BOYCOTT OF PAY PER VIEW GAMES

[davieG]

14 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

If you're willing to be a bit resourceful, it is very possible to find a non-buffering stream. And I have to say, even before all of this, it was much the same.

My normal stream of SportsDonkey has been great for a long while now yesterday it was rubbish along the imagery on Netflix. I tried several other streams but no better. Even the one I use for Leuven which is usually fine I had to give up on. The fact that two people in Oxford and Ashby were having similar problems just made me think it was no coincidence. 

 

When you also see advertising on the pitch units warning about streaming also added to my thoughts.

 

Perhaps I am over reacting but the coincidences were there.

[davieG]

17 minutes ago, AjcW said:

Seemingly this was missed given you’ve all carried on having a pointless conversation  

I don't see why BT and Sky can't collaborate, they surely did in agreeing to the 14.95 charge.

[rachhere]

8 minutes ago, davieG said:

I don't see why BT and Sky can't collaborate, they surely did in agreeing to the 14.95 charge.

Seemingly they are against it as well - this story is being run by a few papers today:

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8876383/Sky-Sports-BT-Sport-want-scrap-Premier-Leagues-pay-view-scheme-fan-complaints.html 

[Guest seanfox778]

Nice little bit at the end of the article 

[FoyleFox]

1 minute ago, rachhere said:

Seemingly they are against it as well - this story is being run by a few papers today:

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8876383/Sky-Sports-BT-Sport-want-scrap-Premier-Leagues-pay-view-scheme-fan-complaints.html 

I'm not surprised, they were supposed to receive payment to cover their costs from the £14.95. Given the backlash and boycott I'd be surprised if they aren't losing money on it. The reluctance to publlish viewing figures certainly suggests it's not being subscribed to in the way they hoped. I suspect they thought people would moan but in the end reluctantly pay, without the figures we cant know but the highly public backlash suggests not. 

[davieG]

5 minutes ago, rachhere said:

Seemingly they are against it as well - this story is being run by a few papers today:

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8876383/Sky-Sports-BT-Sport-want-scrap-Premier-Leagues-pay-view-scheme-fan-complaints.html 

That's good to know and yeah it probably is a coincidence but I'm sure they also don't want to get potential customers use to streaming.

[davieG]

Sadly it ain't going to get scrapped before tonight. 

 

They should part refund all those who've paid.

[rachhere]

I wonder what will happen next. Personally I would like it to go back to how it was at the end of last season with matches distributed over the weekend. It's going to be a long winter ahead and it doesn't look like we are going to be back in grounds for some time. Presumably they will still make money through extra subscriptions and advertising revenue. 

[Jevans]

8 minutes ago, rachhere said:

I wonder what will happen next. Personally I would like it to go back to how it was at the end of last season with matches distributed over the weekend. It's going to be a long winter ahead and it doesn't look like we are going to be back in grounds for some time. Presumably they will still make money through extra subscriptions and advertising revenue. 

Much rather have 2 or 3 games on sky bt etc and have the majority of games kick off at 3pm on a Saturday. Nothing better than watching every thing unfold at the same time. Every game on tv separated across 3 days has become very boring very quick. 

[Gazza3]

I watched Dormund / Schalke match on SD . No issues , no lags , no buffering - this was a stream from BT

[OntarioFox]

*laughs in DAZN*

 

Honestly, it's criminal that, with the exchange rate as it is, I pay less for a month's sport (including all PL games) than you're being asked to pay for one match.

[Livid]

People are hacked off at the minute anyway. COVID isn’t going away, who knows how the economy is going to end up. 
 

Let’s face it, the majority of teams are putting in Jekyll and Hyde performances. Fantastic one week, abysmal the next. Empty stadiums, fake atmosphere, commentators who grate on most of us. I subscribe to BT and Sky and I have games on out of habit, I  hardly pay any attention. 
 

They may have thought the armchair fans would pay it but it’s not a £15 product. I wouldn’t pay for a game other than the city anyway but £5 is my limit. 

