Help Out An Exiled Rugby Fan!

pucan

ESPN Australia in their wisdom have decided to not to show Munster Vs Leinster live on Saturday night, but instead to highlights of bowling and tractor pulling(seriously).

Can you do us Munster and Leinster fans down-under a massive favour and send an email to ESPN at the address below asking them to show it?
Trying to get a bunch of people to do this. It has worked before...

Couple of things to mention:

It's 2 Irish teams in the match and Australia is obviously full of Irish
It's an 82,000 capacity sell-out, which will break the worldwide club rugby attendance record
It's the semi-final of a competition that ESPN Australia have been broadcasting and advertising all year
It can be safely stated that the audience will be significantly larger for this, than for bowling/tractor pulling.
After all the Australian media(both sport and mainstream) coverage of Munster-all blacks back in November, there is more than just an Irish ex-pat audience
Heineken Cup games on ESPN regularly feature in the "On The Box" column in the Sydney Morning Herald

international.networks@espn.com

Thanks very much anyone who has a minute to send them a mail

thomond2006

Hate to break it to you but it probably won't make a difference.

For your sake I hope I'm wrong. Either way, enjoy the game!!

soundsham

anyone know how to get espn australia here
cool:cool:tracctor pulling:cool: season is back

http://www.crawfordcountypost.com/image/Pic6395.png

only kiddin done!!

ScrubsfanChris

I'd say your best chance is to cheack out the Match Streams thread on match day.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055512876

chupacabra

soundsham wrote: »

anyone know how to get espn australia here
cool:cool:tracctor pulling:cool: season is back

only kiddin done!!

You may catch the best of the tractor pulling action on Rural tv or the country channel. Good stuff.

jop

watch it online:cool:

Serenity Now!

pucan wrote: »

ESPN Australia in their wisdom have decided to not to show Munster Vs Leinster live on Saturday night, but instead to highlights of bowling and tractor pulling(seriously)

Its rugby union and you're in Australia, what did you expect?

pucan

thomond2006 wrote: »

Hate to break it to you but it probably won't make a difference.

For your sake I hope I'm wrong. Either way, enjoy the game!!

Thanks for breaking it to me gently...It worked before, they weren't showing the ospreys game until reminded.

pucan

Serenity Now! wrote: »

Its rugby union and you're in Australia, what did you expect?

Programming decisions are made in the U.S. not here.

CatFromHue

according to the leinster website where they have a list of places to watch the game worldwide
Its on in sydney, you are in sydney right?, in the mercantile, 25 george street, the rocks, NSW 2000.
If you cant get espn to show it you may just have to go there

davmi

http://www.myp2pforum.eu/rugby/

pucan

CatFromHue wrote: »

according to the leinster website where they have a list of places to watch the game worldwide
Its on in sydney, you are in sydney right?, in the mercantile, 25 george street, the rocks, NSW 2000.
If you cant get espn to show it you may just have to go there

Cheers, but that's based on ESPN showing it.
Looks like online at this stage

Thanks all

Serenity Now!

pucan wrote: »

Programming decisions are made in the U.S. not here.

...with the target audience in mind.
Not a big sport in Aussie especially when it comes to a European club-provincial comp like the ERC.