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Rugby World Cup 2011 Singapore Match Times

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Update: The final match time is 16:00 on October 23, see my latest post.

My last post on the Rugby World Cup 2011 Television Rights for Asia has become one of my blog’s most visited pages, so I thought I would help out the Rugby mad community with the match schedule in the Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Philippine time zone. Ok, I wanted it as a reference for myself too!

You can also get this information from the official Rugby World Cup 2011 web site under the fixtures tab if you are looking for another time zone. There is a link just above the start of the match times that converts the times from New Zealand time to your own time zone. However, the match times are all arranged in the pool format, whereas I just put all the matches in chronological format.

09-Sep  16:30 New Zealand – Tonga
10-Sep  09:00 Scotland – Romania
10-Sep  11:30 Fiji – Namibia
10-Sep  14:00 France – Japan
10-Sep  16:30 Argentina – England
11-Sep  11:30 Australia – Italy
11-Sep  14:00 Ireland – USA
11-Sep  16:30 South Africa – Wales
14-Sep  10:30 Samoa – Namibia
14-Sep  13:00 Tonga – Canada
14-Sep  15:30 Scotland – Georgia
15-Sep  15:30 Russia – USA
16-Sep  16:00 New Zealand – Japan
17-Sep  11:30 Argentina – Romania
17-Sep  14:00 South Africa – Fiji
17-Sep  16:30 Australia – Ireland
18-Sep  11:30 Wales – Samoa
18-Sep  14:00 England – Georgia
18-Sep  16:30 France – Canada
20-Sep  15:30 Italy – Russia
21-Sep  15:30 Tonga – Japan
22-Sep  16:00 South Africa – Namibia
23-Sep  16:30 Australia – USA
24-Sep  13:00 England – Romania
24-Sep  15:30 New Zealand – France
25-Sep  10:30 Fiji – Samoa
25-Sep  13:00 Ireland – Russia
25-Sep  15:30 Argentina – Scotland
26-Sep  14:30 Wales – Namibia
27-Sep  12:00 Canada – Japan
27-Sep  14:30 Italy – USA
28-Sep  14:30 Georgia – Romania
30-Sep  15:30 South Africa – Samoa
01-Oct  10:30 Australia – Russia
01-Oct  13:00 France – Tonga
01-Oct  15:30 England – Scotland
02-Oct  08:00 Argentina – Georgia
02-Oct  10:30 New Zealand – Canada
02-Oct  13:00 Wales – Fiji
02-Oct  15:30 Ireland – Italy

I hope everyone has signed up for their ESPN Star Sports coverage, or at least found a few friends who have!

Go the All Blacks! 😉

Rugby World Cup 2011 – ESPN Star Sports Awarded Television Rights for Asia

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Finally some official confirmation on the Rugby World Cup 2011 web site about the television rights for Asia!

When I was signing up for Singtel’s mio TV I read a brochure confirming the Rugby World Cup 2011 would be available on the service. I’d also seen a few hints on the web in other places (including ESPN’s web site), but there was nothing official announced on the Rugby World Cup 2011 web site until now.

ESPN Star Sports will broadcast all the matches to Singapore, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Korea, Laos, Macau, Mongolia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines and Vietnam.

There is also a mention of some supplementary broadcasting:

Live TV coverage on ESPN STAR Sports’ networks will be supplemented with dedicated streaming and video on demand through ESPN Player and MobileESPN in Singapore and weekly highlights programming in several territories.

The first game is on September 9, so if you don’t have the right cable TV plan, now is the time to sign up for ESPN Star Sports to make sure you don’t miss any of the games!

I’m happy to finally get the confirmation, but I’m surprised it has taken this long. Especially considering I did see the brochure (back in April) that said the Rugby World Cup 2011 would be on mio TV. In any case it’s now resolved and I’ll be sitting down to watch the first game with the All Blacks taking on Tonga on ESPN Star Sports!

My First Blog in 2001

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It’s amazing what you can find on the Internet! As part of the process to save the old Yahoo Geocities’ content my own little site was saved. Here is what my page looked like in Dec, 2001.

My First Blog

My First Blog

I’m going to create a series of posts over the next few days which will show the original content from this old site. Thankfully I should still have the photos of which some seem to have been lost in the archiving process. I’m looking forward to reliving some old memories, although after seeing some of my old fashion choices I’m not too sure how some people will react!