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about 13 years ago

Bring Setanta back to New Zealand!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone

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about 13 years ago

Good news folks

All games live this weekend. 

Friday 10pm Highlights Channel it's Roar v CCM

Saturday 5pm SS2 Nix v Glory

7:30pm SS2 Newcastle v Sydney

9:45pm SS2 Melb Victory v Melb Heart


Sunday 7pm SS2 Adelaide v WS Wanderers.


Most importantly Book in to watch these games so the ratings count


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about 13 years ago

Two weeks in a row! Which means, next week we will only have the Nix game live...


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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about 13 years ago

They're also showing all EPL games live, including on the highlights channel. Seems they've finally listened. 


Allegedly

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about 13 years ago

Tegal wrote:

They're also showing all EPL games live, including on the highlights channel. Seems they've finally listened. 


Had all four games live this morning, I was very surprised.
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about 13 years ago

Fitzy wrote:

Tegal wrote:

They're also showing all EPL games live, including on the highlights channel. Seems they've finally listened. 

Had all four games live this morning, I was very surprised.
Is a bit of a pain for MySkying (Yeah always some complaint :P), but I generally end up hunting down which games have replays, record those replays and then record the live games for the others. Glad to see they are finally showing Football live though, gives you choice of games rather than only being able to watch the one they put on first
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about 13 years ago

They are just giving us these  but once the England Cricket tour and Super Rugby kick off I would say the will revert back to normal.

Hope I am wrong

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about 13 years ago

We're such a bunch of whingers

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about 13 years ago

AJ13 wrote:
We're such a bunch of whingers

Worse than the bloody Poms :D

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about 13 years ago

JonoNewton wrote:

AJ13 wrote:
We're such a bunch of whingers

Worse than the bloody Poms :D

worse than the whingeing poms :D

" If you only have a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail" - maslow

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about 13 years ago

I hate it when Sky do this. 3 back to back to back live A-League games all on the same channel, yet for some reason they decide to cut 'Match Day Saturday' out and play a 'Sky Sports Extra' piece instead. What the shitting fuck ???

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about 13 years ago

AJ13 wrote:

I hate it when Sky do this. 3 back to back to back live A-League games all on the same channel, yet for some reason they decide to cut 'Match Day Saturday' out and play a 'Sky Sports Extra' piece instead. What the shitting fuck ???


+1
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about 13 years ago

Sky just dont care. De jong was an embarrassment today. 


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about 13 years ago

tripvincent wrote:

Sky just dont care. De jong was an embarrassment today. 

Portland Timberwolves ....
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about 13 years ago

tripvincent wrote:

Sky just dont care. De jong was an embarrassment today. 

Talking about Billy Mehmet as if he's still at Perth!

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about 13 years ago

I seem to cringe a lot when he speaks. Anyone else ? Harry was pretty good I thought.



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about 13 years ago

tripvincent wrote:

Sky just dont care. De jong was an embarrassment today. 

Portland Timberwolves ....


HAHAHAHA I heard that. #findanotherjob



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about 13 years ago

nufc_nz wrote:

I seem to cringe a lot when he speaks. Anyone else ? Harry was pretty good I thought.

Aye. When Fred asked him what the nix needed to do to win the game Harry said something like 'keep it tight at the back and score a goal' hmm

Founder

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about 13 years ago

At least Harry has a normal voice, unlike Dewhurts and De Dong

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about 13 years ago

AJ13 wrote:

At least Harry has a normal voice, unlike Dewhurts and De Dong


That is what I meant. Should have clarified....



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about 13 years ago

Yeah the billy mehmet thing bugged me to


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about 13 years ago

The commentary is terrible for home games, no doubt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone

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about 13 years ago

Yes I am glad I don't suffer it too often. I always find that it sounds like they are in a studio and not even at the game? Monotone voices add nothing to the excitement either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone

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about 13 years ago

Fred Who? Are you referring to that monotone drone that sounds like a feedback? Ngata is a good commentator. At the games I listen on 107.5fm and get Jason Pine & Chote's/McHardy commentaries. Was great trip to Auckland. Roll on Dunedin!

Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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about 13 years ago

A-League back on delay again tonight, 11:40pm. Rugby, Cricket, Basketball and Women's Cricket on the highlight channel. 

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about 13 years ago

Other four games are all live.


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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about 13 years ago

Yeah cant really complain, Super 15 is always going to be live, Black Caps is always going to be live, Cricket world cup knock out stage is always going to be live, and ANBL has as much right to be shown live as the A-League, even more so with the Breakers being as good as they are. Who really wants to watch the Jest anyway?

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about 13 years ago

Yeah I agree, can't complain about what they have done tonight. Fantastic that they have got all the other games live though.


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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about 13 years ago

AJ13 wrote:

Yeah cant really complain, Super 15 is always going to be live, Black Caps is always going to be live, Cricket world cup knock out stage is always going to be live, and ANBL has as much right to be shown live as the A-League, even more so with the Breakers being as good as they are. Who really wants to watch the Jest anyway?

Who really wants to watch Rebels v Force? But yeah I understand why.
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about 13 years ago

Probably have to disagree with you guys..I personally find that the Sky coverage aint great, and they are not actually giving us anything...we have to pay for the sports channels!! I believe that if they were showing grass growing as a sport it would get preference over the A-league

" If you only have a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail" - maslow

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about 13 years ago · edited about 13 years ago · History

paullt wrote:

Probably have to disagree with you guys..I personally find that the Sky coverage aint great, and they are not actually giving us anything...we have to pay for the sports channels!! I believe that if they were showing grass growing as a sport it would get preference over the A-league

Theyre a business, they make money, and the best way to do that is to give the customer base what they want. What the customer base wants isnt Heart vs. Jets. If something else is on live that more people are going to want to watch then A-League will be delayed. Simple really. Everything that needs to be shown live is always shown live. AWs, EPL, A-League, World Cups. The only thing i think Sky could do better is offer ESPN2 - bemuses me as to why they dont.
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about 13 years ago


The Sky Commentary for Phoenix home games really is terrible. Plus no intelligent analysis either during or after the games. Wouldnt mind but we dont even have Mel to brighten things up a bit.

 

It really is dire whichever way you look at it.

 

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about 13 years ago

lol yeah i guess they could change that, but they wont. If we all started writing in saying how bad those two are then perhaps

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about 13 years ago

AJ13 wrote:

Yeah cant really complain, Super 15 is always going to be live, Black Caps is always going to be live, Cricket world cup knock out stage is always going to be live, and ANBL has as much right to be shown live as the A-League, even more so with the Breakers being as good as they are. Who really wants to watch the Jest anyway?



I would rather watch  football before any other sport.

If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid

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about 13 years ago

Leggy wrote:

AJ13 wrote:

Yeah cant really complain, Super 15 is always going to be live, Black Caps is always going to be live, Cricket world cup knock out stage is always going to be live, and ANBL has as much right to be shown live as the A-League, even more so with the Breakers being as good as they are. Who really wants to watch the Jest anyway?



I would rather watch  football before any other sport.
Good for you.
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about 13 years ago

Leggy wrote:

AJ13 wrote:

Yeah cant really complain, Super 15 is always going to be live, Black Caps is always going to be live, Cricket world cup knock out stage is always going to be live, and ANBL has as much right to be shown live as the A-League, even more so with the Breakers being as good as they are. Who really wants to watch the Jest anyway?



I would rather watch  football before any other sport.

I concur

Queenslander 3x a year.

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about 13 years ago

I have no problem when other live Sports are forcing movement of live sport, but the frustrations over the last year have been to do with Live sports being moved for replays, or delayed coverage. On this front it does seem to have improved over the last two months, and if they continue to use the highlights channel for Live sport when there is 4+ live events on then my complaints will be greatly reduced.

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about 13 years ago

Only jets and heart. Wasn't gonna watch it anyway.



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