Amazon to Deliver Football

[Legend_in_blue]

This is a good start.

 

Would be nice to see Amazon and BT take all the football off Sky but hey ho, it'll do.

 

Reddit and the Android box are more than adequate Sky equivalents.

[RODNEY FERNIO]

5 minutes ago, Legend_in_blue said:

This is a good start.

 

Would be nice to see Amazon and BT take all the football off Sky but hey ho, it'll do.

 

Reddit and the Android box are more than adequate Sky equivalents.

Bloody hell ... I've had enough of Michael Owen with the current BT coverage.

The bloke is scarily non human.

 

[fuchsntf]

7 hours ago, Tuna said:

This pisses me off  

 

I Just want to add..........,......and one for the road

[reynard]

Disgusting decision. Shouldn't be allowed anywhere near football. Personally won't use them at all on principle for anything.

[Phube]

I’m a bit confused; I can understand that Amazon will get 20 games total. And a Boxing Day game... so is that 19 midweek games? But if there are 38 game weeks does that mean Amazon will only get 1 games every 2 weeks or so? 

[davieG]

4 minutes ago, Phube said:

I’m a bit confused; I can understand that Amazon will get 20 games total. And a Boxing Day game... so is that 19 midweek games? But if there are 38 game weeks does that mean Amazon will only get 1 games every 2 weeks or so? 

Those teams in Europe wont play so many mid week PL games and they're the ones they'll want to show.  So one every 2 weeks of a top 6 team will just about cover it.

[Foxxed]

Eight quid a month? They'll likely show max two of of our games in two different months. Sixteen quid then. If I can just load a webpage, log into Amazon, give them eight quid, watch in good quality, then unsubscribe after the match I'll be happy. Better than ****ing around with streams or TV boxes. I know a few people with amazon prime anyway.

Edited 7 June 2018 by Foxxed

[CosbehFox]

You are misunderstanding 

 

Amazon will get every game on Boxing Day and every game on one a December midweek (ie all 10 games showing the twenty teams) . 

 

So for example this season, it would have saw our away fixtures at Southampton and Watford televised.

 

You could literally pay the £8 for the month of December and that would be the subscription fee done. 

Edited 7 June 2018 by Cardiff_Fox

[Sly]

This will pay for itself, great bit of marketing.

 

Loads of people signing up to Amazon Prime pre Christmas. Next day delivery.

 

Yes, some of the deliveries go awol, however they’ve got a great model and I’ve been using it for a few years.

 

I’ve no issues with this. If anything, it gives you an idea on how badly Sky / Virgin are ripping people off.

Edited 7 June 2018 by Sly

[Strokes]

Crikey, I might get to watch a match legally next season....

[ramadaone]

Amazon sponsored European Super League within 5 years

 

 

[jammie82uk]

33 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

You are misunderstanding 

 

Amazon will get every game on Boxing Day and every game on one a December midweek (ie all 10 games showing the twenty teams) . 

 

So for example this season, it would have saw our away fixtures at Southampton and Watford televised.

 

You could literally pay the £8 for the month of December and that would be the subscription fee done. 

 

I was just catching up on this thread and I’m on the same understanding as you, they will probably change it for when it starts but for the last few years they have been doing 30 days free around December time as well 

[Phube]

46 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

You are misunderstanding 

 

Amazon will get every game on Boxing Day and every game on one a December midweek (ie all 10 games showing the twenty teams) . 

 

So for example this season, it would have saw our away fixtures at Southampton and Watford televised.

 

You could literally pay the £8 for the month of December and that would be the subscription fee done. 

 

 

So just 2 days out of the season? That’s just an odd package... Unless it’s a soft Premier League Trial for US style all games are streamed.

[CosbehFox]

34 minutes ago, Phube said:

 

So just 2 days out of the season? That’s just an odd package... Unless it’s a soft Premier League Trial for US style all games are streamed.

Yes. I think you are correct regards trial. But amazon clever, advertise prime during Christmas present period, the benefits of deliveries and films/music over the period. Amazon gain customers in a different way to Sky and BT. 

[ian_marshall]

4 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

Yes. I think you are correct regards trial. But amazon clever, advertise prime during Christmas present period, the benefits of deliveries and films/music over the period. Amazon gain customers in a different way to Sky and BT. 

I wonder if they'll use cookies to track your internet usage and then deliver adverts tailored to your interactions with their website. Possibly interactive adverts which allow you to go straight to the product advertised and purchase immediately. Could significantly strengthen Amazon's retail dominance throughout the festive season, and prove to be another blow to the high street. 

