Guest claude_leic Posted 26 February 2016 Posted 26 February 2016 Obviously it's annoying, but I'm glad they didn't move any games to a Monday night. Imagine being a Spurs fan, they've had 3 games moved to a Monday night! The United 5-3 game was on a Sunday at 1.30 and that was one of the best atmospheres ever at the King Power. Hopefully atmosphere should remain on point.
goose2010 Posted 26 February 2016 Posted 26 February 2016 I don't know how the money side of it all works, but surely clubs make enough without TV money anyway? I think it will implode at some point though, said it before myself. Sky currently pay around 6.5mill a match next season it goes up to 10.2mill a match. So allowing them to dictate when they move the games to, each club will get around 14mill more than this season so they are exactly going to complain.
stripeyfox Posted 26 February 2016 Posted 26 February 2016 Games get moved. It happens. Deal with it. I don't quite get this mock outrage. If Leicester, along with other PL clubs are happy to take the £100M per year from Sky, and we as fans, lap it up - talking about who we can go and buy with all this money - then we can hardly complain when Sky want to show our matches on TV. I guarantee if none of our games had been moved there would be people on here complaining about that too! Think of the positives - the thousands of City fans who want to see these games, but who cannot get tickets, will now be able to do so.
Stevosevic Posted 26 February 2016 Posted 26 February 2016 Happens every year for title contenders - delighted about this.
Sol thewall Bamba Posted 26 February 2016 Posted 26 February 2016 I see the protest at Arsenal had a huge impact That's the spirit, blame people who are trying to do something about it!
Fox92 Posted 26 February 2016 Posted 26 February 2016 Games get moved. It happens. Deal with it. I don't quite get this mock outrage. If Leicester, along with other PL clubs are happy to take the £100M per year from Sky, and we as fans, lap it up - talking about who we can go and buy with all this money - then we can hardly complain when Sky want to show our matches on TV. I guarantee if none of our games had been moved there would be people on here complaining about that too! Think of the positives - the thousands of City fans who want to see these games, but who cannot get tickets, will now be able to do so. Deal with it? First time I see us in a top flight title race and now I doubt if I'm able to actually go to some of the away games.
StanSP Posted 26 February 2016 Posted 26 February 2016 if you weren't expecting this to happen, you are very, very naive. Not to say you can't be angered by it, but there's no way we were gonna stay at Saturday 3pm for the rest of the season given our now very realistic title chances. List of games moved: Sunday 3rd April - Leicester vs Southampton, 13.30 (Arsenal, Man City, Spurs all play on 2nd April) Sunday 10th April - Sunderland vs Leicester, 13.30 (Arsenal, Man City play on 9th, Spurs after us on 10th) Sunday 17th April - Leicester vs West Ham, 13.30 (Man City on 16th, Arsenal on 17th, Monday on 18th) Sunday 24th April - Leicester vs Swansea, 16.15 (Man City, Arsenal on 24th, Spurs on Monday 25th) Sunday 1st May - Man Utd vs Leicester, 13.30 (Arsenal on 30th, Man City on 1st, Spurs on 2nd) Still likely that Leicester vs Everton on 7th May will be moved.
Bayfox Posted 26 February 2016 Posted 26 February 2016 can't say i'm happy with the fact that basically every game has been moved to a sodding sunday, however, I guess this is the price of success. So who want's trips to carlise and plymouth again just for sat 3pm ko's.
goose2010 Posted 26 February 2016 Posted 26 February 2016 if you weren't expecting this to happen, you are very, very naive. Not to say you can't be angered by it, but there's no way we were gonna stay at Saturday 3pm for the rest of the season given our now very realistic title chances. List of games moved: Sunday 3rd April - Leicester vs Southampton, 13.30 (Arsenal, Man City, Spurs all play on 2nd April) Sunday 10th April - Sunderland vs Leicester, 13.30 (Arsenal, Man City play on 9th, Spurs after us on 10th) Sunday 17th April - Leicester vs West Ham, 13.30 (Man City on 16th, Arsenal on 17th, Monday on 18th) Sunday 24th April - Leicester vs Swansea, 16.15 (Man City, Arsenal on 24th, Spurs on Monday 25th) Sunday 1st May - Man Utd vs Leicester, 13.30 (Arsenal on 30th, Man City on 1st, Spurs on 2nd) Still likely that Leicester vs Everton on 7th May will be moved. Exactly they will want everyone on the telly fighting for the title imagine the global audience on the day that one of the 4 clubs picks up the trophy there would be uproar if that game wasn't televised.
Guest MattP Posted 26 February 2016 Posted 26 February 2016 Don't mean to pedantic but Wimbledon and the ashes are on all day, the timings are a lot less relevant. Your are right though. Fair point, suppose the closest example I could give is that if Sky said to the ECB move a test match from Mon-Fri so it didn't clash with the football in August the ECB would tell them where to go. I think this will only get worse, I can see a day where the Premier League sells to 3/4 channels rather than 2 and we have 6/7 matches up for grabs over a four day period Fri-Mon.
