4.46bn new Premier League deal

[Bert]

I'm disappointed I've not seen many people moaning about this yet even though they all subscribe to sky. 

 

Only game time that really bothers me is Friday night 745pm. 

[Fox92]

13 hours ago, Donut said:

People dont half love bashing modern football.

 

The only new games are saturday nights and theres hardly any of them.

 

The vast amounts of money keep the club in a sound financial state.

 

90% of you at probably subscribe to sky or your mums and dads do and you watch.

 

Why are people against lots of games on tv anyway?

I'm not one of this "modern football is shite"  but they mess up away games at times.

I don't mind them putting games on tv, I think coverage of football is superb nowadays, but they don't consider fans at all. They'll put ridiculous games like Newcastle away at Southampton on a Monday night.

 

Arsenal away first game of the season for us, for example. When you consider the game ends at 9.45pm, in London in a ground of 60,000 people I was struggling to get a train back so stayed over.

Bournemouth had to set off at 3am on Sunday morning to get to Huddersfield for 12.

 

How many away games do you go to - are you not affected by this?

Edited 14 February 2018 by Fox92

[RowlattsFox]

The problem is not the kick off times, its the choosing of the games to be played that is the problem. Bournemouth at Huddersfield for a 12pm kick off? What the **** is that about?

Edited 14 February 2018 by RowlattsFox

[Fox92]

1 minute ago, RowlattsFox said:

The problem is not the kick off times, its the choosing of the games to be played that is the problem. Bournemouth at Huddersfield for a 12pm kick off? What the **** is that about?

That's my point. WBA away at Chelsea on Monday night. There's no point in the game being on tv - it's not gonna be massive brilliant (ie the anticipation of a derby) and WBA fans, no doubt, are stuck. I dunno when the last train to Birmingham was but I bet they couldn't make it without leaving the ground early.

[AjcW]

Interesting competition for packages E & F

 

To buy that you need the functionality to broadcast all games at once in an easy to find app/tv channel.

 

BEIN currently have an app that does this in the UAE

Amazon and Netflix obviously have the capability built in already, but a lot of people think this is too soon for them

Facebook have started helping Premier League clubs broadcasting PL2 games and Friendlies Live on Facebook so they're in the hat too.

Also Apple are ramping up their TV investment with new versions of Apple TV and eventually building their own TV screens.

 

Surprised BT haven't gone for one of the packages as their multi game function is strong on their app and on their TV channels. 

[Donut]

39 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

I'm not one of this "modern football is shite"  but they mess up away games at times.

I don't mind them putting games on tv, I think coverage of football is superb nowadays, but they don't consider fans at all. They'll put ridiculous games like Newcastle away at Southampton on a Monday night.

 

Arsenal away first game of the season for us, for example. When you consider the game ends at 9.45pm, in London in a ground of 60,000 people I was struggling to get a train back so stayed over.

Bournemouth had to set off at 3am on Sunday morning to get to Huddersfield for 12.

 

How many away games do you go to - are you not affected by this?

I would say I do less aways than you for sure. Probably around half of them one way or another.

 

Admittedly, going to a game like Arsenal away is going to be logistically difficult if its moved to a Friday night and everyone has to make new travel plans but (ducks behind a table before the inevitable barrage of abuse) the game is on tv, so you do have the option of not going if its going to be difficult or cost too much.

 

A number of factors change the kickoff times as well, the Huddersfield v Bournemouth game I would speculate had to be moved to a sunday for one reason initially, then being on tv, its in a slot that doesn't clash with another game on tv etc.

 

It does affect things no doubt but theres usually compromises and ways to make the changes less problematic

 

[Dan]

18 hours ago, Corky said:

Jim White was very excited about this as YOU CAN SEE THE BIGGEST GAMES AT THE BEST TIMES but given there seems to be at least eight different kick-off times, I'm not sure when that will be.

And him buzzing about "how mad a summer it's going to be" the bloke absolutely grates on me.

[Corky]

2 hours ago, Dan LCFC said:

And him buzzing about "how mad a summer it's going to be" the bloke absolutely grates on me.

On his PFM central show on TalkSport he was "all for the 39th game" which sums him up.

[Captain...]

On 13/02/2018 at 19:14, Fox92 said:

Bank holidays. Absolutely wrong.

The Bank Holidays will be Boxing Day and New Year, it's a way to get allthe games on TV without having to mess about the fixtures and Kick off times. Because it's a bank holiday with a full schedule there is no 3pm restriction like on a normal Saturday.

[RonnieTodger]

To be fair, I'd much rather go on a Friday night than a Monday. MNF is absolute dog shit.