I was at the game and lost count of the penalties and "short arm" free kicks, so I watched the replay last night after The Reds game. The count was 20 or 21 for GPS against 11 for Souths plus I think there were 5 short arms against Souths. It was certainly frustrating for this young Souths team. They couldn't get any continuity of play. Certainly made great strides since last year when GPS won by nearly 50 points. The Magpies will trouble a number of sides this year.I think the televised games will take a few weeks for the Refs to adjust to.
I hope the Hoff will coach them that less is more.
Yesterday at GPS the ref was probably a bit overexcited so he felt that he needed to control it a bit more.
Mate jump on StanHow do you watch the replays on Stan? Having a look around now and can’t track them down.
They seemed to pull the plug and reboot the broadcast in the UQ v Brothers game yesterday .
The broadcast was terrible for about the first 20 minutes, then it all went blank for a bit like someone had turned the streaming off and once it came back on it was all fine.
Happy to give them some time to sort out the teething problems , but it will need to improve on the first 20 minutes that shown yesterday at St Lucia.
On a side note to that game , hats off to the UQ props , both played the full 80 in tough conditions against highly fancied opponents. I like probably many thought the UQ scrum would be going backwards all day , but that wasn’t the case . Sam Wallis scored off a tight head in the last 5 minutes of the game.
Brothers started with Ruan Smith and Harry Hoopert came off the bench . Massive effort from Davies and Richardson!
I thought the production was generally good with Stan - replays were frequent and the commentary was decent, although a bit bland.
The only way we will see improvement is from people actually tuning in and Stan realising it’s a product that people want. That will increase production value.
all games are commentated (single person) so not sure if there is a match of the round. Marty Lipiatt did UQ v Brothers. I think it was Dallan Murphy doing GPS? Didn't watch the others yet so not sure.
How do you watch the replays on Stan? Having a look around now and can’t track them down.
Totally agree and great to see two versions of highlights - love my club rugby!!!!
Commentators
Bond vs Norths = Jeremy Austin
Easts vs Sunnybank = Michael Chettle
UQ vs Brothers = Marty Lippiatt
GPS vs Souths = Dallan Murphy
(Don't know who the first two are)
I'm led to believe that Jaybor was not given a gig in the Stan Commentary team for QPR.
Jeremy Austin is a former Gold Coast Breakers centre. May have even played in the ARC (previous form of the NRC)
Jeremy Austin is a former Gold Coast Breakers centre. May have even played in the ARC (previous form of the NRC)
ARC, there's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
I would love to get some old team lists of the Ballymore Tornados and East Coast Ace's and see how many guys went on to bigger and better things. The comp only ran for one year didn't it? Or maybe two.