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Yes and it is on TV. The young adult at 20 years of age would be paying twice as much to watch a stream.
I'm sure you'd think it was a great deal if somebody gave you £1.50 at the turnstile and gave you a code to go home and watch it on your laptop too.
As for away games, what are you on about? All the calculations were done for 23 home games you plum.
They could have yeah.
Surely Sky are making something out of this too wouldn't you say?
As I've said I begrudgingly pay it as I feel I'm helping out the club in some small way but I didn't think it was great value which is why I put it on here.
For what it's worth I can see football going down the streaming/app route in the next few years certainly. Simon Jordan, while not being everybody's cup of tea, made a good point on Talk Sport regarding it. Basically the argument was that if the PL had a Netflix/Amazon style app available for say £10/£15 a month showing games then it would virtually eradicate a large portion of piracy and the need for illegal streams overnight. People would not take a risk for such a small outlay.
I could only agree with him.
Where that would leave the EFL I'm not sure although I assume they would follow suit. The PL basically pull the ladder up on any negotiations these days and take the majority of the pie as we know.
23 home games is £230. It's cheaper.
Do clubs need this money? Yes. They aren't "ripping people off". Most League Two fans would happily pay this money because their clubs make no money without it. Anyway, you don't want to pay, that's fine. Don't. I probably will but I won't be asking for my money back regardless.
You'll be paying. Well done to you.
I said that some fans would be paying more than it would cost them to go to an actual game. They are and I gave proof. A 20 year old with a season ticket at Newport County will be paying twice as much for a stream than they would to attend an actual game. That's a fact.
I understand why people are paying it and I am, although begrudgingly as I think the price is too high. I've paid for things I think are overpriced in the past and will again probably. Doesn't stop me thinking they're pushing it a bit.
Do you know if Sky are taking some money from this? Do the clubs get all the cash?
Logic tells me that if Sky were so intent on negotiating a minimum price then they are taking a cut somewhere.
Hopefully it all goes to the clubs but the big corporations don't care too much about football clubs.
No. I think the EFL could have pushed for a lower price with Sky.
As I've already said if you pay a tenner today then you get three games plus NFL and whatever else is thrown in.
Yes, there was the chance they'd have said the EFL could not have had rights to show it but if there is money in it for Sky then I'm not surprised they agreed. They still have their schedule and it is money they wouldn't have expected to get.
Some feel it's great value. Others don't.
I'm very much in the latter camp but am still paying it so what do I know.
Not for me it isn’t although to be fair I wouldn’t have been happy if they’d paid me to watch that yesterday. The international pass is £7 a game. I can spend that on 2 cans of beer!!
£7 to watch every game... and to pick and choose which ones I can watch is great value to watch my team.
If the price was twice that it wouldn’t be excessive
You get all of those things... the one thing you don’t get though is to watch Cardiff City live for that package. If you don’t care what games you watch then Sky or any subscription service is good stuff. In Canada where fortunately football isn’t as high profile I get a DAZN season pass for $120 (£80).
For that I get... every single PL game, all other televised EFL games that are on Sky, Every NFL game live, nearly every England cricket game (one days and tests)... tons of boxing including all Joshua fights, all the 6 nations games and a whole host of other programming... for a Brit living in Canada who also loves the NFL the value is unbelievable
I agree the service is shocking but if I could watch it live from a drone above the ground it’d be better than nothing at all.
Appreciate that personal economics come into the equation and maybe blue lewj doesn’t have much disposable income but its not a lot of money for those times when you can watch the games
Compared to many other pastimes Football is not good value for money.
All I'll say is that Sky have the rights to broadcast the EFL and have paid a hefty price for that.
Do you think they would then let the EFL do that for free? That doesn't make sense to me.
It isn't a disposable income issue as mentioned above, a tenner is a drop in the ocean, it is about a fair price for something.
The value of something is what people are willing to pay for it though. Although I disagree with the pricings I still pay and if the club and the rest in the football league are selling enough streams per week then the price is correct.
New season, same old shit.
Blue Lew in complaining about the club shocker.
This debate is about whether £10 is a fair price for the product, non?
It’s nothing to do with blindly stumping up cash to “support the club”.
The product being served up by the EFL (when it works) isn’t even comparable with the Sky product in terms of quality, so on balance, it doesn’t strike me as very good value for money.
The EFL need to pull their finger out and stop taking the mick.