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Premier League viewing figures down 10%


Lankester Merrin said:
This is the central problem

Fans want excitement, unpredictability, drama

Broadcasters advertisers and sponsors want predictability. The same teams playing each other all the time. Just look at the champions league - endlessly tweaking the format to guarantee the same teams in the final stages year after year.

Eventually fans start and turn off. The Champions league is turgid, and the Premier league is going the same way
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do have to agree with you.

even though I pay for sky sports, I do not watch the majority of the football. never Almost never) watch fnf or mnf. mostly watch sunday afternoon but tend to pick and choose on the early games. never watched the new evening kick off.

sky sports news has rapidly gone down hill. they promote a lot more of womens football, which in turn knocks out the news from the championship and below due to time constraints. further pressure due to the highlighting of womens and now mens netball. I have also noticed that unless they state WSL, then there is no differential, between the mens and womens teams. so it is confusing for me at least.
 
tony_not_in_london said:
Nope

In my lifetime Derby County, Nottingham Forest, Blackburn Rovers, Leicester City have all won the league

The league being the top of the England and Wales pyramid structure that includes Sunderland RCA

The modern day Sky Sportswashing “English Premier” league bullshit has brought us Man City winning the league over and over again with an easy win bought by oil money hoovering up world cup stars, Saudi murderers buying a local club wholesale, nylon shirts for £100+, season tickets topping three grand at some clubs, kick off times shifted to suit TV rather than supporters and obscene wages for professional footballers

Progress?

I personally do not think so
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Far too many people mesmerised by the glitzy Sky bullshit.. I remember listening to the Annual Port Stanley Darts Championship on the radio in the Falklands.. deffo where Sky got the idea from.
 
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It can't help when half the Premier League are small clubs like Brighton, Brentford, Burnley, Bournemouth, Fulham, Palace, Wolves, Leeds, Forest, Everton etc they just have no pull nationwide.
 
The cost of subs is obscene man, you need a sky sub but not just the sports you’ll have to take another package as well so you’re probably looking at minimum £50. Then you need tnt sports think that is £28 a month then Amazon have games which is another £9 a month. So to see games your looking at the thick end of £100 a month. That’s just silly when people overseas pay nowhere near that and get all the games. Iptv is ok I’ve used it it’ll never be as nice as having all the games in 4k hdr etc but the cost is a fraction. I’ve knocked sky on the head after 25 years as I was barely watching it bar the sports. Cost needs to be brought down not going up every few months like it seems to be.
 
Guinness Guzzler said:
Aye, when I first got sky I was buzzing to be able to watch live football having previously just had MotD. I'd happily watch 9th vs 13th on a lunchtime. Sometimes I'd still stick it on like, but it's not something I'd bother with most of the time. Generally neither are at risk of going down. One might get a chance of conference league but who cares outside their fan base? Even man united being shit didn't make me care enough to watch. I'd have been glued to it if they were actually at risk of going down, but they were never in danger and they get so much money that you know they'll move back up the league soon enough.

I find it stale but like I say that might just be age, but if younger people are less likely to pay they've got a problem. I'm buzzing we're back, you need to be in the top flight, but I'll always maintain that the championship is the better league. Everyone with something to play for, teams can come up from league one and compete straight away like Luton and Ipswich, and we, did, you can come 16th then go up the next season. The only issue its got is parachute teams being ridiculously better off, and even that's a PL issue really
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With about three or four games left in the Championship this season one of the TV pundits over here said that it was still mathematically possible for every team in the division to either be promoted or relegated. Compare that to the bore fest in the prem when all the key places had long since been locked up. The premier may be prestigious and of course we want to be there but the championship has so much more potential to be exciting and right up to the end of the season.
 
Inside Forward said:
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It’s almost as if it might be getting boring seeing the same teams at the top all of the time and the newly promoted clubs struggling to compete.
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For me I dislike the fact the players are pathetic little weaklings.

They spend more time rolling around on the ground that running on it.

And referees should be mic’d up and their decisions broadcast to the crowd.

Controversial decisions should be shown on the big screen.

Not got a big screen, then you are in league 1 - see ya!
 
There’s too much football on the box. They’ve saturated the market.

Too many games as well with extended format European competitions and international fixtures. It’s having an effect on the quality of the product, tired players and less meaningful games.
 
Can't honestly remember the last time I watched a PL match. Maybe 3 or 4 a season, tops.

I suppose I'm easily replaced by 10x as many fans from Africa or Asia.
 
EDGE said:
Too much footy.
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Everything is the same these days...too much wrestling, movie and tv franchises. Everything the dead horse is just a pile of dust man 🤣
10% is a very big portion... imo I think it's just a bubble and like everything else popular it has peaks and troughs
 
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Mackemansj1 said:
The cost of subs is obscene man, you need a sky sub but not just the sports you’ll have to take another package as well so you’re probably looking at minimum £50. Then you need tnt sports think that is £28 a month then Amazon have games which is another £9 a month. So to see games your looking at the thick end of £100 a month. That’s just silly when people overseas pay nowhere near that and get all the games. Iptv is ok I’ve used it it’ll never be as nice as having all the games in 4k hdr etc but the cost is a fraction. I’ve knocked sky on the head after 25 years as I was barely watching it bar the sports. Cost needs to be brought down not going up every few months like it seems to be.
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Amazon have lost the rights this season
Just Sky & TNT.
 
The problem is you can’t get consistent coverage and sky takes the piss so where does that leave you? Even if you do have sky or whatever bullshit channels are out there the fact of the matter is the game is so sterile. I’d rather go and watch national league or the champo
 
soapster said:
I was recently sent information on how to apply for a watchers brief, for Sunderland area. All that was required, was to wonder into establishments and see if they were showing the football match illegally. No confrontation involved, just evidence gathering.
this was a new job(s) due to Sunderlands promotion. (no interest what so ever in the job as I attend the matches).

not prosecuting the end user is similar to not prosecuting the punter in the bar (if there is such an offence). after the people who are making the money as it then makes their prosecution easier.
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Do they pay for your beer if you keep receipts? 🤣
 
soapster said:
I was recently sent information on how to apply for a watchers brief, for Sunderland area. All that was required, was to wonder into establishments and see if they were showing the football match illegally. No confrontation involved, just evidence gathering.
this was a new job(s) due to Sunderlands promotion. (no interest what so ever in the job as I attend the matches).

not prosecuting the end user is similar to not prosecuting the punter in the bar (if there is such an offence). after the people who are making the money as it then makes their prosecution easier.
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I’ve seen a few of those jobs advertised recently always just after the seasons ended they start to advertise them

Forget the posh title there called
 
I think people have had enough of being financially fucked by SKY etc...so finding other means...or just bored of watching the same stuff each week.
 
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