[Albion] £14.95 to watch Albion

[CaptainDaveUK]

Glad the test went well!

Great typo at the start of my post!

 

[dazzer6666]

How about - a season ticket for every premier league game in the US, Canada, Germany or Italy being somewhere between £60-£100 per season, for *EVERY* game live.

Or how about the vast majority of EFL clubs allowing their season ticket holders to watch every home game for free on iFollow.

Or how about what the NBA , NFL or NHL offer to fans to stream *EVERY* game for a season between £120-£180 per season.

£15 per match is way too expensive when you take the above into account. They are relying on people being desperate to watch football or their teams.

Nailed it there I think.......

 

[CaptainDaveUK]

Seriously, would pay £200 for a season ticket PPV all Brighton games.

 

[dazzer6666]

Seriously, would pay £200 for a season ticket PPV all Brighton games.

Sure many of us would but can't see it dropping to just over £5 a game..........

 

[Thunder Bolt]

mmmm.....

I think I have been quite precise about who and what I'm unhappy with and am very certainly not lumping everyone together. The opposite, in fact (and at tedious length).

[MENTION=189]Wozza[/MENTION] just made a very pertinent point; much more nuanced than the posts that have annoyed me, even if I don't really share his inference (yet).

All of this came from me saying that of course I will pay £15 for games I wouldn't odinarily have been able to view on TV (and then getting dug out for saying so with, frankly, a load of impertinent comments about me as a person from one or two people, with others then commenting on the comments without reading their provenance). Anyway, I think it's best I leave this thread alone now, points made, understood by some, will never be understood by others so it seems

It isn’t just £15 though. I haven’t got Sky so I would have to get a Now tv pass as well.
That’s why I asked why the club couldn’t sell a game via MyAlbion, a few pages back.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I find it hard to believe that season ticket holders can’t afford £15

I would hazard a guess that £15 is a lot less than the average spend of a season ticket holder on match day

Some people have lost their jobs since April but still paid their 6 months DD. One bloke has already posted on the previous page about his household, and I posted about two mates just yesterday.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

The more money they get in due to ppv the more likely it is that football will go the way of boxing and eventually every other sport that is televised. You will pay your monthly subscription to sky or bt and will then be expected to pay for every event you want to watch. NOW THAT IS WHAT YOU CALL PAYING TWICE. Believe me when I say this is only the start.

That’s why I called it the thin edge of the wedge yesterday. Football is only going in one direction nowadays.

When I consider how much we struggled to keep this club going whilst at Withdean, it makes me want to weep.

 

[The Wookiee]

Some people have lost their jobs since April but still paid their 6 months DD. One bloke has already posted on the previous page about his household, and I posted about two mates just yesterday.

I’m sorry to hear that, but if people have lost jobs and struggling why still pay for a season ticket

 

[ManOnTheRun]

It isn’t just £15 though. I haven’t got Sky so I would have to get a Now tv pass as well.
That’s why I asked why the club couldn’t sell a game via MyAlbion, a few pages back.

Is that correct? I don't have a monthly Sky subscription and just buy a daily/weekly NOW TV Sports pass sometimes for Albion games. When I have used Sky Box Office for PPV events (e.g. Boxing) previously I haven't needed to have an active sports pass, I can just buy the PPV event and watch via NOW TV (Smart TV App). Assumed it would be the same with these games.

 

[CaptainDaveUK]

Sure many of us would but can't see it dropping to just over £5 a game..........

I meant pay in one lump sum. Like an old school season ticket. If this was on offer more people would commit to all the games. £15 for every individual game is a rip off.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I’m sorry to hear that, but if people have lost jobs and struggling why still pay for a season ticket

Because once you start in April (before the jobs were lost) the club insists you pay the majority of it or once you’ve paid six months, a cancellation fee. I’ve even heard of families having to pay shen a fan has died.

 

[dazzer6666]

I’m sorry to hear that, but if people have lost jobs and struggling why still pay for a season ticket

Because you can't cancel it.......you're contractually bound to pay the full amount...............

Really do think the club needs to have a refund option for those in difficulty. Wouldn't be at all surprised to see this in the next Barber missive.

 

[The Wookiee]

Because once you start in April (before the jobs were lost) the club insists you pay the majority of it or once you’ve paid six months, a cancellation fee. I’ve even heard of families having to pay shen a fan has died.

Have the club ever issued CCJ’s on anybody that has cancelled and not paid

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Is that correct? I don't have a monthly Sky subscription and just buy a daily/weekly NOW TV Sports pass sometimes for Albion games. When I have used Sky Box Office for PPV events (e.g. Boxing) previously I haven't needed to have an active sports pass, I can just buy the PPV event and watch via NOW TV (Smart TV App). Assumed it would be the same with these games.

You.may be right. I’ve never used Box Office before.

 

[The Fifth Column]

You say you don’t want your money back but then go on to say they could deduct money from what you have already paid. Isn’t that the same thing

No it is not that simplistic.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

I guess he was thinking in terms of how he's already promised that those payments - if not used - will be refunded or credited to next season.

No doubt. Just unusual for him to make such an insensitive comment.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

It isn’t just £15 though. I haven’t got Sky so I would have to get a Now tv pass as well.
That’s why I asked why the club couldn’t sell a game via MyAlbion, a few pages back.

Sorry, I didn't know that. So, the offer is for Sky customers only. That seems a bit short sighted. I hope that is rectified quickly.

 

[BLOCK F]

Is that correct? I don't have a monthly Sky subscription and just buy a daily/weekly NOW TV Sports pass sometimes for Albion games. When I have used Sky Box Office for PPV events (e.g. Boxing) previously I haven't needed to have an active sports pass, I can just buy the PPV event and watch via NOW TV (Smart TV App). Assumed it would be the same with these games.

Same here.

 

[Barham's tash]

I’m saving at least £200/mth (petrol, grub, away tickets etc) all the time we can’t attend matches (and that’s without my ST refund) so I’ll probably wear the 14.95 to watch a game (likely with at least 2-3 other STHs).

I guess in simple terms, for the foreseeable future each game is going to cost me £14.95 in total instead of £60+ (home) or £100+ (away) as I’m funding two STs

But you are in the fortunate position of being able
to. I know plenty of low income individuals or families who very carefully prioritise and budget to ensure they can follow their team some of whom through Covid and therefore not much fault of their own find themselves in straightened circumstances.

As a result they will still try and find a way to fund their viewing and it’s these people who an extra £45 a month, without receiving their refund until the end of the season, who are out of pocket substantially.

It’s this demographic I worry about because to me The Premier League, whether it wants one or not, at a time like this, has a moral responsibility in my eyes. They KNOW this demographic will still cough up to watch their side no matter what the price point.

Perhaps the failings for me were the price point - and despite Barber’s protestations to the contrary - collectively the clubs could have confronted the Prem on and COULD have influenced, and from BHA’s perspective potentially finding a way to lessen the blow for STH in a difficult position in lieu of ST refunds.

 

[timbha]

As someone, Dazzer I think, said about 1000 posts ago, perhaps the clubs did lobby to get the PPV price reduced