Remember that open letter a few days ago and I said fans wallets only matter…
There you go…I could have forgiven a couple of quid but £15 Is a joke.
There’s a joke in there somewhere bursting to come out with ‘the long arm of the law’ as the punchline.
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Didnt they strike a deal that if the season isnt finished, standings after 19 games are taken as final?
No, not yet decided what % of the season needs to be completed for it to count. I believe that they’ve agreed that the standings will be on average points per game though.
On this point I’ll be in Brazil for our Sheffield United and CL games, anyone know what TV those games will be on over there?
Also in Portugal for the derby.
As someone rightly pointed out what is to stop them not picking one of the big games and that ending up on PPV in November, you could say that BT Sport would pick it up but that’s expecting they aren’t working together on this.
It’s about 15 bucks for Optus sports
99 probably includes your full Optus package
I thought it was going to be garbage but it’s fucking mint
Does anyone else have mini match’s ( 25 minute highlights)
That’s a quarter of the game, so you can easily watch, say Newcastle vs Brighton without her having a bit of a sook.
The vote was 19 to 1. I wonder which club was the lone voice in opposition?
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Yeah I’d be interested.
Leicester apparently
https://mobile.twitter.com/JPercyTelegraph/status/1314593445424619521
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Rodgers will be claiming that.
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I’ll give them credit
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'Arry Rodgers?
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15 quid a game??!?!
Jesus H.
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Bought the Sky Mobile app for 3 months for 9 quid the other week.
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I pay R399 a month which is the equivalent of about 17 pounds a month for which basically all PL games are shown live except for the 16h00 timeslot on Saturdays where out of 5 or 6 games 3 are live. I also get 4 Champions League slots for the CL and then there is La Liga and International football. I might not have some live games but those invariably tend to be Sheffield United vs Fulham, for example; basically any fan of one the top 6 teams in the PL can follow their team and be able to watch every single game in every single competition on the package that I have. 17 pounds a month.
Crazy that this pay per view scheme is coming in at almost that for just a single game.
Even crazier IMO to think that Optus sport give you the entire season for 55 pounds - or about 5 pound per month for all league and european games of all 20 teams. Australia is a significantly richer country than UK where people have much more disposable income; Optus have a much smaller audience but still they can manage with a paltry fee.
The PL would be better off selling subs directly to individuals within Australia rather than selling the rights - I imagine once they adjust their per game strategy they will see that this will work even better in rich overseas markets like Australia and future rights deals will be done differently. To be honest, this has been coming for at least 5 years and if anything holding a league deal together this long has been a (pleasant) surprise. I expect COVID and the coming financial armageddon will radically alter the football universe.
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Hadn’t seen the just released radical premier league proposal when I wrote this but wow - that just underscores this point!
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The Optus deal seems cheap because it is generally an add on to your mobile/data/ business contract
I doubt I can waltz into an Optus store and get a 15 dollar football package ( I may be wrong)
I dunno about the stats surrounding disposable income etc etc, but the issue the game has in Australia is that we are not a captive audience
There’s plenty like me who’s love is football(soccer) but for the majority, it’s not, rugby and Aussie rules in winter and cricket in summer.
15 dollars is about right, because there’s other platforms with a lot more content, and most Aussie non fans of the game would probably be just as fine watching serie A than the premier league if the prices were too skewed.
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You are wrong! Up until 31/9, Optus was allowing anyone including non Optus customers, the 55 pound season plan.
The socioeconomic stuff is easy to find - median wealth, for example, is higher in Oz than anywhere else except Switzerland. I also definitely don’t agree about serie A being fungible with the premier league - outside some rusted on old first (or second) generation Italian migrants who would subscribe to RAI anyway. In fact ‘non fans of the game’ (assuming they are even prepared to subscribe to football!) are much more likely to engage with the PL which gets much more media coverage.
My broader point is really that much more could be squeezed out of the international rights if they were packaged by individual clubs - certainly in Australia but I’m guessing also in other smaller/high wealth markets. I expect FSG and others want to change that and I expect that watching Liverpool in Australia will get much more expensive over the next 5-10 years.