Comments on: Setanta Sports – goodbye

By: nzdave

nzdave — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:05:45 +0000

milkster – it was a delayed broadcast on Setanta in the USA.
That’s the other thing that annoys me about what they do. If it’s a game like Scotland v. Fiji it will be on live, while if it’s All Blacks v. any Top10 team it will likely be delayed in an attempt to make you pay for a PPV or pay for Setanta Premium.

During this tournament I watched some games on a PPV basis on mediazone.com by hooking my laptop up to my TV – and doing that even gave me the New Zealand commentary team. So I am most likely just going to be doing that in the future. If you add Setanta to your DirecTV subscription you pay a monthly fee for it, so if they want to make me pay more on top of that then Setanta can take their extortion attempts elsewhere.

By: milkster

milkster — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:32:21 +0000

did you watch it on pay Per View or was it a delayed game?

By: nzdave

nzdave — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:10:25 +0000

Yeah – I heard that the English crowd had managed to drown out the Haka – it’s just downright rude and shows how desperate they are to find a way to beat the All Blacks.

Ironically – I can almost guarantee it was England that were begging for the ref to crack down on players at the breakdown, as they always claim McCaw is cheating there. Oh what a glorious case of shooting yourself in the foot it was as NZ listened, learned and adjusted their play at the breakdown and England continued to break the rules the ref was clearly enforcing.

By: ohwailywaily

ohwailywaily — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:48:33 +0000

Interestingly our free-to-air coverage yesterday showed the Haka and then miraculously cut to the kick-off.
We were left wondering whether there had been another stare down.

I also pondered the irony of the English rugby supporters (predominantly well-to-do, white men) loudly singing a negro spiritual in an attempt to drown out the Haka. Is it just me? Or is there something not quite right with that idea?