2022 RL & RLW World Cup

[oldmancraigy]

Waqa Blake missed out on Fiji squad.

Is he Injured or has a Fiji reliased what a liability he can be and left him out.

They had a training and were kicking some bombs around for fun
"What the heck is Waqa doing??"

So they simulated rucking it out from your own end
"Why does he keep dropping it? And why on earth can he not even play the ball without fumbling it?"

 

[the phantom menace]

Just realised that in Australia all of the RLWC are only available on f**ktel/Kayo - none on fre-to-air...

The UK (as you'd expect as hosts) get to see all games live on free to air.
Papua New Guinea even get to see every single match live on free-to-air.
New Zealand get to see their mens and womens matches on free-to-air.
France get to see their games (mens, womens and wheelchair) on free-to-air, along with the finals - France!

Yet in Australia, arguably the dominant country driving rugby league as a professional sport, we've signed our souls away and bent over to the highest bidder - thus limiting valuable exposure of our teams (mens, womens and wheelchair) to exclude those in the general population that don't or can't pay per view...

 

[Gary Gutful]

Just realised that in Australia all of the RLWC are only available on f**ktel/Kayo - none on fre-to-air...

The UK (as you'd expect as hosts) get to see all games live on free to air.
Papua New Guinea even get to see every single match live on free-to-air.
New Zealand get to see their mens and womens matches on free-to-air.
France get to see their games (mens, womens and wheelchair) on free-to-air, along with the finals - France!

Yet in Australia, arguably the dominant country driving rugby league as a professional sport, we've signed our souls away and bent over to the highest bidder - thus limiting valuable exposure of our teams (mens, womens and wheelchair) to exclude those in the general population that don't or can't pay per view...

Just buy Kayo you cheap bastard...

 

[Gary Gutful]

Numbering system shouldn't be f**ked with. I dont see any benefits.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Just realised that in Australia all of the RLWC are only available on f**ktel/Kayo - none on fre-to-air...

The UK (as you'd expect as hosts) get to see all games live on free to air.
Papua New Guinea even get to see every single match live on free-to-air.
New Zealand get to see their mens and womens matches on free-to-air.
France get to see their games (mens, womens and wheelchair) on free-to-air, along with the finals - France!

Yet in Australia, arguably the dominant country driving rugby league as a professional sport, we've signed our souls away and bent over to the highest bidder - thus limiting valuable exposure of our teams (mens, womens and wheelchair) to exclude those in the general population that don't or can't pay per view...

Well the last 2 World Cups have been on channel 7 and they shunted most of the games onto 7mate with pretty limited coverage as at the time Foxtel box didn't have access to that channel.

The 2013 World Cup Final wasn't even on the main channel 7 which was a joke tbh.

 

[the phantom menace]

Numbering system shouldn't be f**ked with. I dont see any benefits.

I'm fine with players having their number which stays consistent for the tournament - but at least number them 1-17 for your (expected) first choice team/bench and, then 18-24 for your extended squad players who might get a run in the minor games.

 

[the phantom menace]

Just buy Kayo you cheap bastard...

Maybe I'll see if I can do UK BBC iviewer via a VPN - as due to time difference I'll likely only be looking at replays after the event anyway.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Maybe I'll see if I can do UK BBC iviewer via a VPN - as due to time difference I'll likely only be looking at replays after the event anyway.

Kayo should have them all stored like they do with the NRL. I’ll just be watching replays.

 

[Gronk]

 

[Chipmunk]

Mitch not invited

 

[King-Gutho94]

Mitch not invited

Mitch is in debt with his partner over missing the birth.

I think Mitch will miss out on a lot of things for a little while.

 

[Chipmunk]

Mitch is in debt with his partner over missing the birth.

I think Mitch will miss out on a lot of things for a little while.

I'd say his salary compensates for everything.

I suspect if she was given the choice of her partner being at the birth of all of her children and earning $100k, or being at none of their births and earning $1m, that we know which option she will always take.

 

[Gronk]

I'd say his salary compensates for everything.

I suspect if she was given the choice of her partner being at the birth of all of her children and earning $100k, or being at none of their births and earning $1m, that we know which option she will always take.

OMG you are so cynical.

 

[the phantom menace]

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[Gronk]

 

[Twizzle]

storm in a teacup

 

[baggygreen man]

Has anyone noticed that Australia has not played a warm up game. Dead set you'd have figured that the IRL would've known that the last Kangaroo international was three years ago.. so a a warm up or two was a major priority.

 

[Gronk]

Has anyone noticed that Australia has not played a warm up game. Dead set you'd have figured that the IRL would've known that the last Kangaroo international was three years ago.. so a a warm up or two was a major priority.

I reckon playing Fiji will shake off the rust.

 

[Twizzle]

they just finished the NRL season, probably need a rest prior tot the WC

 

[Gary Gutful]

May well be the smartest thing he has said.