I watched the NRL Grand Final on ESPN this year, haven`t heard anything to say it won`t be on ESPN next year aswell.

Its far better than the Boot n all show we have in England with them two muppets

I've never watched Boots n all so I couldnt comment.

It must be truly woeful if you think the Footy show is better though

Boots n all is terrible! It's a mixture of short highlights (not even all the tries, terrible topics and chat, and terrible analysis on the games.

It's Eddie and stevo Barry, what do you think its like

Part of me quite enjoys listening to Eddie and Stevo doing the international footy commentary on sky

I particularly enjoy it when Eddie starts to lose his rag with Stevo and they start bickering about Englands tactics...or lack of them


Classic tv

ESPN only showed one AFL game a week when they had the rights to all of them during the play-offs, and I imagine they would do the same with NRL. They're so cheap they would rather show a 5th re-run of a Bundesliga game than a live Aussie game in the morning when there's nothing else on. Having only one channel makes it even harder to show much. Surely no-one pays for ESPN America alone, would anyone cry if they put an Australian game on it early?

You'd be surprised how popular that channel is. They were crying galore on another forum when it was rumour ESPN America would turn into a general ESPN sport channel - as it turned out they kept both.

Personally I think it'll be ESPN or nothing for the NRL. I think Sky will only be interested I think if the rights are given to them really cheap.

You have to remember though that Sky's coverage of NRL was pretty crap. Ok they had Origin and we got try highlights on Boots n All but the Live game they gave us was always the Saturday 10:30am game - which (because it's how the rights work in Australia) is always the match that Channel 9/Fox Sports deem to be the worst choice of the week.

Some weeks the coverage was widescreen, other times it wasn't. Not forgetting to mention Tulsen Tollett!

I have Sky so I hope they get the rights, but only if they give us the better choice of games.

Quote deeHell="deeHell"Are you sure your not getting mixed up with AFL, i've just checked the link and didn't find anything at all about the NRL. I maybe I'm looking in the wrong place. I really hope someone bids for it other than ESPN because off clashes with the AFL games I don't think you will see much live rugby. ESPN took up the rights for the French top 14 RU competition, over Eurosport. With scheduling problems your lucky to get one live game a week. Hopefully it won't come to that!'" The link mate, when you want to subscribe through the ESPN website to add to a sky subscription www.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/s ... kyCOM_ESPN

Quote deeHell="deeHell"Are you sure your not getting mixed up with AFL, i've just checked the link and didn't find anything at all about the NRL. I maybe I'm looking in the wrong place. I really hope someone bids for it other than ESPN because off clashes with the AFL games I don't think you will see much live rugby. ESPN took up the rights for the French top 14 RU competition, over Eurosport. With scheduling problems your lucky to get one live game a week. Hopefully it won't come to that!'" The link mate, when you want to subscribe through the ESPN website to add to a sky subscription www.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/s ... kyCOM_ESPN

i hope sky get the rights

Quote jeronimo="jeronimo"The link mate, when you want to subscribe through the ESPN website to add to a sky subscription www.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/s ... kyCOM_ESPN'" So it does. I wounder if thats still left on from last seasons play offs. I will email them and try and find out.

Quote jeronimo="jeronimo"The link mate, when you want to subscribe through the ESPN website to add to a sky subscription www.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/s ... kyCOM_ESPN'" So it does. I wounder if thats still left on from last seasons play offs. I will email them and try and find out.

How much is Espn a month?