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Message: [QUOTE="Super Freak, post: 2720582, member: 8536"] RUGBY league fans are about to receive a surprise February footy fix after the NRL performed a pre-season backflip and now allowed clubs to stream trial games. Several clubs had approached the NRL about streaming trials so they could showcase their big off-season recruits to the ever-growing digital audience. The Wests Tigers and Cronulla pre-season clash proved a huge success when shown live online last year. However, NRL head of football Todd Greenberg wrote to the clubs in a December 15 letter, which was obtained by The Daily Telegraph, that they wouldn’t be allowed stream trials because Channel Nine had exclusive rights to broadcast pre-season matches, ‘’irrespective of whether it does in fact choose to broadcast the pre-season matches’’. But in a second letter sent last week, Greenberg advised the clubs the NRL had struck a deal with Nine, and ‘’obtained its consent to allow pre-season matches to be streamed by clubs through their websites, should your club wish to do so’’. Greenberg added the clubs could only show trials via their websites, would have to pay for their own production costs, but the trials would ‘’remain the property of the NRL, and be available for use by the NRL’’. Fox Sports has also confirmed they will broadcast three pre-season matches, including the Charity Shield on February 13, the New Zealand Warriors and Gold Coast Titans trial earlier that day, as well as Kieran Foran and Michael Jennings’ likely first outing for Parramatta against Penrith at Pepper Stadium on February 20. [URL]http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/nrl-backflips-on-decision-to-allow-clubs-to-live-stream-trial-matches/news-story/adf4f496fe265990be856226579c3dc1[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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