sky and the rugby channel ...WTF!

these cunts ok ok u may say its only rugby but hey i do other things in my spare time away from the music scene..


i mean i have been to more test matchs than some of the AB's have played but please a rugby channel.

we already get ripped off for what we get for basic sky cause u dont get the movie channel and now this pftt fuck u sky televison is all i can say

* goes to look for his old radio*

i mean ok in the states and the uk u pay ur $50 a month or whateva but u get about 100+ channels they dont have channels for just basketball or ice hockey

so what is skys idea ? pay an extra $20 a month now just for rubgy

two words

fuck them!

not to mention them making Juice exclusive to digital.

fuckers.


they say the rugby channel is an optional extra that wont effect rugby on the regular sports channels, but I bet they will make rugby exclusive to the rugby channel eventually.


I wish they had a seperate channel for golf since thats all thats ever on sky sport whenever I flip to it.

optional extra haha it reads in the May skywatch ( i dont buy it took it from my nana's house hehe) that all the home test match are live and exclusive only to the rugby channel fucking lying cunt!

funny, my May skywatch states:

By the way, subscribers can rest assured the Rugby Channel will not deprive SKY Sport viewers of their favorite game. "Our coverage of rugby on SKY Sport is unaffected by the new channel".

um im sure its in the back for *coming up in June all the test matchs live only on the rugby channel* if not ok sweet but im sure i did read it somewhere



i wouldnt post it at all cause im really not happy about it !

some one or group like us needs to write to them and put a stop to this fucking bullshit

The heck with that... they take jucie away and restrict it to only sky digital, and now they want a whole channel for a stupid sport.

whats the point in having a rugby channel if their still showing rugby on the other sports channels, i say, keep the rugby on 1 channel, and have different sports on the other sports channels like more pool/snooker

why would we want to watch 90 years of NZ losing???????

I think I'd get bored of a rugby only channel. I love the game but I'd only watch it as much as I watch it on normal sky sport. And wtf's up with Juice going digital? That's a crock!!! Bring back Buck!

bring back MTV for fucks sake!


was just watching the chiefs game and yea i lasted about 50mins

fuck watching the whole thing to farking boring !

RUGBUY'S A DISEASE - PASS IT ON!!!

Sky digital is the only way to go anyway. Obviously it will completely replace the other sky soon, but they will keep rugby on sky sport as to do otherwise would cost them millions. Wait for a cheap install deal and then switch to digital asap.

I say why inflice the rugby channel on unsuspectign citizens? So what is you have to pay extra for it? It's not like you don't have to pay for everything else these days anyway... get over it.

... and fuck MTV!! Bring back Max & make it nationwide!!

sorry guys, going digital is what most people are doing, so its logic to move in that direction.

Whats wrong with a rubgy channel, oh no its not something related to music or the dance scene.

Forest, watch the swearing man, makes you sound silly and little.

seriously...

it almost makes me ashamed to be a NZer... i can't believe how seriously people take rugby here.

don't get me wrong, like every kiwi boy i grew up on a healthy diet of rugby, and do like the sport. but my loyalty to the ne zealand game flew out the door when helen clarke announced that it was a nation wide depression because we lost to the boks in the last world cup.

what is wrong with the rugby channel you ask?? it is just a symptom of the way our society functions - poorly.

honestly... a rugby channel? ridiculous!

and lets get out there and support the WARRIORS! its way more fun!! hehe

SUPAMAORIFULLA states "it almost makes me ashamed to be a NZer... i can't believe how seriously people take rugby here."

We do take our rugby seriously...possibly sometimes too seriously (ie when we lost to France in last world cup).

However....I think its pretty normal for countries to take their main sport to a slightly over the top level. Most countries do.

The Pommes/Italians/Brazilians/Germans etc etc with Football. (and far more fanatical than we are...check for instance David Beckhams treatment after last world cup)

Aussies with cricket/league/Rugby/Aussie Rules.

One could go on and on.

Um deco next would be a word for


as i say i grew up on rubgy proly been to well over 50 tests matchs and hunreds of Npc matchs that dont even include my home team.

