More Sky next season- no more Ifollow

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  1. onemickybutler

    onemickybutler Well-Known Member

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    Seeing as ifollow overseas will still be operating I imagine the IPTV service via ifollow should still work.
    I could be wrong though......
     
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    Going to be terrible if you're a Wrexham fan.....
     
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    #prayfordragontyke
     
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    The bit I’m not clear about is whether all games will be available to stream under the new Sky deal, in the way that they were on iFollow. Doesn’t read that way. Yes, more on Sky than before, but overall still far less than iFollow, which pretty much streamed every match?? 248 L1 games over the season is still way less than what was previously streamed on iFollow…I think?
     
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    There’s a total of 552 games per season (if my maths is right) so 248 is just under half. Would make sense for that to be every midweek game + the chosen saturday games? I think that adds up to be about right
     
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    Yeah it's 552 matches. I think iFollow stream most of them, so overall I think fans will have less access to streamed matches. That said, iFollow is utterly terrible, so swings & roundabouts
     
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    iFollow streams all of them except Saturday 3pm games (in the UK) which sounds like it’s just under half of all games, very similar number to what Sky will have.

    In fact i’ve just had another look and it mentions it:

    Do you think you’ve made too many matches available?

    The total number of matches to be broadcast is 1059 compared to 243 in the current Sky deal

    However, in total clubs currently stream 360 matches on iFollow and club streaming services, so the actual total is 603 matches already broadcast or streamed

    The additional 456 matches includes 202 additional cup matches with the remaining 254 matches coming from bank holidays, opening and closing weekends and weekend matches

    That leaves 832 matches and 26 out of 36 regular weekend fixtures that are not broadcast

    —————

    So sounds like it’s everything currently on iFollow + some extra weekend games
     
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