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Foxtel IQ is your friend, it is on ESPN (and already planned for recording)
Sun 7 Feb, 3:00 pm. Ireland vs. Italy.
Sun 7 Feb, 5:00 pm. England vs. Wales.
Mon 8 Feb, 4:30 pm Scotland vs. France.
With the IQ registered you can search the online guide, and from there, tell your IQ to record the stuff
Sun 7 Feb, 3:00 pm. Ireland vs. Italy.
Sun 7 Feb, 5:00 pm. England vs. Wales.
Mon 8 Feb, 4:30 pm Scotland vs. France.
With the IQ registered you can search the online guide, and from there, tell your IQ to record the stuff
TheRiddler
Dave Cowper (27)
Even better its scheduled on ESPN HD - hopefully it will be an actual HD broadcast rather than an SD broadcast on their HD channel.
MrTimms
Ken Catchpole (46)
rsea said:
Fully agree with this, they didn't charge more when they started showing colour over B&W, so why charge more for HD over SD.
It isn't like you get to see a better game watching it in HD.
At least FS1, 2 & 3 show the same things at the same time for the most part now.
Lee Grant
John Eales (66)
At least now you don't have to subscribe to Setanta to watch it in Oz. My son was sick of my showing up at his joint to watch the games before he got up on Sunday morning.
And it saves on your ISP "allowance" for the month if you used to watch it by alternative means. I just hope they don't have that American dickhead on ESPN warming us up before the game.
And it saves on your ISP "allowance" for the month if you used to watch it by alternative means. I just hope they don't have that American dickhead on ESPN warming us up before the game.
en_force_er
Geoff Shaw (53)
Lee Grant said:
Oh no he didn't; Oh yes he did.
TheRiddler
Dave Cowper (27)
Lee Grant said:
I wouldnt bet on it. I find the chap quite infuriating and have no idea why ESPN dont just cut straight to the SkySports/BBC coverage and audio. The ESPN guy provides absolutely no value and you would imagine is a cost overhead to them. Why not let us listen to the ruminations of Guscott, Greenwood, Moore et al (you may notice I didnt mention Barnes!!)
On the Setanta coverage, I am also struggling to work out why they dont take the complete live-to-air feed. There are often occasions where the commentators will refer to a piece of footage that is obviously being replayed or Scott Quinell will do his analysis piece and we dont get to see the vision.
The overall coverage of rugby on Australian TV is pretty woeful. Given the large amount of content that is produced in the UK for all the SkySposrts channels, you would have though a lot more would be shown here. Surely it wouldnt cost that much more to the local broadcasters to add on a few more games per week to their existing contract?
Rant over. As they would say on ESPN, lets get down to the pitch for all your play by play action!!
Lee Grant
John Eales (66)
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
And on a replay commented on by him " and Bloggs has the ball and is off to the races...."
Guscott and Greenwood are good value. I especially like Guscott who cuts to the chase and is not too concerned if he ruffles a few feathers.
I used to hate Barnes, especially in England's days of pomp, when he seemed to strut at the microphone and his mate Harrison brayed obeisance; but I enjoy them now. Barnes is very good at giving one sentence summaries of what is happening and there aren't too many better at explaining backline tactics.
But I wish Barnes and other commentators would give some credit to backs coach Gaffney when praising the Leinster backs. Those moves they make are pure Randwick passed onto him by Dwyer who got them from old Cyril Towers from the famous Tah 1928 team.
And on a replay commented on by him " and Bloggs has the ball and is off to the races...."
Guscott and Greenwood are good value. I especially like Guscott who cuts to the chase and is not too concerned if he ruffles a few feathers.
I used to hate Barnes, especially in England's days of pomp, when he seemed to strut at the microphone and his mate Harrison brayed obeisance; but I enjoy them now. Barnes is very good at giving one sentence summaries of what is happening and there aren't too many better at explaining backline tactics.
But I wish Barnes and other commentators would give some credit to backs coach Gaffney when praising the Leinster backs. Those moves they make are pure Randwick passed onto him by Dwyer who got them from old Cyril Towers from the famous Tah 1928 team.
rsea
Darby Loudon (17)
I just spoke with Foxtel about different content being offered on ESPN HD. Their response is they have no control over ESPN programming which I accept. What I don't accept is that Foxtel are aware there Sports package subscribers are being short changed but refuse to do anything about it.
