[BFC SITE] New Date For Rotherham Home Fixture

Numbers will drop like a stone next summer. This Sky deal will kill it for many clubs in L1 and L2. Done nothing but increase my contempt for Sky. They’ve been slowly killing football outside the Prem since 1992.

 

Especially away games for clubs with 12:30 or 19:45 Saturday kick offs

 

Yeah definitely. I was meaning ST numbers though. Probably 30% of folk don’t bother turning up for the midweek games. Seeing as most games are now at night can see loads packing it in.

 

Especially with the fire sick brigade, SKy are killing football but in turn they rip folk off giving people no option but to get something illegally

 

Don't get the 7:15 kick-off time.

 

Sad to say this might be my last season with a ST. As you know I’ve lived away from town for a long time and when I lived in Wiltshire, Gloucestershire or Buckinghamshire I’d make the day trip on Saturdays without thinking about it. These days it’s a real effort just to drive 50 miles there and 50 back. Night matches - forget it!

This new way of doing things will certainly decimate the smaller clubs, and maybe even some of our size.

All very sad to see the game as we once knew it dribbling down the plug hole like this!

 

LOL. I definitely have a life, particularly on Friday nights. In fact the wife and I are just preparing to catch the bus into Barnsley (using our bus passes of course!) and meeting up with kids and grandkids for a family dinner. Football just doesn’t compare (particularly recently!).

 

They have lied. The fixture wasn't originally planned for a Monday night. It was originally planned for a Saturday 3 pm and got moved and now moved again.

 

Agreed. What age does the tipping point come from thinking "great love a midweek game" to "blimey that's an effort". I'm 49 and passed it years ago. All I can see now is horrendous Friday night traffic getting through Leeds from the North and then M1 Friday rush hour traffic in time for a 1915 kick off. Really cba with it all. Add in inevitable motorway closure post game obvs.

 

Clubs will go under. Maybe not this year or next but within 3 or 4 years small clubs will fold because of this TV deal.

You have to get new fans through the door in order to survive long term and what new fans is ever going to become a Barnsley fan when there are no games to attend without having to go through hoops and plan your life around a third division knock about at a club you aren't hooked on? Very few people is the answer.

So you've got nobody coming through the door. You'll have nobody buying shirts because who's buying a shirt at rip off prices to wear maybe once? Or not at all if you aren't getting the new fans.

No shirt sales, no season ticket sales, no catering sales, no hospitality.
No club


Football is eating itself and the lower league clubs who have agreed to this deal are committing commercial suicide

Oh and sky will lose an absolute fortune in the long run too because the deal costs them so much both in terms of broadcast rights but also infrastructure costs to show all the games and who's going to watch them? For now it's fans of the individual clubs but that won't last as fans who don't go to games lose their addiction. It's much easier to choose to go out with your partner or do something else when it's a choice between that or watching a badly commented match on the red button than it is when it's a choice between meadowhall and oakwell on a Saturday afternoon.
And that's just the loss of the die hards. Do sky actually think a random person is going to put sky on and watch Harrogate v barrow at 8 o'clock on a Saturday night? Not a chance. By the end of this TV deal there will be a couple of hundred people watching some games on TV. I feel there's another itv digital situation brewing

 

The age at which you get a proper job basically.

 

The bulk of the finances coming from Sky are aimed at clubs in the Championship. I've felt for some time that a Premier League 2nd Division was bound to come. Effectively it has with parachute payments for relegated teams coming down from the Premier League making it harder for teams coming in to the Championship from the opposite direction. Leagues 1 and 2 in the EFL are expendable in a two division Premier League.

 

On the plus side,fire stick sales will rocket

 

100% correct about the smaller clubs the sad thing is it is probably the smaller clubs who voted for it because in the short term it increased their revenue.
Sky don’t give a monkeys about viewers, they do these deals to attract advertising revenue, football fans are an after thought.

 

That's the Sky model in a nutshell. Income for them, bung the clubs a few quid and sod the fans.
Telly viewers are more important than fans in grounds.

 

All the lower level clubs are been used as fillers for the sky channel's. All the premier league sold their souls many years ago but at least it's f9r for 150m ish where by we and rest did it for what I imagine is pittance. This will ruin attendances and might sink a few clubs but sky won't care as long as enough survive to fill the gaps.

 

On the plus side I'm now spending most of my Saturdays watching non-league, where the proper football is. Real entertainment and superb value for money.

 

I've just looked at the figures that Carlisle claim. They reckon they got 164,000 last year and will get 300,000 this year which is just 136,000 more. The equivalent of less than 282 adult season ticket holders at this year's prices.

I'm reality a percentage of season ticket holders will buy a programme, food and drink so let's say that on average each person spends just £1 at the ground each match that means 269 less people in the ground and Carlisle are making a loss and thats purely season ticket holders. Pay on the day is obviously more money

 

Just had a quick look at www.nationalrail.co.uk website for that date. 21:45 train to Leeds arrives at 22:17. So to avoid rush hour and motorway traffic it might be a lot quicker if you could park in Leeds centre and get a train to tarn and back.

 

And you are more likely to get continuity/loyalty over more years from Season ticket holders and their children etc.