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If I was running the AFL footy show, here's how I would organise the show:
* Start at 9.30, end at 11.00. This gives about 72 minutes of running time. Allowing for sponsor commitments, opening and closing credits and other such necessities, this would result in about 65 minutes of usable time.
* Allow 3 minutes for Almost Footy Legends.
* Allow 4 minutes for Sam's Mailbag.
* Allow 3 minutes for Street Talk.
* Allow 5 minutes for Sam's Tirade About The Issue Of The Week.
* Allow 10 minutes to discuss the major football issues of the week.
* Axe everything else. No Eurovision song contests, no bad sketch comedy, no footage of Crawf's operation. If it's not football, axe it.
This leaves 40 minutes. This would be roughly 2+1/2 minutes per club. This time should be split up as evenly as possible, but it's permissible to give clubs that are not playing that week less time. If all clubs were playing, this would be perhaps a mandatory two minutes per club, with an extra 8 minutes left over for interviews with specific players and coaches.
* The matches of the round should be presented in a random order. None of this rubbish like putting the Swans game last, and then running overtime so there's no time to discuss the Swans' news at all.
* Club news should mostly be discussed when that club's team is presented. Remember, there's a two minute minimum per club.
* For clubs that are not playing, due to a split round or finals, their news should be discussed as well, but it's okay to allocate less time. These could be done in a separate segment called "Club news".
* Start at 9.30, end at 11.00. This gives about 72 minutes of running time. Allowing for sponsor commitments, opening and closing credits and other such necessities, this would result in about 65 minutes of usable time.
* Allow 3 minutes for Almost Footy Legends.
* Allow 4 minutes for Sam's Mailbag.
* Allow 3 minutes for Street Talk.
* Allow 5 minutes for Sam's Tirade About The Issue Of The Week.
* Allow 10 minutes to discuss the major football issues of the week.
* Axe everything else. No Eurovision song contests, no bad sketch comedy, no footage of Crawf's operation. If it's not football, axe it.
This leaves 40 minutes. This would be roughly 2+1/2 minutes per club. This time should be split up as evenly as possible, but it's permissible to give clubs that are not playing that week less time. If all clubs were playing, this would be perhaps a mandatory two minutes per club, with an extra 8 minutes left over for interviews with specific players and coaches.
* The matches of the round should be presented in a random order. None of this rubbish like putting the Swans game last, and then running overtime so there's no time to discuss the Swans' news at all.
* Club news should mostly be discussed when that club's team is presented. Remember, there's a two minute minimum per club.
* For clubs that are not playing, due to a split round or finals, their news should be discussed as well, but it's okay to allocate less time. These could be done in a separate segment called "Club news".
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