continue his gig on AFL360 for several reasons, and I don't believe that his weekly appearance on Fox Footy did much to enhance the image of the club. Nick Riewoldt, on the other hand, does as he is a consummate TV personality.

It often appeared to me that Richo was not very comfortable in the live on-air TV role and especially after the team was badly beaten he showed signs of discomfort if not stress having to face inevitable questioning by Whateley and Robinson, which is what they are paid to do!

Secondly, I would expect that after a loss AR would have had at the back of his mind on Mondays when he was leading the players through the post-mortem, thoughts about how he would handle that night's travails on Fox Footy. This would have been a distraction that he could certainly do without, and so now he can be far more relaxed on Mondays, dealing with an aspect of his role as senior coach that is quite crucial in planning for the next game.

[saintspremiers]

He was as boring as batshyte to watch on 360 and don’t help in the cause of getting him sacked earlier so I see no benefit in him staying on the show

[Sombersainter]

Without doubt, Richo is one of the most boring commentators on football in the media.
if you can stomach the 'significantly pleasing" and the waterfall of cliches, the weekly 'the boys are really feeling it
and will really focus next week and you'll see some changes' is intolerable, especially when none of that happened.