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Manly v Wahs in 2011. One of the all time meh GFs, completely forgettable.
You do have a tendency to post some nonsensical garbage.
as i saids earlier perthwrongs has the internet at his disposal for all the info and instead of researching things he just comes out with cuck like thoughts and opinions. i doubt he even likes rugby league all he does is crap on anything positive.
Yes, kickoff was around 5:20pm during 2008-12.
Oh, I dont know about that.
Oh yeah. I forgot about that.
Channel 9 have always been up to crap like this. There are obviously some AFL foot soldiers in the sports department making the decision to promote the AFL grand final despite having the NRL rights. I’d also be surprised if, having read numerous pro AFL ratings reports from apparently “official” sources, the AFL didn’t have foot soldiers involved in these apparently unbiased reports. These ratings are the leverage to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in subsequent broadcast deals after all.Really? When did that happen?
The only thing close to that I recall was Panthers vs Tigers in Rd7, 2012.
Ch9 crammed in so many ads into the delayed broadcast of that game to the point where portions of the second half were edited out so that the broadcast could finish bang on 6pm. What a joke! You could clearly see it was a cut-and-paste job by the editors (e.g. one moment you're watching play in the 52nd minute, and then the coverage abruptly jumped to play in the 56th minute etc), as Ch9 knew they were running over-time and broadcasting the full game would've gone way past 6pm. Furthermore, I still remember that day Ray Hadley (filling in for Ray Warren) crapping on non-stop about how Rabs had gone down to the Logies in Melbourne to represent the NRL Footy Show (which they won).
The more embarrassing moment for Wide World of Delayed Sports was the Australia vs New Zealand 2008 RLWC test match at the old SFS. Channel 9's (delayed) broadcast began at 8:30pm. That's where everything went downhill. I couldn't believe how many ads Ch9 sprinkled throughout the match, so much so to the point where the Fox Sports' replay (which began an hour later at 9:30pm) actually finished earlier than the Channel 9 broadcast! ROFL! Fox's coverage of the game finished at 11pm, whereas the full-time whistle occurred at close to 11:30pm on Channel 9.
Don’t be dissin the 4n20 sausage rollers
It's so they can exclude however many African / Irish players from being included. Do people from those areas still play it? Last I knew (quite a number of years ago now) there were one or two floating around their game.
Fixed
It also shows just how Irish the game really is. All-Ireland is a sporting term in Ireland referring to the national team being made up of players from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Completely irrelevant term in an Australian context.
Not really. The term is used in other countries. All American can refer to the best college football players in the US for example.
