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Grecian2000 said:
Ok, here's your starter for ten.
The "live" game was basically set up for those who could be arsed to get to the ground. Fixed kick-off times (3pm Saturday, 7.45 Mid-week), allowing plans to be made (travel, holiday's etc.) in the knowledge that only a major act of God would prevent it from happening.
Sunday's could be spent playing the game, or watching your offspring do so when the time came, without missing that important game at the Lane, and letting your team mates/children down (a priceless commodity).
A hundred less pundits and experts to endure.
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So matches being moved is a negative, what about the positives? Not all solely down to Sky, but the money coming into the game as helped improve the game.
  • Stadiums - Pre Sky they were complete shit holes
  • Fan Behaviour - the hooliganism has greatly reduced in the modern era thanks to improvements in stadiums with all seaters, ticketing and CCTV
  • Better players in England (foreigners) - some of the British players in the old first division would be average championship players at best now
  • More football on TV - surely as football fans, we all want the opportunity to watch more live matches? It's good to have the choice, you don't have to watch!
 



Grecian2000 said:
Ok, here's your starter for ten.
The "live" game was basically set up for those who could be arsed to get to the ground. Fixed kick-off times (3pm Saturday, 7.45 Mid-week), allowing plans to be made (travel, holiday's etc.) in the knowledge that only a major act of God would prevent it from happening.
Sunday's could be spent playing the game, or watching your offspring do so when the time came, without missing that important game at the Lane, and letting your team mates/children down (a priceless commodity).
A hundred less pundits and experts to endure.
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I think there are a lot more exiles though now than twenty years ago. That’s the impression I get anyway. It’s not really a case of just being arsed, if you’re stuck out in the Middle East or even down south.

Sky provides a decent service for those who can’t drive to Sheffield on a Tuesday night or live a four hour drive away and work Saturday mornings.

But at the same time, it’s hugely inconvenient for those who can go to the games, and keep being messed about by Sky (and SAG).

It’s almost starting to drive a wedge between supporters who don’t live near Sheffield and are pleased when Sky announce another televised game and the supporters who have to change their travel plans, or miss the game, because of it.

I’m not sure what the compromise is. Maybe it’s time to start showing games live at 3.00 Saturday afternoon. Given the lengths a lot of people go to just to attend, would it have a huge impact on attendances? There’s no ‘match day experience’ sat on your sofa shouting at the TV.
 
I go away on the 8th at 4 in the morning so that's gone down like a lead balloon but I would have missed it all together if t hadn't changed. Can someone explain the red zone thing please.
 
GallonofMagnet said:
So will we be the only Championship fixture that night? It’s a bizarre one this. Why move it so far forward? And I agree with Ricky - the start you get off to can be very crucial.
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We lost 3-4 in a row and win the league. If anything the start isn’t crucial what so ever it’s about the business end of the season.

As we did in League one.

As Fulham did, this last season!

Relax.
 
Grecian2000 said:
Your original question never mentioned positives though did it?

So how was football better before Sky? That was the question asked, that was the question answered.
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To determine if something is better, you need to look at both the positives and the negatives.

My view is that football is far better now than pre Sky, yes there are negatives such as matches being moved for TV, but on the whole I can live with that when you consider the benefits.
 
BushBlade said:
I think there are a lot more exiles though now than twenty years ago. That’s the impression I get anyway. It’s not really a case of just being arsed, if you’re stuck out in the Middle East or even down south.

Sky provides a decent service for those who can’t drive to Sheffield on a Tuesday night or live a four hour drive away and work Saturday mornings.

But at the same time, it’s hugely inconvenient for those who can go to the games, and keep being messed about by Sky (and SAG).

It’s almost starting to drive a wedge between supporters who don’t live near Sheffield and are pleased when Sky announce another televised game and the supporters who have to change their travel plans, or miss the game, because of it.

