Voll Blau Posted 9 October 2015 Posted 9 October 2015 For everyone bitching about how they can't make games, you know it's inevitable that some will be moved. It's also the main reason that we can break our transfer record and spend increasing amounts of money every season. If you don't like it, we could always head back to League One? Yeah, because we're the only club in this league affected by the financial rewards that TV deals bring aren't we...
Sol thewall Bamba Posted 9 October 2015 Posted 9 October 2015 Must have the lowest percentage of away games moved for SKY in the history of SKY. Always home games! Surely that's better though, surely we'd rather have a home game moved where the majority can get there relatively easily, rather than trekking to Newcastle, Saints, Swansea on a Monday night?
artursteppe Posted 9 October 2015 Posted 9 October 2015 Must have the lowest percentage of away games moved for SKY in the history of SKY. Always home games! We make more noise, and have a better atmosphere with full attendances - that is good TV for Sky.
Livid Posted 9 October 2015 Posted 9 October 2015 We make more noise, and have a better atmosphere with full attendances - that is good TV for Sky. Plus we have more chance of upsetting one of the big boys at home = Better TV Game. Us away anywhere isn't seen as making for a great game, just the way it is!
hairy Posted 9 October 2015 Posted 9 October 2015 Missing the Man City match now!!!!!! Why do you people buy Sky?
Voll Blau Posted 9 October 2015 Posted 9 October 2015 Missing the Man City match now!!!!!! Why do you people buy Sky? Because we'd be rotting away in the United Counties League without its money apparently.
Soar Fox Posted 9 October 2015 Posted 9 October 2015 Missing the Man City match now!!!!!! Why do you people buy Sky? It's on BT Sport.
Corky Posted 9 October 2015 Posted 9 October 2015 It's funny how people on here spend much of there life on here. With thousands of posts, and claim they can't make a rearranged game. How have they suddenly got a life Just a hunch but maybe they have computers/ laptops/ phones at home and don't travel to the ground to post on here every day?
Staffs Fox Posted 10 October 2015 Posted 10 October 2015 Just returned from the Netherlands to this shit news. We can't complain too much when you compare our changes to the likes of Liverpool and Chelsea etc but it doesnt make it any less annoying Instead of a nice twixmas train into Leicester complete with a few post Xmas lunch beers in town I've now got a late drive back and a cup of bovril for the City game. The Chelsea one is a ****er as well as I'll have to leave work early to make it. Sunday games I can live with but Monday ****ing night!
CORNFOX68 Posted 10 October 2015 Posted 10 October 2015 Chelsea game is a nightmare, miss two days at work instead of planned weekend away!
isaidno Posted 11 October 2015 Posted 11 October 2015 For once Sky have done me a favour. I can now make the Chelsea game , couldn't before.
EGBFitness Posted 17 October 2015 Posted 17 October 2015 Are these the only 2 games being shown on TV? We have a lot of big games in the next few months, flying high and arguably one of the most entertaining sides in the league. Maybe being a little biased but amazing that we aren't as much as we have/will be
Matt Posted 18 October 2015 Posted 18 October 2015 Do games still get moved inbetween this period or are the games set in stone now (obviously the games they've announced will stay that way but might they add more?). I could do with Liverpool v Leicester on Boxing Day being on TV to get out of a family party Doubt i'll go to the game because i'll more than likely be hungover and travel to get there will be a nightmare (No trains and fox travel/coach is a no go).
Voll Blau Posted 20 October 2015 Posted 20 October 2015 The FC United Board thought fans would like to share our frustration and bemusement at the request we received on Friday 16 Oct 2015 from the BBC, via the FA, to move the kick off time of our FA Cup game against Sporting Khalsa to enable a “brand new BBC Mobile Match of The Day Live experience”. This latest idea included disruption to the pre-match preparations of club volunteers and the competing teams, interruptions to substitutes warming up and interference with the team managers’ match management. The FC United Board gave a resounding ‘no’ to this request. Match-going supporters should not have to be inconvenienced for the benefit of those who rarely, if at all, attend matches. FC United is not intrinsically opposed to the re-arrangement of a fixture time, provided that it meets with the approval of and benefits the respective clubs and their supporters. In 2007, members of FC United voted in favour of entering the FA Cup and acknowledged the competitions rules and TV contracts. That aside the whole “Mobile Match of The Day Live experience” should have been canned at inception by any BBC Sports manager with an understanding of the game. As a public service broadcaster the BBC should be taking a lead by promoting the game without causing additional disruption to match going supporters instead of trying to ape or outdo some of the worst excesses of their competitors. If BBC viewers would like to understand the fans’ experience at a football game there are numerous real life games at every level throughout the country and the easiest way for TV viewers to access the real fans’ experience is to go along to a match. For a more in depth experience they could volunteer like many non-league fans do week in and week out. The FA, as the governing body of football in this country, appear to be encouraging ways to cash in on the fans’ experience whilst treating the supporters as the least important commodity in the game. We call upon the FA to remember that football is a sporting competition and the associated drama comes from the highs and lows of the game itself. It does not reflect well on the custodians of our game that they would devalue the sporting integrity of their flagship competition by encouraging TV presenters to interfere with those in the dugouts or changing rooms when they are working to produce the best competitive elements of the game. Nor should TV have access to substitutes when warming up, because those players are athletes preparing properly to be able to compete at their best. TV exposure and the revenue it generates are important to football. However, we believe that the balance has swung way too far in favour of the TV companies - and too far away from the match-going, admission paying, regularly attending football supporter. FC United seeks to change the way that football is owned and run, putting supporters at the heart of everything. This includes a better and more balanced relationship with TV. http://www.fc-utd.co.uk/m_story.php?story_id=6454 On the subject of TV games, nice work from FC United.
Staffs Fox Posted 20 October 2015 Posted 20 October 2015 Do games still get moved inbetween this period or are the games set in stone now (obviously the games they've announced will stay that way but might they add more?). I could do with Liverpool v Leicester on Boxing Day being on TV to get out of a family party Doubt i'll go to the game because i'll more than likely be hungover and travel to get there will be a nightmare (No trains and fox travel/coach is a no go). No they are set in stone up until and including the 2nd Jan, nothing before that will be changed. For Boxing Day, Stoke vs United is the 12.45 Sky Game and then BT Sport have two games in the evening back to back Newcastle v Everton and Southampton v Arsenal. I'm surprised to be honest our game wasn't chosen and it was one I wanted! I went last year on NYD but Boxing Day is even more of a pain. PS, Kudos to FC United
Staffs Fox Posted 13 November 2015 Posted 13 November 2015 Awesome all dayer in Brum it is One of my favourite (if not favourite) to drink in
Soar Fox Posted 13 November 2015 Posted 13 November 2015 Don't mind that kick off time at all. At least it's not a Sunday agsin.
Larry_LCFC Posted 13 November 2015 Posted 13 November 2015 Every change has shat all over me this year
davieG Posted 13 November 2015 Posted 13 November 2015 WTF do they find so special about us and Villa?
DB11 Posted 13 November 2015 Posted 13 November 2015 WTF do they find so special about us and Villa? The closest to a Premier League Midlands derby?
Babylon Posted 13 November 2015 Posted 13 November 2015 WTF do they find so special about us and Villa? The premier league version of us v Derby.
goose2010 Posted 13 November 2015 Posted 13 November 2015 The closest to a Premier League Midlands derby? WBA Villa?
filbertstreet Posted 13 November 2015 Posted 13 November 2015 WBA Villa? Yeah but that sounds really really boring
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