NRL in Las Vegas on Nine
Nine's Wide World of Sports brings you action from the 2024 Season Opener this Sunday.
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Nine screens NRL action from Las Vegas strip this Sunday from 3.00pm AEDT.
On the sideline in Las Vegas for Nine’s Wide World of Sports will be Johnathan Thurston, Brad Fittler and Danika Mason.
In commentary is rugby league Immortal Andrew Johns, Queensland Maroons coach Billy Slater and Mat Thompson, while Broncos legend Darren Lockyer joins the panel with host James Bracey.
Superstars of the NRL’s two heavyweight clubs, Reece Walsh, James Tedesco, Adam Reynolds, Joey Manu and Ezra Mam, will have plenty of aces up their sleeves when they run out onto Allegiant Stadium, just weeks after it hosted the NFL’s Superbowl LVIII.
The history-making fixture is not to be missed, and footy fans can enjoy a huge day of footy from 1.00pm, with a special behind-the-scenes look at the epic 2023 NRL Grand Final in the final episode of a special two hour screening of Undisputed, plus live crosses to Las Vegas on the Today Show and the season premiere of the rebranded Sunday sports panel show: Wide World of Sports.
NRL: Roosters v Broncos
Sydney / Melbourne AEDT 3.00pm Live on 9GemHD, stream free on 9Now
Brisbane AEST 2.00pm Live on 9GemHD, stream free on 9Now
Undisputed
Before 2024 season kick-off, Wide World of Sports will exclusively go behind the scenes with the defending champions in Undisputed, Penrith Panthers, reliving their incredible comeback 2023 Grand Final win from with a two hour screening covering their 2023 finals run at 1.00pm AEDT Sunday, when episode 3 of Undisputed is shown on Channel 9HD.
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Though the business ambition of Peter V’landys is obvious I don’t sense a great deal of excitement for this NRL venture, just that it’s a potential waste of money, but the NRL does have a lot of money at the moment. Just as a reminder of how the NRL’s economic circumstances can change, not that long ago we read articles that said: ”The NRL will hand out a combined $7 million in COVID-19 relief packages to clubs to make up for lost revenue through a lack of crowds and home games.” so the reported $700 million in NRL revenue in 2023 is not bad at all.
But this isn’t actually the season opener. The opener is the game immediately before this, that is only available thru Foxtel / Kayo.
Yes I have that listed in a Foxtel post, but it is still a season opening day.
This round is effectively a split round going over two weeks to allow the teams playing in the US to recover for Round 2.
Given that only 2 clubs play regular season matches at Accor Stadium (and one of those is Canterbury-Bankstown that has another home ground that they can use), the draw can be shuffled around to accommodate any double bookings. Allianz Stadium has limited availability for concerts due to noise restrictions, so that would be why Accor Stadium will be used more frequently.
The bigger question is why the NRL has only allowed one game of the double header to air on free to air?
I am wondering why they kick nrl off at LV instead of Accor Stadium. I may think that it has to do with the unavailablity of Accor Stadium in the first 3 weeks due to concerts. I personally think the NRL is too subservient to Frontier Touring following the swift concert. I wonder when Accor Stadium will be available for NRL games this year?