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Stockport away picked for tv coverage (8th March 12:30pm)
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The problem is most people complaining about this will probably have a Sky subscription so it’s a win win for themDOUCHER said:
saturday will be a watered down experience - early kick off and on sky - its not right - we (the fans) need to take control of thisLewis Coaches said:The way football has become. Thanks SKY.
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Same here and I have a dodgy firestickoohaahmortimer said:I can safely say I’ve not watched one other league one match this season that hasn’t featured us and I don’t even want to watch us in this shithouse league
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Can anyone informed guess what the viewing figures for our match on Saturday might be? 500? 5,000? I assume this information isn’t disclosed publicly but I would be fascinated to know how many people are actually watching tokillerandflash said:
It's a ridiculous arrangement between Sky and the EFL, shifting several games a weekend, for tiny viewing numbers at 12:30, especially when there's usually a TNT PL game at the same time.se9addick said:All these extra game on Sky, which inconvenience thousands upon thousands of fans, seem especially ridiculous because the viewing figures will be minuscule. Take this weekends match, how many people will actually be watching Charlton v Stevenage on Sky?
And this weekend who will watch Charlton vs Stevenage against the alternatives?
Orient vs Man City on BBC1
Sunderland vs Watford
WBA vs Sheff Wed
Ours is a classic contractual obligation game, chosen when it looked like we were drifting into mid table nothingness. The other exciting L1 game is Stockport vs Barnsley.
justify disrupting 10,000+ people’s weekends.2 -
Yes but it really is taking the piss now.eaststandmike said:
The problem is most people complaining about this will probably have a Sky subscription so it’s a win win for themDOUCHER said:
saturday will be a watered down experience - early kick off and on sky - its not right - we (the fans) need to take control of thisLewis Coaches said:The way football has become. Thanks SKY.
Dont care about the fans.
Not only is it on sky so less will attend, hence reducing the experience / atmosphere but it has also been moved earlier (hence we attending are inconvenienced and others put off going) to get around the rule of not showing 3pm games in this country. So the 3pm rule to protect attendances has actually backfired and made things worse coz they've just moved the game time.
It's gone too far although i accept there are loads that already sit at home and watch on firesticks for next to nothing. I wonder how low the actual bums on seats will have to get before something is done. The TV money goes straight through the clubs and into the players pockets but would they be happy playing in an empty stadium?
Personally, i think the govt should step in. This could be sorted out.
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Football has been f***** for the past 25 years, or more it could be said.There has never been any consideration for the away supporters, at least try and limit the distance involved for difficult kick off times and midweek football. This of course will never happen.1
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For me.Braziliance said:This is why I don't bother with trains anymore, between fixture time swaps, match cancellations and trains in general just being shit, it isn't worth the stress.
I'm so much more relaxed driving to games.
This is why I don't bother with football anymore.
I've done 1 game this season, would of been 3 max.
Decided not to bother with huddersfield away as part of the reason was that would be a F@ck up.
It was and me mates spent Saturday night in Huddersfield.
Stockport was going to be a new ground for me.
£70 if going direct on the train or roughly £45 if I can be bothered to mess.
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I cannot remember, will this still be shown on Charlton TV?
Or not, because it is on Sky?0 -
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At least it gets the 90 minutes of inconvenience out the way early
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You know the Wrexham game is going to be moved.0
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100%guinnessaddick said:You know the Wrexham game is going to be moved.0 -
Three of us are going up on the Friday, so the 12:30 isn't a real issue for us, although it's a bloody nuisance for people who need to change their train tickets to an earlier time.
We were booked on the 18:44 train back post-match - I had a look at returning a couple of hours earlier and was encouraged by a reference to a £3 additional fare, only for an additional £30 administrative charge to pop up. That £33 can be more usefully deployed, so a 4 hour drinking sojourn in Stockport it is.4 -
Is it disrupting people’s weekends? 2 hour train from Euston which means you can get on any train before half 9.se9addick said:
Can anyone informed guess what the viewing figures for our match on Saturday might be? 500? 5,000? I assume this information isn’t disclosed publicly but I would be fascinated to know how many people are actually watching tokillerandflash said:
It's a ridiculous arrangement between Sky and the EFL, shifting several games a weekend, for tiny viewing numbers at 12:30, especially when there's usually a TNT PL game at the same time.se9addick said:All these extra game on Sky, which inconvenience thousands upon thousands of fans, seem especially ridiculous because the viewing figures will be minuscule. Take this weekends match, how many people will actually be watching Charlton v Stevenage on Sky?
And this weekend who will watch Charlton vs Stevenage against the alternatives?
Orient vs Man City on BBC1
Sunderland vs Watford
WBA vs Sheff Wed
Ours is a classic contractual obligation game, chosen when it looked like we were drifting into mid table nothingness. The other exciting L1 game is Stockport vs Barnsley.
justify disrupting 10,000+ people’s weekends.Shrewsbury away (3pm kick off) we were on the 08:020 -
Plenty of the early kick offs clash with the kids football matches / training /indoor cricket for me and it’s either miss Charlton or maybe miss the start of live match or watch on telly and go separately like we are today instead of the 5-6 of us all going together .
Fortune spent on season tickets and the pissy times aren’t helping .
At least in the Prem you’re watching mainly footballers who are decent ish
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I think the rail companies should do an 'event' ticket which maybe you pay £5 more for but allows you to move the time or cancel if the previously specified event changes which isn't hard to prove. I think it means they sell more tickets in the long run.7
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I think a solid business case could be made for that.MuttleyCAFC said:I think the rail companies should do an 'event' ticket which maybe you pay £5 more for but allows you to move the time or cancel if the previously specified event changes which isn't hard to prove. I think it means they sell more tickets in the long run.0 -
Sorry to hear you e stepped back after all these years @clb74 thought I hadn’t seen those shorts for a while.clb74 said:
For me.Braziliance said:This is why I don't bother with trains anymore, between fixture time swaps, match cancellations and trains in general just being shit, it isn't worth the stress.
I'm so much more relaxed driving to games.
This is why I don't bother with football anymore.
I've done 1 game this season, would of been 3 max.
Decided not to bother with huddersfield away as part of the reason was that would be a F@ck up.
It was and me mates spent Saturday night in Huddersfield.
Stockport was going to be a new ground for me.
£70 if going direct on the train or roughly £45 if I can be bothered to mess.
Hope you get the big back again mate0 -
Who?
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Problem for me is the 3pm blackout.
I'm sure SKY would prefer to show this game at 3pm - don't blame them!
It's basically ourselves that are to blame for insisting on this ridiculous rule that helps no one. Who the hell would be stopped from actually going to another game just because Charlton are being shown live on TV. How likely is it that someone tunes in to the stream and then goes out to see another game immediately afterwards? Give a realistic number to how many people will actually do that. 10? 100? 1000?
How many people will not be going to this game simply because the kick-off time has changed. Well there's me for one!0 - Sponsored links:
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Ridiculous comment.stevexreeve said:Problem for me is the 3pm blackout.
I'm sure SKY would prefer to show this game at 3pm - don't blame them!
It's basically ourselves that are to blame for insisting on this ridiculous rule that helps no one. Who the hell would be stopped from actually going to another game just because Charlton are being shown live on TV. How likely is it that someone tunes in to the stream and then goes out to see another game immediately afterwards? Give a realistic number to how many people will actually do that. 10? 100? 1000?
How many people will not be going to this game simply because the kick-off time has changed. Well there's me for one!0
