Ukraine vs England - online only!
Ukraine vs England - online only!
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Puggit

Original Poster:

49,430 posts

270 months

Monday 5th October 2009
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internati...

I can't see many forking out £4.99 for this!

Cara Van Man

29,977 posts

273 months

Monday 5th October 2009
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Nope.

I wont be.

Jonny671

29,749 posts

211 months

Monday 5th October 2009
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Cara Van Man said:
Nope.

I wont be.
Agreed, what a silly idea.

pokethepope

2,666 posts

210 months

Monday 5th October 2009
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A couple of points:

£12 if you sign up late? I doubt they will get a single person paying 12 quid to watch a game, even if it was a qualifier against Brazil/Spain/Argentina they would struggle.

1 million subscribers will be 2.5 million viewers? So the vast majority of people will be watching this on their own or with one other person? Even at £5, its only worth it if you get a bunch of mates together to make the price less than a quid each, I dont understand where they got the 1m = 2.5m from.

jmorgan

36,010 posts

306 months

Monday 5th October 2009
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Not a fan of football but how does an internet feed transpose to the big screen?

Wonder how many takers there will be given the love of betting in parts of the world. Thinking of the numbers they are thinking of.

B16 RTT

1,871 posts

257 months

Monday 5th October 2009
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We should not have to pay to watch the NATIONAL team.

End of!

hornetrider

63,161 posts

227 months

Monday 5th October 2009
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You just know it's going to be poor quality... I won't even bother as I've got ADSL which doesn't cope too well with live streams.

loltolhurst

1,994 posts

206 months

Monday 5th October 2009
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unfkingbelievable - i take it this means we cant watch it down the pub? just as the gov wants - us all glued to our screens watching adverts rather than going out with friends enjoying life for real. its the national team ffs dont we pay for the footy association with part of taxes etc not to mention the licence fee. hey ive an idea dont pay ross 16 million and pay for something half the country actually want to see. s

Russ35

2,656 posts

261 months

Monday 5th October 2009
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Looks like I'll be watching it at home then.

Good job that a Turkish satellite channel is showing it Free To Air. One advantage of having a motorised satellite dish

Grey Ghost

4,608 posts

242 months

Monday 5th October 2009
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Russ35 said:
Good job that a Turkish satellite channel is showing it Free To Air.
Excellent, Sopcast or TVU here I come smile

Russ35

2,656 posts

261 months

Monday 5th October 2009
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Looks like there are 8 satellite stations broadcasting the game, so I'm sure there will be internet feeds to watch

Colin_147

409 posts

250 months

Monday 5th October 2009
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This is gonna be one big giant fail, at least I hope so

pkitchen

1,747 posts

231 months

Monday 5th October 2009
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Happens with cricket all the time. Always on sky. Still another reason to go to the pubbiggrin

sleep envy

62,260 posts

271 months

Monday 5th October 2009
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loltolhurst said:
unfkingbelievable - i take it this means we cant watch it down the pub? just as the gov wants - us all glued to our screens watching adverts rather than going out with friends enjoying life for real. its the national team ffs dont we pay for the footy association with part of taxes etc not to mention the licence fee. hey ive an idea dont pay ross 16 million and pay for something half the country actually want to see. s
rofl

read the arcticle, spout on PH and then woooooooooooooooooooooosh!

Spiritual_Beggar

4,833 posts

216 months

Monday 5th October 2009
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Such poor timing as well!!!


The first game 'AFTER' we have already qualified. So essentially, a non important game.



Absolute disgrace if you ask me. When the online connection in this country is soooo poor, and to actually 'Charge' people for the (lack of) service is criminal.

Edited by Spiritual_Beggar on Monday 5th October 12:35

snotsnfarts

237 posts

251 months

Monday 5th October 2009
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I think it's disgusting I never use the internet !

Devilstreak

8,088 posts

203 months

Monday 5th October 2009
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And Sven is doing the commentary rofl

bonsai

2,015 posts

202 months

Monday 5th October 2009
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Spiritual_Beggar said:
Such poor timing as well!!!


The first game 'AFTER' we have already qualified. So essentially, a non important game.
Which is why neither BBC nor ITV would pay for it.

sleep envy

62,260 posts

271 months

Monday 5th October 2009
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bonsai said:
Which is why neither BBC nor ITV would pay for it.
you can't blame them can you?

ticket sales for the game is also very slow too

im

34,302 posts

239 months

Monday 5th October 2009
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Yep - its not the ideal situation but I love football and I love my country - so what's my options???

Sopcast I suppose - but if its not on that then your rogered for the full £12 instead of the up-until-wednesday £5 price.

Justin.tv won't have it - which means Iraqgoals.net probably won't either.

Whats a girl to do?