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It’s clearly the value of the next NRL TV deal that has prompted the interest of investors in Melbourne Storm.

What makes you so confident about the Chiefs never winning the NRL? In ten years PNG will probably have junior rugby league developmental systems and player pathways bigger than the entire English rugby league system.

Viewers get the NRL on 9 for free. Viewers will have to subscribe to channel 9s streaming service Stan (and probably pay extra to add the sports package to Stan) to watch their favourite EPL teams. ch9’s Stan is the current EPL rights holder in Australia and it costs $37 per month to have basic Stan plus sports to watch all EPL matches.

The Tongan prime minister, Tongan government officials and a Tongan princess are on the pitch in Sydney to participate in Daniel Tupou’s 300 game celebration. The Tongan PM even yelled out “go roosters!” at the end of his speech.

Undercover with a view of the Pacific Ocean in front of us..

Finally bought my tickets for the Wollongong England doubleheader.

Lots of QLD and NSW government agencies do things like this during the Origin period.. it’s quite funny. https://www.facebook.com/share/1BSX31KB4Q/?mibextid=wwXIfr

We usually have crisps and beer in Australia while watching rugby league.

People here in Australia will buy tickets when attention turns to the event. I’m actually surprised at how many have already been sold.

The NRL already has both 1-point and 2-point field goals. I’d fear safety scoring plays could alter the game dramatically. It’d become too easy to implement.

The England fans now have to change their clothes and hope the 7500 Mexican police do a good job..

He's an A-league referee here in Australia. I didn't know they picked refs from such low level comps.

What a match ... The 3 Australian match officials keeping it tense!

I just hope everyone watching at home respects the kicker and silence descends upon the household.

My household watched it and enjoyed the game. We also usually attend some of the standalone NRLW Raiders games during the season.

Totally off topic but I’ve not heard anyone say “cobber” in over 40 years and even that was an elderly person using it. We say “heaps” heaps though. Heaps of “heaps” in Australia.

NZers could step up from the All Blacks to the West Tigers!

The NRLW are racing to be the first women’s club “rugby” competition with teams full of decently paid athletes. The first competition to get that status will have a very strong first mover advantage that will take serious effort to overcome.

There will be significantly more than an extra game for TV channels. There will also probably be 8 more NRLW teams over the lifetime of the next tv contract. So eventually there could be up to 20 live games a week across the NRL and NRLW.

I wonder how much the TV rights are worth in PNG?

It’s not signed yet.

All reasonable tips however it’s overlooked wearing a moist T-shirt/towel/tea towel and sitting in near a fan. It works a treat.

Lots of crowd booing against him when he’s on the screen in the stadium tonight

Not the NRL but here’s Elliot Whitehead with a really dodgy field goal attempt in Canberra’s regional competition. It turned into something that wasn’t expected. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1LfBTw6X24/?mibextid=wwXIfr

The Turks now know how hard it is to attack a Beach.