My uncle is from the USA and he reckons from the last time he was there that they dont even have channels for NFL, NHL or soccer for that matter.

sky are a bunch of wankers it is time for a new digital service to come and blow them out of the water ? and i thought that saturn tv had all the All Black games anyway ? you see its alot shit.

there is no point in having a whole channel of rubgy anyway as jeff said why would we want to watch 90 years of losing rubgy.

and on a second note about sky tv where the fuck do they fish up or there commentator for ? John Drake ? pfft takes the piss out of every player that does something wrong... yet the only reason why he was every an all black is because he played for Auckland in the days of if u played for Auckland u where an all black no matter how good you where..

and as for having Jon Preston as a game anyaisit (sp) what the fuck this guy got droped about 3 years ago cause he sucked and went to play rugby in the Uk and still sucked....

Sky tv really needs to talk to the people that have something to do with rugby at grassroot level, we are the real part that keeps it all going.... these people cant afford to have sky digital and then pay more for the extras u have to have.

and as for paying $75 for a ticket to sit on the terraces at shitty old eden park fuck that as well.

im glad we didnt get the world cup cause then they would have charged us nearly $100 to sit there. oh no hang on there wouldnt have been an seats left because all the fucking bullshit that think they are a name in the sport would have to have free seats.


Fuck u Sky tv!

oh and my keyboard is fucked hence the missed letters :-p im getting a new one tomorrow

You guys think we take rugby seroiusly, man guess your guys dont know how the states take there football or baseball, or england with its national soccer team. Ever heard of national pride.


Forest

'there is no point in having a whole channel of rubgy anyway as jeff said why would we want to watch 90 years of losing rubgy.'

but didnt you enjoy the well over 50 tests matchs and hunreds of Npc matchs?

Just because the States dont have 'single sports' channels doesnt mean NZ shouldnt. Do we have to follow them or something?

Alot of people are going to enjoy the rugnby channel.

i still hate them for dropping the best music channel they had FASHION TV.

needless to say it was just the music i had it on for go the rio carnival.

You can't deny the lingerie was all good too.....!

It was, never had such an interest in fashion until that.

"... and fuck MTV!! Bring back Max & make it nationwide!!"



"honestly... a rugby channel? ridiculous!

and lets get out there and support the WARRIORS! its way more fun!! hehe"



Tis true.

i do have every idea how serioulsy these nations take their respective sports (i.e the U.S and its football/ baseball; and england and the premier league etc...)

however, their fanaticism is much more localised...
look at the size and spread of the populations and the number of teams available to support. also lets not forget the fact that in soccer international fixtures are called 'friendlies'

the reason i said that we take Rugby too seriously here in NZ is for slightly different reasons...

rugby purists think that more rugby is better. no matter what. whereas in the U.S and in particular with Football, they have realised a more effective strategy for maintaining passion within the game, without people actually believing that it matters to their daily lives: the football season is all of 16 weeks. a hard, intense season, where every single game counts in the race to the superbowl. and at the end of it all, you have to wait 36 more weeks to see your lads in action again, and inevitably you're champin at the bit as they say...

anyhow, my point is, the way in which people take rugby too seriously when compared with the premiere league, or the major league, is far more dull and drab.

we have our dull, drab prime minister telling us that we are in a state of deppression coz we lost a friggin rugby game... come on... i just think that people in NZ tend to generally lack passion in what they do (obviously not everyone) and even those who are passionate about things like rugby are that way for the wrong reasons

football is pretty much only played in the states, rugby is played in alot more countries.

Soccer supporters in the UK (and a lot of europe) are way more passionate about their sport than rugby supporters in NZ. In the UK they get depressed if their team does badly, and will fight for their team. A comment on a hooligan thing on TV summed it up for me. This everton supported sought out the camera to tell us "Everton FC is more important to me than my parents, because everton will always be there and my parents won't be".

Americans are just as passionate about their sports and the NFL season of 16 weeks is the exception for US sports, not the norm. Basketball, Ice Hockey and baseball all play huge numbers of games over a long season.

they sure play alot of games. not sure bout ice hockey but basketball play 82 games excluding playoffs & baseball play 162 excluding playoffs. sometimes they even play twice a day in the baseball season, which is fucking weird.