Wow...the highlight was trying to decipher what Trent was saying as he was walking around the pitch! 'piss poor, waste of time' is my guess.
I didn't watch much of it. I will try and find the viewing figures for the game compared to what is normally broadcast on wednesday nights though, see how many other whingers there are. Anyway, how about England having their own channel? Thought it might be appealing to those who love England football.
Is that a free channel or another Pay to Watch offering? Not for me thanks, The National teams should always be on a National channel - rubbish non-competitive games or otherwise.
I think they generally get about 1.5m-3m (depending on the opposition) for an England friendly night match, which is fairly decent numbers. We all know they're **** games, but plenty of us still watch them anyway, just because it's England. Creating enough content for a dedicated channel would cost a fortune and wouldn't be remotely viable.
A dedicated England channel wouldn't make enough money from advertising to cover the costs so it would definitely be a subscription service or PPV. The national team's games should never be behind a paywall, not even friendlies. I think you're also ignoring the fact that people who don't even like or watch football will tune in to watch England games.
I agree about the competitive games, it's the friendlies that made me think a bit. I don't know what it costs to put up a simple tv service but could they find enough advertisers to fund a friendly with 1.5-3m viewers? Or what is the cost of streaming on Youtube? Or a service like Ifollow? Creating content would be an issue but it wouldn't need to be a 24/7 service and you could fill hours replaying old games. Just a thought, good to get some feedback though!
I reckon they need to find a different way of describing these games. No International should be 'friendly', it sets the wrong tone. They should be led out by three live Lions, and have jousting at half time.
Well that's the boring stuff out the way for now .. time.to get serious and go and win something. Only thing that came out these 2 games is confirmation that Grealish just has to start in the Euros
Turns out the Euros will be much like most City seasons I won’t see any of the friendlies and so won’t know who any of the players are when we start playing actual competitive matches. Did Dave Watson look solid?
No, Kevin Keegan won us a penalty and Watson snatched the ball off him to take it then missed the tw*t.
I don't see much sense in keeping playing different players in these games. Surely, to get a team playing cohesively then they need to play more or less the team that will play in the Euro's? I know they fear injury, I thought these were warm up games for the team that would play the Euro's, whereas it seems to have been an exercise of just getting fringe players a game.