[yorkie1999]

19 minutes ago, Livid said:

People are hacked off at the minute anyway. COVID isn’t going away, who knows how the economy is going to end up. 
 

Let’s face it, the majority of teams are putting in Jekyll and Hyde performances. Fantastic one week, abysmal the next. Empty stadiums, fake atmosphere, commentators who grate on most of us. I subscribe to BT and Sky and I have games on out of habit, I  hardly pay any attention. 
 

They may have thought the armchair fans would pay it but it’s not a £15 product. I wouldn’t pay for a game other than the city anyway but £5 is my limit. 

football was always the one thing the masses could turn to as an escape. We can’t even do that now and the broadcasters are taking advantage of the situation, whatever they say contrary to that, it’s like someone up there has gone , we’ll charge half of the fixed away ticket price and people will pay it. I hope they go tits up. 

[PaddyS]

I suspect the price will be reduced to £10. People will then claim it as a victory and happily sign up to watch, not realising that this was always the plan.

[whoareyaaa]

3 minutes ago, PaddyS said:

I suspect the price will be reduced to £10. People will then claim it as a victory and happily sign up to watch, not realising that this was always the plan.

£10 is still to much like other people have said £5 would be the limit if at all.

[TheCryptoPoet]

Streams. Best of both worlds. 

[Corky]

1 hour ago, Livid said:

People are hacked off at the minute anyway. COVID isn’t going away, who knows how the economy is going to end up. 
 

Let’s face it, the majority of teams are putting in Jekyll and Hyde performances. Fantastic one week, abysmal the next. Empty stadiums, fake atmosphere, commentators who grate on most of us. I subscribe to BT and Sky and I have games on out of habit, I  hardly pay any attention. 
 

They may have thought the armchair fans would pay it but it’s not a £15 product. I wouldn’t pay for a game other than the city anyway but £5 is my limit. 

I think, possibly, that people may have done it once if it was a one-in-five thing, but as it stands, the fans of Fulham and West Brom are having to pay £90 in six weeks on top of every other cost. Some pretty dreadful kick-off times too (7pm Sunday, 5.30pm Monday). 

 

It just isn't appealing enough for a regular purchase.

[Fox92]

Liverpool fans raised over £100,000 for foodbanks from boycotting yesterday's PPV against Sheffield United.

 

I saw Arsenal fans were doing similar for tonight's game against us for something in Islington.

 

Great to see most, if not all, clubs' fans doing this.

[AlwaysBlue]

The match is live on Bein over here in Azerbaijan but obviously it won't start till midnight and as I have to be up at 4.30am for work I'll have to watch the replay tomorrow so I won't be on here till after I've watched that!

[Vlad the Fox]

50 minutes ago, AlwaysBlue said:

The match is live on Bein over here in Azerbaijan but obviously it won't start till midnight and as I have to be up at 4.30am for work I'll have to watch the replay tomorrow so I won't be on here till after I've watched that!

I might wait until then to find a live stream then, hopefully mean less buffering. 

[Wymsey]

Seriously, how long until fans are allowed into stadiums again?

 

Can't the club install hand sanitisers everywhere in and just outside the stadium, and temperature-check everyone prior to either letting them in or not - to try and help the economy slowly recover more etc.

Edited 25 October 2020 by Wymsey

[ktfox59]

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[whoareyaaa]

8 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

Seriously, how long until fans are allowed into stadiums again?

 

Can't the club install hand sanitisers everywhere in and just outside the stadium, and temperature-check everyone prior to either letting them in or not - to try and help the economy slowly recover more etc.

no they want to destroy the economy first

[HighPeakFox]

Opening stadia up right now would be madness imo. 

[yorkie1999]

2 hours ago, HighPeakFox said:

Opening stadia up right now would be madness imo. 

Why? The whole point of track and trace and isolation is to keep the virus out of the community. If we’re just going shut all outdoor venues, we may as well not bother with it.