Broadcast options for Australian Rugby

[JRugby2]

The gritty stuff of seeing players go through the daily rigmarole gets viewers in. Something about single camera type scenes of the taxi driver talking about his side or a player struggling in physio is interesting. CA did it pretty well with Amazon I thought.

Watching Ellis Genge drive around his home town for me was just a bit too staged. I think people would rather just have them watch him work out and have a normal day.



It's why people have loved Hard Knocks in the NFL. It's one week behind so it's still news cycle worthy and you look forward to an episode because you've read the article but now want to see it play out.

Fine, I'll watch it again...

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

The fact Sunderland is likely going to be in the playoffs for Premier League promotion this year makes looking back on the early season of that show all the more fun when they are sliding into irrelevance.

 

[whitefalcon]

The closest thing I can point to is, about a decade, the then Greenedge Cycling (the Australian Pro Cycling team owned by Gerry Ryan) had a guy call Dan Jones film all the behind the scenes footage of the large cycling races (i.e. TDF/Giro/Vuelta) and he'd upload what happened that day. It was fantastic to watch every morning post stage and really brought you inside the team.

The backstage passes were lightning in a bottle.

He really showed the personalities behind the team and you felt like you were there with them.

I'm amazed more teams don't do this. Its effectively hiring one more backroom staff member to produce GOOD content that drives fan engagement.

Imagine if each team had something like this week by week during the season. Showing some of the week's training and feedback (without giving away tactics)

It needs to be longer format then IG etc though IMHO

Edit: im off to watch Hayman's Paris-Roubaix win episode