Football and the Coronavirus

robfosters said:
You have to admit though, cheaper games could well have prevented people all putting in and watching it at the same house. Would have made far more just watch it at their own home, which is surely beneficial to preventing the spread of Covid, which is the point of no fans in the first place.
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This is the biggest issue with the PPV model and something I mentioned right at the start. I don't think dropping it to even £5 will make a meaningul difference though. It will encourange some supporters to pay for it themselves (that wouldn't already), but not many I'd have thought. The social side of watching football (even non ppv games) is still a factor here and why so many people still watch games at the pub rather than at home.
 
Amount of backlash this seems to be getting makes me think may change it or least have to debate it

I do think there over charging myself

That being said we all know how most people will watch these PPV games....
 
Mark1989 said:
Amount of backlash this seems to be getting makes me think may change it or least have to debate it

I do think there over charging myself

That being said we all know how most people will watch these PPV games....
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Doubt they’ll change, not with 23 clubs voting for it.
 
BaZ87 said:
The £15 per match price hasn't gone down well but I'm sure they calculated that as the most profitable for them, rightly or wrongly.
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Mark1989 said:
That being said we all know how most people will watch these PPV games....
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PL clubs with multi-billionaire owners need your £15 for clubs to survive, come on. The PL have rightly made a big song and dance over Saudi piracy in the last few months as you and me have discussed a few times, What the PL have now done now is cause more piracy than ever in their home country.
 
woppy101 said:
PL clubs with multi-billionaire owners need your £15 for clubs to survive, come on. The PL have rightly made a big song and dance over Saudi piracy in the last few months as you and me have discussed a few times, What the PL have now done now is cause more piracy than ever in their home country.
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What makes you say that? Anyone who wanted to watch a game before would have streamed it anyway. A PPV option isn't going to make someone turn to an illegal stream that wouldn't have done so previously?
 
woppy101 said:
PL clubs with multi-billionaire owners need your £15 for clubs to survive, come on. The PL have rightly made a big song and dance over Saudi piracy in the last few months as you and me have discussed a few times, What the PL have now done now is cause more piracy than ever in their home country.
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You've just complained about clubs not giving refunds for season tickets. Whether these owners can subsidise loses or not, many are choosing not to. So yes, they need this money.

As for the piracy point, I don't want to get too much into this as we're not meant to discuss these things on the forum, but who are you kidding? These games were not televised in the UK before hand and yet 99% of supporters that wanted to watch these continued to do so. If even 1% of supporters now watch these games legally then they've reduced piracy, not increased it.
 
planty said:
What makes you say that? Anyone who wanted to watch a game before would have streamed it anyway. A PPV option isn't going to make someone turn to an illegal stream that wouldn't have done so previously?
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Some people have a breaking point and sky/bt asking for what could be an extra £60 per month on top of £22 per month for sky and 25 for BT could be that for many.
 
Lot of lower league clubs streaming or looking at doing so at the moment - my nearest team of any size is Yeovil which streamed their last game on YouTube and I believe is streaming today's one at 3pm as well if anyone needs more football to watch hah (the quality of football on display so far has been sadly mixed).
 
Do you need an existing subscription of Sky for PPV or is it simply a one time purchase to watch the game?

I currently watch sky games through now TV and with Tesco clubcard boost works out at a little over £3 a game. Not the £14.99…
 
Premier League games to be streamed for free until the end of the month then will be £14.95 per game. The Prem have attracted a lot of criticism for being greedy. Is this too much?
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...uce-pay-per-view-fixtures-on-sky-and-bt-sport

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I dont think people are expecting things for nothing but dont make out like sports returns is for the countries morale and metal health then slam it behind a £15 payroll. I like to watch all teams play (although i dont watch my team live lol) so for me it would be an absolute fortune. Everything is behind a subscription nowadays so why not this?

£30 a month or £10 a weekend. Whatever but £15 a game? Sorry but i'm not watching Arsenal vs Leicester if that's the case. Make it £30 a month and yea why not.
 
omnomnom said:
I dont think people are expecting things for nothing but dont make out like sports returns is for the countries morale and metal health then slam it behind a £15 payroll. I like to watch all teams play (although i dont watch my team live lol) so for me it would be an absolute fortune. Everything is behind a subscription nowadays so why not this?

£30 a month or £10 a weekend. Whatever but £15 a game? Sorry but i'm not watching Arsenal vs Leicester if that's the case. Make it £30 a month and yea why not.
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Do you subscribe to sky sports? And do you mean £30 for every game, or just Liverpool’s?
 
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