Australian Rugby / RA

[Dctarget]

6:45am is a bastard time to get the Saffas up to watch the Bokke

5am is worse to get us up to watch us play the Pumas, twice.

Weirdly specific time to play, 4pm local. Why not 8pm local and it's 9am for Australia. Estúpido.

 

[KentwellCup>ShuteShield]

Why are they playing games at Accor

 

[Strewthcobber]

Why are they playing games at Accor

Presumably, they are hoping to sell more than 42,500 tickets to a Bledisloe

 

[Adam84]

The Rugby Championship kick-off times announced.

Some interesting choices made here....

(Thanks to Paul Cully and Christy Doran on twitter)
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All home Wallabies matches are designed to fit around the Saturday NRL Match on Nine it seems

 

[Strewthcobber]

All home Wallabies matches are designed to fit around the Saturday NRL Match on Nine it seems

The Brisbane SA game would be up against St George v Bulldogs on Sat night

This is so depressing

 

[PhilClinton]

I mentioned in another thread but Nine don’t have any NRL games on a Saturday during the season.

If, however, these times are being influenced at all by Nines NRL overlords that is pretty fucked.

The Suncorp match literally clashes with the final round of club rugby in QLD and NSW.

Are RA hoping to have those games played earlier in the day or at night? Surely something has to change there.

 

[Strewthcobber]

I mentioned in another thread but Nine don’t have any NRL games on a Saturday during the season.

If, however, these times are being influenced at all by Nines NRL overlords that is pretty fucked.

The Suncorp match literally clashes with the final round of club rugby in QLD and NSW.

Are RA hoping to have those games played earlier in the day or at night? Surely something has to change there.

Nine has Saturday night games during the end of the season. Something like the last 5 rounds of the year + finals

 

[PhilClinton]

Nine has Saturday night games during the end of the season. Something like the last 5 rounds of the year + finals

I knew they picked up a few more but on the official NRL website all the Saturday games are still listed as only on Kayo and Foxtel.

Anyway if you are right that is decent middle finger to everyone who reckons Nine is miles ahead of the way Fox treated rugby.

A Wallabies test match in a rugby city doesn’t even get precedence over a Sydney derby regular season NRL game?

 

[Derpus]

I knew they picked up a few more but on the official NRL website all the Saturday games are still listed as only on Kayo and Foxtel.

Anyway if you are right that is decent middle finger to everyone who reckons Nine is miles ahead of the way Fox treated rugby.

A Wallabies test match in a rugby city doesn’t even get precedence over a Sydney derby regular season NRL game?

It doesn't make a lot of sense. Wallabies would still draw a much bigger TV audience.

 

[Strewthcobber]

I knew they picked up a few more but on the official NRL website all the Saturday games are still listed as only on Kayo and Foxtel.

Anyway if you are right that is decent middle finger to everyone who reckons Nine is miles ahead of the way Fox treated rugby.

A Wallabies test match in a rugby city doesn’t even get precedence over a Sydney derby regular season NRL game?

 

[PhilClinton]

Well colour me blue and white and call me a doggies fan. I’m sure that wasn’t there two hours ago.

 

[PhilClinton]

It doesn't make a lot of sense. Wallabies would still draw a much bigger TV audience.

And I’m guessing they aren’t going with a 5.30 kickoff because it clashes with the Broncos.

 

[SouthernX]

Always thought the nrl schedule was dynamic where they lock in the time of the games for round 2 midway in the season.

I don’t expect that broncos game to be at 530pm but we will see

 

[KOB1987]

That game v SAF was announced as a 3:45pm kick off back in February - I'm not sure which release is out by an hour. I think it's more about PhilW wanting arvo games than what the NRL are doing. A bit of Column A and Column B as PhilC said elsewhere.

 

[Adam84]

I mentioned in another thread but Nine don’t have any NRL games on a Saturday during the season.

If, however, these times are being influenced at all by Nines NRL overlords that is pretty fucked.

The Suncorp match literally clashes with the final round of club rugby in QLD and NSW.

Are RA hoping to have those games played earlier in the day or at night? Surely something has to change there.

Mentioned it in the other thread, but this is incorrect.
Nine has NRL FTA games on Sat night in the last 5 rounds of the season leading into the finals, been like that for last 6 years.

 

[Slim 293]

I knew they picked up a few more but on the official NRL website all the Saturday games are still listed as only on Kayo and Foxtel.

Anyway if you are right that is decent middle finger to everyone who reckons Nine is miles ahead of the way Fox treated rugby.

A Wallabies test match in a rugby city doesn’t even get precedence over a Sydney derby regular season NRL game?

Not really, considering Fox Sports didn’t always carry all of the Wallabies’ tests in its later years…

 

[Adam84]

The Brisbane SA game would be up against St George v Bulldogs on Sat night

This is so depressing

Why would Nine want their products up against each other though

 

[Slim 293]

Also, this is would have been RA’s decision.

But it’s not surprising that Nine would preference an NRL game for their prime time slot.

 

[PhilClinton]

Also, this is would have been RA’s decision.

But it’s not surprising that Nine would preference an NRL game for their prime time slot.

Is it a true reflection of our game that the two teams who finished 15th & 16th in the NRL last year get preferential treatment over the Wallabies.

Woweeee.

 

[Adam84]

Are people just realising this now..

It already happened a couple of years ago, Wallabies were bumped onto NineGEM in Sydney and Brisbane because NRL regular season was on Sat FTA