Thur 28 May: NRL: Brisbane Broncos v Parramatta Eels (Sky TV 10.55am)

[Allora]

Kick off in a few hours time

[The Future is League]

All sports fans in Australia should be watching this

[The Future is League]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/english-eyes-brisbane-broncos-starlet-22096696

[Adelaide Tiger]

Can’t wait.  Beer in the fridge and crisps (crisps not chips!!!!!!!!!!!!) ready and waiting

[John Drake]

We don't usually do pinned NRL match threads on the main forum, but as this is the first Rugby League match any of us will have seen in a couple of months and it's on live Sky, it seems daft not to.

[THE RED ROOSTER]

This will be interesting today

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We’re celebrating the NRL’s incredible return from tonight with ‘Virtual Audio’ to provide the perfect crowd experience in this new era of fan-free footy.

After weeks of development and testing, Fox Sports will tonight launch on all NRL broadcasts a virtual crowd that, using cutting edge technology mixes natural crowd responses from a library of game-day sounds.

Big hit — cue the roars and calls. Dropped ball — cue the frustrated fans.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2020-broncos-vs-eels-roosters-vs-rabbitohs-fox-league-virtual-audio-crowd-noise/news-story/2fb113b37d705f4b7df7548c0f579fe1

[lucky 7]

Broncos by 14.

[Allora]

It’s 1st versus 5th tonight.

Come on PARRA!!!!!!

[Futtocks]

Morning/evening all!

Hard to predict, after the long downtime, but I reckon the Eels will win it. Could all be a bit rusty, though.

Farnsworth starts on the bench.

[roughyed8]

I'M EXCITED!!

[Tommygilf]

I'm giddy with excitement

[Copa]

The fake stadium music and crowd noise is strange, yet it works.

They even had a fool yell out during the moment of silence..

[Number 16]

Rubbish crowd. 

[Hela Wigmen]

Going to take some getting used to this six to go rule they’ve brought in. 

[Futtocks]

[Man of Kent]

Blimey. If games are reffed like that in Super League we’d have games with 96-72 scorelines.

[EastLondonMike]

8 minutes ago, Hela Wigmen said:

Going to take some getting used to this six to go rule they’ve brought in. 

No doubt. Already making an impact.

Will be interesting to see if Parra can get a real role on off the back of this rule.

 

Edit. This is fast.

[Man of Kent]

Muchos muchos one-out rugby so far 

[Man of Kent]

Getting better. Unbelievable pace to the game.

[Hela Wigmen]

This is frenetic. How they’re going to do this for 80 minutes is anyone’s guess. 

[Nearenough]

this is brilliant, best advert for RL we could have, its live on US TV as well, fantastic stuff

[Futtocks]

This pace is going to open more defensive holes soon.

[Hela Wigmen]

Tired defence already, understandably. The benches could be absolutely huge this evening. 

[Copa]

They’ve probably been doing lots of cardio running around the neighbourhood when the gyms were closed...

[JohnM]

Can't catch the virus just from watching on TV, I trust. Anyway, makes a great change to watch live RL. Welcome back.