SATURDAY 3.00 KICK OFFS

[grizzlyg]

Ahhhh remember the days when we had 3.00 ko's?.   Home to St Mirren on 31st oct will be our first 3pm Saturday ko and we only have 2 more this calendar year seeing as 2 more now. Been moved. ( rangers 8.00ko sat 21 Nov!!!,     hibs 5.45ko sat 28 nov)

[SteelmaninOZ]

43 minutes ago, grizzlyg said:

Ahhhh remember the days when we had 3.00 ko's?.   Home to St Mirren on 31st oct will be our first 3pm Saturday ko and we only have 2 more this calendar year seeing as 2 more now. Been moved. ( rangers 8.00ko sat 21 Nov!!!,     hibs 5.45ko sat 28 nov)

You having a laugh 😆

[texanwellfan]

Yep, football was Saturday 3pm or Wednesday 7.30pm

and they finished at 4.40 or 9.10

[Happy Dosser]

The curse of Sky?

[Mad Dog]

As someone who watches from afar, I don't mind as I'll have the afternoons to do whatever I like. Must be frustrating for folk attending the games though, especially if it is an away game.

[stv]

We really don't matter now at all , if you go to the games or have a season ticket you will take it on the chin because you turn up no matter what to watch your team.

It's all to suit the TV , fans are at the vey very bottom of the list of things that matter. The clubs have take  money from both the fans and TV . But TV wins without question everytime.

VAR was set up specifically for TV so it would give them extra air hours talking shite about it . Everyone going to matches now agrees it's shite and ruins a matchday experiance, especially in Scotland .

It really pisses me off that the true attending supporter means so little in the big scheme of thing. If it wasn't for us supporters going to the game then even the most exciting games would seem shite.

Celebrating a goal has had the shine taken off it thru TV and VAR . Look at  Lowreys goal at the weekend checked by VAR, what the fuk. And the penalty against us was a joke. 

[Spiderpig]

1 hour ago, stv said:

 

Celebrating a goal has had the shine taken off it thru TV and VAR . Look at  Lowreys goal at the weekend checked by VAR, what the fuk. And the penalty against us was a joke. 

Thats the aspect of VAR that really annoys me, it was brought in for" clear and obvious errors" only, now every goal is actively checked for reasons to disallow it.

If you need umpteen different TV angles, freeze frame, and close up zoomed in still images etc to spot the ball glancing off an arm below the T shirt line etc, its not clear and obvious.

The whole thing needs binned, but unless the clubs get together and tell the SFA its a heap of crap, nothing will change.

[David]

There's a simple answer. Knock back any TV deal that wants control over kick off times. However, we'll need to be prepared to see a fairly sizeable reduction in money coming into the game. 

Can't have both. A TV company pays good money for content, and they deserve to have a say in how the deal is executed.

[grizzlyg]

2 minutes ago, David said:

There's a simple answer. Knock back any TV deal that wants control over kick off times. However, we'll need to be prepared to see a fairly sizeable reduction in money coming into the game. 

Can't have both. A TV company pays good money for content, and they deserve to have a say in how the deal is executed.

The money sky pay us compared to what they pay the overhyped English Premiership is ridiculous.

The 8.00 Saturday night ones are ridiculous,  

 

[David]

5 minutes ago, grizzlyg said:

The money sky pay us compared to what they pay the overhyped English Premiership is ridiculous.

The 8.00 Saturday night ones are ridiculous,  

Why are you comparing our TV deal to the English Premiership? It's hardly even the same sport at this point. We're not competing with them. Do you think the Swedish, Norwegian, Danish or Finnish leagues compare their TV deal to the English Premiership?

[grizzlyg]

I was only giving an opinion

[David]

53 minutes ago, grizzlyg said:

I was only giving an opinion

It's not specific to you, if I'm honest. I hear fans doing that all the time. 

We're nowhere near the English Premiership. Virtually no league on the planet is. 

The Premier League isn't just England's domestic football league commercially. It's one of the world's biggest sports media properties. It regularly has something like 1.45 billion live viewers in a season, is broadcast in 190 odd countries and has 2 billion+ followers worldwide.

I'm not saying our TV deal is great value, by the way. Scottish football clearly punches miles above its weight. But stadium popularity and global broadcast value are two different things.

If you want to argue the SPFL undersells Scottish football, compare our deal with Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Norway, Austria or Ireland and look at what broadcasters pay per game and per potential viewer. 

But anyone comparing a highly successful national football competition with one of the biggest global entertainment products on the planet is mental. And just because they're located down the road doesn't make any difference to that.

 

[0Neils40yarder]

3 hours ago, David said:

There's a simple answer. Knock back any TV deal that wants control over kick off times. However, we'll need to be prepared to see a fairly sizeable reduction in money coming into the game. 

Can't have both. A TV company pays good money for content, and they deserve to have a say in how the deal is executed.

They can shove it up their arse to be honest...the ridiculous kick off times foisted upon the national team seen me draw a line under attending regularly a good while back now, and I'll do the same with club games, as I have absolutely no interest in 8pm kick offs on a Saturday night. The 5.45pm ko against Hibs is borderline and I'll decide nearer the time if I can be arsed with that.

[joewarkfanclub]

I totally get that our game needs a tv deal and we need to try and maximise that as much as possible to stop our league falling further and further behind, but some of these ko times are getting beyond a joke.

Who really wants to go to a game of football at 8pm on a Saturday?

Who even wants to watch it on tv at that time?

Is it any worse than 12pm on a Saturday or Sunday though? I really dont know.

Bottom line though is that we arent going to get the good tv slots as they are reserved for the English Premiership and even if we were to switch broadcaster, they are unlikely to want to go head to head with that.

Not sure what the answer is, but I agree its just another turn off for the game here.

[Stuwell2]

I watch English games on a Saturday night in the pub or if I’m at home as well as Sunday and Monday night games along with the bbc coverage of the Scottish championship on a Friday if I’m home, me complaining is a bit of a cheek so I’ll just have to accept it.