I think it's ****ish and also a bit greedy tbh. I'm not in the habit of having sympathy for the finances of Sky, the PL or its clubs. Some people might be paying 60/70 odd quid for their TV package and now have to pay an additional 30/45 to watch games being shown by the same providers. Also will be counterproductive I imagine, as it will just push even more people towards streaming.
What are you crying for? You’ve illegally streamed games for years. The PL have made this decision, so your club was part of that decision. These games wouldn’t have been on the box for free had fans been allowed in the stadiums and people have the choice whether to pay for them or not. A tenner would have been a more sensible price imo, but I don’t get the crying about the principle.
It’s not about sympathy though. People are crying about every game not being screened on Sky and BT, when that’s never been the case until the pandemic. People with subscriptions are getting what they’ve paid for. If they choose to watch any of the PPV games that’s a matter of choice, but they wouldn’t have been available at all (legally) had fans been allowed back in.
The problem isn't the price (though that's too high IMO) but the same nonsense model based on kick off times. This is like if the music industry said you can buy track 1 of a new album exclusively on iTunes, you can listen to track 2 if you have a monthly subscription to Spotify, track 3 is only available to people who went to a specific gig at the O2 arena, track 4 is only on vinyl in the UK but CD if you live outside the UK... People don't support their team one game at a time so why sell access like a dinosaur.
thought that might be the case . My parents used to live in a ,decent sized village very near Perranporth but no piped gas .As my mum insists it is impossible to cook with an electric hob a row of Calor gas canisters was permanently leaning on back wall .
That’s a completely different discussion though, the current TV deal is what it is, and they had the choice of continuing to offer all the games FOC to subscribers, or charge additionally for the ones that weren’t selected by the broadcasters as their chosen fixtures. At 15 notes per game, the vast majority are only going to pay if it’s their team playing, and imo it’ll be matchgoers who are going to be far more likely to cough up. The viewing figures will make interesting reading.
I'm already paying £10 PPV per game to watch my poxy L1 club mate I'd have thought you guise would be happy, seems a decent deal in comparison, ie only £5 more than me
Im a bit further west mate. No gas, no railways and sharing a tin bath in front of the fire on Sunday evenings.
Exactly right. You have the choice to watch your team for a tenner on the box, or not, as you’ve been deprived the opportunity to go to the game. I paid a tenner to watch my lot vs West Ham in the cup the other week on the carabao live site. ****ing ****e tbh, as it’d only stream properly on my iPad and just buffered to **** on my Smart TV, despite me having 70MB broadband.
I'm loving it mate. If I go to a game, it will cost me £24-25 on the gate at home, yet every weekend home or away, I just pay a tenner. Brilliant value.
That goes directly to your club though doesn't it? This was pushed by the top clubs by all accounts so am sceptical that they're not benefiting from this in some way.
There was an article about this, I think it all goes to your club, up to the point of your average attendance for that game, after that it has to be split. But knowing me I've probably got that totally wrong! I pay every weekend, the only games I refuse to pay for are Tinpot Cup, Carabao Cup. But I will pay for all League home and away games, and FA Cup games, more or less the same as the ones I would attend.
Yeah I expect that happens. The only thing you can't do is have it on more than one device, it automatically cuts out the stream if you do that. I just chromecast it straight from my laptop to my main TV, and the viewing has been good, although I did have to reload the game one time when it started pixelating. The only thing best not to do when the game is on, is to try and do something else on the internet at the same time, my broadband can't handle that.
15 quid a bit steep. I'd have paid a tenner like I did back end of last season but at fifteen I might just have to stream it other ways. Where does the money go? How is it split?
They haven’t announced the split and how much of the total will go directly to the clubs yet. I agree about the price point, should have been a tenner imo.
