I assume because they still wanted to pay lip service at least to the 3pm blackout.

So Sky who form the vast bulk of a club’s income go to say, Luton, and say we are showing your game on Saturday in a month’s time. Luton - ‘No’. New one to me that.

Usually the club makes these kind of U-turns on a Friday I’ve noticed, but as that’s been and gone and they will now be pretty much closed for business now until Tuesday, it currently looks like the fools will actually go through with the price rise… so roll up, roll up for your £429 to £529 tickets! But saying that didn’t they increase them for a day and then reduce them again last summer, so who knows with the shambles down there…

Maybe not more night matches, or anything much different than the Friday night, Saturday and Sunday noon KOs we have now - as I’ve read that most of the additional games (I.e going from around two/three live Championship games now to five when it kicks in) will be at 12:30 on a Saturday, across all three divisions. So say Rovers V Plymouth up against two other Championship games plus a L1 and L2 game, all live on Sky at the same time. Not exactly giving the individual club this ‘increased coverage’ the naive one seems to think it’s all about…

This guy. The naivety, just swallows PR statements whole. The clubs want cash, if that means a load of games at 12:30 on a Saturday so be it, the ‘more coverage’ part is incidental. Hang on, you just said the prices are fine, but the club also needs to sort out ST prices?

Yep Sky have run rings round the clubs and EFL here.

The club want revenue, end of.

Sky want the extra coverage, the clubs want the extra cash.

What you quoting the press release for? OEB knows there’s going to be more notice, the point is still the same. From 2024/25 it is likely that at least half of home games will be moved time/day and shown on TV. Obviously doesn’t bother you, but as is being shown by sluggish ST sales this summer on the back of something similar for us this season, it bloody well does bother a lot of other folk.

Sounds like there will be multiple games at 12:30 on a Saturday each week.

5 games out of 12 live every weekend, so expect disruption like we’ve had these past six months to be the norm… oh and clubs still to be skint as the extra cash goes straight into the pocket of players (and their agents).

Not hard to be better than BBD.

Come on OEB 😁 He obviously means it’s inconvenient to have your plans constantly messed around with - and a decrease in sales this summer will show that many ST holders have had enough of it.

Not Sky’s fault though at the end of the day. It’s down to the clubs seeing £££…

I think it’s a combination of being in the top 6 all season, a lot of derbies, plus the top 2 walking away with it so Sky decided to pick others in the play off places instead. Just a weird set of circumstances that will probably never be seen again - but of course once the new TV deal kicks in every season will be like this for most clubs…

So this season’s disruption will be the norm when that deal kick in then…

Around double or more than Luton, Millwall, Coventry and Middlesbrough. Bizarre and even more so when you think we weren’t on particularly much before the World Cup. Crazy amount in the second half of the season. Add red button games to it too and as a result, in my opinion, it will be a big factor if we see a substantial fall in ST sales.

Half 10 on a weekday morning, behind closed doors, at a training ground. 4am (UK time) on the Moon next season.

And he was living literally down the road from Brockhall, bet he couldn’t believe his luck.

He’d have been playing FIFA/Champ Manager 2003, wouldn’t he? Shocking stuff from Dacky.

He should definitely have known more then, you have an encyclopaedic knowledge of footballers when you are 10.

Aye, nowt particularly ‘barmy’ about the modern day Ewood crowd (well, apart from being still mad enough to go!).

Oh I get you. Yeah know what you mean now you mention it, maybe last season?

No, I can safely say sacking a quality and experienced Premier League manager is quite obviously not the best thing Venky’s have ever done.

Always been two separate chants, no? ‘Manager x’s blue n white army’ and ‘Uncle Jack’s Barmy Army’…