The Ghost of Raelene
Andrew Slack (58)
I’d say just another job/looking after any future movements. He’s alright on TV but can’t imagine it’s a great living if it’s your full time gig being mainly a streaming service.
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John Hipwell (52)
6N rights are all over the place, depends on who is at home to who has the rights. In Ireland games are shown on FTA while the UK it's behind a paywall I think at the moment.
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John Hipwell (52)
The golf one trailer looks pretty good
The Ghost of Raelene
Andrew Slack (58)
The Tennis one (Break Point) hasn't really done it for me but I'm not a big fan of Tennis. Having said that I was never into Motor Sport, and I thought Drive to Survive is great.
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Vay Wilson (31)
I think that might come down to the depth of what can be revealed in F1. Tennis is, at the end of the day, a guy or girl with a stick against a guy or girl with a stick. A ball is also involved. A Tennis player's personality is also usually pretty self evident.
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Adam84
Nick Farr-Jones (63)
Not strictly rugby related, but related to rugbys primary broadcaster. Some Olympic sports events to go behind paywall and sit on Stan
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Nick Farr-Jones (63)
Interesting question.
I think for rugby it’s a positive, Nine have long term sunken costs in the platform now, they can’t just cut and run. Which gives Rugby better leverage at the next negotiation.
Based on the catalogue of spots that Stan Sports has secured, rugby is the primary content driver Feb-Jul. Australian Open is the key content in January, the Summer Olympics and RWC will be the key events in the Aug-Oct period.
SVOD don’t want churn in their product, providing content year round is key to that. To be fair they probably missed the boat by going with Tennis over Cricket.
I think for rugby it’s a positive, Nine have long term sunken costs in the platform now, they can’t just cut and run. Which gives Rugby better leverage at the next negotiation.
Based on the catalogue of spots that Stan Sports has secured, rugby is the primary content driver Feb-Jul. Australian Open is the key content in January, the Summer Olympics and RWC will be the key events in the Aug-Oct period.
SVOD don’t want churn in their product, providing content year round is key to that. To be fair they probably missed the boat by going with Tennis over Cricket.
The Ghost of Raelene
Andrew Slack (58)
I think it’s a positive that the platform won’t be shit canned in the near future.
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Johnnie Wallace (23)
It means that a price increase is certain in the near future.
Dan54
Tim Horan (67)
Yep streaming services need more content to survive, like it lump it in NZ we have Sky (NZ version of foxtel) and I can watch almost every major sporting even on it, which keeps me using it. On a wet day I can just sit here and watch rugby, soccer, cricket, golf,darts, league (never happens though) NBL,NFL,NHL etc. So while understand how good Stan is etc I do think streaming services have to do similar, and need a good range if they want to survive. We had Spark try and do it with NZ cricket ,and very little else it seems. I hooked onto them for a month when women's rugby WC was on , bit like many just for the month. They need to hold us longer than that.
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John Eales (66)
Loving Eddie's podcast, 2nd one more interesting. Would be great if he kept it going through out the RWC.
Makes me think of how good it was when Cheika commentated a bit. Their knowledge puts the regular commentators to shame. He even ripped into one of the English commentators, saying their understanding of the game is from the '80s. Described France as a great counterattacking team when in actuality they boot every single ball back.
Good insight into refs' influence on the game too. Says if Ireland v France have an english ref then that suits Ireland as they don't referee the contest too hard (except Barnes apparently, who does it more even handedly which could favour the French).
Makes me think of how good it was when Cheika commentated a bit. Their knowledge puts the regular commentators to shame. He even ripped into one of the English commentators, saying their understanding of the game is from the '80s. Described France as a great counterattacking team when in actuality they boot every single ball back.
Good insight into refs' influence on the game too. Says if Ireland v France have an english ref then that suits Ireland as they don't referee the contest too hard (except Barnes apparently, who does it more even handedly which could favour the French).
The Ghost of Raelene
Andrew Slack (58)
What Podcast is this mate?
Dctarget
John Eales (66)
Literally called EDDIE. I've found it on apple and spotify. First one was last week, 2nd one came out yesterday I think. Only about 20-30 minutes and his most interesting stuff is analysing the 6 nations teams (so far).
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David Codey (61)
EDDIE
Listen to EDDIE on Spotify. This is EDDIE, the show that brings you unmatched analysis, insights and knowledge into the greatest game in the world, Rugby Union. Each week Eddie Jones and David Pembroke will discuss Australian, International and Test Rugby in the lead-up to the Rugby World Cup...
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he sounded exhausted though. Hopefully just sick and isn't going to run out of steam too soon
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Stirling Mortlock (74)
I get why they think stuff like this is good but it's during a game, and no player is giving anything insightful that could be potentially used against them. It's just going to be more cliche stuff.
"yeah very physical out there" "tough battle" "hope the boys come out on top here"