Opening Ceremony Disgrace

[saintrommel]

Why have an opening ceremony after 2 games have already been played:crazy:
Disrespectful to all the other nations as this is the WORLD CUP.
And to show only clips of just Australia scoring tries is crap?
It's not the Australia Cup but the WORLD CUP?

The only sport in the world that would have an opening ceremony after 2 games have already been played is RUGBY LEAGUE.

Once again the powers that be involved in international RL have shown the world how NOT to promote the game internationally!

 

[kia ora storm]

Yep...not the best but what sort of ceremony do you want ???...it is not the Olympics.

 

[elbusto]

Why have an opening ceremony after 2 games have already been played:crazy:
Disrespectful to all the other nations as this is the WORLD CUP.
And to show only clips of just Australia scoring tries is crap?
It's not the Australia Cup but the WORLD CUP?

The only sport in the world that would have an opening ceremony after 2 games have already been played is RUGBY LEAGUE.

Once again the powers that be involved in international RL have shown the world how NOT to promote the game internationally!

Its not uncommon to have a game before the Opening Ceremony. The Olympics do it as well. I thought the Ceremony was good and mercifully quick.

 

[steaming stormer]

I thought the ceremony was a disgrace. It was basically an ad for that Australia movie, the aboriginal dance thing was ok, and Natalie Bassingthwaite struggled too!

 

[LeagueXIII]

As long as they paid us a heap of cash who cares, afterall this WC is set up to make as much money as possible to kick start development in the international game.

 

[kia ora storm]

I thought the ceremony was a disgrace. It was basically an ad for that Australia movie, the aboriginal dance thing was ok, and Natalie Bassingthwaite struggled too!

So did both the singers of the anthems...horrible.

 

[Butters]

Mmmm superliminal advertising in an opening ceremony, classy stuff.

 

[gunnamatta bay]

The only sport in the world that would have an opening ceremony after 2 games have already been played is RUGBY LEAGUE.

Actually the last Olympic games kicked off before the opening ceremony. Were you equally aghast at that?

 

[eelandia]

The promotion for the movie Australia had no place in the ceremony. I cringed when that was on.

****

 

[brendothejet]

There are always Olympic events before the opening ceremony...big deal.

I thought the opening ceremony wasnt too bad. The aboriginal dance was pretty cool and the rainbow serpent was cool.

I hate natalie basinghtwaitewhatever and i thought she sung okay. There wer some nice montages of the countries over the big screen.

Would have like to have seen representatives from all the nations who have competed buy hey...what can you do.

 

[Mr Saab]

Needed kids on push bikes with inflatable kangaroos strapped to their backs.

 

[gunnamatta bay]

Needed kids on push bikes with inflatable kangaroos strapped to their backs.

a big tv would have been nice

 

[Pierced Soul]

I thought the ceremony was a disgrace. It was basically an ad for that Australia movie, !

spot on. i undertsand advertisers put money into the game but the whole thing was a commercial as was the half time thing with those movie maxcots. even the ground annoucner said sevral times 'we're going to a commercial break'.

i played my psp throught he opening cermony and the crap abnds they had. Should've had the crap bands on first then the ceremony, then the indigenous vs maori game

 

[Glen from the Mount]

I went along with low expectations and because of this I was reasonably impressed although it would have been good to include the cultures of the other 9 countries, e.g. some morris dancers for England

 

[Thomas]

Billy Idol was sorely missed.

I LUV MA FOOTY...AND MA COCAINE...

 

[expansionist]

Well it was typical Rugby League...

A sham of an advertisement for a film pretending to be an opening ceremony... a complete disregard for any other country involved in the world cup....

Oh and I do agree - the one constant in this world cup so far is fairly poor anthem playing

 

[hrundi99]

It's standard practice for the host country to rattle their sabres about themselves so I didn't have a problem with that. I did have a problem with the extended movie trailer as content theme. Having worked in sports marketing, I GET it, but I thought it was tacky.

I thought the anthems were very good. They sounded good at the ground.

 

[Dave Q]

Actually the last Olympic games kicked off before the opening ceremony. Were you equally aghast at that?

aghast!

A word not seen as much as we would like to see here on LU.

All the aboriginal stuff was very cool.

 

[Willow]

Sometimes people go out their way to get offended.

Australia is the host nation of an international sporting event. Its normal to see the host nation promote itself at the Olympics opening ceremony, so exactly why is it a disgrace?

 

[St. Brett]

I think channel 9's whole contempt for the world cup is a disgrace.

Again, they've shown how shallow they are by holding back all Kangaroos games on delay while all the minnow games are left to Fox sport live.

I tried my best to watch England PNG on Saturday night but a 9:30pm kickoff - delayed with anthems - my eyes were hanging out their head by half time.

We have Ireland and Tonga tonight why does channel 9 want nothing to do with this game?
How is channel 9 promoting tonight's game?

Why does channel 9 segregate our game into divisions and only go for big heavy weight games? How are they promoting the little teams? Or don't they care.

I don't know about you....but there's no feel to this nonsense.
Nobody can beat Australia anyway.
Who are they kidding? Why bother fooling yourself. There's too much talent in that team and we'll go un-challenged.

Why don't they get the best players from every other country and pit that against us?
This event should have been hosted in England anyway.
There's too much advantage for us down here.

But footy around Halloweén this time of year - it doesn't feel right or sit right with me.
Has no feel.

I didn't watch last nights game as it was the same old Qiwi team fooling themselves.
All eager pre-match talking it up but fail to backup any claim when push comes to shove.
Benji Marshall trying to lead the harka! See his head!
I listened to it on ABC and went to bed.

Keep an eye on this Graham guy for England. The red head bloke. He only knows one way. He looks like Ben Hannant. Good player. Gaining 20 yards on every hit-up. See him red in the face from the north QLD heat though.
Good player.