Games Moved for TV

[danno]

The next time we are selected for TV by SKY, I can pay £10 and watch every other live game on SKY that day.
For games not selected by SKY, I can pay £14.50 for three hours of coverage and Jack Woodward on commentary.

Everybody does have a choice you're absolutely right, but paying £4 for a cake one week then £6 for half a cake the week after is not going to sit well with anybody.

People are going to complain if they think something is bad value, wasn't it £30 for that league cup game last season? everybody had a choice then too.

[kippaxvilla2]

I pay for a sky subscription.  To include football and cricket coverage.  Every year they say 128 live matches then god knows what cricket coverage.  That is all I expect to receive.  Not every villa game as much as I’d love it.  Fulham away would never have been shown under any other circumstances other than the prevailing ones that exist.  It’s a total disaster whichever way you look at it.

[danno]

I pay for a sky subscription.  To include football and cricket coverage.  Every year they say 128 live matches then god knows what cricket coverage.  That is all I expect to receive.  Not every villa game as much as I’d love it.  Fulham away would never have been shown under any other circumstances other than the prevailing ones that exist.  It’s a total disaster whichever way you look at it.

I honestly believe many people are willing to pay extra, and on a match by match basis but not at £14.50 a pop.

[Sdwbvf]

I have a sky subscription. But only because they offered me the lot for 15 quid a month for 3 years. I go to a few games. Only Saturday 3pm ones when I can. Only managed 1 last season. Had planned Sheffield utd and Palace but they were moved. I may watch one or two for 15 quid on PPV. But if they had been a fiver I would have watched the lot (and my wife is probably pleased its not!). So there would have been more revenue. I suspect there's a lot like me, so I think the economic model may be iffy.

[Gareth]

One thing I haven’t seen yet is the price for pubs to take the PPV games? 

Anything like these additional charges are going to encourage gathering in pubs / gathering in houses to only pay one £15.

[frank black]

They will come back with a price £9.95 I reckon

[Lastfootstamper]

If the pricing is wrong in their eyes, they'll adjust it. I doubt the figure of £15 was plucked out of the ether, though. There'll be some solid financial reckoning behind it.

[Lastfootstamper]

PPV games aren't new. I'm not sure when they stopped, I've only recently restarted watching any Sky (NowTV) after about a 12 year hiatus, but how much were they when they were last on?

[darren woolley]

It's highway robbery charging nearly £15 a game especially when you consider how many people have been forced out of work through Covid and are struggling on Universal Credit.

[SoccerHQ]

Disgraceful decision in the current climate.

[Dinas_Caerdydd]

am i being thick here but can't you watch games on your owns club TV  ?

i.ve only got BT sports these days and now and again get NOW TV to watch sky sports

[Lastfootstamper]

am i being thick here but can't you watch games on your owns club TV  ?

i.ve only got BT sports these days and now and again get NOW TV to watch sky sports

No, they don't, and probably can't broadcast league games in-house.

[olaftab]

But once again I come back to the point.  There’s a choice.  That ground would be full without this pandemic.  They want to recoup some money of the millions they’ve lost.  I won’t be paying for it.  I would therefore never have seen that game anyway.

So there is a choice.  You pay and give a little bit of that lost revenue back to the club or you continue to expect the game free of charge - which as we all know is simply not sustainable in this day and age.

I agree with this. If your match is not selected for subscription TV and then pay for it to watch. That is what you would do normally by going to the ground.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Clubs are losing millions per month but players are still earning tens of thousands each week so it’s up to the fans ( many of whom must be really struggling at the moment, financially) to prop the system up. Pay the fucking players less, if they really want to send out a “we’re all in it together” message to the community.

I’ll be watching illegal streams anyway, the hi-tech equivalent of crawling in to the ground under the turnstiles

[exigo]

Trouble is that it feels like the clubs are trying to claw back what they'd make on everyone's match ticket, a couple of pints and a pie, a programme for the kids etc. But that's not the experience they're selling right now.