NZ has ongoing border issues and Melbourne is best reserved for premium in-season content like Origin, it doesn’t have the market to support the indigenous game.
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I do not think the Indigenious game warrents a sydney or Brisbane really. I think it should be like City vs Country and played in a Regional City.
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The NRL confirmed the venue and date at the event launch today.
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Who will step up now, with Peter Sterling retiring, and Erin Molan rumoured stepping down (and continue with doing sports for the News on Fridays and Saturdays)?
Will James Bracey continue with Sports Sunday or now step in for the Sunday Footy Show? I can see Danika Mason step up in the hosting role of the Sunday Footy Show down the track. Ruan Sims and alana Ferguson can still do the odd panellists on the show.
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Potentially Roz Kelly or Tim Horan move into hosting Sports Sunday, with Bracey moving to host SFS. But I’d say that Danika Mason will become host of the Sunday Footy show and take over Erin’s shifts. Keeps just about everything the same.
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Refer to discussion here: NRL Free To Air TV Rights 2023-2027 (Nine) - #297 by bacco007
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Congratulation on Peter on being pregnant!!! hehehe
Nine have changed the schedule for next Saturday and will show the NRL Indigenous All Stars V Maori All Stars on the main channel in Melbourne.
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It will be interesting to see if the game rates higher than A League on 10. It will be a close contest.
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It also means the match will be shown live on TDT main channel in Tasmania rather than 9Gem.
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Yes I have hear from my friends in Hobart NRL live on Channel 9 this Saturday and I be watching from my home in Brisbane
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Rugby League’s star studded celebration of cultures
MEN’S AND WOMEN’S DOUBLE-HEADER ON CHANNEL 9 & 9GEM
The NRL Harvey Norman All Stars, footy’s greatest celebration of Indigenous cultures, returns this Saturday in the first official fixture of the 2022 NRL season, LIVE and FREE on Channel 9 and 9Gem.
Kicking off at 5.00pm AEDT on 9Gem with the Women’s All Stars, the annual clash will be hosted in Sydney for the first time at CommBank Stadium. The Maori Ferns will be back with a vengeance, determined to reverse their devastating 24-0 loss to the Indigenous All Stars in 2021.
The Australian Indigenous All Stars (Men) will then take on the New Zealand Maori All Stars, at 7.30pm AEDT on Channel 9, with all eyes on Shaquai Mitchell, brother of Rabbitoh superstar Latrell Mitchell. Mitchell makes his debut in an NRL game for the Indigenous All Stars after St George playmaker Jack Bird was forced out with injury. Both teams are itching for a win after last year’s match ended in the first draw in All Star history.
The huge double-header of male and female stars representing their culture and heritage on the big stage will give fans their first taste of rugby league for the year ahead, with the 2022 NRL season starting on Thursday, March 10, on Nine.
INDIGENOUS ALL STARS v MAORI ALL STARS (MEN), LIVE from CommBank Stadium
Date: Saturday, February 12
Host and commentators: James Bracey, Allana Ferguson, Andrew Johns, Brad Fittler, Danika Mason, Billy Slater, Cameron Smith, Johnathan Thurston, Mat Thompson
Sydney 7.30pm LIVE on Channel 9 & 9Now
Brisbane 7.00pm LIVE on Channel 9 & 9Now
Melbourne 7.30pm LIVE on Channel 9 & 9Now
Adelaide 7.00pm LIVE on 9Gem & 9Now
Perth 4.30pm LIVE on 9Gem & 9Now
INDIGENOUS ALL STARS v MAORI ALL STARS (WOMEN), LIVE from CommBank Stadium
Date: Saturday, February 12
Host and commentators: Danika Mason, Allana Ferguson, Ruan Sims, Peter Psaltis
Sydney 5.00pm LIVE on 9Gem & 9Now
Brisbane 4.00pm LIVE on 9Gem & 9Now
Melbourne 5.00pm LIVE on 9Gem & 9Now
Adelaide 4.30pm LIVE on 9Gem & 9Now
Perth 2.00pm LIVE on 9Gem & 9Now
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Is there any reason why the Maori are the ‘home’ team?
Good to see they don’t have any white fellas hosting the match tonight. Boney, Thurston and Inglis.