Nice work. Thank you for your efforts. Good to see Peter Landy and hear his dulcet tones. The most remarkable thing was seeing the West Coast team bus trying to ram a stage coach in order to get into the G.
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That is great stuff, kudos NostalgiaNerd 
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The entire Rd 22 1977 Rich v St Ki match has been found.
Details of how it was discovered in the video description.
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Nice find! What a game. Goals galore. Great to watch.
Hungry had a field day that day - 33 disposals.
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In Melbourne these games were definitely late night, even matches in the 2003 Rugby World Cup in Australia that were shown in prime time in Sydney and Brisbane. Fox Sports (the pay TV rights holder) didn’t show these matches until late night as well, which really p***ed me off! HSV7 did not care about Rugby Union at all! There was one Wallabies game that was shown live in prime time in Melbourne in I think 2000, it clashed with a Saturday night AFL game which was shown later in the evening. They got a lot of complaints from footy fans as a result, so no more primetime rugby in Melbourne.
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They didn’t get live rights to Home Internationals until Channel 9 first took over the rights prior to the 2011 World Cup.
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That seems way too late. Wasn’t the deal if 7 couldn’t show live in all major cities that Fox could show the game live.
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Fox were showing home Wallaby matches live nationwide by at least 2008 (from memory I think it was a year or two earlier.)
Dunno what the makeup of that deal was.
July’08
Edit: May’07
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I think their AFL channel was the only one that ever had a different feed for each state.
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Got reminded that on New Years Eve 1999 The AFL Staged a match at the MCG. Carlton vs Collingwood basically a very early start to the pre season competition.
That was a bit of a novelty. Not a huge crowd IIRC, but a young Fev kicked 12. Was it a whole millenium/game/fireworks thing? I vaguely remember fans being promised a whole night of entertainment.
If you’re talking about the original Fox Footy Channel, that’s correct. It was tailored so that on Saturday nights when two matches overlapped, if one of them involved (for example) the Brisbane Lions and wasn’t being covered by Ten in Melbourne, Fox wouldn’t be able to show it live in Brisbane, and would instead televise the Ten-produced match.
In Melbourne, Fox would show the Ten-produced match immediately after their own produced match, during which they would warn viewers that “if you would prefer to watch the replay later, look away now”.
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Opening graphics crawl and relay station listings for 1978 Grand Final
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The 1978 Grand Final pre match performance has been found.
Actor Keith Michell.
NBN3 can’t be arsed with VFL at the time, I’m guessing?
Also, both 7 and 9 in Perth? And LWT (I’m guessing for World of Sport, they made it for ITV).
Great stuff. And LWT! That’s pretty impressive, the fact that London gets it and Adelaide… well Adelaide doesn’t seem to get a guernsey.
it’s Adelaide, what else do you expect? 
It probably was but i don’t really know. Apparently the match only got about 20,000. Plus the ground would have been tricky to play on. The Boxing Day test against India had only concluded the day before (that was Brett Lee’s test debut) i think the whole exercise was simply the AFL wantingnto cash in on the turn of the Millennium. Which funnily enough the NRL didn’t do.
Yeah not sure when NBN started showing Aussie Rules
Also Note that, during 2003, Fox did two different versions of Intros for it’s AFL Coverage - One for Matches involving two Victorian teams which Featured the Fox Footy Channel Branding and the other version is for Matches involving Western Australia and/or South Australia teams which saw the Fox Footy Channel emblem being concealed.
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