‘Sack them’: Fans mad after broadcast fail

Rock legends KISS took to the stage before the game kicked off between Collingwood Magpies and the Brisbane Lions at 2.30pm on Saturday at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

The Rock band pumped up the crowd with their classic 1975 track, “Rock and Roll All Nite” featuring pyrotechnics, and hundreds of dancers donning the iconic black and white face paint and wagging their tongues in tune with the act.

As the final guitar solo sung out over the stadium, the crowd crept to their edge of their seats as lead singer Paul Stanley started to swing his guitar overhead.

The rocker was gearing up to smash the guitar on the stage, amping the crowd up with each swing.

The atmosphere was electric at the ‘G’ with the camera sweeping over the stage as dozens of flame jets shot up into the air.

Though just as Stanley was about to pound the guitar into the stage, the live broadcast switched to an aerial shot of the stadium – completely missing the show’s climax.

The next time the camera panned to him, he was holding the jagged edged neck in one hand.

Outraged by the slip up, fans turned to social media to blast the broadcaster for missing the key moment of the performance.

“Sack the producer in the studio who missed the crucial moment of the guitar smash,” one user wrote in a post to X, formerly known as Twitter.

“Guitar smash would have been nice to see! Well done Channel 7. Great for the fans at home,” another said. 

In the lead up to the grand final weekend, AFL fans have been divided over whether the rockers, aged in their seventies, are the right fit for the grand final show.

However, Stanley assured PerthNow that the show would be “bombastic”.

“We will have a no-fly zone over the stadium because we are going to blow a lot of stuff up,” he said on Thursday.

“Subtlety is not our strong suit.”

So far, the reaction has been largely positive from those who caught the pre-game show.

“More energy than most people half their age. Well Done!,” one person posted to X.

“Not quite Robbie Williams standard but 100 times better than Meatloaf,” another said.

“Just have KISS at every #AFLGrandFinal from now on ….. #AFLGF,” a third wrote.

KISS were a last minute ring-in to play the grand final after Australian rock band Crowded House pulled out a month out from the event.

Originally published as Channel 7 slammed for missing key moment of pre-game performance during AFL grand final broadcast