World Cup Coverage

[Macca19]

Channel 9, paid a lot of money to get the rights to the World Cup...and our only showing 8 games live, and 16 in total for the whole bloody thing!!!!

What an absolute joke Channel 9 is.

Does anyone know if it will be on Fox at all?

 

[daicos4ever]

Yeah, fox has all the matches, i believe.

better c9 than sbs, anyway

 

[Macca19]

Originally posted by daicos4ever
Yeah, fox has all the matches, i believe.

better c9 than sbs, anyway

thank god for that!!

I disagree...id rather SBS than c9...cos at least SBS will show more than 16 games!!

 

[Dan26]

Do you have foxtel, Macca?

 

[clucas91]

I just hope to god that Channel 9 beam the direct sattelite form Sky Sports. But I will guarantee that Channel 9 will have some awful commentators lined up for the world cup. PLEASE NO RAY WARREN.

 

[daddy_4_eyes]

Originally posted by Macca19
I disagree...id rather SBS than c9...cos at least SBS will show more than 16 games!!

From what I hear SBS will have the rights to all the matches C9 doesn't show, so we should get to see all games regardless of how incompetent C9 is.

 

[Macca19]

Originally posted by Dan26
Do you have foxtel, Macca?

Yup

 

[Sydneyfan]

Wish it never had left SBS in the first place, over the years I believe SBS have done a great job with their World Cup coverage.

I liked how they had features on each venue and its host city, you learnt a bit about the history and culture of the host country and its cities before they showed the football coverage. It was as close to being there as you could be watching tv in your lounge room in the other side of the world. And besides that, I can't get enough of Les Murray, you've gotta love that man!

 

[daicos4ever]

Originally posted by clucas91
PLEASE NO RAY WARREN.

Ray is a ****er in the dead-set, fair dinkum department!

 

[sethlad]

Originally posted by Sydneyfan

And besides that, I can't get enough of Les Murray, you've gotta love that man!

Are you joking????
All Lazlo does is twaddle on about how great every 'leeeeeague' in the world is except the Premier 'Leeeeeeague'.

Leave your anti-English bias at home Lazlo,its getting old.

 

[SeinDude]

I am really looking forward to the coverage, and it should be on roughly at prime times which will be good. I think SBS have done a great job with their coverage in the past, but if you have Foxtel, they have a great soccer coverage as well.

Go England with all those Liverpool stars!!!

SeinDude

 

[Bomber Spirit]

Originally posted by Sydneyfan
And besides that, I can't get enough of Les Murray, you've gotta love that man!

Les is a legend. Such a cult hero he even has a song written about him - What Nationality is Les Murray by TISM.

Is he from Austria, Bulgaria Cameroon?
Chad, Chile, Germany, Greece, Great Britain?

2 Warren requests - please no Ray Warren or Johnny Warren. Can't stand either of them.
Wish Australia was there. I'll be going for whoever's playing against Uruguay.

 

[Sydneyfan]

Les is originally from Hungary

Les Murray is his anglicised name, I can't remember his real name.

I reckon he's a legend and an icon in this country!

 

[bobbity]

Originally posted by clucas91
I just hope to god that Channel 9 beam the direct sattelite form Sky Sports. But I will guarantee that Channel 9 will have some awful commentators lined up for the world cup. PLEASE NO RAY WARREN.

Max Walker, maybe? Ian Gibson? (My understanding was that SBS or Foxtel would have the group games, but after that, the "biggies" will be on 9). God only knows what treasures are in store- ads during breaks in play?

 

[bobbity]

Originally posted by Sydneyfan
Wish it never had left SBS in the first place, over the years I believe SBS have done a great job with their World Cup coverage.

I liked how they had features on each venue and its host city, you learnt a bit about the history and culture of the host country and its cities before they showed the football coverage. It was as close to being there as you could be watching tv in your lounge room in the other side of the world. And besides that, I can't get enough of Les Murray, you've gotta love that man!

I agree with you that SBS has done a great job with their coverage over the years, but I must say that I find all the features about each city etc. before the games pretty tedious. It's like "just shut up and show us the match already". Really, if I want a history/ geography lesson I'll watch a doco or something.
Besides which I don't need to see a whole lot of scenery which I can't afford to go see!

 

[The Ewok]

The world is full of questions, they fill me with fear -
What of our beginnings? Why are we here?
Is there a purpose? Is there a God?
But one question troubles me
Far more than this lot:

What nationality is Les Murray?
Wherefore hails his ancestry?
Whom does he call the mother country
When he phones home through OTC?

Everyone is searching for the meaning of life -
Religion and politics; black versus white.
Karl Marx played on the left; Ayn Rand played on the right;
But there's a much bigger problem. It stops me sleeping at night.

Les is more. more or Les.
Les is more, but one regret:
What is the origin of his descent?

Is he from Austria? Algeria? Bahrain?
Bangladesh or Barbados? Bulgaria? Cameroon?
Is he from Chad? Chile? China?
Germany? Greece? Great Britain?
Is he from Guatemala? Guam? or Guyana?
Les is more
Haiti? Burundi? Zimbabwe?
Kampuchea? North Korea? Tanzania?
Senegal? Paraguay? Trinidad? Tuvelau? Ecuador? Uruguay?
Azerbaijan? Madagascar? Swaziland? Guadeloupe?

 

[Blues2001]

Originally posted by bobbity

Max Walker, maybe

Er, I think you might mean Mike Walker, bobbity

 

[bobbity2]

Originally posted by Blues2001


Er, I think you might mean Mike Walker, bobbity

Er, no I don't- I was taking the piss.

 

[The Hippie]

Blues 2001 was taking the p*ss as well, bobbity. He's been listening to The 12th Man CD too much, obviously.

 

[Blues2001]

Originally posted by The Hippie
Blues 2001 was taking the p*ss as well, bobbity. He's been listening to The 12th Man CD too much, obviously.

Yep!

 

[The Hitman]

You can't come in this box, Max"

"Well this big motherf*cker of a cricket bat says I can, Ritchie"



Just more piss taking...

The Hitman

 

[Sydneyfan]

Originally posted by bobbity


I agree with you that SBS has done a great job with their coverage over the years, but I must say that I find all the features about each city etc. before the games pretty tedious. It's like "just shut up and show us the match already". Really, if I want a history/ geography lesson I'll watch a doco or something.
Besides which I don't need to see a whole lot of scenery which I can't afford to go see!

I can understand how you feel just before the match and they've got this mini-doco on the place when all you want to see is the match. I'm a bit of a fan of history and culture so I used to like their short docos but it would make me envious seeing these great places which Les and Co. are at but I'm not!