RLWC Media Watch

[bobmar28]

That caller sounds like Vossey.

 

[some11]

Looks like beetroot cheeks genius-at-large has written an article about soccer being bigger than NRL in Sydney.

Do you reckon the fossil even knows the World Cup is on?

 

[Captain Apollo]

Looks like beetroot cheeks genius-at-large has written an article about soccer being bigger than NRL in Sydney.

Oi stop calling him beetroot cheeks. That's an insult to all beetroots world wide. :mrgreen:

 

[Brutus]

Rothfield has nothing. All he does is compare things to rugby league in order to bash rugby league.

He'll basically champion anything his fellow News Ltd Stooge Dillup Garrop is involved in.

Dillup umm ahh Garrup has done plenty for News over many years.

 

[Victorious Secret]

The Guardian thinks that the All Blacks are in town

The All Blacks and Sonny Bill Williams will be glad to see the back of Samoa and Warrington. The world champions marked their arrival in the tournament with a win after a ruthless early display of dazzling, attacking panache, but Samoa almost produced an unlikely comeback following a valiant second-half performance that greatly endeared them to the local support.

theguardian. com/sport/2013/oct/27/new-zealand-samoa-world-cup-match-report

:sarcasm:

 

[hennessy]

I would love to watch the WC but I don't have digital TV, nor do my friends, so I was unable to watch what seems to a great game between England and Australia. Who had the brilliant idea of restricting access to games only to those with digital TV?

 

[Western_Eel]

Anallogue TV will be disappeared in 2 months so about time you upgraded,
IMO I prefer it on 7 mate I love watching RL in HD

 

[AlwaysGreen]

'Me and me mates don't have digital tv'.

Who the f**k are you, Jed Clampett?

 

[morningstar]

Brad Walter has a rant about the format of the tournament, and speculates about some new hokey eligibility rules that the RLIF have dreamed up.

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...-in-flawed-world-cup-draw-20131028-2wb15.html

Seems pretty straight forward to me, if you want to be in the seeded pools you need to be a higher ranked nation. To do that you have to organise and participate in more international tournaments in between world cups, you can't seed a tournament based on what sides might potentially be able to field. Tonga & Italy have only themselves to blame.

Unimpressed that they are changing the one nation per world cup cycle rule just so the big three can cherry pick a "minnow" player after a fluke season and then discard them back to the minnows.

 

[herbert henry1908]

I would love to watch the WC but I don't have digital TV, nor do my friends, so I was unable to watch what seems to a great game between England and Australia. Who had the brilliant idea of restricting access to games only to those with digital TV?

Analogue TV is being switched off very shortly. It already has in some markets.


Time to invest in a $50 set top box.

 

[herbert henry1908]

'Me and me mates don't have digital tv'.

Who the f**k are you, Jed Clampett?

:lol:

 

[ek999]

Analogue TV is being switched off very shortly. It already has in some markets.


Time to invest in a $50 set top box.

Not even that. $30 from JB or Dick Smith. Better get it done quick too otherwise you will be seeing this in December

 

[LJC]

Australia V England was the highest rating show for sport on TV outside of car racing in the 5 capital cities over the weekend despite its 12.30am Sunday timeslot! It beat the A League soccer derby in Sydney at 7.30pm with 169,000 viewers compared to 101,000 viewers'

RL take a bow.

These are significant numbers given the time differences.

 

[El Diablo]

Analogue TV is being switched off very shortly. It already has in some markets.


Time to invest in a $50 set top box.

Sydney, Melbourne and a few remote areas are the only places where analogue is still on

http://www.digitalready.gov.au/what-is-the-switch/digital-tv-switchover-map

 

[Pig Champion]

I went out, bought a $200 digital PVR with 300 hrs of recording time, dead simple to work, recording every game to watch at my leisure if too hard to get up in the middle of the night. Too easy.

 

[Mr Twig]

Australia V England was the highest rating show for sport on TV in the 5 capital cities over the weekend despite its 12.30am Sunday timeslot! It beat the A League soccer derby in Sydney at 7.30pm with 169,000 viewers compared to 101,000 viewers'

It was beaten by the V8 Supercars Gold Coast 600 (637,000) and the Indian F1 Grand Prix (283,000).

 

[LJC]

It was beaten by the V8 Supercars Gold Coast 600 (637,000) and the Indian F1 Grand Prix (283,000).

Corrected.

Actually thought about the car racing but forgot to mention it. RL beat all other team sports on TV that are played on fields.

Thanks

 

[Western_Eel]

I thought the V8's rated higher than that

 

[parrawentyfan]

PS3 is going great guns recording all the matches so far.

 

[Misanthrope]

Just for the lols, I wrote a pair of politely worded but aggressive emails to ESPN.com and CNN.com's World Sport about their lack of coverage for the tournament and their own national team's performance.

I'm not expecting a response and I'm definitely not expecting them to do anything, but it can't hurt to remind them of their insular ignorance.