Arising from Lincolns thread, I'd be interested to gauge the mood/what QPR fans would be prepared to pay to see every kick of every Hoops match live. The poll is a bit complicated, but bear with me. To see all live premiership football broadcast in England would require subscriptions (to Sky and BT I guess) costing £51 a month, or £612 a year. In Germany its £21 a month, and France £10. Correct me if I'm wrong, but our cheapest adult season ticket is about £600(?- I paid £780 for my Gold ticket) whereas the equivalent at Bayern Munich would be £109 (even cheaper at Barcelona). So English cost of seein all games live on TV or in the flesh would be over £1200, compared to £361 in Germany. Not difficult to guess my position on this, the scale of this rip off is astonishing........
I watch and go to games as and when … I may buy a season ticket next year but have too much on currently in France to make every game. I am happy in Z6 on my single seat with my Chelsea supporting steward … I do not need to get up to let punters out to in and I can stand up all match if required
In answer to Stans OP, probably not.....but then I refuse point blank to have Sky and pay €50 odd per month to have additional channels to watch, there is only so much than can be viewed and I'm not that obsessed with watching wall to wall football. I enjoy the live experience of going to a game even though it is only a few times a season. To go to a game costs somewhere around stg£100 - £150 per game when you take into account travel to/from airport, flights, train from/to airport, food, drink, ticket, programme etc, I could not afford to do it more often, so I enjoy the occassional visits for the social side more than anything. The cost of match day tickets are a concern, last season for the Burnley game at HQ we paid £25, this season against Stoke for the same seats we paid £35, a 40% increase, however for the Burnley game in a couple of weeks time we have got the same seats for £20 thanks to the members & friends offer, so there are some good deals to be had...... Finally to answer the poll i would like to see more than Murdochs' head nailed to a post.....!!!!!!
That's a different expense for a different purpose Stanley. That gets you drunk whether you're watching football or not. I demand another option in the poll for those who neither pay for Sky nor tickets (nor anything else they can get away with).
I love abroad, and happily pay to sit in my old seat a couple of times a year, when I am over visiting friends and family. It starts to get ridiculous once you add of Eurostar tickets, and all the extras. I'll watch in the pub when I can, and make it to a few games a season, but the cost is getting ridiculous. Tempted to pay for canal+ here but not sure how many premier league games are shown...any ideas if it's worth it DT?
You'd be surprised how easy it is to ignore your demands. No one asked where you do your loving Dave, but thanks for that.
No idea as in France I don't have a tele … I used to watch a show on Sunday mornings that showed all Saturday's games I take my laptop to the village bar and watch any games on that
Speaking about not wanting to pay for sh*t, there's uproar over paying for water here and I was watching the TV the other night where the Government wheeled out this bright spark - who looks like he's just escaped from the funny farm - to tell us "water doesn't just fall out of the sky". [video=youtube;dYFVZJhW8xw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYFVZJhW8xw[/video]
My current cable TV subscription, that now has a growing number of soccer related channels available (apart from SportsNet World - extra $20/mth), provides access for most our matches. When not available (say a Sun match covered exclusively on SNW), I can generally find a half descent match stream.
Interesting that of the 11 voters to date, only 5 have an opinion as to whether what they spend is good value or not.
None of the above Stan as i watch all QPR matches on Bein Sport free out here in QatarBlatter Land at either the Hilton Beach Bar or Champions Sports Bar at the Marriott. I have just cancelled my UK Sky Sports subscription as no point in having it now.
Lucky boys. Without wishing to exclude anyone, I'm interested in the impact of TV and seat pricing on the way people would follow the R's if they have a choice of watching on TV or actually going to games, which is of course not an option (at least on a regular basis) for the more distant Rs. Would be interesting to find out how much of the foreign rights to Premiership football (sold for much more than other leagues) and then seemingly given away in some territories, actually makes its way back to the clubs which are keeping the hotel bars busy......
In Qatar every single match incl all 3pm Saturday matches are shown live. I can only assume Bein Sport pay an obscene amount of money for the rights
I get to a handful of games each season and don't think having all our home games on tap would make any difference. If the season ticket was at German prices I'd have one. At the end of the day you cut your cloth accordingly. And I'd personally nail Murdoch's head and giblets to a post...
None of the above for me, I'll pay when I can go and it's convenient for the rest of the family not to have me around for 3-4 hours, then coming back grumpy. Happy never to see Murdick ever again
So the Doug & Dinsdale Piranha approach? Vince - "Well one day I was sitting at home threatening the kids, and I looked out of the hole in the wall and sees this tank drive up and one of Dinsdale's boys gets out and he comes up, all nice and friendly like, and says Dinsdale wants to have a talk with me. So he chains me to the back of the tank and takes me for a scrape round to Dinsdale's. And Dinsdale's there in the conversation pit with Doug and Charles Paisley, the baby crusher, and a couple of film producers and a man they called 'Kierkegaard', who just sat there biting the heads of whippets and Dinsdale sayd 'I hear you've been a naughty boy Clement' and he splits me nostrils open and saws me leg off and pulls me liver out, and I said my name's not Clement and then he loses his temper and nails my head to the floor." http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode14.htm
My fully loaded Foxtel package is $120 / month (75 quid)including all live games, IQ and replays of every game through the week. Also get NPC games live and all other sports channels (ESPN etc) I guess if you delete the Movies, kids shows, doc's, and other crap..it pans out at about $50/month Im happy to pay $12.50 / week (8 quid) to see us play live, and get to view all the other Prem games. Im happy with my deal. Im sure the net works out cheaper but I just cannot be arsed finding streams that arent always reliable. EDIT: Having said that, theres plenty of bas here showing the games free if you want to go out..Just works out expensive with the beers
