We Go Again! The 2014/15 Premier League Thread

[hampo17]

First topic message reminder :

I know it's not premier league related, but I was just reading that both of Scunthorpes goalkeepers suffered broken arms in today's game.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

It does however mean more money should filter down the leagues, although not enough to make the gap bridgeable

[Fernando]

FA have opened an investigation over Calum Chambers move to Arsenal....

If they would like to retract it & give us our 15m back they may do so

[Fernando]

Something Mysti will appreciate......

[mystiroakey]

Quality....



I had to watch it all. It's catchy..

[Fernando]

That's why Yaya is awesome because you fit him into song varieties...Like Wake me up before you Sanogo

[Azzy]

When do we find out the results of the TV bidding?

[Fernando]

I doubt will be til next month in all honestly...Rumors suggesting that Sky will lose 15% of their sports subscribers

168 games in seven packages with 10 of them Friday night games

[Azzy]

Wish they'd lose 100%. Fed up of not being able to watch all the sports I'm interested in, and no way do I want to pay their exhorbitant fees.

[Fernando]

They expect to easily surpass the 5.5bn they made last time with 3/4 companies it will go past 8bn.

They expect to have a 2nd round of bidding the way it's going

[hampo17]

I don't care how much they pay, or who has the rights until the stupid 3pm kick off rule is abolished. It's daft that these games can't be shown, and with technology like it is these days they have the ability to show every premier league game.

[socal1976]

Can't wait for Spurs v. Arsenal, it should be a cracker. Last year Spurs were toothless in attack this year with Kane and Eriksen in good form and playing at home they should provide a big test. Although I like the way the Arsenal have played as of late. Arsenal to win with a lot of goals scored by both sides. I am thinking 3-2, 4-3, 4-2 something like that.

[Derbymanc]

I don't care how much they pay, or who has the rights until the stupid 3pm kick off rule is abolished. It's daft that these games can't be shown, and with technology like it is these days they have the ability to show every premier league game.

The worry is Hampo that it will drive fans away from the grounds as a lot would rather stay in and watch it (especially with prices the way they are,)
I think clubs should have a subscription channel for it where they charge like half the price of a season ticket or something.

[Ent]

It's for lower league/local sides.

Hard to get crowds in when there's 4 or 5 games on split screen tv!

[mystiroakey]

Can anyone call this game.

4-4 for me..

[Fernando]

Tottenham Hotspur: Lloris, Walker, Dier, Vertonghen, Rose, Bentaleb, Mason, Lamela, Dembele, Eriksen, Kane. Subs: Paulinho, Soldado, Vorm, Fazio, Chadli, Stambouli, Davies.

Arsenal: Ospina, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Coquelin, Ramsey, Welbeck, Cazorla, Ozil, Giroud. Subs: Szczesny, Gibbs, Gabriel, Rosicky, Walcott, Flamini, Akpom.

Referee: Martin Atkinson (W Yorkshire)

Surprised Fazio is on the bench for them

[Fernando]

Spuds 0-1 Arsenal - Mesut Ozil

I still can't find a stream that will work

[hampo17]

The whole it'll keep fans away argument doesn't stand, I look at what other sports do with game passes, costs about £150 a year and you get to stream every game. Football is so far behind the times.

[Fernando]

My local side streams games in the bar (illegally yes) via some aerial and there is rarely people in there during the game...

[Derbymanc]

My local side streams games in the bar (illegally yes) via some aerial and there is rarely people in there during the game...

Don't think it is illegal anymore, didn't that portsmouth pub win the rights to do it a long as they're paying the satellite company it's coming from?

[Ent]

It isn't about fans not turning up to pl games (though that doesn't actually happen from time to time) is is the worry fans of lower league sides will stay in and watch tv rather than pay to see their local side.

[Fernando]

It would cost me £12 for my local side, & £19-25 for Wycombe and £28-£31 Watford plus Travel...

It's not worth it  tbh.

[Derbymanc]

My local side streams games in the bar (illegally yes) via some aerial and there is rarely people in there during the game...

Don't think it is illegal anymore, didn't that portsmouth pub win the rights to do it a long as they're paying the satellite company it's coming from?

Scratch that i'm talking out of my arris, it's still a murky murky ares.

http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/General-News/Sky-Premier-League-and-FACT-explain-the-full-story-behind-football-screening-prosecutions
(for anyone that's interested, it explains it better.)

