Club Statement: Coronavirus

[Mutzo Nutzo]

I wonder if ours will be roughly the same, or plus an extra week

Think we’re trending 2 weeks behind Italy. However any end to the lockdown would be a staged affair based on age/vulnerability.

so university and college students would look to go back into their places of study under strict guidelines, followed by secondary and primary school children. For the rest of us your looking at beginning of July.

 

[willo30]

I have a personal agenda against the non screening of Saturday 3pm games to be fair.

I think it's silly and outdated, like the licensing laws for alcohol used to be.

They say it's because it would lower the fans of the football league games but I don't think Sky or BT would entertain it either.
A lot of their viewers will be at the said lower league games therefore affecting the viewing figures.
They want to show games when there is minimal competition.

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

Without them we wouldnt be building a 600m stadium on the docks tho.

Can you explain that further for me?

I always thought the reason the law was there was because it would adversely impact upon Saturday attendances. I don't believe that is the case.

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

They say it's because it would lower the fans of the football league games but I don't think Sky or BT would entertain it either.
A lot of their viewers will be at the said lower league games therefore affecting the viewing figures.
They want to show games when there is minimal competition.

Are you saying that potentially it could influence fans of clubs in lower leagues to stop going the game and watch the prem in pubs instead?

Fair enough I wasn't really considering that angle, I was thinking about it influencing the crowd of the clubs being televised which I don't think it would be. I think money will be the primary factor affecting attendances moving forward.

 

[willo30]

Are you saying that potentially it could influence fans of clubs in lower leagues to stop going the game and watch the prem in pubs instead?

Fair enough I wasn't really considering that angle, I was thinking about it influencing the crowd of the clubs being televised which I don't think it would be. I think money will be the primary factor affecting attendances moving forward.

No I don't think it would impact that much. It's all about viewers for TV. Think they would be all over PL footy 5 days a week.

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

No I don't think it would impact that much. It's all about viewers for TV. Think they would be all over PL footy 5 days a week.

Abroad they would still be all over it. Maybe over here people would just be more selective.

These days I usually only watch our games and the rs until they get a penalty.

 

[willo30]

Abroad they would still be all over it. Maybe over here people would just be more selective.

These days I usually only watch our games and the rs until they get a penalty.

Best way thinking about it would be to have 2 games at a time.
One Sky the other BT. Would be easier to fit them in.
Contradicts my competition statement though.

 

[Goat]

Can you explain that further for me?

I always thought the reason the law was there was because it would adversely impact upon Saturday attendances. I don't believe that is the case.

Its 2 fold.

Sky know they will have a viewing public, due to "most" fans being home or in the pub for the 5.30 games or the 12.30, which in turn increases the money they pay.
And also the Saturday attendances thing, which is more to help the lower league clubs rather than the Premier League.

So whilst the rule that was brought in the 60s is possibly outdated and proven to be utter rubbish, it still impacts on clubs.

It is, in fact, doubtful whether closed periods are capable of encouraging attendance at matches and participation in matches. Both activities have a completely different quality to the following of a live transmission on television. It has not been adequately shown to the Court that the closed periods actually encourage attendance at and participation in matches. Indeed, there is evidence to refute this claim: for example, in an investigation of the closed periods under competition law the Commission found that only 10 of 22 associations had actually adopted a closed period. No closed periods were adopted in France, Germany, Italy and Spain, or in Northern Ireland, that is to say, within the sphere of influence of English football.
Advocate General Kokott of the European Court of Justice


So the most important thing here is making Sky/BT feel special so they pay the big bucks.

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

Its 2 fold.

Sky know they will have a viewing public, due to "most" fans being home or in the pub for the 5.30 games or the 12.30, which in turn increases the money they pay.
And also the Saturday attendances thing, which is more to help the lower league clubs rather than the Premier League.

So whilst the rule that was brought in the 60s is possibly outdated and proven to be utter rubbish, it still impacts on clubs.

It is, in fact, doubtful whether closed periods are capable of encouraging attendance at matches and participation in matches. Both activities have a completely different quality to the following of a live transmission on television. It has not been adequately shown to the Court that the closed periods actually encourage attendance at and participation in matches. Indeed, there is evidence to refute this claim: for example, in an investigation of the closed periods under competition law the Commission found that only 10 of 22 associations had actually adopted a closed period. No closed periods were adopted in France, Germany, Italy and Spain, or in Northern Ireland, that is to say, within the sphere of influence of English football.
Advocate General Kokott of the European Court of Justice


So the most important thing here is making Sky/BT feel special so they pay the big bucks.

Thanks for that unexpectedly detailed response.

So are you yay or nay on the law banning Saturday 3pm telly games?

 

[Goat]

Thanks for that unexpectedly detailed response.

So are you yay or nay on the law banning Saturday 3pm telly games?

I think its a good thing, given that we benefit massively from it money wise and also considering that if I wanna watch games on a Saturday at 3, I very much can, now granted I have to break the law to do so, but hey ho.

I dont buy into the evil Sky are ruining football thing either, I think they serve a purpose.

But I only attend home games, so when they change away fixtures it doesnt impact me that much.

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

I think its a good thing, given that we benefit massively from it money wise and also considering that if I wanna watch games on a Saturday at 3, I very much can, now granted I have to break the law to do so, but hey ho.

I dont buy into the evil Sky are ruining football thing either, I think they serve a purpose.

But I only attend home games, so when they change away fixtures it doesnt impact me that much.

I suppose you do make good points. It takes a big man to admit when he's wrong.

I am not a big man.

I don't stream games but I do like to watch them in the pub. Which was fine in Liverpool and in London but was almost impossible in other places in the UK.

 

[billyblue80]

I just can't see how the season gets finished before July now. How would we even play behind closed doors when players will still have to have contact with each other? Let's void the season and start again in September.

 

[billyblue80]

I have a friend that lives in Bologna. She said their lockdown is due to end on the 3rd of May.

We are at least a month behind them on the curve I would say.

 

[Goat]

 

[GwladysBlue]

lol