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'Coach Cam' – an unnecessary invasion of privacy or a must-have for the NRL?

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18th October, 2022
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The long-awaited opening game of this year’s World Cup provided many highlights – unless of course you are a Toa Samoa supporter and were horrified as your team threw in the towel.

Unfortunately for the bleary-eyed viewers, things were going swimmingly for England. Wane looked pretty happy with the proceedings, which meant he failed to provide us with anything controversial footage to spice up the coverage.

For me though, the biggest highlight of the game was ‘Coach Cam’. For those of you who missed it, ‘Coach Cam’ is a fixed camera placed just in front of English coach Shaun Wane’s desk in his coaching box, and every now and then during the game we were provided with some fascinating up-close footage of Wane, and his reaction to the game unfolding in front of him.

It did however provide us with a great opportunity to count Wane’s generous allocation of nasal hair, take a stab at his current shirt size, and wonder about the inadequacies of dental health care in England.

An absolute winner in my view, THE find of the RLWC, and I can’t wait to see ‘Coach Cam’ – and its variants – become a regular part of NRL broadcasts in Australia. Just think of the possibilities.

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Belly Cam

Just three feet from Craig Bellamy as he becomes apoplectic as the Storm kick the ball out on the full for the third time in the first half.

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Sticky Cam

Watching Ricky Stuart have an absolute meltdown on the sidelines as Jaeman Salmon scores the winning try in golden point to eliminate the Raiders in week one of the 2023 finals.

Ricky Stuart

(Photo by Mark Nolan/Getty Images)

Hook Cam

Tightly focused vision on Anthony Griffin as Dragons fans look for signs of intelligent life.

Rainbow Cam

Zooming in on an unsuspecting Anthony Seibold and the dozen or so Manly greats gathered behind him with knives in their hands.

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If the NRL want to go one better, all they need to do is add sound to the images, although that will likely result in most games being broadcast after children have gone to bed.

While they’re at it, they could also consider some ‘Coach Cam’ variants, such as ‘Bunker Cam’, where viewers are treated to a live feed directly into the control room so we can actually watch the bunker officials playing “rock, paper, scissors” in real-time in response to a captain’s challenge. We could also have ‘Judiciary Cam’, where we can watch a live stream of Nelson Asofa-Solomona and Jared Waerea-Hargreaves spinning the chocolate wheel to determine their latest fine.

Bring it on I say. What do you think? What other opportunities are there?

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