Sky TV is killing the game for the majority of clubs.

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Originally Posted by JamesWales

£2000?! That's an incredibly low sum. Easy to believe that 100 less away fans will travel to Peterborough on a Monday night instead of a Saturday afternoon, so that's the £2k lost already.

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Exactly. It was a really good interview he speaks well and put Simon Jordan in his place too.
As he reminded him, he hasn’t been involved in running a football club for 15 years he doesn’t know what goes on in the EFL meetings.

I remember a few years back when Klopp was berating a BT Sport reporter live on air after they'd lost in an early kick off, and the reporter had to point out that it was his club who'd negotiated to play at that time so they could be visible in the east Asian market.

So the clubs are not blameless on this. Some may have felt they had no choice (although you can argue their own financial mismanagement was the root cause of that), but I think most of them just saw the dollar signs and didn't consider the long term impact beyond that.

As for our club, the club's ticket pricing is actually one of the few things they've got very right IMO. A ST down the City remains not just one of the cheapest in the Championship, but in the entire EFL.

There could be more done to attract families though. Here in Cyprus, the team my boy supports have traditionally struggled for crowds. So they started doing child tickets for 1 euro (and they give them a small gift at the turnstile). Mine is 13 euros, so basically 5 pounds each. Crowds have doubled in the last 4 years and I'd say well over half of them are families.

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Originally Posted by J R Hartley

Exactly. It was a really good interview he speaks well and put Simon Jordan in his place too.
As he reminded him, he hasn’t been involved in running a football club for 15 years he doesn’t know what goes on in the EFL meetings.

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So the question is, why did his club vote for it?

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Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman

So the question is, why did his club vote for it?

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If you’re that interested it will probably be on YouTube. He can explain it far better than I can.

As I said in my initial post it was a few months ago and from recollection he implied they didn’t really have much of an option as the new broadcasting deal was dependant on it.

He also said the EFL needed to get their own house in order instead of constantly throwing stones at the EPL as the clubs.

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Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman

So the question is, why did his club vote for it?

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I can only assume they feel leant on given Sky's general powerful position.

Also, perhaps it was worth trialling to see how it went?