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For comparison: the big US sports have annual passes (GamePass, LeaguePass, etc). They typically cost a couple of hundred dollars per year.

For that you get 24/7 TV stations dedicated to each sport. You get access to EVERY live game (not just for your team, EVERY game). You can download games that have already been played. You can schedule games that you're interested in and have them ready on your device as they are being player (or after they have been played, so they're already downloaded onto your laptop/iPad/phone/etc ready to be watched without needing to be connected to the internet). You can skip between games as important events happen in them.

All that for the cost of two months of Sky+BT Sport+Amazon Prime.

Who are the mugs?
 

Flawed said:
Because before Covid we all had season tickets and could go to games!

Skip forward 7/8 months and half the country are out of work or looking to be out of work in the near future, we can no longer attend matches, football is a shell of what it was when supporters were there (watching it on TV without spectators is dull as fuck!), and now they're effectively trying to add £500 to your bill for the pleasure!

It's a fucking piss take. Televised football has been taking the piss for years in the UK with the pricing and disruption to fans who attend games, and with them fragmenting the games to sell to different broadcasters (meaning everyone has to subscribe to more services) they've near doubled the cost already in the past couple of years. Now they pull this shit!

I don't see how anyone can defend it.
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I’ve often thought the fragmenting to different broadcasters was a piss take too. The biggest one is BT as you have to have their internet to get it at a reasonable price or £25 for fuck all games and Steve mcmanamanan saying yeah all game long
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Roygbiv said:
Most loyal supporters who are already pissed off about not being able to get into grounds are not going to pay to see something they don't enjoy that they got for free a week ago.
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exactly if im going hugely underwhelmed. like i was even when we beat chelsea 3-0 & spurs 3-1, with a football game ill listen on radio Sheffield & be £15 richer.

Roygbiv said:
Which is why the whole thing is ridiculous. We've spent £60m on players but are basically pleading poverty about how we need money. We aren't even a top spender either. All this does is see the rich get richer as the big clubs will attract the more subscribers. It's essentially a private TV deal for every team just like Barca and Real have. We have fought against that sort of deal for years and now here we are
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that why i was shocked & wilder too probally at scale of the spending. i genuinely believed that it was going to be an austerity window. because teams are going to be holding on to the reserves of cash that they have. because god knows what the future holds. 6? that spend close to a 100m that suicidal. particularly villa if you have that money.
 
Like many we've gone back to having a Sky package and the rest in order to get the games. Lots of people have. And now they're saying that in spite of me having paid for a service at a certain price that I now have to pay even more money. Not a little bit more either, £15 per game. Knowing I have no other (legal) option.

Whatever factors they might suggest have forced this decision this still feels like one of the most cynical price gouges I've seen for a long time.
 
Flawed said:
Because before Covid we all had season tickets and could go to games!

It's a fucking piss take. Televised football has been taking the piss for years in the UK with the pricing and disruption to fans who attend games, and with them fragmenting the games to sell to different broadcasters (meaning everyone has to subscribe to more services) they've near doubled the cost already in the past couple of years. Now they pull this shit!
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You can thank the EU for the fragmenting of games between competing broadcasters, under their rules which they claim are to protect consumers.

That's because the fecking idiots in the EU couldn't even understand that the monopoly wasn't held by Sky it's held by the rights holder, the Premier League
 
Silent Blade said:
Hold on to your BT Sports subscription

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It's PPV, even though they have no other fixture on at the time. Source - BBC website
 

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gordoncharles said:
You can thank the EU for the fragmenting of games between competing broadcasters, under their rules which they claim are to protect consumers.

That's because the fecking idiots in the EU couldn't even understand that the monopoly wasn't held by Sky it's held by the rights holder, the Premier League
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Nigel Farage is a blade
 
ShockingBadBuy said:
That‘s an interesting line on this. Especially given United’s public backing for the “let fans back in” campaign, or whatever it’s called, during the last few days. Coincidental timing? Perhaps.

Have other clubs publicly endorsed this campaign during the week?
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Just us and Man Utd
 
Flawed said:
For comparison: the big US sports have annual passes (GamePass, LeaguePass, etc). They typically cost a couple of hundred dollars per year.

For that you get 24/7 TV stations dedicated to each sport. You get access to EVERY live game (not just for your team, EVERY game). You can download games that have already been played. You can schedule games that you're interested in and have them ready on your device as they are being player (or after they have been played, so they're already downloaded onto your laptop/iPad/phone/etc ready to be watched without needing to be connected to the internet). You can skip between games as important events happen in them.