AndWhat? Posted 26 February 2016 Posted 26 February 2016 Knew they would all have been moved, but just pissed off they are all on Sundays. Such a shit day for going to the football.
stripeyfox Posted 26 February 2016 Posted 26 February 2016 Deal with it? First time I see us in a top flight title race and now I doubt if I'm able to actually go to some of the away games. But it's not about YOU is it? This is the first time any of us have been in this situation. There is adequate notice of the change and many people will be able to make re arrangements, and some others will be able to take advantage that others now cannot make it. Collectively, there will still be 3,000 Leicester fans at each of the away games and there will no doubt be sell outs at home. Plus millions more who will now be able to watch on TV. Plus, the club get more revenue which hopefully means they'll be able to freeze ticket prices next year
foxfanazer Posted 26 February 2016 Posted 26 February 2016 That's the spirit, blame people who are trying to do something about it!I knew someone would take the bait
Jaspa Posted 26 February 2016 Posted 26 February 2016 Ruined my and Shinji's birthday Every single one pushed back to the Sunday and most 1:30 is taking the mickey abit, I know these games are huge but surely you could at least keep one of them at an ordinary time
steve43 Posted 26 February 2016 Posted 26 February 2016 Its about time sky showed Saturday 3.00 pm matches, and that would do away with all this nonsense
Fox92 Posted 26 February 2016 Posted 26 February 2016 But it's not about YOU is it? This is the first time any of us have been in this situation. There is adequate notice of the change and many people will be able to make re arrangements, and some others will be able to take advantage that others now cannot make it. Collectively, there will still be 3,000 Leicester fans at each of the away games and there will no doubt be sell outs at home. Plus millions more who will now be able to watch on TV. Plus, the club get more revenue which hopefully means they'll be able to freeze ticket prices next year It's always about me. Everywhere I goooooo.
goose2010 Posted 26 February 2016 Posted 26 February 2016 Its about time sky showed Saturday 3.00 pm matches, and that would do away with all this nonsense Now that's one thing that will never happen,
Sol thewall Bamba Posted 26 February 2016 Posted 26 February 2016 I knew someone would take the bait Stupid comment mate. Make stupid comments, get stupid responses.
Viva Posted 26 February 2016 Posted 26 February 2016 The switches will suit some people and not others. It's just got to be expected with success, like when we won the Championship. As it happens it suits me this time with work. I'm glad that the big matches get shown on tv in general though, because as a football fan I'd rather watch a team involved in the title race or relegation battle on Sunday than something like Stoke v Palace.
lgfualol Posted 26 February 2016 Posted 26 February 2016 Everything here is closed on Sundays so this gives me something to do, rather than the game being in the middle of a Saturday. We will have to get used to this though.
stripeyfox Posted 26 February 2016 Posted 26 February 2016 Its about time sky showed Saturday 3.00 pm matches, and that would do away with all this nonsense As long as it is a joint contract with all clubs, I do not see this happening. Some years ago, a couple of the bigger clubs (I think Manchester United were one) explored the possibility of selling their own TV rights to Sky (or whoever). Basically if you were a United fan you'd have brought a Sky Manchester United pass and you could have watched all of their (home) games whenever they were played, including 3pm Saturday. Effectively a TV Season Ticket if you will. But other clubs were of course not so keen and the idea was dropped. So Sky don't show 3pm Saturday games as it is believed it would negatively affect the attendance at other games. That certainly wouldn't be true in my case - I wouldn't not go to watch Leicester v Norwich in order to stay at home and watch Spurs v Arsenal but maybe it has a knock on effect further down?
Corky Posted 26 February 2016 Posted 26 February 2016 if you weren't expecting this to happen, you are very, very naive. Not to say you can't be angered by it, but there's no way we were gonna stay at Saturday 3pm for the rest of the season given our now very realistic title chances. List of games moved: Sunday 3rd April - Leicester vs Southampton, 13.30 (Arsenal, Man City, Spurs all play on 2nd April) Sunday 10th April - Sunderland vs Leicester, 13.30 (Arsenal, Man City play on 9th, Spurs after us on 10th) Sunday 17th April - Leicester vs West Ham, 13.30 (Man City on 16th, Arsenal on 17th, Monday on 18th) Sunday 24th April - Leicester vs Swansea, 16.15 (Man City, Arsenal on 24th, Spurs on Monday 25th) Sunday 1st May - Man Utd vs Leicester, 13.30 (Arsenal on 30th, Man City on 1st, Spurs on 2nd) Still likely that Leicester vs Everton on 7th May will be moved. I know they were going to be moved but a bit of variety wouldn't hurt. Four games at the same lunchtime kick-off? Why couldn't we have a couple of Saturdays instead?
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