The Sky coverage is a hotch potch of live games, repeated games, highlight packages, repeated highlight packages, and panel commentary shows repeated ad nauseam, so much so that they become dated quickly.
Andrew Mehrtens was a good All Black and by all accounts one of the funniest All Blacks ever to play the game. But the joke wears a bit thin after a while.
As does Jeff Wilson's head shake and "jeez you're a crack-up mate" smirk as Mehrts wanders around an historic abbey talking about how a Ngapuhi rampage made it as far as the UK.
First time around, it's funny. But it starts to grate after a while.
Rugby analysis can quite easily become quite boring, if you aren't someone whose bedroom is painted black with a matching silver fern bedspread.
May a lightning bolt strike me down but some of us find it boring the first time. Let alone the third time.
We're not assembling a parliament to run a country. Or deciding who gets to travel on the first plane bound for the colonisation of Mars. It's a rugby team.
More variety please. Sky TV is an expensive service - they need to up their game, fans deserve better.