[Ian Nacho]

We're getting closer to Netflix and chill being Burnley v Huddersfield. Our time is coming boys!

[Katy]

Urgh. I already fork out loads a month for Sky Sports and BT Sport and two LCFC season tickets, I also really like watching La Liga which Sky have now lost the rights to, so that’s another package to buy whenever that’s sorted and now this! If anyone was in any doubt that the powers that be don’t give a shit about fans then here is your proof. Don’t get me started on diminishing Saturday 3pm kick offs either ?

[lancyclaret]

12 hours ago, Ian Nacho said:

We're getting closer to Netflix and chill being Burnley v Huddersfield. Our time is coming boys!

Don't miss out on this. Last season great entertainment.

 

Burnley 0 Huddersfield 0 (Turf Moor)

Huddersfield 0 Burnley 0 (John Smith Stadium).

[grobyfox1990]

Clever from Amazon, this will surely be a loss leader. You can sign up to a free trial of Prime in December and watch two full matchdays. But then whilst i've got a 'free' trial i might as well do all my Xmas shopping on Amazon. Oh now it's January and i've forgotten to cancel Prime and i've been charged £78 for something i'm never going to use.

 

This is a shocking and dangerous move IMO, showing every game on Boxing day when there's so much lower league football on will surely kill attendances and vital revenue for smaller clubs.

 

As much as Amazon are tax-dodging scumbags their business model is fantastic. Put the customer at the heart of everything, invest massively, make losses for years. But then eventually, completely take over.

[coolhandfox]

This is part of a slow evolution to all PL league games bring available to viewers online or on another platform just like in the states.

 

The only way the PL can improve its turnover is to provided more buyable content.

 

Let be honest if you could buy every City away game you would, unless you were going.

Edited 8 June 2018 by coolhandfox

[davieG]

34 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

This is part of a slow evolution to all PL league games bring available to viewers online or on another platform just like in the states.

 

The only way the PL can improve its turnover is to provided more buyable content.

 

Let be honest if you could buy every City away game you would, unless you were going.

 

Sky & BT wont want that as they need to fill air time.

If it was to go that way then they'd first of all have to cancel the 3pm Saturday ruling plus it would require more than one company to be showing them online to provide competition as per current regulations

 

If that was the case one would hope that a number of companies were each contracted to show all the games so we the customers could select the best deal, now that would be a truly competitive market.

[coolhandfox]

20 minutes ago, davieG said:

Sky & BT wont want that as they need to fill air time.

If it was to go that way then they'd first of all have to cancel the 3pm Saturday ruling plus it would require more than one company to be showing them online to provide competition as per current regulations

 

If that was the case one would hope that a number of companies were each contracted to show all the games so we the customers could select the best deal, now that would be a truly competitive market.

Or Play the PL games at 3:30, or 2 there lots of companies that could provide streaming content, we already have NetFlix, Amazon, then you have big tech companies that could show an interest like Facebook, google, with massive budgets.

 

Sky had lot of control due to infrastructure, i.e dishes, decoders, satellites, there is no longer a need for any of that with high speed broadband and most cheap TV's being application and internet ready tv.

 

It's going to come, it will be interesting to see how Sky and BT react.

Edited 8 June 2018 by coolhandfox

[davieG]

31 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

Or Play the PL games at 3:30, or 2 there lots of companies that could provide streaming content, we already have NetFlix, Amazon, then you have big tech companies that could show an interest like Facebook, google, with massive budgets.

 

Sky had lot of control due to infrastructure, i.e dishes, decoders, satellites, there is no longer a need for any of that with high speed broadband and most cheap TV's being application and internet ready tv.

 

It's going to come, it will be interesting to see how Sky and BT react.

 

I'm sure it will but it'll require big changes. KO's would have to start and finish before 3pm or start after 5ish as they do now when televised.

 

Would fans that go to games accept that not at the moment but future ones might.

[CosbehFox]

3 hours ago, davieG said:

I'm sure it will but it'll require big changes. KO's would have to start and finish before 3pm or start after 5ish as they do now when televised.

 

Would fans that go to games accept that not at the moment but future ones might.

It’s 2.45pm to 5.30pm - no football allowed on television 

[davieG]

Just now, Cardiff_Fox said:

It’s 2.45pm to 5.30pm - no football allowed on television 

So more or less what I said certainly enough to make my point but thanks for the detail.