When TFS first started, I would have been in Year 10, and it was a good concept/show, and for me helped extend the footy week by a night, and get me ready for the weekend ahead (and this was pre internet, well the wide use of it, and so it was our main up to date news for footy. It was pretty much essential viewing.
I think i stopped watching in about 2000 when the show had just descended into the panelists wearing dresses to do mock ads, and it had become a poor sketch comedy show (Mahatma I think was gone by then?), as if it was trying to replicate the AFL footy show, which had to resort to this stuff as it didn't have the TV rights to even show footage until about 2002. Super League was didn't help its descent either IMO. I didn't mind a bit of pizzaz, but, by and large, I just wanted to her about footy, and so turned my attention to the Sunday show instead.
Whenever I saw Sterlo having to say "yeah yeah"m or play a schoolgirl in a yogurt ad pisstake, I almost felt sorry for him. Despite playing for Parra, he was a player I always admired and respected.
