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It is ridiculous that the only way you could watch the Australian Barbarians Vs England game was via video stream. Why couldn’t this game be shown on one of the Fox Sports channels?
Fox only seemed to be showing replays of league from ten years ago, AFL from five years ago, and the rugby 7s from Scotland. That’s ridiculous!
Fox Sports chief operating officer, Jon Marquard, said “the trial web stream was an exciting progression in the delivery of video content on foxsports.com.au.”
Is Jon Marquard kidding himself? Mr Marquard, this is a massive step backwards.
One camera, no commentary. Exciting progression? Why don’t you put it in black and white as well?
The only thing Marquard should be excited about is going into the office and sacking his scheduling team for not having the game televised.
The ARU also have something to do with this as well. At a time when competition between the football codes is so strong, they should have insisted that this game be televised.
We have had three friendly football games of late, one of which was in 3D.
ARU, do you think the FFA would stand for the second class treatment which is being put on rugby supporters?
It’s pretty much making a mockery of what is a high profile game, especially as a couple of big names might be playing for Test selection on both sides.
I hope it gets resolved before the next game.
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