Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13

don't want to shell out to Murdoch, man

yo

(xp)I think Sky is something like that, I honestly can't remember. ESPN is maybe a tenner on top of that, but I've just been contacted to say my ESPN subscription is ending in July, so I guess they've lost the rights to Prem games for next season?

xxxp i keep thinking you're jason dodd

That is problematic, yes. Murdoch bought the Dutch footy right, too, last year

cheapskate, also I hardly watch any telly anyway and usually am trying to get some work done at the same time so deluxe package would be an extravagance

NBS, still, doesn't seem too bad though, three tenners per month? I'd hit that.

Norwich:
Aston Villa (H)
West Brom (H)
Man City (A)

Sunderland:
Stoke (H)
Southampton (H)
Tottenham (A)

Aston Villa:
Norwich (A)
Chelsea (H)
Wigan (A)

Newcastle:
West Ham (A)
QPR (A)
Arsenal (H)

Wigan:
West Brom (A)
Swansea (H)
Man City (FA Cup)
Arsenal (A)
Aston Villa (H)

it's a combination of pure sloth, convenience and cheapskatery with maybe a dash of righteous anticorporate angst fwiw

@IK, ohhhh so you mean you only get it when buying a deluxe package? Hmmm. That is prob different here, as you can just only buy the footy channel and don't have to pay by proxy for millions of sad porn channels etc. It's not attached to some 'deluxe' package deal I mean.

There is no package to watch all games, but i've got sky online through brothers a/c, and my own cable has espn and setanta so i catch all i can

I've just been contacted to say my ESPN subscription is ending in July, so I guess they've lost the rights to Prem games for next season?

We've had an email/letter about that too. BT have won the rights, don't think they've announced any details or prices yet though.

sunderland's goal was beautiful!

Ah no, by deluxe I just meant 'pay for' rather than free-to-air

Sky Sports is an expensive add-on to basic Sky, essentially. But I couldn't live without it here, internet is too shite for me to cope with regular streaming

There is no package to watch all games, but i've got sky online through brothers a/c, and my own cable has espn and setanta so i catch all i can

― the norman wisdom of gaffers (darraghmac), maandag 29 april 2013 23:13 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Dang. This sounds complicated. So games are scattered across several channels?

This could be a dealbreaker in moving to the UK tbh

xp Gotcha IK. Here there's just one 'footy channel', for 2 tenners a months you can watch all matches live, playback to goals in realtime etc.

From the Beeb's website:

Will Moores: "I'd love Benteke at Spurs, he'd thrive off all the service he'd get.

I think this is actually quite true. If I were Spurs I'd try and ditch Adebayor and get Benteke.

Said it before and I'll say it again, £15 mil and Jermain Defoe, we're talking. Throw in Thudd and you can have Darren Bent and all

Nbc deal is gonna make the streams more available youd hope, but its cuntish that everywhere else gets to choose from all the matches and ireland doesnt

*that "you" wasnt aimed specifically at you LBI btw

wonder which ILF poster is the most conceivable front for Levy

Lol at the 'hard bargain' levy would send jermaine in a western union outfit with the fucking cheque for 15m

I don't know. My garden is a right mess, if Bent can sort that out I'd gladly have him Windsor!

xxp

Only thing bent has planted lately are his feet

It's different in Ireland. Here live games are split between Sky and one other channel, with highlights on BBC at weekends. Lots of games (i.e. all Sat 3pm ones) aren't shown live at all, hence streaming actually on that view is more attractive.

Beggars can't be choosers Dmac, I bet we won't get more than £17 mil for the boy as it is, Defoe remains criminally underrated xp

Nah thats exactly the same ik

Jaysus youd struggle to sell him for less than 20m surely?

Srsly though Deems, I know it remains to be seen how Benteke will do at a top tier club, but he seems pretty decent for Spurs, no?

I mean, I am still amazed no journalist hasn't uncovered yet that Adebayor is actually 43 years old. And a 43 year old nihilist at that. Get a young gun in the centre attacking position and you're good to go.

(Benteke seems suited, Demba Ba would, too, but he chose for lol benching at Chelsea + $$$)

Didn't you lot used to get live games on a saturday? When I was growing up that, and the all-Ireland final, made the place seem impossibly exotic.

I do not for the life of me understand why anyone would want to scatter THE FOOTBALL across several channels. Having to look in your guide to see what match is on where? Criminal.

xxxpost Dunno, how much is one good season worth atm? Would love an extravagant payday almost as much as I'd love him to stay tbph

I hope that my certainty that villa could do a decent deal for the lad wont be misconstrued as a lack of enthusiasm lbi, he'd do nicely

Not misconstrued, fully understood

LBI - I've been trying to make sense of my bill to give you an idea of the costs. I seem to be charged £55.50 a month plus £10 a month for ESPN. I think that £55.50 includes about £10 a month for HD and something tiny (maybe three quid) for a bundle of pointless channels that includes Eurosport (which I need for the cycling coverage). So you're probably looking at about £15ish to have Sky in the first place and about £25ish to have the Sky Sports package. That used to be enough, but then the EU ruled it wasn't competitive enough and said that at least one other broadcaster had to have access to live Prem games. This was A BAD THING because it's based on the total fantasy that all viewers just want to see some football (any old game will do) and will shop around for the best channel to do this, whereas in reality most viewers support a team and want to see every game that team plays (and so have to pay for every channel).

xxxpost Dunno, how much is one good season worth atm? Would love an extravagant payday almost as much as I'd love him to stay tbph

― Windsor Davies, maandag 29 april 2013 23:28 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hey, one season was good enough for, oh, say.... remember that guy Andy Carroll?

Yeah ik when setanta first got the package we got three pm saturday games each week, rumour had it that some copywriter left out the '& ireland' lol. Setanta was free to air at the time too, beauty

I get upc internet, phone and cable package gives me the extra channels and obv streaming lol

Tho streams have never worked for me tbh, always shit.

Here these special streaming programs are they any good btw

I mean sopcast used be good but its fucked now right

NBS: you are a legend, thanks! (and I might have given you some insight in your expenses, too)

I need cycling too, so the Eurosport purchase is in the bag. What bugs me is that, if you want the Sky Sports package, you need to purchase Sky Basic first. That doesn't sound right. EU should look into that tbh.

I prefer the Dutch system where you just pay 25 quid to see all matches. On match days (there's mostly three or four matches played simultaneously here), the channel branches out into four channels, so you can flick around, see whatever match you like.

Will u stop saying that you bastard

Do you go to cardiac wards and do pushups do you

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Have_I_Offended_Someone.jpg

???

Seems like I am moving to a cardiac ward football wise ;_;

Your dutch system wasnt so smart in 1939 you bragging fuck

75 min: Almost an exact replica of Benteke's second goal. Westwood hangs another corner to the far post for Benteke to attack, only for Cuellar to flick it behind with his hand.

can't be arsed crashing Firefox trying to open 9300 msgs but was there a mad scramble to Make The Reference here

Is that too much? I never used to wonder that on ilf threads, we are in a new age of paranoia

Xp ya

We surrendered EXTREMELY soon to the Germans. Real and Barca should have taken note, appeasement and all that. Stroke them to sleep and then fuck them over tbh

xxxp

Stoke them to death more like