Quality of rugby media - TV Shows etc

[Windows97]

And apologies for yet another tangent especially after poor Duluth split this tread already

But one of the issues I have with rugby in regards to how it promotes "the game" is that it's promoted as fun and entertaining and about mate ship/team work and passion (all of which are great things) but there's very little effort is put into promoting the intellectual aspect of the game.

It's great pity because there's lots of smart people in rugby, the thought that goes into developing attacking and defensive systems is really impressive. As a rugby community I think we kinda miss a bit of a trick here.

[Nepia]

As much as I dislike TJ's commentary during Blues/Crusaders-Cantab/ Ta$man matches I always watched Reunion without fail ... I've barely seen any episodes of the Breakdown.

[Bovidae]

TJ was a very good host, and much better than the current group. But at the end of the day the quality of the guest panel or "experts" is what makes or breaks a show. Sadly Sky's group of ex-ABs are generally average.

[Canes4life]

@Nepia Reunion was the best show by a country mile. As soon as they decided to change that concept, things went down hill.

[Tim]

NZR+ is working with Two Cents Rugby on YouTube now.

[Machpants]

I'll have to check those out, but 2c really didn't seem to enough to be interesting. Is more just his opinion, unless that has changed?

[MN5]

@Nepia said in Quality of rugby media - TV Shows etc:

As much as I dislike TJ's commentary during Blues/Crusaders-Cantab/ Ta$man matches I always watched Reunion without fail ... I've barely seen any episodes of the Breakdown.

You should listen to James McConie. You’ll love him.

CHIEFS MAAAAANNNAAAAA!!!

[Tim]

@Machpants He's always tried to use available stats to inform his opinions, so hopefully he'll get some support with access to that.

[Tim]

Feb 20, 2024  /  Sport

New Wallabies doco is a masochistic watch that borders on black comedy | Angus Fontaine

The show charting Eddie Jones’s disastrous second tenure in charge of Australian rugby is, like the team it profiles, flawed

[KiwiMurph]

@Tim Watching it at the moment. It's entertaining but there's definitely David Brent - Eddie Jones parallels.

[Dan54]

Think on the whole discusion on rugby shows, I am a pretty avid watcher of ARP, my favourite, still watch Breakdown even if I find it frustrating, but it's rugby. I do think we all get/want different things from these shows, and as we tend to be rugby nutters, we perhaps enjoy the better format of ARP which is proper rugby, and Breakdown is probably aimed at the more causl rugby person?

[Duluth]

ABs YouTube channel had a ‘watch along’ for the Chiefs v Crusaders game. It’s a concept that could work with the hosts

Not sure who they think the audience for this is

[Nepia]

@MN5 said in Quality of rugby media - TV Shows etc:

@Nepia said in Quality of rugby media - TV Shows etc:

As much as I dislike TJ's commentary during Blues/Crusaders-Cantab/ Ta$man matches I always watched Reunion without fail ... I've barely seen any episodes of the Breakdown.

You should listen to James McConie. You’ll love him.

CHIEFS MAAAAANNNAAAAA!!!

Bah, I had just finally blocked that from my mind.

[Bovidae]

More proof in game 1 that TJ should stick to hosting rather than commentating "his teams".

[KiwiMurph]

Kirwan stating pre match that he had never heard of Reihana really sums up the level of preparation that some of these pundits put in.....

[Nepia]

@Bovidae said in Quality of rugby media - TV Shows etc:

More proof in game 1 that TJ should stick to hosting rather than commentating "his teams".

The funniest part for me was when he was talking about the non try he kind of half missed Fihaki actually scoring his try so wasn't at his usual over excitedness.

[KiwiMurph]

On the positive side - Aaron Cruden a nice addition to the punditry

[Bovidae]

I hope Sky is paying him well as he was meant to be playing for NY in MLR before they folded.

[Duluth]

Rugby, Sport, The Country, Sport, Whanganui Chronicle

Blow for grassroots rugby as Sky drops two shows

They are dubbed the 'Country Calendar of rugby’.

Grassroots Rugby and Mainfreight Rugby cancelled

[Bovidae]

Richard Mason's comments about Sky are so true:

“They have already found cheaper ways to produce sport, off-site commentary and taking feeds from inexperienced streaming services that look like poop.