AFCCOVENTRY
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Has anyone seen the deal EFL has stuck with Sky Sports for every EFL game to be streamed live for this season? £10 a game.
What does that mean for ifollow?
What does that mean for ifollow?
Sky sports to stream every EFL game (11 Viewers)
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lord_garrincha
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Ifollow will stream all the games under their agreement. The reported deal with Sky Sports will allow this, it is not a deal for Sky Sports to do this.
David O'Day
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remember watching us play away at Blackpool on ifollow and the camera work was pure pissed up day at wedding 5 pints in
fernandopartridge
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Ifollow uses Sky infrastructure to relay the game back to its servers anyway
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Winny the Bish
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I could see it as a red button add-on maybe. That way Sky don't lose out on the viewership and advertising money. I can't imagine Sky would take clubs showing every single game on their own sites, making money from it, without getting anything in return and not putting up a fight to get some sort of value.
BornSlippySkyBlue
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Are you (will you be) a season ticket holder, and did you read the article linked above?
edit: relevant?
“Season-ticket holders will get access to their side's home matches free of charge and more casual fans will be able to watch every game — including Saturday 3pm kick-offs for the first time — for a fee of around £10.”
mrtrench
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Sky Sports is an extra £30 per month - they will be making money. If I have to pay £10 on top that's £70 per month to watch all games, plus I have to agree to an 18 months contract. Surely that's too expensive? You'd effectively be paying £1,000 to watch one season, with no guarantee that you can pay £10 to watch the games next season for the remainder of the 18 months.
Also, I'd have thought that most ppl with a Sky box would prefer to pay for Sports and watch on TV than watch on ifollow, where chromecast can be patchy at best - at least for me.
mrtrench
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Are you (will you be) a season ticket holder, and did you read the article linked above?
edit: relevant?
“Season-ticket holders will get access to their side's home matches free of charge and more casual fans will be able to watch every game — including Saturday 3pm kick-offs for the first time — for a fee of around £10.”
I did read the article but I'm not a season ticket holder - I live miles from Cov. I interpreted the article as saying you could pay £10 per game if you don't have sports. The point I'm making is that I think you can just buy sports for £30 per month - so you get one game per month for free compared to the £10 per game option.
Plus you get access to all the other games that way also, I'm just gona wait until the announcement to add sky onto my TV.
BornSlippySkyBlue
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Maybe the quote
“Season-ticket holders will get access to their side's home matches free of charge and more casual fans will be able to watch every game — including Saturday 3pm kick-offs for the first time — for a fee of around £10.”
Is referring to non-subscribers then, and if you’ve already got sky it’s included? Makes the iFollow portion of the club membership irrelevant doesn’t it?
chiefdave
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That article doesn’t say Sky are streaming all games does it? It says they will allow clubs to stream games, including the games they show live on TV while playing BCD.
It’s been known for ages that ifollow in the U.K. required Sky’s agreement as the rights holder. The packages quoted sound more like ifollow, pay for a season or £10 a gane
mrtrench
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Yeah me too - it's a big financial commitment to make if it's not correct.
shmmeee
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The iFollow sub comes with the membership, I think it’s £210 without the ST part which is an extra £50. But I could well be wrong.
They would probaly use I follow camera men, I watched a few champ games last season on I follow and the quality was 10x better than ours.
Legia Sky Blue
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A lot of people on here are forgetting that apart from midweek games ifollow is only supposed to go out to subscribers abroad. That said, where possible I would still encourage people to use ifollow instead of Sky to access our games, as I'm sure more money will go to our club that way.
Not necessarily, I would agree if we were still in league 1 but championship = more money if there splitting the 119m it will mostly be between the championship teams.
larry_david
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Just spent 3 months getting rid of sky ffs
cc84cov
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It means ifollow are fucked as their coverage is pants
BornSlippySkyBlue
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Good point actually, it does say stream every game....iFollow. But the membership / season ticket said iFollow access to all games played BCD didn’t it?
Either way, I’m hoping that with a sky subscription (sorry), amazon prime, bt sports, premier sports, a club membership, a season ticket AND the ability to watch any game for £10 on Sky, I should be able to watch some football this season!
Although I guess I can definitely cancel the Premier Sports subscription now at least!
BornSlippySkyBlue
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Not sure how accurate this is:
larry_david
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Now that I can get on board with
chiefdave
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That's pretty much how I interpreted the mail article. Although from what the club said about season tickets you'll only get the home games included and will have to pay for away, fair enough really.
All the home games would be £230. Tempted to buy a season ticket to get the special shirt. Reckon there's a decent chance we could go the whole season without opening grounds up completely.
NortonSkyBlue
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I watch ifollow in Saudi Arabia and I find the commentary from Clive and Oggy very good. The fact that I can be in my home in Riyadh and watch our games is just fantastic.It means ifollow are fucked as their coverage is pants
And a shirt?