That was my first thought. I don't have to book a hotel or worry about rushing for a train home after the game.

Yeah, it's pretty frustrating listening to Eddie and Stevo talking about players putting themselves into England contention "for the upcoming Exiles game". You can bet that they wouldn't have shut up about the World Cup during tonight's match if they had the tournament rights, especially when McGoldrick, Mauro and Fages scored tries. What a missed opportunity.

Good to see the afternoon kick off times back after suffering skys awful 6pm kick offs over the last few seasons.

It is SKY management, rather than Eddie and Stevo. It is exactly the same with other things that they don't cover, you never used to hear about F1 on SSN before they won the rights to it. You don't have to listen to them talk about England long to realise how passionate they are.

Saturday November 30th 2013 at 2.30 pm GST is, I believe, 2.30am Sunday Morning here, 12.30am in Sydney and 10.30pm Saturday night in Perth.
The Semi-finals will be shown at 1am/3.30am, 11pm/1.30am and 8pm/11.30pm.
The probable NZ QF will be on here at 8am.....Aussies at 11pm sydney/9pm Perth.
2 aussie group games outside the DH 6am and 4am, 3 Kiwi games 6am, 8am, 8am.

Not sure how much SKY TV here in NZ or their counterparts in Aussie will be paying for the rights to show graveyard shift games...or if we may have to scurry around looking for internet feeds.

Hope it all goes well in the UK and the crowds do turn up, but I suspect the tournament will get little exposure over here

Thought this may actually be a thread no one has a pop at someone/a governing body on. Think how well the 6 Nations games do on the BBC at similar timed kick-offs. Lots of people at home before doing something on Saturday night and generally a better standard game. Can't wait.