Fox League Bosses Mandate That Any Future NRL360 Hosts Must Be Able To Hold Their Piss

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT

Australia’s leading TV programme for the very best in rugby league and gossip, NRL360 is once again looking to fill a seat.

This comes after yet another NRL pundit ends up handcuffs as a result of extremely hard living. This marks two high profile sports journos that Fox League has had to sack in as many years, leaving the network scrambling to find replacements for their popular TV panel show.

The bosses as Fox League say it’s difficult to fill these roles, as they need to find media personalities that are willing to let their careers be defined by offering firebrand opinions about the state of the game, but also need to lead a life that is respectable enough that they don’t ever get accused of being hypocrites.

In the world of sports media, this is a difficult task.

The last man standing at NRL360, Braith Anasta, is an outlier. As a rugby league commentator that previously played NRL for nearly two decades – Anasta was able to purge all of the hard partying out of his system well before he landed a high-paying salary as a sports media pundit.

The actual journalists who find themselves in these roles appear to by afflicted by their desire to be ‘one of the boys’ – and only start behaving like footballers when they have the disposable incomes to do so, in their 40s and 50s.

However, Fox League has decided that they cannot keep damaging their brand with these late bloomer culture war types, and have since mandated that all future NRL30 hosts must have a proven track record of being able to handle their piss.

The decision from Fox Sports to only hire well-decorated grog monsters is effective immediately, with network’s managing director Steve Crawley confirming the new criteria in an offical statement yesterday.

“We need to stop plucking these sideline journos out of obscurity and giving them a big head. We’ve seen what happens when we do that too many times”

“I think Braith Anasta and Gorden Tallis is a good example of the talent we need to be procuring moving forward. These blokes don’t have as much to prove – and actually know a lot more about the game than some pencil pushers that have spent their careers chasing ambulances”

It is not yet known which seasoned boozehounds will be employed next to sit on the panel, but Crawley says the likes of Willie Mason and Brent Tate have proven that they can survive premiership Mad Mondays without ending up in jail cells.

“Brent Tate played half his career with a broken neck. And Willie, well he’s survived just about everything that we’ve thrown at him over the years”

“Really, all it comes down to is that these blokes need to use the cab charges we give them”