Will you be paying the £14.95 pay per view?
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I don't think £15 is too bad. A whole household, or you and your mates can get a few beers in and watch your team. £15 barely buys a meal for two from a takeaway. A decent car magazine, a cold can of juice and whatever will be a tenner. Smoke? Having a laugh. Go to the cinema? Na, £15 ain't bad. Will I be paying it? Regularly? Not a chance, not into football enough. Bit one off games I really wanna see. Sure, why not.
biggbn said:
I don't think £15 is too bad. A whole household, or you and your mates can get a few beers in and watch your team. £15 barely buys a meal for two from a takeaway. A decent car magazine, a cold can of juice and whatever will be a tenner. Smoke? Having a laugh. Go to the cinema? Na, £15 ain't bad. Will I be paying it? Regularly? Not a chance, not into football enough. Bit one off games I really wanna see. Sure, why not.
While I can see your point, if you have already paid for the season ticket you are paying again for the game. The club owners and TV companies mist be rubbing their hands together and slapping themselves on the back after coming up with this idea.The Premier Leaugue is now just corporate, sanitised BS. The fans are just superfluous and an inconvenience to the clubs.
LukeBrown66 said:
If you go down this road it will become the norm
As usual the British public will lap it up enough that the companies make it the norm.
Sadly we are so dumb we make it easy for them.
Well you do, I never pay for anything lol!
I think it precisely what the PL and its clubs are doing. The value of TV rights has hit a plateau and I think was actually down slightly in the last round of negotiations with SKy/BT/Amazon. The model that changes everything for the PL is PPV but to go down that route it means giving up that massive annual payment and take the risk of uncertain PPV incomes....but a significations increase. As usual the British public will lap it up enough that the companies make it the norm.
Sadly we are so dumb we make it easy for them.
Well you do, I never pay for anything lol!
So...what better way to test the appetite for PPV than do exactly what they are doing now ?
They can get f
ked.
I've not long paid £70 to keep my Season Ticket, now they want more money out of me, why am I paying if I can't even watch my teams games? £5 would have been fine, £6.99/£7.99 I could just about stomach, but £14.95 is a disgrace. I really hope it all goes bust, I would love to see the day. Football for me is about the day out, a few beers with my mates and just enjoying myself, no chance am I paying this to watch the game, I'll just get a stream. The longer this sort of stuff goes on, the more I hope it will drive people to non league football.
To the poster above who said about getting your mates round, that's ok unless you're in a lockdown area, then that's illegal (not that many people will care).
ked. I've not long paid £70 to keep my Season Ticket, now they want more money out of me, why am I paying if I can't even watch my teams games? £5 would have been fine, £6.99/£7.99 I could just about stomach, but £14.95 is a disgrace. I really hope it all goes bust, I would love to see the day. Football for me is about the day out, a few beers with my mates and just enjoying myself, no chance am I paying this to watch the game, I'll just get a stream. The longer this sort of stuff goes on, the more I hope it will drive people to non league football.
To the poster above who said about getting your mates round, that's ok unless you're in a lockdown area, then that's illegal (not that many people will care).
48k said:
hepy said:
The Premier League and TV companies don't care about fans in the stadium. It's all about the TV viewers,
They've already figured out how to simulate passable crowd noise how long before they figure out a CGI crowd?
Match day revenue/shirt sales/all the travel costs people incur all add up.
biggbn said:
I don't think £15 is too bad. A whole household, or you and your mates can get a few beers in and watch your team. £15 barely buys a meal for two from a takeaway. A decent car magazine, a cold can of juice and whatever will be a tenner. Smoke? Having a laugh. Go to the cinema? Na, £15 ain't bad. Will I be paying it? Regularly? Not a chance, not into football enough. Bit one off games I really wanna see. Sure, why not.
Not without breaking the law you can't 
The thing you have to watch is the precedent.
You can already see a few posters saying if they were rich they would pay it.
And that is the issue, they don't think down the line when all games are this much, your SKY, BT adds up to 200 quid a month yet you all lap it up so desperate are you not to miss anything.
Its a mild form of addiction and companies like this EMPLY people to push the boundaries and see what you will put up with.
Gaming has been doing it for years
They are aware of the "all about you " culture, and making it like you are in control, when you are in less control of most of your life than you have ever been.
You can already see a few posters saying if they were rich they would pay it.
And that is the issue, they don't think down the line when all games are this much, your SKY, BT adds up to 200 quid a month yet you all lap it up so desperate are you not to miss anything.
Its a mild form of addiction and companies like this EMPLY people to push the boundaries and see what you will put up with.
Gaming has been doing it for years
They are aware of the "all about you " culture, and making it like you are in control, when you are in less control of most of your life than you have ever been.
V8covin said:
Given how easy it is to find a free illegal stream for every premier league, often in HD ....and has been for many years...... I'm surprised anyone pays
Yeah I've not paid for a few years now, just use someone elses Sky Go and then stream any BT games. Paying £50 a month to watch sport is justified if you watch it all, but adding another £15 on top for individual games is a slap in the face.V8covin said:
Given how easy it is to find a free illegal stream for every premier league, often in HD ....and has been for many years...... I'm surprised anyone pays
The experience is still generally better with Sky but they'll test how much people value that experience with these costs.Parents have already cancelled BT
I’m thinking of paying for the Chelsea match on Saturday. I’m looking at it from the point of view that I would not usually be able to watch a 3pm Saturday match on TV and it would cost far more than £15 to go to Stamford Bridge to see it (even if you were allowed to).
Are the broadcasters giving it the full PPV premium presentation treatment or will these matches have adverts all over before, during half-time and after the match?
Are the broadcasters giving it the full PPV premium presentation treatment or will these matches have adverts all over before, during half-time and after the match?
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