[hampo17]

Again though Ent it wouldn't happen. Football streaming is so readily available now that if they weren't going to turn up they already wouldn't be. The FA are spending so much money fighting the streaming sites, when if they used their heads they could do something smart and actually make a bit of cash.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Lamela is Frak atrocious

[Derbymanc]

I don't understand why they haven't embraced the little things, like streaming away games to big screens at the home grounds etc.

Does seem like one area of commerce that football hasn't even considered.

[JDizzle]

Lamela is Frak atrocious

Whereas Eriksen is very, very classy. Which one was bought for 30 mill again?!

[Ent]

I don't understand why they haven't embraced the little things, like streaming away games to big screens at the home grounds etc.

Does seem like one area of commerce that football hasn't even considered.

Because no one would go.

They've researched things like this, I was surveyed for a red cinema (watch United games live on big screen, comfy chairs etc for a few quid), they've never opened one.

Some pl grounds don't sell out, doubt they'd get the value screening away games in the ground.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

BT sport pundits are horrific

[hampo17]

Ent if you honestly believe nobody would go then you're living in a dream world. With online streams of every game available with less than a 5 minute Google search now, if people weren't going to go to games it's already be happening.

The fact is the FA still have this stupid belief, and would rather spend millions fighting the streaming sites, which is a losing battle, than do something productive like making a game pass available.

[Duty281]

The whole it'll keep fans away argument doesn't stand, I look at what other sports do with game passes, costs about £150 a year and you get to stream every game. Football is so far behind the times.

It really does stand.

For Truro in the Southern Premier, there is always a disparity in attendance for Tuesday night games when Champions League games are on, compared to when they are not, and it is the same for many non-league sides.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Hampo you seem to think the majority of people know about illegal streams

I'm with Ent on this one. Keep the 3pm lockdown.

Let's face it there's bugger all games played then anyways

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

HURRIKANE

[mystiroakey]

Kane scores. What a shock

[Ent]

http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/17884/

30% reduction in pay at gate when spl games on TV.

Also some stuff out there showing reduced league attendances when cl on tv etc

Now it isn't amasing science but there is no doubt people will sit in and watch united or chelsea on TV than go out to a ground and watch Halifax or Oxford.

It is common sense really.

I'd love a United season pass but I understand why I can't get one.

[hampo17]

Olly you really think the majority of people don't know how to find a stream in this day and age? It's hardly rocket science. For the amount of money people pay for sky sports having less football on than other countries doesn't stand, and as for Duty I've been going to watch lower league football for years, the attendance is the same on a midweek game as it is a Saturday

[Duty281]

That is not what I were saying Hampo.

[hampo17]

You said that attendances were different when the champions league was on, as someone who has attended lower league, and now non league games since the age of 7 I can say that isn't always true.

You can argue that the 3pm kick off rule might effect attendances, which personally I don't believe, however if the FA want to stick to that then fine, but show European football instead, can't even do that.

[FootballLight]

Sherwood would be a good fit for QPR, although I would have hoped he'd have moved to a bigger PL club personally.

[hampo17]

Sherwood is clueless, no bigger club would touch him.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

What a Frak header that is

[mystiroakey]

That lad is too good.

He is up there with shearer.

[guildfordbat]

Lets have your next Kane headline, Olly!

[hampo17]

What a player Harry Kane is, natural goal scorer.

[Guest]

That lad is too good.

He is up there with shearer.

When he's scored 200+ more goals & done it for over a decade. Kane has been brilliant, however, we've seen one season wonders before.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Lets have your next Kane headline, Olly!

I'm still convinced he is an imposter. He could barely put one foot in front of the other when he played for us on loan

[Stella]

That lad is too good.

He is up there with shearer.

When he's scored 200+ more goals & done it for over a decade. Kane has been brilliant, however, we've seen one season wonders before.

Shearer is in his 40's, to be fair to mystr.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Harry Kane is an enigma. He was the worst player on the pitch when we played against him at Millwall. No idea how this is happening

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Remember when Aaron Ramsey was the best midfielder in the world

Today he got outplayed by Ryan mason

[Guest]

Harry Kane is an enigma. He was the worst player on the pitch when we played against him at Millwall. No idea how this is happening

Just one of those purple patches, everything goes for you. I hope for England's sake this kid is the real deal, could potentially have everything. Not getting carried away though.

[mystiroakey]

I am not sure if he will surpass shearer. But he reminds of him at the moment on this current spell.

What I can't get out of my mind is that this lad would have been at a league 1 team on loan if soldado scored more than a couple of goals in 50 games

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