No. But this only adds to their amounting failings.
Kurtley: My Story is now streaming exclusively on Stan.
2 Likes
Stan Sport’s coverage of 2023 Six Nations starts this weekend.
3 Likes
The 2023 Super Rugby Pacific season was launched at Sydney Opera House today.
A Super Rugby Pacific Season Launch episode of Between Two Posts would be shown tonight at 7pm AEDT on Stan Sport.
EDIT
1 Like
Coverage on FTA so far announced.
SUPER RUGBY PACIFIC 2023
Saturday 25 February 7pm AEDT 9Gem
Reds v Hurricanes
Wide World of Sports presents the Reds v Hurricanes, live from Queensland Country Bank Stadium, Townsville. Join our expert commentary team for all the action right from the sidelines, kick off at 7:35PM AEDT.
9.30pm AEDT Post Game coverage
Saturday 4 March 07:00 pm AEDT 9Gem
Fijian Drua vs Waratahs
Wide World of Sports presents the Fijian Drua vs Waratahs, live from AAMI Park, Melbourne. Join our expert
commentary team for all the action right from the sidelines, kick off at 7:35PM AEDT.
9.30pm AEDT Post Game coverage
3 Likes
My understanding is Super Rugby Pacific will share graphics across broadcasters this season, as they used to.
2 Likes
For what it’s worth, presuming the coverage on 9Gem is sticking with the 7.30 timeslot, these are the other games in that slot that “should” be covered in the regular season:
- 11/03 R3 Brumbies v Reds (Canberra)
- 18/03 R4 Brumbies v Moana Pasifika (Canberra)
- 25/03 R5 Rebels v Reds (Melbourne)
- 01/04 R6 Brumbies v Waratahs (Canberra)
- 08/04 R7 Rebels v Blues (Melbourne)
- 15/04 R8 Waratahs v W. Force (Sydney)
- 22/04 R9 W. Force v Highlanders (Perth - early start there to still be 7.30 EST)
- 29/04 R10 Reds v W. Force (Brisbane)
- 06/05 R11 Reds v Waratahs (Townsville)
- 13/05 R12 Waratahs v Rebels (Sydney)
- 20/05 R13 Waratahs v Fijian Drua (Sydney)
- 27/05 R14 Brumbies v Chiefs (Canberra)
- 03/06 R15 Waratahs v Moana Pasifika (Sydney)
The Round 2 match mentioned above being in Melbourne due to it being their “Super Round” with all games down there.
1 Like
This one could be an 8 Eastern kickoff.
Could this mean Stan will adopt Sky Sport NZ graphics, or vice versa?
Would be new graphics or the RA ones, it won’t be the internal Sky ones.
New is my understanding.
2 Likes
With round 1 kicking off a week before the NRL, I wonder if there would have been any merit in 9 putting more games on FTA this weekend to advertise their Stan Sport offering.
Would have been good to see all Australian teams live on the main channel
2 Likes
As seen on Sky and Stan in Aus.
1 Like
They don’t look too bad for what is (as has tended to be the case with common Super Rugby graphics) just re-skins of Sky’s usual graphics, which are good in themselves - although I see they’ve at least conceded the style of the try graphic to be similar to what Stan used last year.
Apart from needing the common and neutral branding so it works elsewhere: I sorta still prefer what Sky have used locally (for things like the NPC, at least the most recent version as used last year) to this…
2 Likes
Stan Sport will show the 2023 Australian Club Championship doubleheader live from Brisbane’s Sci-Fleet Stadium tomorrow (March 4). Gold Coast’s Bond University and Sydney club Gordon will compete for the inaugural women’s title at 12.30pm QLD time (1.30pm AEDT), before Wests Bulldogs take on Sydney University in the men’s final at 2pm QLD time.
4 Likes
9 have exercised their option and extended their deal for 2 more years through 2025. They are now entering a 12 month exclusive negotiation period for a longer term deal beyond that. Clearly it’s driving the necessary subscriptions for Stan for 9 to want longer terms with RA.
5 Likes
Rugby Australia boss Hamish McLennan has confirmed to The Sunday Telegraph that that he is talking to Nine about a new blockbuster game called State of the Union, featuring best 30 rugby union players in the country (split into Probables and Possibles) competing for Wallabies jerseys. The first game could happen in 2025 before the British and Lions tour of Australia.
2 Likes
