Just wondering if some clubs will actually retain PPV once things gets back to normal.
I am a season ticket holder so would normally be at the game but there will be circumstances were fans can't get to games (kids etc) so watching it via PPV would be another revenue stream for the club.
Also, away fans may purchase PPV to watch their team at Easter Rd. I've certainly seen more away games this season than I have in the past few years
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24-03-2021 01:57 PM #1
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Will clubs retain PPV when crowds are allowed back in?
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24-03-2021 02:01 PM #3
Costing would be a nightmare, i complained about paying £20 to watch Livingston away but that only works out £5 per head in this family, a fraction of what it would cost for 4 away tickets.
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24-03-2021 02:05 PM #4
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Yes while there are restrictions on crowd numbers but not when normal numbers are allowed in
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24-03-2021 02:09 PM #5
I'd love to see it offered to compliment the TV company's offering.
I would think Sky will know how big an impact it has had on their subscriptions and/or viewing figures and I think if they did the same where they approved all games not included in their coverage, then it's in everybody's interests to do it. More revenue for the teams, better players, better offering for the tv companies to show...
People who want to go to away games will still go to away games, for those that can't it's a great way to follow your team.
I'm all for it, and I would hope Hibs and the other clubs are already on the front foot trying to make it happen.Follow the Hibs podcast, Longbangers, on Twitter (@longbangers)
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24-03-2021 02:45 PM #6
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24-03-2021 02:48 PM #7
No chance I would have thought.
I can't see clubs offering six people (for example) the chance to all watch it together for a combined total of £15 when they could make about 10 times that figure from all of these people attending in person.
I understand not everyone who is watching on TV just now will want to continue watching on TV once crowds are allowed back in and some of the people watching on TV wouldn't have gone to the games anyway so that's additional revenue that they wouldn't have got anyway.
However taking my own situation as an example, I have bought a stream for every away game so far this season and three of us have watched the games. I may continue to do that if it was an option, particularly for games a bit further away, and instead of getting three entry fees they would only be getting one entry fee (and a reduced one at that).
It will be a non-starter for me.
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24-03-2021 02:55 PM #8
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Sky unlikely to cooperate but don’t think the clubs will be fussed either. They’ll want to do everything they can to encourage folk in to the ground without giving them a reason not to go.
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24-03-2021 04:12 PM #9
I think clubs are missing a trick if they see it that way.
For a start, nothing beats being there in person. People who love football will always rather be at the game if they can, than watch on TV. The number of people who switch from away attendees to armchair viewers will be negligible IMHO.
However, the number of people who would watch the game if it was available but don't/can't go to away games would be much higher, and actually if folk are watching and it looks good, they're more inclined to want to get to games instead of watching TV in the long run anyway.
Sky are only bothered about showing 2 clubs, really - if they could show Rangers one week and Celtic the next all season then they're not bothered their backside if Kilmarnock fans are watching their team at St Mirren on the TV.
There's a ton of potential there if the clubs and the broadcasters get together to do something. The folk that run the game in Scotland need to be all over stuff like this.
Could even do a subscription based SPL TV for non-televised games. Protect Sky's interests and let the clubs generate pooled income from it. It's not a terrible idea.
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24-03-2021 04:17 PM #10
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Hope so, for people like me that live in the country but too far away to travel every week.
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24-03-2021 04:22 PM #11
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As you say tv only want Rangers and Celtic - look at Premier Sports cup coverage next week where all the best games are on bbc.
If they don’t do it and make money from it it’ll be the iptv guys that cash in.
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24-03-2021 04:30 PM #12
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Would be interested to see what our PPV figures are this year. With the exception of the Celtic 3pm game, I don’t think we’ll have sold too many.
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24-03-2021 06:11 PM #13
Paying for PPV on top of your Sky / BT / Premier Sports subs?
I think the whole model needs to be rethought. Season ticket model persists but that must be under threat.
Some subscription based approach should be considered but it won’t.
The trouble with all of this is that one revenue stream or payment method potentially “cannibalises” another.
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24-03-2021 06:47 PM #14
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25-03-2021 06:11 AM #16
It's unlikely but I would love it, I don't go to many away games but have watched every one possible this year. I think the clubs will be missing a trick if they don't find a way. Most top flight clubs have their own TV now anyways. I bet those would work with a VPN.
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25-03-2021 08:55 AM #21
I want the streams to stay and would even pay the gate price for it every week.
Infact the club could add it to a season ticket if possible either actual attendance or stream. That would be ideal.Cougars!!!
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25-03-2021 09:14 AM #22
The football experience is about watching the games from the stands.
Habit soon becomes the norm, and the habit is now of watching the game at home. A parent with two kids can save a lot of money over a season by watching at home and dispensing with season tickets.
We want to encourage people to come to the stadium, home or away, not sit in the house.
Of course there will still be the folks that treat the game as a day out with a few bevvies, and they won't contemplate changing that routine, but there are many, and some in my circle of family/friends, who are seriously reconsidering whether to buy STs in the present climate, on the basis that the guarantee of unrestricted attendance seems a long way off yet.
I don't want the carrot of being able to watch the game at home on a wet and cold winter's day.
We need to get back to no TV football on Saturday afternoons as soon as we can.
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