World Cup Media Angst

Told us to buy All blacks flags

Sorry Tegal at my dig above. I thought you were directing the idiot comment to the person quoting Lawls. I didn't realise Lawls had said that - thought it was the one that posted.

Anyway brb off to get an All Blacks flag.

Haha no worries,completely missed it!

Sydney Morning Herald, in their report on the AW vs Cheating Divers game have an online poll "Should the NZ goal have been ruled out for offside"  Typical Ozzies 

Current Results  Yes = 16% No = 84%    

Small point, but Toni "Tidy But Clueless" Street said on last night's news that we shouldn't forget to tune in to watch "the All Whites verse Italy".

Front page of herald this morning, take a screen cap, every headline in the top half dedicated to the boys!

I will thank you not to insult gay men by comparing them to Mayor Lols.

Sydney Morning Herald poll at 92% saying we were robbed of victory.

http://www.smh.com.au/world-cup-2010/world-cup-news/italian-theatrics-cost-new-zealand-famous-win-over-defending-champions-italy-20100621-ypj8.html#poll

Nice work from 442:

Guarantee someone will run the headline in a loss to Paraguay

I was visiting the olds over the weekend and sadly my mother (rugby nut) had a good chuckle at Michael Lawls article and then passed it to me to read.  I was somewhat less impressed.  I know its a good quality of kiwis that we can take the piss out of ourselves but it just highlighted how defensive rugby fans are getting about the All Whites performance.

At least now Lawls own measure of Solomon Islands beating Hong Kong backfired somewhat since 'Solomon Islands' have now beat whoever won the last Rugger World Cup... Aussie?

I did LOL at Sky telling us to buy All Blacks flags though, nice one Elrick.

I'm just loving the coverage from our television media! Even talking to Terry, getting reaction from our troops overseas.

Agree..15 minutes at the start of One News tonight..

Any word on how many people tuned in to watch the game?

Mossy getting stuck in. Love it!

I find this quite a good video, to be honest.  On the one hand I saw they were talking to people in Napier and thought it would be pretty average, but on the other hand it seems that it was a good move, shows that even outside the main centres people are buzzing and watching the game.

http://msn.nzherald.co.nz/best-of-sport-analysis/news/video.cfm?c_id=1502180&gal_objectid=10653615&gallery_id=112087

TV 3 back on top as best football broadcaster

(oh tv 1 how inconsistent you are, i wonder what is going on???)

TV 3 led with the football

the other channel had some other thing at the start

CGW on Prime amusing.  The players (mainly Plodder) stitching up McOnie.

All Whites are awesome pranksters. McOnie is a good sport. Love all the reports he's put in from South Africa.

Yes that was weird them covering that other sport first. Probably Savilles decision.    But they did have 15 minutes yesterday in their main story.




Oceanic62010-06-22 21:23:56

"you're only as good as your last game/broadcast"tigers2010-06-22 23:11:59

there was a fantastic double-page spread on the AWs in the Melbourne Age's World Cup supplement today, teriffic reading and a sample of the headlines here:

ESPN's Soccernet Press Pass gave us a lot of respect last night. We were rated the surprise of the tournament by Shaka Hislop and they had an interview with Tommy Smith with an I, who asked Tommy Smyth with a Y what he thought of the penalty (he thought it was harsh). It was great to see them talking us up and giving us the respect the boys are due!

i really didnt expect the world media to warm to us this much,
its unbelievable and so awsome

The report from McConie after the Italy game where he spoke with a few of the players parents in the crowd was great. None of the other channels did that. Been loving CGW's coverage.

Not sure what Ricki was giggling about tonight on One News?

Adshead & Fallon on Beaker Sorry Deaker on Sport.  Talking a lot of common sense.

"So John.  Have you ever coached those All Whites?"

Quite enjoyed that. Had to duck away so missed the stuff now.

When they were talking about Rory Fallon giving away all those free kicks Kevin looked like he wanted to kill somebody.

To be fair, he looks like that most of the time.

Lol. Terry who John?

Christie or Fallon playing jokes perhaps    I thought it was hilarious. Think Craig did too at the end.

I couldn't believe the poor news coverage the football world cup got yesterday.  Both TV1 and TV3 devoted 90% of the sports news slot to rugby and league news.  Brent Tate leaving the Warriors got more coverage than the entire World Cup. Seems to be a serious bias in these organisations for the oval ball games.

Have you not watched every other day for the last 2-3 weeks? Do we really have to pick out one day (in which nothing overly exciting happened in the world cup) and whinge n moan about it

You might be right.  Missed the games in the morning and was relying on the news, so probably not a balanced perspective. toehacker2010-06-24 11:17:16

I'm pretty sure TV 1's coverage tonight will be a good un.

Major media angst here. Was in the car today going to a job and the news was on. Leading the news was Dan Carter being injured or something. There was nothing about Ryan Nelsen's tummy. What's the deal? Is he going to be alright? I've heard nothing and I can't find anything! Come on media!