Buzz vs Weidler: Killing The Footy Show, Super League Wars & Industry Beefs! | The Journos
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What sparked the legendary rivalry between Danny Weidler and Buzz Rothfield?
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Welcome to Triple M NRL Daily here on a Wednesday. It's a very special edition of Triple M NRL Day because we have two legends in the house, two rivals in the house, the one and only Danny Wilder, the one and only Buzz Rothfield. How are we going, lads?
Good to be back, Charlie. I heard Buzz is taking over the Wednesday podcast. Did he declare that last week? He sacked you. He sacked
me. I didn't say that. I filled in for you. I'm still in retirement. You're doing some training course with Channel
9 and And I
don't want to dip too heavy into my super hits this day, so I've
agreed
to come
and take them. Mate, you'd have plenty. I don't, I don't. Mate, 50 years at News Corp, that'd be, mate, you'd be bringing our money bricks out of the
wall. I was a butler for too long, Dad.
Oh, okay, okay,
that's
fair. How did the video editing course go, Danny? Are you a video editor? I don't think the listeners
or the viewers really
care about how I went.
Look, how do you reckon I went, Charlie? Terribly. You've seen me on the phone, right? Yeah. You've seen me trying to work a computer. I write my entire column on my phone with my thumbs. Why
don't you use a laptop?
I don't like them. What do you mean? Well, I don't like technology and I don't like laptops. Because
that's handy in this
era. Yeah. So that's what I mean. I'm probably more of a dinosaur than you. And that's saying something. So I've spent two weeks learning how to do something and my bosses at nine will be very happy that I've forgotten everything that I learned, the small amounts that I did. So I'm in trouble. Yeah. It could be the end of me, Charlie. Yes.
Yes. We've come a long way from typewriters.
You have. Well, you've come a long way just personally, the two of you, to be sitting here in this room together. Charlie, before we
get into that, I've just got a text. Yes,
hit me. Now,
what time is this podcast? Comes out about two o'clock. Okay. So today, the Bank of South Pacific are going to be named as... The sponsors of the P&G Chiefs on the front of their jumpers.
Wow.
$5 million.
Wow.
A year. A year? Yep. That's what I've been told. Oh, jammies come good for you. Well, Lorna McPherson did the deal, apparently. She's a great operator. Yeah, so it's embargoed until a bit later on. What's a
normal front of jersey
sponsor? I think the Bears were trumpeting recently. I could be wrong. Curtis might be able to tell us, but $6 million for their whole jumper, and that was considered huge. That was considered
the
best in the game. Yeah, so $5 million just the front. That's going to set some clubs.
Mate, it's going to be so hard. Like a club like Cronulla with the Courier Company on the front, they're getting about a mil.
Yeah. The whole Jersey, they're getting more. But the Bulldogs even, someone like the Bulldogs with the Laundie. The Laundie family.
That'd be 1.5 max.
But that's max, right? Yeah. That's the front of their Jersey. And if P&G are getting five, they're not in the comp yet and they're already getting the money.
Yeah.
That's going to drive clubs nuts.
Now, what about how he's walked into this podcast and thought, I'm going to out-scoop him?
No, I just got a
text.
You saw me looking at my phone?
Well, I got a bit of mild too
later in the
show.
Drop it now. No,
I'm not going to drop it now. We've got a run sheet
here. No, I reckon drop it now, Buzz. You've got to be excused. But that's huge, though, for P&G. That's massive. It's
fantastic. And look, this is where the land is. It's so good. And with all this expansion.
Yeah.
He wanted new money in rugby
league and
this is new money. When the Dolphins came in, they didn't pinch any Broncos money. They put Kings on the front. They were the first time they'd ever been in rugby league. It's fantastic.
So imagine what their jump is going to be worth when they get everything done.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What sparked the legendary rivalry between Danny Weidler and Buzz Rothfield?
0:00–7:39
2
How do Danny and Buzz feel about modern technology and using laptops for journalism?
7:39–15:28
3
What is the PNG funding deal and how could it boost the NRL financially?
15:28–22:42
4
How did the Super League war impact their careers and the media landscape?
22:42–30:39
5
Why do they blame each other for the decline of The Footy Show?
30:39–38:09
6
What are their thoughts on the current coaching carousel – John Morris, Wayne Bennett and others?
38:09–46:58
7
How should the NRL approach expansion – new teams in New Zealand or Perth?
46:58–54:08
8
What are the final take‑aways and future plans for Buzz and Danny on The Journos?
54:08–1:00:44
Speakers
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