I’m not sure what the compromise is. Maybe it’s time to start showing games live at 3.00 Saturday afternoon. Given the lengths a lot of people go to just to attend, would it have a huge impact on attendances? There’s no ‘match day experience’ sat on your sofa shouting at the TV.
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I honestly think 3pm televised games would have as much a positive effect (in that people can plan and know when a game is) as the negative of people not bothering because it's on TV.

In my experience if you're going to a game you're going, whether it's on TV or not. For me being on Sky doesn't stop me going, just means I can record the whole match and don't have to put up with Football on 5's femtosecond of highlights.

I mean this season just gone we had iFollow and people still went.

Plus not everyone has Sky so it's not like all of our fans would automatically be able to watch it at home anyway.

Pubs is the unknown. Maybe people would prefer to keep drinking and watch the game, but just reword the law so they can show it at home but not in pubs if you're worried about that.
 
For the NFL, all games are shown live BUT not within a certain distance of the home venue unless it's a sell-out.
Works for me, would allow you to watch a home game if you CAN'T get a ticket but not if you simply can't be arsed. I'd gladly be stopped from watching the pigs playing at home because they never sell out and if I'm able to get to BDTBL then I do. Win/win.
 
Ricky said:
Utter fucking nonsense.

All because Boro are now playing West Brom on TV Friday 24th. Because playing Tuesday - Friday is impossible at this gruelling stage of the season.

Apparently this is a sufficient reason to mess about with our fixture schedule.

This significantly changes our start to the season and makes it harder. And for what?
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Wilder agrees...

"It's been governed by SKY and EFL changes, which I'm not too happy about," Wilder said, after unveiling new loan signing Ben Woodburn earlier today. "I understand games being changed from Saturdays to Fridays or from Saturdays to Sundays but not by a couple of weeks." Like United, whose meeting with City is also being televised, Middlesbrough will receive £100,000 from the satellite channel after home clash with Albion was selected for coverage. United's last appearance at the Riverside, a 1-0 defeat a year ago, ended in controversial circumstances when Jack O'Connell's added time 'equaliser' was ruled-out for reasons still unexplained. Wilder and his coaching staff were told by the match officials the defender had been adjudged, wrongly it later transpired, to have strayed offside but several United players told The Star the referee had informed them their team mate had been penalised for a foul. Once again, replays confirmed no offence had taken place before the goal was scored. Although reports in the North-East suggest United agreed to switch their date with Middlesbrough, Wilder added: "Like I say, I'm honestly not happy about it. If you look at the Premier League, it goes from round one to round two and so on. Everyone basically plays over the same weekend unless there is a postponement for some reason. That's something we've got to look at, I think. And we've also got to get our heads around the fact we'll be playing in midweek when no one else is."

https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/she...ange-to-his-team-s-fixture-schedule-1-9280374


Really is an absolute joke.
 
bromtom said:
Saying that though our reserve team is looking a bit thin at the moment so there might be a fair few regulars in.
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Potential Reserve Team looking pretty decent a month on:-

—————Moore
——-Leonard Stearman Bryan
Baldock Evans Lundstram Lafferty
—————Holmes
——McGoldrick Woodburn
 
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sitwell said:
I go away on the 8th at 4 in the morning so that's gone down like a lead balloon but I would have missed it all together if t hadn't changed. Can someone explain the red zone thing please.
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Taken this off Facebook sitters.
 
I don’t see how A team cannot play Tuesday-Friday when so many play Saturday-Tuesday. It’s the same thing.

I also don’t think Sky can claim bettet Stadia is down to them. This was as a result of the Taylor report after Hillsborough.
 



Ricky said:
Utter fucking nonsense.
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Sky are the ones that make it nonsense. Why would they put a Friday game on the week of a full midweek schedule? There are plenty of other Fridays.

This game could actually be a blessing though. Pulis has written them off, we had a bad result. Time to bounce straight back and put a marker down!!

Or we could get hammered 4-0
 
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