Johns to appear on Sunday Roast
The Nine Network plans to have Andrew Johns appear on Sunday Roast and an NRL match telecast, despite his admission of a racial slur.
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The Nine Network plans to have Andrew Johns appear on Sunday Roast and an NRL match telecast, but denies he was ever part of the State of Origin commentary team.
Nine is so far standing by Johns following his admission of a racial slur against Queensland’s Greg Inglis.
Johns described Inglis and Israel Folau as ”black c—s”. Johns is alleged to have also referred to Aboriginal and Polynesian players by other racist terms.
Johns stepped down from his role as New South Wales assistant coach on Saturday, hours after it was revealed that star winger Timana Tahu had walked out on the Blues’ camp in Kingscliff.
The racism furore took another bizarre twist when the NRL Indigenous Council board member said that ahu’s family had supposedly revealed that Johns’ drunken comments during a Blues bonding session were far worse than first thought.
The controversy has cost Johns his role as a newspaper columnist with News Ltd.
But there are calls for Channel Nine and clubs Parramatta and Newcastle to sack him from commentary and coaching roles. Both Nine and Triple M yesterday acknowledged Johns’s apology as the reason to support him.
Parramatta will decide in the next 48 hours whether to continue with him as a coaching consultant.
A Nine spokesperson has previously said of Johns’ broadside, “His comments were unacceptable, fullstop. Andrew knows that, and is plainly remorseful about the incident. Accordingly he has offered his sincere apology to Tahu, the public and Channel 9. We accept that genuine apology.”
Source: smh.com.au, Courier Mail, ABC, Herald Sun
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I like the idea of “The Johns’ Brothers” show. They can sit and discuss with a panel all the things that they have gotten away with….things that, in the real world of everyday people, would have either gotten them fired or jail time.
Someone like Andrew Johns (especially) is in a position as a supposed (legend) to be a role model for all the players,fans & respective families.
There is no excuse for what he said.This is not rascism,this is typical macho boganism that unfortaunetly still exsist.
I am not perfect either but i have seen AJ in action after a night out & have spoken with him personally & am not suprised at this meathead attitude.Bi polar my a**e!
As for his brother,he is part of that culture too but i suspect to a lesser extent which i believe shows in his personality,where as AJ just comes across as a d***.
Yeah come on Seven where are you? You’ve already signed up Sandilands and Matty Johns, time for your next big hit. Nice family channel you turned out to be. But I suppose with the racism you have shown in the past with your stories on TT and Border Security etc. and the more recent homophobia by outing a certain NSW MP, it really wouldn’t surprise me.
Yeah come on Seven where are you? You’ve already signed up Sandilands and Matty Johns, time for your next big hit. Nice family channel you turned out to be.
Nick I agree.
And don’t forget that Abbott will also bring Kevin Andrews, Christopher Pyne, Bill Heffernan, Julie Bishop and all of the gang back as well.
And to end on a tv-related note, as mentioned by several contributors, Nine will continue to try and protect Johns due to the well-founded fear that he would also move over to his awful brother’s show on Seven.
If Nine drop him I have no doubt that Seven would sign him up in a heartbeat.
“The Matty Johns show” will become “The Johns Brothers”.
Well done News Limited! Taking a stand.
Even the most bogan oriented tabloid in the country dumped him, but Nine keeps him on.
And later this year we’ll have Tony Abbott as Prime Minister! What a country we live in!
I have never played in top flight NRL but having worked in numerous workplaces, one of the things you are trained in is harassment and that it can not take part in the workplace whether you’re doing actual business or having after work drinks, you are still in a work environment.
Here was a man senior to another in responsibility speaking in possibly racial terms to another colleague of a man who overheard it and was offended.
In any workplace in Australia that is not allowed. I don’t think people should be saying that just because it is a footy team or because this is allegedly the best player ever that it should be allowed or the player who overheard should “toughen up”.
good, get rid of him. ironic that it happened at a team bonding session eh?
Birddoggy: Channel 7 will probably pick him up – to co-host that horrific NRL show with his brother.
Of course he wasn’t a part of the SOO team, his role in the NSW squad was as a “runner” – taking drinks to the players and acting as a behind the play scout to direct the team. Pretty hard to commentate whilst doing that!
Will be interesting to see him on the Roast! Look forward to it!
He’s apologised and the media need to move on!
Well of course he wasn’t part of the State of Origin commentary team. He’s the NSW assistant coach and last match he spend most of the 80 minutes on the field as the ‘trainer’ – running waterbottles and giving advice to the players. You can’t commentate doing that. Actually, I guess you could but the overheard language from the players (and maybe Joey!) would be awful and he’d be out of breath the whole time.
Nine have a tough decision: Either retain him, or sack him, and see him look to his brother at 7 for a job, and really hit it home, that the Matty Johns Show is here to stay, while killing the NRL Footy Show (with the idea of a major contributor jumping ship, to 7 a tangible concept) at the same time.
Stunned that Seven hasn’t picked him up for a show yet.
So Johns is the first person to get drunk and say something stupid they regret (or maybe he doesn’t really regret it?)?
I remember a really good frontline episode: Give ’em Enough Rope!