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Here in the US most Ice Hockey, American Football and Baseball games are shown live. However, there are a couple of caveats. First, there are blackouts. So if you live within a certain radius (20 or 30 miles) the local TV channels often aren't allowed to broadcast the game live. So if you are a local who wants to see the game you need to buy a ticket. The second option is the sell-out clause. This requires a game to have sold a minimum percentage of their capacity (typically 90% or more) before the game can be broadcast live. This isn't a big deal for clubs in New York, Chicago etc. but it presents challenges for some teams to the extent they end up giving away thousands of tickets to schools, colleges, veterans associations etc. to bump up their number. End result is that you get full stadiums for live games that are being broadcast.

Darren Smith joins East Kilbirde. Much younger than I thought, but I suppose that happens when you make your senior debut at 16.

Makes sense. As he was transfer listed I doubt Peterborough would have worried about releasing him early - although I guess there would need to be some legal paperwork drawn up regarding who paid his wages etc. pre-window.

With Barry Fry in the mix, I'm sure we come to some mutually acceptable, flexible arrangement.

He's made a few appearances for Hull since he recovered from his injury, included being in the starting 11 twice. (More than I thought he'd have at this stage - I thought he'd be straight into their reserve team).

Good to see the Wigan players dealing with the club's crisis in a positive way.

I'm having trouble keeping track of the transfer window situation. I see the Scottish window has officially opened today and will last until October 5th. Is the English Championship still aligned with the EPL's plan to wait until the current campaign finishes? I've seen various things written about letting the EFL work differently, but nothing definitive.

Karma for who? It's Columbus that owe us money and they have the player.

On the side is edgy and urban chic. In the middle is for auld yins like us.

Much less money, I'd think. Especially where families are involved. One household of 2 or 3 people watching a stream would generate the club's cut of a tenner or less. 2 or 3 people going through the gate would generate much more than that, even at season ticket prices.

Biased() match report on the Utd website

He scored his first against Dundee Utd today.

It's been proposed, but don't think it's been rubber-stamped yet.

Plus, if the League Cup does go ahead, no winter break, Euro games and a likely backlog when we hit some bad weather in Jan/Feb I imagine there will be a lot of rotation required.

Looks like it. 12pm kick off (but no stream). I presume the Rangers game is being streamed to let them test UK access for the season ticket holders. For those outside the UK I notice there is a £30 discount on the annual sub if you sign up before 22nd July. (My sub doesn't renew until August but it looks like I get the discount too).

Ah sorry. I see what you mean now. For me the European competitions died when they went to groups. I used to love the 2-leg knockout format. But as with all things in modern football, big clubs' profit comes first. And don't get me started on teams that are "demoted" to the later stages of the Europa League when they finish 3rd in their Champions League group.

I don't know what you mean by "play-offs" but the Preliminary round, which is the first round of the Europa League, is normally 2 legs. You can argue about group stages being wrong (and I have many times), and I even suggested scrapping them for this season's tourneys. That shipped has sailed, though, and the only benefit is that it generates a bit more revenue for the share we will be getting.

It's certainly a bit unfair to give a team home advantage in a tie that is normally 2 legs.

Nicola is the messenger. It's those pesky doctors with their science and their data that keep spouting all these facts. If you want to see what happens when you ignore them, take a look at the graphs from the past 2 months of all the US States that eased restrictions too quickly (because they didn't believe the science). They have had spikes that would impress Vlad the Impaler.

As I mentioned earlier in the thread, we are losing the entire revenue from every home game because the season tickets are guaranteed to give 19 home games. So whether we lose the income now or when we honour the guarantee next season, we lose the income for the entire crowd, not just the away fans.

Signing a player from a Championship team who has 1 year left on their contract is pretty ambitious for us. I hope he's good.

The official site has PJ listed as number 23. They still have Cole Starrs listed, right enough, so maybe that isn't as definitive as it should be.

Looks like the Wigan Warriors Rugby League club (who share the stadium with the football team) are planning to buy Wigan. So there might not be any fire sale - which is good news if they do sell Kipré.

The club has guaranteed 19 home league games on season tickets. So whether we take the hit now or later, we will be losing money on every home game with no crowd.

If we get £200k I imagine we'd be banking it to help tide us over during the "no crowds" part of the season.