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So predictable that England would win tonight. It seems obvious they're going to make it all the way to the final and win the tournament. Typical British press painting a picture of them as underperforming when they're clearly the top team - exactly the same trajectory as the Women's World Cup, with the British press making out initially that England didn't stand a chance.
ITV laughing all the way to the bank.
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(09-09-2023, 10:29 PM)Reith85 Wrote: So predictable that England would win tonight. It seems obvious they're going to make it all the way to the final and win the tournament. Typical British press painting a picture of them as underperforming when they're clearly the top team - exactly the same trajectory as the Women's World Cup, with the British press making out initially that England didn't stand a chance.
ITV laughing all the way to the bank.
So have the England team been in on this conspiracy by losing to Fiji the other week losing most of their matches the year?
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ITV’s coverage half time coverage being led by a non red card incident that the BBC live feed doesn’t even seem to have mentioned.
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(10-09-2023, 05:48 PM)Newshound47 Wrote: ITV’s coverage half time coverage being led by a non red card incident that the BBC live feed doesn’t even seem to have mentioned.
Virgin Media One in Ireland (who are sharing the rights with RTE Sport) also led with this but they said the ref made 3 mistakes in the 1st half, one of which was missing the red card and they also felt he missed 2 sin bins.
Alun Wyn Jones has signed up for virgin as a pundit and former RTE Commentator/head of sport Ryle Nugent has also signed up for the tournament.
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Worth noting how things have changed broadcasting wise since the tournament was last in France in 2007 - back then even the final was only scheduled in a 2 hr 15 minute slot, though in the end as England made the final they added an extra 15 minutes of build up.
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(10-09-2023, 07:10 PM)Brekkie Wrote: Worth noting how things have changed broadcasting wise since the tournament was last in France in 2007 - back then even the final was only scheduled in a 2 hr 15 minute slot, though in the end as England made the final they added an extra 15 minutes of build up.
It's amazing to even think, when ITV covered the tournament for the first time, in 1991, only 18 of the 31 matches were live, wheras now, thanks to multi channel ITV, all of them are live.
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(10-09-2023, 07:54 PM)robertclark125 Wrote: It's amazing to even think, when ITV covered the tournament for the first time, in 1991, only 18 of the 31 matches were live, wheras now, thanks to multi channel ITV, all of them are live.
If they were already covering most of the games live then, I’m not sure it’s that amazing within 30 years they’d find a way to cover all of them.
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And it wasn't until the early noughties that you didn't have 5/6 Nations games scheduled not to clash with each other.
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One notable change from past tournaments - ITV Cymru Wales aren't doing their own separate coverage this year, be it live games or highlights. I think they only mounted highlights shows last time round.
Quite a distinct lack of extra programming outside news, infact - aside a one-off documentary shown last month filmed in Wales' training camp in Switzerland.
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S4C seem to have two presenting positions in the stadium with Sarra Elgan in the stands and Jason Mohammed pitchside.
