They got back to me. Apparently programmes become available to watch on demand as soon as the content is repeated on Premier Sports. So each WC game will only become available once a repeat of the game has been shown on the channel.
I haven't bothered to look at the schedule to see when the games are repeated but it could be days/weeks after the games have been played. Not ideal really.

Looks like I'm getting up at 6 to watch the Tonga match tomorrow then

I have a 'laptop' sub to PS too, and normally I watch the NRL 'on demand', and seldom see anything live. But this morning I switched it on, saw the end of the NZ game, the first twenty minutes of the Fiji game, and then it died. No amount of restarting my laptop had any effect, and my internet connection was still good. So I too turned to the On Demand, only to find no RLWC listed at all (so far).

Not impressed!

They're crap. I'll just stick with the BBC highlights which to be honest, are pretty good.

YT has a quality upload of the full games

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Thanks for that.

Get the Premier Sports app. Sign up online for £9.99 a month and you can cast games to an Amazon Firestick, watch them online or just watch them on your phone.

I think you can then cancel your subscription if you don’t want to carry on at any time

Didn’t have any problems yesterday, although it died on my iPad at about 65 minutes this morning during the Ireland game. Had to watch the end of that on my phone.

Next two games were fine casting from phone to TV.

So all of Sunday's games are now on the 'on demand' service (a few hours after and the service I was hoping for) while the games on Saturday and Friday are nowhere to be seen. Strange and frustrating!

The Lebanon v England game is attracting a big crowd.
Ticket site says only 7% of tickets still available with 4 days to go.
Apparently most Sydney sports stores have sold out of Lebanon merchandise.

Can anybody shed some light on how to watch the Freesport channel?

I have the freeview channels (such as Dave, E4 etc.) built into my TV but I don't seem to have the Freesport channel.... Do I need to own a separate freeview box or a firestick?

I'm very keen to watch the Samoa v Tonga game on saturday morning and I've tried a streaming site before but they tend to be terrible quality.

I take it you do not have sky if you do go on the sky sports list and its after premier I have taped and watched 2 games on their and I have 2 more set up for this weekend so with BBC match I can watch 3 games great

You may need to do a channel search on your TV to add it. Failing that, If you have Sky, its on Channel 424.

It's there on my freeview, channel 97 I think?

Maybe try doing a scan for new channels on your tv, with my old set I used to have to run the auto tune every now and then to pick up any new channels that had launched.

Either way you definitely do not need a sky subscription to get it.

While free sports is not in hd someone told me that it runs on a HD frequency so you can only get it if you have a HD TV.