[Archived] New TV Deal

[Bigdoggsteel]

2 minutes ago, Dr Awesome said:

You say that but it seems to depend on the club what kind of following they get abroad - Fulham vs. Charlton in the Championship was on a big screen at Times Square when I was over there a few years ago. I didn't understand why at the time until I realised that Fulham are owned by Shahid Khan, an American business magnate. It seems that the influx of foreign owners to the Championship could well see the early kick offs spreading down there as their teams increase in visibility abroad.

Maybe we will be on a big screen in Mumbai some day 

[scotchrover]

Very sad- it'll practically kill many midweek attendances. If the league has any sense, they'll regionalise midweek fixtures.

On another note, when the money bubble bursts, there's going to be one hell of a financial mess to clean up, similar to that what ITV Digital left. There can't be that many places left to sell English football surely? 

[Proudtobeblue&white]

7 hours ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

Maybe we will be on a big screen in Mumbai some day 

There will be one sad child looking up, in a Manure kit, wondering what on earth he's looking at.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

The club's are more than happy to take the Sky coin,they have us all in their pocket.The fans are a mere secondary concern now.

P.S.

Nice site RovingMick!

[Blue blood]

It could kill lower league football imo. 

Being honest how many of us fell in love with football/Rovers by watching it on TV? Not many I'd wager. 

No it's being at the games, the atmosphere, camaraderie, passion, that gets you hooked. I'm not sure just watching it on TV will make that happen, will forge that connection. so if kids are watching more then going to games, it could be a lost generation of fans. Plus if it's just as easy to watch Manure as your local team on TV, if not easier, (it's just a click of a button) then that too is not going to help keep fans attention on the smaller teams. 

Tbh I often wish the Premier League and Sky had never happened...

[AllRoverAsia]

Trouble at T'Top

http://m.bbc.com/sport/football/41431359

[JHRover]

28 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

Trouble at T'Top

http://m.bbc.com/sport/football/41431359

No prizes for guessing which way this one ends up. Smaller clubs will be railroaded into agreeing it with them being threatened by the bigger clubs breaking away and forming their own league with their own rules.

Alternatively the smaller clubs continue to resist and they then find a way to change the rules without their agreement,

[JHRover]

Inevitable that the bigger clubs want more and more and more to safeguard their positions at the top of English football. Equality among all 20 clubs was only going to last so long.

Expect to see rumours of negotiations with other 'giants' of European football re. a Super League if the smaller Premier League clubs don't agree. I'm sure Celtic, Rangers, Ajax, PSV, Bayern, PSG, Benfica etc. would be quite happy to talk about it.

The Premier League bigwigs and FA will be panicking like mad here.

[AllRoverAsia]

On 14/09/2017 at 17:27, Blue blood said:

It could kill lower league football imo. 

Being honest how many of us fell in love with football/Rovers by watching it on TV? Not many I'd wager. 

No it's being at the games, the atmosphere, camaraderie, passion, that gets you hooked. I'm not sure just watching it on TV will make that happen, will forge that connection. so if kids are watching more then going to games, it could be a lost generation of fans. Plus if it's just as easy to watch Manure as your local team on TV, if not easier, (it's just a click of a button) then that too is not going to help keep fans attention on the smaller teams. 

Tbh I often wish the Premier League and Sky had never happened...

Good post and how I feel.

I find that I have an ever increasing dislike for the business of football.

[AllRoverAsia]

1 hour ago, JHRover said:

No prizes for guessing which way this one ends up. Smaller clubs will be railroaded into agreeing it with them being threatened by the bigger clubs breaking away and forming their own league with their own rules.

Alternatively the smaller clubs continue to resist and they then find a way to change the rules without their agreement,

The 'Big Boys' feel the UK is tv football saturated and worried about the success of Clubs like Leicester. TwoHats.

The PL management will do what the BB want them to. They are 'owned'.

Imagine what's going to happen if Facebook and Amazon get involved in the bidding.

BTW Rangers are still BBs and like Celtic have a huge International following to whom they are still the 'Rangers' and who do not give a s hit about technicalities. TV audience pulling power rules.

[Blue blood]

If they threaten to break away I'd say good riddance and let them. Tbh it'll kill half the big clubs - without the regular wins and some teams being near the bottom glory hunters will fade away leaving them stuffed. Let them stew in their own greed.

Really hope the smaller clubs stand firm. But they won't.

The fact clubs fear Leicester's win spooked TV and Media rather than revelling in the glory of the underdog, that this is considered a bad rather than good thing, fills me more with more loathing than I can begin to describe.

Sod off Sky and take manure and the rest with their glory hunting plastic fans with you.

[K-Hod]

What they're proposing sounds similar to the arrangement in Spain with Real/Barca getting loads more in TV cash than the rest of the teams.....

[Dreams of 1995]

Sod the big 6. What are they going to do if they don't get given this bigger slice of the pie? They won't leave regardless of the fearmongering of a 'Super League'. The uproar that it would cause will almost certainly kill a few of them. Do you think the Liverpudlians are going to accept having 50% of their games in foreign countries? They are already in distress over their rising ticket prices and I highly doubt the Spirit of Shankley club will roll over and let their club be taken from its roots - the English game.

If the "big 6" do decide to uproot from their heritage it could spark the rejuvenation of the English atmosphere. This desire to merge into a super league, "NFL-type" set up is borne purely out of foreign investment; big, global businessmen that have no love for the towns and cities they now represent. It's as simple as that. Why would some Russian billionaire, who has no respect for his own laws, people or land, have any sentiments towards the people of West London? He doesn't care about the people that have supported the club since the age of 4 because the money is in global TV deals. I've touched upon this in another post so will try not to go over old ground.

Quite frankly this game needs to go back to that: a game. Now it's a business full of foreign investment, money making get rich scams and an old boys' club that is so deeply entrenched it will take generations to iron out the corruption. Footballers should become players for their love of the game not for the lifestyle. Owners of the club should be custodians not out-of-touch oligarchs that want another jewel in their portfolio. I'd be sad to see the backs of the "big 6" purely for their history and for what they brought to the English game before this downturn in English fortunes but I won't miss what they have become. Sad, lonely giants that have been commercialised, packaged and sold to a global audience that have no idea or sense of understanding for what they represent.

United/City should be for the mancunians, Liverpool for the scousers & Chelsea for the soft lot - let the rest of the world cater for themselves. 

[J*B]

Let them go. They'll soon realise its no fun when stadiums are full of tourists because fans can't do foreign away games every other week.