The Ghost of Raelene
Simon Poidevin (60)
I’d say just another job/looking after any future movements. He’s alright on TV but can’t imagine it’s a great living if it’s your full time gig being mainly a streaming service.
6N rights are all over the place, depends on who is at home to who has the rights. In Ireland games are shown on FTA while the UK it's behind a paywall I think at the moment.Netflix really? I thought Amazon has the streaming rights after the private equity deal went through
The golf one trailer looks pretty goodYeh these sports ‘inside the team’ docos definitely seem to be the flavour of the month.
Drive to Survive I think is the bench mark, The Test (cricket) is quite good. I haven’t got around to it yet but have heard the tennis one is a bit meh so far.
I think that might come down to the depth of what can be revealed in F1. Tennis is, at the end of the day, a guy or girl with a stick against a guy or girl with a stick. A ball is also involved. A Tennis player's personality is also usually pretty self evident.The Tennis one (Break Point) hasn't really done it for me but I'm not a big fan of Tennis. Having said that I was never into Motor Sport, and I thought Drive to Survive is great.
Yep streaming services need more content to survive, like it lump it in NZ we have Sky (NZ version of foxtel) and I can watch almost every major sporting even on it, which keeps me using it. On a wet day I can just sit here and watch rugby, soccer, cricket, golf,darts, league (never happens though) NBL,NFL,NHL etc. So while understand how good Stan is etc I do think streaming services have to do similar, and need a good range if they want to survive. We had Spark try and do it with NZ cricket ,and very little else it seems. I hooked onto them for a month when women's rugby WC was on , bit like many just for the month. They need to hold us longer than that.I think it’s a positive that the platform won’t be shit canned in the near future.
Literally called EDDIE. I've found it on apple and spotify. First one was last week, 2nd one came out yesterday I think. Only about 20-30 minutes and his most interesting stuff is analysing the 6 nations teams (so far).What Podcast is this mate?
What Podcast is this mate?
Loving Eddie's podcast, 2nd one more interesting. Would be great if he kept it going through out the RWC.
Makes me think of how good it was when Cheika commentated a bit. Their knowledge puts the regular commentators to shame. He even ripped into one of the English commentators, saying their understanding of the game is from the '80s. Described France as a great counterattacking team when in actuality they boot every single ball back.
Good insight into refs' influence on the game too. Says if Ireland v France have an english ref then that suits Ireland as they don't referee the contest too hard (except Barnes apparently, who does it more even handedly which could favour the French).
On the other side of the match day experience, broadcaster Stan is also working to make Super Rugby more exciting, with more in-game access to players and coaches. Purists don’t like the halftime interview, where a presenter tries to extract fresh insights from an exhausted player as they trudge off the field. They might like the Hot Seat, though, which uses the same concept to quiz a substituted player about what the game feels like for those out there in the heat of battle.
I get why they think stuff like this is good but it's during a game, and no player is giving anything insightful that could be potentially used against them. It's just going to be more cliche stuff.Stan introducing the "Hot Seat' in 2023: