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Never been convinced with the IPTV dodgy sticks. Some people swear by them so did try one out for a couple of days with a view to buying it and the quality was suspect. Random channels buffering every 30 seconds, channels not opening at all, then if it does work, at some point or another, you're "contact" ceases and they get shut down, utter shite.

It's true, when people say you get what you pay for.
 

Whiston Blade said:
Never been convinced with the IPTV dodgy sticks. Some people swear by them so did try one out for a couple of days with a view to buying it and the quality was suspect. Random channels buffering every 30 seconds, channels not opening at all, then if it does work, at some point or another, you're "contact" ceases and they get shut down, utter shite.

It's true, when people say you get what you pay for.
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Bern using mine for 3+ years no issues whatsoever.

Obviously some services better than others.
 
SwissBlade said:
I ‘hear’ it’s £65 for a year for a dodgy subscription and I give Sky feck all.

We can look forward to Friday night games, Saturday lunch, Saturday night, Sunday lunch, Sunday night, all with 5-6 weeks notice of the changes. But god forbid they lift the sat 3pm blackout.

£52 a month is still a lot when you’re tied in on a contract
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I think you've contradicted yourself here a little.

I understand your main point regarding the 3pm blackout. The whole point of that was to prevent fans missing the games to sit and watch it at home. There was a thought it would affect attendances.
To get around this SKY have agreed various (and somewhat ridiculous) kick off times.
As they want every single EFL game on TV on the opening weekend, there isn't a single 3pm Kick Off. That's great isn't it 😔

The contradictory part of your post is actually the BEST part about all this.
They have selected all the televised games now all the way until January. This means that they won't be changing our plans at short notice and should give us chance to purchase train tickets etc. without having to lose out
 
mattbianco1 said:
I think you've contradicted yourself here a little.

I understand your main point regarding the 3pm blackout. The whole point of that was to prevent fans missing the games to sit and watch it at home. There was a thought it would affect attendances.
To get around this SKY have agreed various (and somewhat ridiculous) kick off times.
As they want every single EFL game on TV on the opening weekend, there isn't a single 3pm Kick Off. That's great isn't it 😔

The contradictory part of your post is actually the BEST part about all this.
They have selected all the televised games now all the way until January. This means that they won't be changing our plans at short notice and should give us chance to purchase train tickets etc. without having to lose out
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Is that last bit right? They’ve made all the changes now and times / dates won’t change for games before Jan?

So I know all games I’ll miss already?
 
SwissBlade said:
Is that last bit right? They’ve made all the changes now and times / dates won’t change for games before Jan?

So I know all games I’ll miss already?
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Yep.
Announced all the way up until 6th January

www.sufc.co.uk

Fixture amends - October until January

Sky Sports, the host broadcaster of the EFL, have made their television selections for the period of 1st October until 6th January.
www.sufc.co.uk www.sufc.co.uk
 
mattbianco1 said:
Has that list pissed you off though?

Feel for Plymouth. Opening weekend, away at Wednesday and they've given them a 4pm, Sunday kick off.

Nice 4.5hr drive home at 6pm
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It’s what I expect to be honest. I will either not watch our game on the Friday night or dip in and out of it.

The changing of games to Friday nights is shite.

The changing of a game to a Sunday afternoon is just a shambles.
 
I don’t really watch much football other than United (that’s hard enough at times). I don’t mind a Serie A game on a Sunday now and again, and the Champions League knockout stages. But, I can’t sit there watching Hull - Watford or some shite, just because it’s on.
 
S64 Blade said:
I don’t really watch much football other than United (that’s hard enough at times). I don’t mind a Serie A game on a Sunday now and again, and the Champions League knockout stages. But, I can’t sit there watching Hull - Watford or some shite, just because it’s on.
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I can watch ( or stick on) any premier league or champions league game but championship unless we are involved is just a illness
 
mattbianco1 said:
I think you've contradicted yourself here a little.

I understand your main point regarding the 3pm blackout. The whole point of that was to prevent fans missing the games to sit and watch it at home. There was a thought it would affect attendances.
To get around this SKY have agreed various (and somewhat ridiculous) kick off times.
As they want every single EFL game on TV on the opening weekend, there isn't a single 3pm Kick Off. That's great isn't it 😔

The contradictory part of your post is actually the BEST part about all this.
They have selected all the televised games now all the way until January. This means that they won't be changing our plans at short notice and should give us chance to purchase train tickets etc. without having to lose out
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The Saturday 3pm blackout was introduced in the 60s, I can’t believe that it’s still in place today after all those years!

Surely it’s days have got to be numbered and it will at least be amended at some point soon.
 
Berkshire Blade said:
Considering crowds keep growing from where they were in the 80s at almost every single club I think the opposite could be successfully argued!
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So people who go to games ie don’t watch it on telly are the argument for Sky 🤣
 

ISZA ⚔️ said:
So people who go to games ie don’t watch it on telly are the argument for Sky 🤣
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Well the money has improved most facilities in the sport especially higher up. Look back at footage of early 90s Premier league grounds compared to now and you can really see it!
 
Berkshire Blade said:
I can watch ( or stick on) any premier league or champions league game but championship unless we are involved is just a illness
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They'll be some awful top flight games too. Bournemouth v Fulham on a Sunday, or something. No thanks.

I do wonder who tunes into these types of games, who aren't fans and include some of our games in there too.
 
S64 Blade said:
They'll be some awful top flight games too. Bournemouth v Fulham on a Sunday, or something. No thanks.

I do wonder who tunes into these types of games, who aren't fans and include some of our games in there too.
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Yep some crap games ( even between the big sides) but that's sport for you at times!
 
ISZA ⚔️ said:
They didn’t have a gun but they fucked football
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Why did they? Its the clubs (including ours) that signed the deal? They fucked football? When itv digital went tits up a few clubs could have folded, sky took on the contract and ensured the survival of those clubs. You might not agree with the wages paid, the moving of games for TV but its the chairmen that sanction these TV deals,
 
Sky ruined the Premier League dominated by four teams fans don’t like it and are switching to championship SO now Sky about to try and do the same to the championship.
Original post looked like sky marketing

Sky can do one overpriced
 
Berkshire Blade said:
Well the money has improved most facilities in the sport especially higher up. Look back at footage of early 90s Premier league grounds compared to now and you can really see it!
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Higher up. That’s it. Broke football as a competition
 
Hodgesleftpeg said:
Why did they? Its the clubs (including ours) that signed the deal? They fucked football? When itv digital went tits up a few clubs could have folded, sky took on the contract and ensured the survival of those clubs. You might not agree with the wages paid, the moving of games for TV but its the chairmen that sanction these TV deals,
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Someone with a shit load of money came along. Greedy people liked the sound of it. Football was broke. I don’t doubt non Sky people are also responsible. I don’t doubt if not Sky it would have been someone else. But it was Sky and they can fuck off.
 
Hodgesleftpeg said:
No they didnt.. they put a deal on the table for the premier league teams to sign. No gun was to put heads.
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Correct, and no gun is put to anyone's head to buy it either.
Only in the mind of a Sheffield United fan can a TV company's broadcasting of a product that was previously dead, with death trap stadiums, hooligans, and shit players be ruined.
In the 70's and 80's it was more a case of whether you'd arrive home safely from a game of football, or even alive.
England had a tough job even qualifying for a European Championship or World Cup, let alone be considered one of the favourites.

Perhaps it highlights how shit United really are, and perhaps it highlights even more what a penny pinching, anti footballing, backward bunch of cunts they are, with our fans trying to remember the good old days that were even worse than they are now, but a period of time when our shitness was masked a little by everyone else's averageness, and that's the bit they don't like, but will never admit.
 
That reminds me, I need to renew my firestick before Friday... er, I mean my legitimate Sky, TNT, Netflix, Amazon, Apple TV, subscriptions.

£35 a year.... for everything.
 
sheff_blade90 said:
if your an armchair fan - amazing

if you go to games in person - its the biggest pain in the arse
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If every United game was a 3pm Saturday kickoff, I would go to less live games than I would do with TV in play.
 
ISZA ⚔️ said:
Someone with a shit load of money came along. Greedy people liked the sound of it. Football was broke. I don’t doubt non Sky people are also responsible. I don’t doubt if not Sky it would have been someone else. But it was Sky and they can fuck off.
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Ill say it again, it was the football chairman who agreed it, so, rather than aiming your vitriol towards Sky it may well be better aimed elsewhere, but i can see you are very blinkered in your thinking towards this.. i very much doubt you complained when we got promoted and received all the cash though..
 
Hodgesleftpeg said:
Ill say it again, it was the football chairman who agreed it, so, rather than aiming your vitriol towards Sky it may well be better aimed elsewhere, but i can see you are very blinkered in your thinking towards this.. i very much doubt you complained when we got promoted and received all the cash though..
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And let's ignore that overseas deals are worth more than sky pay these days!
 
originaltrueblade said:
Sky ruined the Premier League dominated by four teams fans don’t like it and are switching to championship SO now Sky about to try and do the same to the championship.
Original post looked like sky marketing

Sky can do one overpriced
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Sky made the Premier League! If they hadnt invested at the outset of the PL (obviously for their own purposes! Which proved to be masterstroke!) then it wouldnt have taken off as it has done.

Im no fan of games being moved, and the lack of sat afternoon games is a shame. But a) everyone knows plans til end of year, b) its making it more accessible for more people c) a sky subscription is cheaper than going to two matches a month at the lane d) without Sky's money EFL clubs would be in serious trouble. BBC / ITV / CH4/5 arent going to pay for it. TNT wont pay for it.

The overpriced argument doesnt add up for me. If people cannot afford it, then simply dont pay for it. Sky have a product that they can sell at whatever price they want, im sure their margins of profit are good and the figures will obviously stack up in their favour. Its not on them to make it as cheap as possible so more people get it, the world of business doesnt work like that
 

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