All that for the cost of two months of Sky+BT Sport+Amazon Prime.

Who are the mugs?
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They don’t have the option of attending in person though, people living in the UK have.

If you move to America you can have all the things you’ve mentioned above.

As someone who had cheap access to watch Blades games but living 7 hours away during our best 3 years in recent history I’d have much rather have been able to attend locally and pay a bit more for TV coverage for the games I couldn’t attend.
 
I've cancelled Sky Sports today. I'm not interested in sport at the moment like I was. I've barely watched any football outside of United.

To expect people to continue to subscribe on top of paying £30+ a month to see their team is daft.
 
Carlton Blade said:
I've cancelled Sky Sports today. I'm not interested in sport at the moment like I was. I've barely watched any football outside of United.

To expect people to continue to subscribe on top of paying £30+ a month to see their team is daft.
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That's the thing isn't it, if a Sky package with all Sky sports and BT sports is about 40-50 quid a month then they're saying that one Sheffield United match is worth a third of that monthly fee...on top. Hardly strikes you as proportional. More strikes me as treating me like a mug when I've been saying I'd happily pay a little extra.
 
PokerBlade said:
That's the thing isn't it, if a Sky package with all Sky sports and BT sports is about 40-50 quid a month then they're saying that one Sheffield United match is worth a third of that monthly fee...on top. Hardly strikes you as proportional. More strikes me as treating me like a mug when I've been saying I'd happily pay a little extra.
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Hang on to your subscription service. It won’t be long until all the ppl games select the top six clubs, thereby maximizing their income, as opposed to less attractive fixtures like Blades v Burnley, which will be available through your normal subscription service.

If watching live games with no crowds is a non starter, then go ahead and cancel your subscription. Job jobbed.

No way will poorer, less fashionable clubs be allowed to gain income over the big six.
 
A game at the Lane pay as you go is between £25 and £45 quid isn’t it (for an adult)?

Paying £15 for a match on TV when we’ve spent £50m on transfers isn’t out of the way in my view.

Forget Sky and BT, it’s nothing to do with what you pay for them, it’s a way of the club generating revenue.
 
Charlieblade said:
Hang on to your subscription service. It won’t be long until all the ppl games select the top six clubs, thereby maximizing their income, as opposed to less attractive fixtures like Blades v Burnley, which will be available through your normal subscription service.

If watching live games with no crowds is a non starter, then go ahead and cancel your subscription. Job jobbed.

No way will poorer, less fashionable clubs be allowed to gain income over the big six.
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You're saying all the above like it's a positive thing? You're literally saying vote for a system that financially penalises us!

Fuck that. Vote with your feet. Ring up NOW and cancel BT and Sky and tell them why you are cancelling.

It's the only way you can make a difference.
 
The EPL are also helping out the EFL financially. Its not a coincidence that we are asked to pay more now. Also there has not been any statement of clarification by the EPL of where the £14.95 goes from each viewer, its been reported its going to EPL clubs but this has not been officially stated. Shady tactics,. Btw, sky and BT contracts usually do not include sports, thats an optional add on package that you can add/ remove without penalty for many customers but not all so check your contract for it. My sky contract has sports as optional so i can remove it. Hope this helps some of you, solidarity my fellow Blades !
 
Interesting thread this. I've never had any Sky, or similar, subscription for sports or anything. My personal view is I go and watch a live game, or take the opportunity to watch the increasingly rare games on free terrestrial TV.

The strange thing is that if you only have limited games to watch on terrestrial TV, you actually look forward to it and enjoy it more than those who can watch 10+ games a week on pay TV.

Having said all of the above I have zero interest in football on TV in empty stadiums. Even the United games I have seen on Pick TV have been dreary, and am staggered people would even consider paying a subscription then another 15 quid on top.
 
Flawed said:
You're saying all the above like it's a positive thing? You're literally saying vote for a system that financially penalises us!

Fuck that. Vote with your feet. Ring up NOW and cancel BT and Sky and tell them why you are cancelling.

It's the only way you can make a difference.
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Not saying that at all. Just pointing out that the majority of Blades games will not get selected for PPV. Even when they do (Liverpool away) the PPV income will probably go to the home team?

For those who can afford Sky/BT subscription, and don’t mind watching with no fans in the stadium, it will represent reasonable value for what’s available now.

How many Blades home games will get selected for PPV do you think? (That’s just me being cynical)
My present time zone is UK + 7 hours, so in reality, early kick off games are the only ones I can watch or listen to anyway. 😊
 
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