Yeah mate. We get all those on tv (2x Friday night games and 1x Sunday game, + Thursday night Footy Show). I would doubt very much anyone has said otherwise. It's just -as you mention- they're all on late at night. For 3/4 of last season, Sunday arvo games were on at 2pm (in the afternoon!) - the same time that the east coast got the games (allowing for the 2hr time difference). Then for some unknown and stupid reason, bye-bye, back to midnight they went. On the flip side of this was that we got the Grand Final live for the first time since the 2000 GF. Origins were on only a 1hr (a good timeslot).
Really, there is no real reason why Ch9 couldn't show Sunday games on Sunday afternoons again (apparently, the show/s that are now in it's place rate less than the NRL did), and Friday Night Footy at, say, 10pm.
At the current moment, with the 2 games back-to-back on Friday nights starting at midnight, they don't finish until 4am ... which for the majority of us here who work during the day, is a bloody long time into the night after a long, tiring week at work.
I would love to see the ESL being showed over here. They did it the first weekend Ch9 showed it Australia-wide, but it hasn't been seen on Perth tv's since.
There is an NRL presence here ... you just have to know where it is and you'll need patience!
