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Yeah the main commentator, Pete Jolly, is predominantly a rugby league caller and newsreader. He's called the Newcastle RL this season for BarTV. The other commentator, Gareth Wasik, is a rugby bloke and calls the Newcastle comp. He also does standup comedy apparently.

I'm biased but Newcastle definitely needs to be part of discussion for future hosting rights of games like this. We got over 20k in the worst weather I've ever watched a game in against Scotland on a Tuesday night, and over 20k for the Lions vs Country last year, again on a Tuesday night. If it...

Link for the all-Sydney game this afternoon.

All of their other live streams have commentary, so I would expect so. Even if it doesn't, I've quite enjoyed being able to hear the ref's mic in the videos the ARU has posted.

Bar TV Sports, who have been streaming the Newcastle comp for the last two seasons and have started doing Subbies recently, will be streaming their first NRC game this weekend with the Rams vs Stars game. Hopefully the first of many games they cover.

That game was 1st vs 5th, two of the top clubs through the years. The standard is pretty good aside from the couple of bottom teams. The semis started this weekend, the 2v3 game was yesterday If you look on that youtube channel they have the live stream for today's 4v5 game at 3pm too.

Full replays and highlights going up on ARU youtube as we speak, only game not up there yet is the Country vs Rams game.

For those asking about Tom Carter, according to Rugby News he announced his immediate retirement after Uni's loss to Souths in the preliminary final. My two cents re: tight five development. The way I look at it is yes, the role of the scrum and lineout is diminished, but this comp gives these...

I quite like most of the teams kits but that referee kit is awful. It's a minor complaint but aside from the colour being ugly, it looks like an AFL umpire's shirt, needs a collar.

This would be a tough one to pick, I must say I've been awfully impressed with the refereeing in the SS this year. Especially that last penalty against Uni on the weekend ;)

I would imagine that there will need to be more yellow cards awarded for it to work. Interestingly, a couple of years ago Craig Joubert did a Q and A when he was in Newcastle for the Aus v Scotland test match and he said how he hated the ELV's for this reason - with the short arms there was not...

No disrespect intended to them, they get the job done most of the time, I just personally can't stand watching them.

Sharks' negative rugby doesn't get them to another final, happy days.

Ellis wanted to just deliberately knock on that advantage and take the shot before, thank god someone (I suspect Carter) over called him and caused the try. 19-6 and 21-6 are different ball games.

Ah well there you go. Bit of creative journalism to create the newspaper story up here. Apparently the Eagles were looking at him as well, not sure whether they pulled out of the race or not.

Story from the paper here was that his Waratahs contract that he got last year was only $400 a week and wasn't enough to live off in Sydney, he was signed to play with West Harbour but had to move back to Newcastle.

Newcastle-based streaming company BarTV did their first Subbies game yesterday - Mosman v Balmain. Watched most of it, was a cracking game, full game is at this link:

Former Auckland halfback now playing in the Newcastle comp Auvasa Falealii confirmed as a Ram in the Newcastle Herald yesterday. He impressed on the Tahs tour of Argentina last year and is hoping to get another Super contract.

I know that Country won't be playing a home game in Newcastle, the local union pulled out of the application process saying that it would be too costly to host a game apparently.

It might be my bad memory but I seem to recall a Parra vs Randwick TV game this year out at Granville?