G’day Roarers, to put it bluntly, we’re pretty bloody excited to announce our latest venture: Roar Live.
As The Roar continues to grow, thanks chiefly to our incredible community of readers, contributors and experts (ie. you), we get the opportunity to expand the site into a whole bunch of really cool places.
This week we dipped our toes into the brave new world of live production with the pilot episode of Roar Live.
» Check out Roar Live, our brand new weekly show
It will be a panel show streamed live from our offices every Wednesday afternoon on Facebook, but also available on RoarTV the next day, and finally as a podcast on Soundcloud.
(Or to translate that into corporate-jargon nonsense: a cross-platform, vertically-integrated, hyper-synergised, multi-media native product.)
Each week a rotating panel made up of Roar staffers, experts and sports personalities will answer the big questions facing a particular sport, and finish off with some light-hearted segments that should be a whole lot of fun.
As it’s filmed live, we’d also love for the show to be as interactive as possible – answering your questions and bantering with your opinions, so keep an eye out on the website and on our social media pages to get involved.
We’ll keep you posted with more specific information closer to the date, but things will normally kick off around 5:30pm on a Wednesday on our Facebook page, and if you miss it you can check back on our website, Soundcloud or Facebook after the fact for the whole episode and highlights.
This week, Roar expert Brett McKay joined Patrick Effeney and myself to chat rugby – revealing future Wallaby superstars, concocting a fail-proof plan to beat the All Blacks, make outrageously bold predictions and determining once and for all which rugby villains are flogs and which ones are grubs.
Misha
Guest
And their 16th man - Nick Norovirus played really well against the whole AB team as well - even levelling them in a prematch days before the game...
Rugby Tragic
Guest
Harry, actually credit to you ... your comments were relevant ...
Chinmay Hejmadi
Roar Guru
Especially Brett. :P
Harry Jones
Expert
Good show. I was nervous, having my name mentioned so much. Good clothing choices.
Scott Pryde
Expert
Good stuff fellas. Hopefully it develops into a quality weekly segment for The Roar. Love it.
Republican
Guest
In our case, PLAY THEM LESS!
RobC
Roar Guru
woo hooo. Good programme. Will certainly be put my 2c into this. thanks guys, and btw TGIF.
Will Sinclair
Roar Guru
This looks great! Now, I just have to remember it's on and shoot in some questions!
Bakkies
Guest
Further to add when England beat the ABs there was pressure on their midfield. England used a strong centre to make heavy tackles to make the ABs panic and scored off it. In the first half England like Ireland ticked over the scoreboard through the pressure.
Bakkies
Guest
Good stuff lads. The blue print is there. The Wallabies pressed in Sydney last year and pushed the ABs in to errors however there were numerous holes left in the middle. This wasn't exploited due to the errors on the defensive press. Ireland also didn't over commit to rucks going for the turnover. The turnovers were caused by heavy tackles. Farrell is a smarter defensive coach then Grey. He manages the fringes so the player receiving the ball is nailed, the shape is also kept so when it goes wide NZ are hitting a wall attacking from depth. Smash that carrier and they have lost 15 metres.