On the couch with TV3 for the Rugby World Cup

The estimable voices of BBC and RTÉ are on the outside looking in this time, with TV3 and ITV exclusive television rights holders. What type of armchair experience awaits us then? Brendan O’Brien finds out

September 1st. A big day. Joe Schmidt has just announced his squad for the Rugby World Cup and an event that had tantalised and teased for so long, through two successful Six Nations campaigns and a summer of low-key but burgeoning optimism, is almost upon us.

Finally.