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Premier League viewing figures down 10%


Guinness Guzzler said:
I know it's mentioned a lot, but I suspect iptv is having an effect as well. I'm a bit bored of the Premier league. I'll watch if there's a derby, or a big end of season match, but I don't bother watching the vast majority. That might change now we're in it but I think I'm just at an age where I can't be arsed watching the same teams playing each other with relatively little on the line. A mid season Brighton v Bournemouth match holds no interest. But equally I feel like back in the day you always felt everyone had a chance at home. Loved when we played one of the big 4 at the SoL, you always felt we might get something. Not sure if the stats back it up, but now it feels like those games are almost always a procession for the big clubs so again my interest is lowered even in a lot of games with a top side involved.

If that's true of other people around my age (40) then they've got a problem because I suspect younger people are even less likely to pay their subscription prices when they can get iptv for a fraction and it includes all the boxing etc.

Also doesn't help that the relegation places are so nearly uncontested now. If there's not a big title race going on, very few neutrals really care about which clubs get into which European competition. Relegation battles are much more "exciting" and last season had nowt approaching one, it was obvious who was going down almost from about two months in. It's becoming stale and fewer people will pay for it if that keeps up
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Remember the “buzz” of the launch of it, alive and kicking etc. been overexposed to death now like. Often choose a film over some shite midtable battle. Might change now were amongst it temporarily 😜.

Might sound arrogant but i reckon the pl will have liked our promotion, neither leeds utd, burnley or our play off contenders bring nearly 50k gates and sell out every away.
Hope we make a fist of it ffs.
chunkyshanhawk53 said:
It's no Topless Darts is it?
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Half time inflatable sumo wrestling needed again.
 
SPUFF said:
Remember the “buzz” of the launch of it, alive and kicking etc. been overexposed to death now like. Often choose a film over some shite midtable battle. Might change now were amongst it temporarily 😜.

Might sound arrogant but i reckon the pl will have liked our promotion, neither leeds utd, burnley or our play off contenders bring nearly 50k gates and sell out every away.
Hope we make a fist of it ffs.

Half time inflatable sumo wrestling needed again.
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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
 
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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Yeh im pleased if we drop we’ll have a warchest, even if that rule is disgusting.

Back to early days think we were first in street with sky, my dad still fumes a neighbour, keith came in for every game n necked 3 cans 😂.
 
Useful_Idiot said:
The demand is coming from overseas
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I do wonder if that will ever drop as well. I know the PL is quite well rooted like, but tbh we don't actually have many world stars in it now, and we all know a lot of foreign fans can change allegiance depending on who they like.

It's got Haaland, Rodri, Salah, not sure who else although I'm probably missing some obvious ones. But when the most high profile players are generally Messi, Ronaldo, Mbappe, then you've got the new stars like Yamal and Doue. Even England's best (Kane and Bellingham) aren't in it. Feels to me, maybe wrongly, like it's losing a lot of it's star appeal tbh
 
Too much of it and generally its pretty boring now. Lots of possession for possession sake. Most touches and passes are by cbs.
 
and yet they still can't see that part of the problem is the dour pundits that think their job is to criticise everything and just sound misreable. It's literally commentary to slit your wrists to.
 
SPUFF said:
Yeh im pleased if we drop we’ll have a warchest, even if that rule is disgusting.

Back to early days think we were first in street with sky, my dad still fumes a neighbour, keith came in for every game n necked 3 cans 😂.
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Same. We needed a season where we managed to sneak up because otherwise you've always got at least three clubs who, if they're ran as well as we are, should be comfortably better. It's a shit system, given the money is really meant to just make sure your club doesn't go bust, but I'm glad we're on the right side of it. With the way safc is run currently and with our setup, I'm pretty confident that we should be, at worst, a yoyo club for the foreseeable. One promotion and suddenly the club is kicked forward by years
 
Roker Mackem said:
turgid style of football now
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That’s it like. Most teams are so scared of conceding they forget to attack.
chunkyshanhawk53 said:
The tv and radio coverage that all football receives, is totally out of proportion to the actual interest in the game.

Sky have tried their best to manipulate the audience and create demand that doesn't exist
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It’ll peak soon imo. Once the Asian markets realise that the footy is actually shite to watch, it’ll steadily decline.
 
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People getting bored of sky bigging up the same teams playing each other and it turning out to be a borefest. The bubble is definitely starting to burst in this country. The real markets for the premier league are now overseas
 
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