Well aware of the situation, you'd hope this time being more professional about these TV rights they will write up a legitimate contract. I just don't get everyone ruling them out, the more bidders the more money. If the NRL go about this the right way then I don't care what station it goes to because the contract should have everything they need written into it.
Idiots ruling a station out just because they have a personal agenda against them are just that.
I was in Sale VIC for work in 2009, the biggest game of the year (bar the GF) was the bulldogs eels qualifying final on the friday night. All 6 of us lads down there, we were all gee'd up to watch the game on 9 thinking the game would be shown surely even slightly delayed because there was no AFL on that night due to their GF being the next day, what the hell did they have to lose................ well you guessed it, no it wasn't. Well you can't call a 2am kick off slightly delayed................ We had to watch the f**king thing via an Iraqi lad who was streaming it live from EPSN europe. The game would have been no more than 800kms as the crow flies from where we were staying, but in order to 'watch it' we had to go to those lengths. And even then it was a rubbish feed so we had to listen to it via 2GB internet radio. Until 9 treat this game with the respect it deserves, they will continue to get bagged by all and sundry in here, I don't blame people for getting sh*tty with them, it's warranted in my eyes.
A mere week after the above sh*t, during the GF ceremony for the storm getting their trophy, ch9 melbourne cut straight from the fulltime whistle to the sunday evening news, not one second of any of the presentation ceremony was shown. Suprising, there was quite a bit of an outcry down that way over it, people will watch the damn sport, it is the perfect TV game, they just need to show the thing at a decent hour and give the heathens a chance to like it FFS.......
