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Speaker 1: This is jem Nation with Jonesy.

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Speaker 2: Let's get on down to the Jonesy Demander arms for

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Speaker 2: the pub test today, and we're talking about state of

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Speaker 2: origin start time. Does it pass the pub test?

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Speaker 3: It's been getting later and later. At the moment it's

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Speaker 3: sort of eight ten or eight fifteen, which is about

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Speaker 3: seventy five minutes after the coverage starts.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's all because of gus is pream.

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Speaker 4: These final moments in the dressing room. These players are

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Speaker 4: at their most nervous and you need that.

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Speaker 3: Well, the second half doesn't kick off until about seven

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Speaker 3: a quarter past nine. The show wraps up after ten o'clock,

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Speaker 3: ten past ten. It's just too late. But this is

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Speaker 3: always for TV ratings because they think you get them

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Speaker 3: early in the night and keep the viewers till later on.

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Speaker 3: But for many people and kids, it's just too late.

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Speaker 2: The TV networks have been doing it tough lately. Man,

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Speaker 2: come on, let's help them out.

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Speaker 3: So what do you think state of origin kickoff time?

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Speaker 3: Does it pass the pub test?

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Speaker 5: No, dectitely not. We went to the last state of

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Speaker 5: origin and it's so late, and now that I'm at

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Speaker 5: home watching it, I just don't want to stay up

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Speaker 5: so late.

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Speaker 1: It certainly doesn't. I'm sixty five years of age. When

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Speaker 1: I was fifteen, I used to go to the Grand

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Speaker 1: Final and it was at three pm in the afternoon,

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Speaker 1: So definitely not way too late.

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Speaker 6: No, it doesn't. It's too late and got all this

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Speaker 6: premble and all this talk, and then you want kids

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Speaker 6: to watch it and they can't stay up to the

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Speaker 6: end of the game.

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Speaker 2: There you go, I can't stay up to the end

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Speaker 2: of the game.

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Speaker 3: We're the same. So you're listening Channel nine. Please come fidently.

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Speaker 2: Don't go hard on those guys. TV networks have been

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Speaker 2: struggling for a dollar. Come on,