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Guinness Pro 14- Tv Viewing Options

PMC83

So looking over the pro 14 viewing options for this season in Ireland.

As far as I can see the only option in the republic is Eir Sports, (with one or two games thrown to TG4?) so to get a decent range you will need an Eir Tv subscription. Which kind of leaves those of us with Virgin TV a little stumped.

In the UK it seems to be available through Premiere Sports which is a streaming service as far as I can tell? Though not sure if this is available outside the uk?

Finally for though of us who had Meteor mobile (now eir mobile) it is possible to download the Eir Sport Red app and watch the games there, only issue with this it can not be chrome cast, so will be phone only. Though perhaps can mirror to TV with a third party cable/app.

Anything I'm missing?

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Tigerandahalf

awec wrote: »

I see Premier Sports have outsourced the production of all their games to another company called Sunset and Vine. Same lads who do the Premier League for BT.

And BT's rugby.

bilston

Promising move I think.

It will be interesting to see what their team is.

Any hints?

Digifriendly

bilston wrote: »

Promising move I think.

It will be interesting to see what their team is.

Any hints?

Not Jonathan Davies according to Wales Online. Wonder will recently retired Sam Warburton be part of their team?

bilston

Digifriendly wrote: »

bilston wrote: »

Promising move I think.

It will be interesting to see what their team is.

Any hints?

Not Jonathan Davies according to Wales Online. Wonder will recently retired Sam Warburton be part of their team?

Wondered that myself. He was excellent on the BBC during the 6Ns.

I expect there will be a crossover between Eir Sports and Premier.

mogwai81

Do BT sports have sole coverage of European Rugby this year or is it split between them and Sky Sports again? Not sure where to post this question.

Digifriendly

mogwai81 wrote: »

Do BT sports have sole coverage of European Rugby this year or is it split between them and Sky Sports again? Not sure where to post this question.

BT have the rights but there will be 1 live FTA match per round of pool games on Channel 4 and afaik TV3 will show 1 live match per round.

PMC83

They had premier sports on in the pub last night (Dublin), seemed legit, screen had that little pint icon in the corner. Be curious as to how they got that in the republic. I can't get Eir unless half my garden is dug up!

kooga

PMC83 wrote: »

They had premier sports on in the pub last night (Dublin), seemed legit, screen had that little pint icon in the corner. Be curious as to how they got that in the republic. I can't get Eir unless half my garden is dug up!

was their a match on?

if so they often leave the premier sport logo on eir sport 2

PMC83

Rugby Union, I did notice that match was on Eir earlier in the day.

Cookiemunster

PMC83 wrote: »

They had premier sports on in the pub last night (Dublin), seemed legit, screen had that little pint icon in the corner. Be curious as to how they got that in the republic. I can't get Eir unless half my garden is dug up!

It was probably Eir Sport 2. That is basically Premier Sports. Almost the same programming line up. And I have seen Premier sports logo in the top corner of the screen.

Homesick Alien

awec wrote: »

FTA games in Ireland until Christmas (there are two weeks with no FTA game).

Cardiff v Leinster
Scarlets v Leinster
Munster v Ospreys
Leinster v Dragons
Cardiff v Munster
Connacht v Scarlets
Connacht v Leinster
Ospreys v Connacht
Connacht v Dragons
Leinster v Ospreys
Dragons v Leinster
Connacht v Ulster

Leinster x 6, Munster x 2, Connacht x 5, Ulster x 1.

In the UK, Ulster are never on Freesports, but they are on S4C once and BBC Alba twice.

Basically Ulster fans without Premier Sports won't ever get to see Ulster in English before Christmas at least.

Only two FTA Munster games. Sake.

kooga

awec wrote: »

I only took TG4 as that's the only channel everyone in Ireland can get.

It was on the Pro14 site.

I cant find on the Pro 14 site where BBC Alba is down as a broadcaster?

Former Former

Homesick Alien wrote: »

Only two FTA Munster games. Sake.

Up to Christmas. There are 4 Munster games on TG4 in Jan/Feb/March

awec

kooga wrote: »

I cant find on the Pro 14 site where BBC Alba is down as a broadcaster?

Ah, there's a bug on the Pro14 site.

When you look at the fixture list there is a Red S logo beside some of them, the alt text for the image is "BBC Alba" but it's the logo for Supersports.

So I guess Ulster are only FTA once before Christmas.

Riskymove

awec wrote: »

Ah, there's a bug on the Pro14 site.

Has TG4 disappeared from fixture list?

Digifriendly

Son paid subscription to Premier Sports so I now get Eir Sports 1, Premier Sports 1HD and Premier Sports 2. Picture quality of PS 2 is not great even for SD but otherwise pleased with product.

Elvisjuice

eir sports one going to HD within a few weeks.