Surprisingly, no-one's mentioned Dewi-fucktard-Morris. He seems to have been relegated to the pitch-side idiot who Sky avoid going to, except to laugh at. I'm now assuming he pays them to let him hang around. The funniest/most pathetic thing is on "The Rugby Club" magazine show where he looks like someone's just asked him to write a proof of quantum theory when he steps up to the chalkboard.
Dewi - dickhead front right
Dewi - dickhead front right
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PhucNgo
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Lee Grant said:
Yep. Gotta agree. Watched Leincester the other night, PURE Randwick; support the ball carrier. What about that O'Driscoll try 'eh what a way to score your fiftieth? (BTW disclosure of interest. I was taught 5/8 by Cyril's son Tommy, a class gentleman.)
Lee Grant
John Eales (66)
No, Gaffney coached Randwick after Dywer. Gaff would be in his early 60s now and Bob in his late 60s.
Towers, the grandfather of Wallaby Pat Howard, was an interesting character. I don't know that he was ever the official coach of Randwick but he was definitely the guru that the coaches deferred to at the club.
That 1928 Tahs team I mentioned that went on tour of Britain was really the Wallabies team, and caps were awarded retrospectively to the players. This was because Australian rugby shut down at the start of WWI, unlike rugby league, and Queensland didn't start up again until the following year.
Johnny Wallace (who deserves a book on his life) was the skipper of the Tahs 1928 team and he and Towers got the team to use some of the current Randwick moves, cooked up by Wally Meagher and others. Towers played many games for the Wallabies after that and was in the NSW team (coached by Wallace) that beat the Springboks in 1937.
But I digress.
Dwyer knew nothing about back moves being a knockabout flanker who played as many games out of 1st grade as in it, but Towers passed the knowledge onto him when Dwyer became a Randwick coach. Then one day he got Dwyer to go to this Joeys warm up game against Matraville High, who ended up beating the famous rugby school.
Three brothers played for Matraville High in that game, as Towers knew, and soon Dwyer was around at their place to talk to their mum, Mrs Ella, to sign them up for the club. The Towers plan and the Ellas magic turned out to be a good mix.
Gaffney took over that legacy and now it is at Leinster - not that they wouldn't have a few moves without him with the players they have.
Towers, the grandfather of Wallaby Pat Howard, was an interesting character. I don't know that he was ever the official coach of Randwick but he was definitely the guru that the coaches deferred to at the club.
That 1928 Tahs team I mentioned that went on tour of Britain was really the Wallabies team, and caps were awarded retrospectively to the players. This was because Australian rugby shut down at the start of WWI, unlike rugby league, and Queensland didn't start up again until the following year.
Johnny Wallace (who deserves a book on his life) was the skipper of the Tahs 1928 team and he and Towers got the team to use some of the current Randwick moves, cooked up by Wally Meagher and others. Towers played many games for the Wallabies after that and was in the NSW team (coached by Wallace) that beat the Springboks in 1937.
But I digress.
Dwyer knew nothing about back moves being a knockabout flanker who played as many games out of 1st grade as in it, but Towers passed the knowledge onto him when Dwyer became a Randwick coach. Then one day he got Dwyer to go to this Joeys warm up game against Matraville High, who ended up beating the famous rugby school.
Three brothers played for Matraville High in that game, as Towers knew, and soon Dwyer was around at their place to talk to their mum, Mrs Ella, to sign them up for the club. The Towers plan and the Ellas magic turned out to be a good mix.
Gaffney took over that legacy and now it is at Leinster - not that they wouldn't have a few moves without him with the players they have.
TheRiddler
Dave Cowper (27)
Gagger said:
Surely not as bad as Kafer on the Aussie version?
The Rugby Club is one show that I wish was shown locally. Surely its cheap as chips to produce and therefore the Aussie rights to it wouldnt be that much? Must admit I havent tried to find it on the interweb thingy - is it available?
J
Jeffrey Calder
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Yes, but at least I could subscribe briefly to Setanta last year for the games. ESPN is not in my (elderly) package and I'd have to sign up to a new, more expensive deal for 2 years to get it. I can't rock up on my old man's doorstep to watch it (19000 km away) but at least he'll burn them down and post them off for me (although after 10 years of this he might be getting a bit bored of it...).
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