Mattyblue

You won’t back him because of some platitudes in a press conference?

I would be absolutely delighted to eat my words!

Thought you said there’s nothing wrong with ST prices?

Ridiculous.

Which is exactly what is happening if sales end up as bad as I believe they will…

To be fair it’s a lottery at Ewood to what kind of sound you’ll even hear coming out the tannoys - either ear splitting-ly loud, or… nowt as it broke about five years ago and they are ‘looking into it’.

7 out of 12 Championship games will still be at 3pm, I believe. But of course if you are around the top 6, you won’t be seeing many of them!

Sky’s rules purposely reduce the notice period in the run-in, to ensure they pick games that involve teams with something to play for, so in reality I don’t think a club can turn it down as they’ll ensure they stay within their (short by April, granted) notice period.

Where’s your Kenneth Williams! 😮

Some fans will be mulling it over. But folk can be very hard over once a price rises. So they’ll get to Tuesday morning, another £50 on top of the already dearest tickets in the area and think, ‘nah!’

Ha, who thinks that about Swag? Like we’ve said he’d be happy with one fan in the ground if said fan paid SW’s £3million revenue target for his ST. All late season matches are short notice as Sky want to pick teams that have something to play for. So Luton last week as an example, minimal notice - that could’ve been turned down, and stayed at Saturday 3pm? Interesting.

Yep, and set revenue targets from the owners (presumably, unless Swag sets his own). So as others have said he’d be happy enough if 1 fan bought 1 ST for 3 million. Job done. He’s no interest in growing the fanbase, none. Once you’ve reconciled yourself to that, all you can do is just bide your time until he finally fecks off, and hope the owners choose to rip up this present commercial horror show and go for someone that actually does see the value in bums on seats.

Learning your trade for a decade can obviously improve you…. unfortunately for us he was taking his first baby steps here.

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.