Digifriendly

BBC Wales to show Principality Premiership rugby on Friday nights to fill hole left by losing Pro 14 rights to Premier Sports. Also looks like their Scrum V programme will be retained but concentrate solely on Welsh Premiership and not have any Pro 14 highlights.

Clegg

Tommy Bowe, Luke Fitz, DoC, Mazzie Reilly and Murray Kinsella are the Eir Sport pundits for next season's Pro 14.

https://twitter.com/eirSport/status/1026868549699207172?s=19

wp_rathead

Looking forward to seeing Murray Kinsella on the box
He was under used by TV3 during the RWC

Burkie1203

Clegg wrote: »

Tommy Bowe, Luke Fitz, DoC, Mazzie Reilly and Murray Kinsella are the Eir Sport pundits for next season's Pro 14.

https://twitter.com/eirSport/status/1026868549699207172?s=19

https://twitter.com/eirSport/status/1026868017244852225?s=19

icdg

Bowe has been hired as the anchor.

https://www.eirsport.ie/bowe-to-lead-eir-sport-s-pro14-coverage

Tigerandahalf

Not a huge fan of Fitz, comes across as a cocky sort.

Kinsella on the highlights show could be very good.

Have to see how Tommy handles the anchor role. Will he be airing his views?

What about pundits for premier/freesports as many of these games will be simulcast between the channels?

awec

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

Not a huge fan of Fitz, comes across as a cocky sort.

Kinsella on the highlights show could be very good.

Have to see how Tommy handles the anchor role. Will he be airing his views?

What about pundits for premier/freesports as many of these games will be simulcast between the channels?

Or incredibly boring and mundane if he is anything like how he writes.

"Well Tommy, if we spend 5 minutes going through this line break frame by frame, you will see here that this player should have been approximately 3.2 feet to his left, with his arm at a slightly more acute angle. However because this other player was running at him at a velocity of 4 feet per second, it caused him to take a step to the right roughly 1.2 seconds earlier than he should have, and this caused the line break".

I think he'll be forced to dial the detail back because it'll have no mainstream appeal. There is a reason he doesn't have a writing gig with an actual media outlet.

Squidgy Black

awec wrote: »

Or incredibly boring and mundane if he is anything like how he writes.

"Well Tommy, if we spend 5 minutes going through this line break frame by frame, you will see here that this player should have been approximately 3.2 feet to his left, with his arm at a slightly more acute angle. However because this other player was running at him at a velocity of 4 feet per second, it caused him to take a step to the right roughly 1.2 seconds earlier than he should have, and this caused the line break".

I think he'll be forced to dial the detail back because it'll have no mainstream appeal. There is a reason he doesn't have a writing gig with an actual media outlet.

He'll have to reign it in or else people will switch off almost immediately.

His analysis is superb on a detail level, but 99% of punters won't want to listen about every absolute miniscule detail of a mundane play.

awec

Squidgy Black wrote: »

He'll have to reign it in or else people will switch off almost immediately.

His analysis is superb on a detail level, but 99% of punters won't want to listen about every absolute miniscule detail of a mundane play.

I think his analysis is a load of bollocks tbh.

He analyses against absolute perfection, as if players are just robots.

The Lost Sheep

awec wrote: »

Or incredibly boring and mundane if he is anything like how he writes.

"Well Tommy, if we spend 5 minutes going through this line break frame by frame, you will see here that this player should have been approximately 3.2 feet to his left, with his arm at a slightly more acute angle. However because this other player was running at him at a velocity of 4 feet per second, it caused him to take a step to the right roughly 1.2 seconds earlier than he should have, and this caused the line break".

I think he'll be forced to dial the detail back because it'll have no mainstream appeal. There is a reason he doesn't have a writing gig with an actual media outlet.

When on tv previously he didnt go anything like that for 2015 world cup.

awec wrote: »

I think his analysis is a load of bollocks tbh.

He analyses against absolute perfection, as if players are just robots.

I wouldnt say a load of bollocks which is quite harsh but if his analysis was as good as some make it out to be he'd have a job as a team analyst

Tigerandahalf

His analysis will be fine as he will be on the highlights show, which will suit him.

The days of just yapping in the studio are in decline.
I do think a balance is needed. I'd like to see something like the Champions League magazine show where players and past players are interviewed, plus quick round up of all scores in games.

Btw does anyone know if eir will be offering a catchup/on demand section. A lot of the other apps like Eurosport and Eleven Sports are offering that.

Neil3030

Wow Murray has serious heat with Awec - did he once skip you in the queue at an Alcohol Kombucha festival?

Burkie1203

Neil3030 wrote: »

Wow Murray has serious heat with Awec - did he once skip you in the queue at an Alcohol Kombucha festival?

Worse. He wrote a positive article about Ulster in 2013