No mention of refund for those now unable to attend?
Insensitive given the exorbitant ticket prices.

Knockdown3 , family member rang them this morning as the time change stopped them from being able to attend till after second half at earliest , they were given a full refund plus the booking fees they had payed , no issues no jumping through hoops , was offered to her before she asked for it , so seems there more than happy to give refunds ,

Hope that helps if you need a refund

Good to hear Gazee.
Thanks for the info.
Glad it was straight forward.

The right decision all things considered.

Yeah i think i need to do this too unfortunately. My babysitter can't make it until 6pm. meaning at BEST I can get there at half time. Not great for $150

Ring them cram my cousin she had zero issues getting a refund

Cheeky early exit from the office for me - to be honest shame they didn't knock it back to 5.45. Makes it a little less ridiculous.

It should be 6pm.

I'm glad that the refunds are posing no problems, I hope that everyone is able to hear about the time change who bought tickets... Would suck for those that can't make it, but this really is a great decision and glad that Patty is front and centre saying how they all need to support each other as it's an amazing time for the Matildas...

the second game would be fun to watch

As someone affected which means I can now no longer go i still think it was a good decision.

Meanwhile, trying to get onto my mate who bought the tickets to get him to get a refund. Damn those people who actually concentrate at work and ignore their phones.

so FIFA will start rescheduling games for big FIBA games ?
I'm all support for the Matildas but when all your juniors are at soccer try outs not basketball.................

Experience tells me AFL and FIFA won't change to suit FIBA / NBL.

That's not really relevant, and this is not FIBA, it's BA. The reality here was BA could stick at the original time and have next to no TV viewers, or change it, get some positive publicity about supporting the Matildas and have a chance to get a reasonable TV audience.

Here's hoping the goodwill is reciprocated then.

Managed to switch our tickets for Thursday night. Now I get to watch both games properly. Win win

Awesome

To be fair, this is a world cup semi final and we are currently playing warm up games. Different level of importance and a show of good will and acknowledgement to what the matildas are doing creates good publicity. But annoyingly, no, the Boomers won't receive the same in return. For whatever reason the media and general public are far more ready to embrace soccer than basketball. Maybe it's still largely considered an American sport? I don't know. I know the Boomers did fairly well with ratings at the Olympics but I'd be surprised if the Boomers games rate above 100K viewers at rhe cup per game. Sad but true.

Last night got 76,000 metro viewers but I guess FTA would get more than ESPN can get on Foxtel anyway. For what it's worth the Opals got 75,000 for their World Cup Semi Final last year.

Where did you get the ratings from? I think that's a bit disappointing. Could it also be due to being on a secondary channel?

https://tvtonight.com.au/2023/08/monday-14-august-2023.html

Just keep in mind although the game last night only got 76k it still outrated anything on Foxtel last night including AFL 360.

I didn't even know it was on and I’m normally on top of these thinks, no publicity at all as far as I could see.
Can someone confirm where to watch and time please, thanks.

Yeah, got it from TVtonight, had to go back a bit for the Opals.

Imagine if they can knockoff Bluey one day, what an achievement that will be