New Stadium Details And Discussions

Marty · Mar 19, 2019

coopsieyid said:
Look. I understand your point of view and, to an extent, the aggressive manner in which you're trying to get it across.

However. Whether title challenges are an annual event or not, they create global interest.

Whether new stadiums opening are an historic events or not, they pretty much only create interest from supporters of the club who play within that stadium.

So, are Sky clueless fucks? Or are they simply doing the sensible thing & showing the content that they believe the majority would want to see?

And another question. Say our game was scheduled to be on Sky, and you were looking forward to watching it, but those useless fucks at Sky decided to cancel their scheduled showing of the game you were waiting for, because Brighton (for example) were opening a new stadium because it's an historic event in the clubs history.

Would those people at Sky still be useless fucks?

I believe that raw commercialisation has taken hold over everything in our lives, and it's thoroughly depressing. I believe that the goodwill you would gain from a fanbase in showing such an event would more than offset the bad will from other teams' fanbases. The fans who pay so much money to a TV company to watch their team deserve better.

But more than anything, it makes me wish more than ever for the day when the PL starts an NBA game pass sort of service, because that's the way it's heading. Then all our games would be available and, added bonus, taken away from the clutches of the Murdoch empire.

I would understand if a rescheduled game of ours had lost out to e.g. Brighton opening a stadium because I understand the sentimental value of the game and would seriously quite enjoy watching a historic event. Maybe not the NLD but a game against Cardiff I'd happily sacrifice.

LexingtonSpurs · Mar 19, 2019

coopsieyid said:
However. Whether title challenges are an annual event or not, they create global interest.

Fair point - except the TV schedule is only for England, right?

You would think a new state of the art stadium would generate as big an audience for the opening match.

As an aside - who telecasts CL matches in England?

Marty · Mar 19, 2019

LexingtonSpurs said:
Fair point - except the TV schedule is only for England, right?

You would think a new state of the art stadium would generate as big an audience for the opening match.

As an aside - who telecasts CL matches in England?

BT Sports have all CL rights in the UK.

bubble07 · Mar 19, 2019

Are we having a drum roll for the first corner?

LexingtonSpurs · Mar 19, 2019

Marty said:
BT Sports have all CL rights in the UK.

Well, then they will be happy to have the first televised match from the new stadium.

I just have to wait and see how NBC handles this - I hope they do not put it on the NBC Gold package. NBC only uses one set of their own announcers, so I assume they will want to be at the new stadium.

CoopsieDeadpool · Mar 19, 2019

LexingtonSpurs said:
Fair point - except the TV schedule is only for England, right?

You would think a new state of the art stadium would generate as big an audience for the opening match.

As an aside - who telecasts CL matches in England?

Which, if anything, further strengthens my initial point. Do you honestly think more people in this country give a damn about our new stadium, or the title race?

Our desire to see this is understandable, we stop support the club. But the rest of the country? Well, apart from those living on the red side of the Mersey river, everyone else wants to see City making sure Liverpool don't win the title.

CoopsieDeadpool · Mar 19, 2019

bubble07 said:
Are we having a drum roll for the first corner?

Only if one of the band members puts one down near the corner flag. :whistle:

CoopsieDeadpool · Mar 19, 2019

LexingtonSpurs said:
Well, then they will be happy to have the first televised match from the new stadium.

I just have to wait and see how NBC handles this - I hope they do not put it on the NBC Gold package. NBC only uses one set of their own announcers, so I assume they will want to be at the new stadium.

Would you possibly be able to let me/us, know how NBC decides to show it?

Lighty64 · Mar 19, 2019

Lighty64 said:
the Everton v Man C game was broadcast in the UK

@hakano you disagree, yet I sat and watched it. I watch most sky/BT games due to playing a lot of fantasy football, plus it being an important game at the time

hughy · Mar 19, 2019

Fredo said:
We bottled a TV spot

(Ik we didn't, fuck sky, still like you BT)

Tottenhamy.

Lighty64 · Mar 19, 2019

dagraham said:
Also worth pointing out that if it hadn’t had an open ended opening date due the the cock up ( which is ultimately the clubs responsibility) then it would have certainly been live.

I mean they’ve been selecting virtually all of our home games I’m sure with this in mind.

no it would of only been live if Doncaster had beaten Palace in the previous round

dagraham · Mar 19, 2019

Lighty64 said:
no it would of only been live if Doncaster had beaten Palace in the previous round

What I mean is if the stadium had opened when it was originally meant to the first game would have been live. In fact even if it had opened a couple of months late it would have been on TV.

spurs mental · Mar 19, 2019

Not sure why Sky can't put both games on to be honest. They've had simultaneous games on at the end of the season when things are up in the air. I don't see why they can't do it in this scenario now as well.

Marty · Mar 19, 2019

coopsieyid said:
Which, if anything, further strengthens my initial point. Do you honestly think more people in this country give a damn about our new stadium, or the title race?

Our desire to see this is understandable, we stop support the club. But the rest of the country? Well, apart from those living on the red side of the Mersey river, everyone else wants to see City making sure Liverpool don't win the title.

It never fails to amaze me how many people only watch football when their team plays or, at a push, other games that have a direct effect on their team's chances, and don't give a toss about anything else. I even read some fans on here who admit to not even liking football much, they're just Spurs fans and nothing else.

I obviously support Spurs but I love football and I want to watch the historic moments. A stadium opening, be it Spurs, Brighton, Gillingham or Arsenal is a historic moment. A City v Cardiff match that doesn't decide anything because there are several matches remaining in the season isn't one of those moments.

CoopsieDeadpool · Mar 19, 2019

spurs mental said:
Not sure why Sky can't put both games on to be honest. They've had simultaneous games on at the end of the season when things are up in the air. I don't see why they can't do it in this scenario now as well.

Because the simultaneous games are normally showing either who is going to win the league, or who is going to get relegated. Not who is going to go top of the league & who has a posh new house.

dagraham · Mar 19, 2019

spurs mental said:
Not sure why Sky can't put both games on to be honest. They've had simultaneous games on at the end of the season when things are up in the air. I don't see why they can't do it in this scenario now as well.

Or BT. Although maybe they have reached their quota already?

mil1lion · Mar 19, 2019

The club are clearly in on it. They released the ticket cost for the game and it's not on tv. They have us by the balls leaving people to fight it out for a ticket. I'm only surprised they didn't make it a cat a game as well. Crafty sods. I bet that guy asks for more than £1200 now as well.

CoopsieDeadpool · Mar 19, 2019

Marty said:
It never fails to amaze me how many people only watch football when their team plays or, at a push, other games that have a direct effect on their team's chances, and don't give a toss about anything else. I even read some fans on here who admit to not even liking football much, they're just Spurs fans and nothing else.

I obviously support Spurs but I love football and I want to watch the historic moments. A stadium opening, be it Spurs, Brighton, Gillingham or Arsenal is a historic moment. A City v Cardiff match that doesn't decide anything because there are several matches remaining in the season isn't one of those moments.

I see your point, and I'd have agreed with you a few short years ago. But then I stopped playing.

Since then, the love of football has very much diminished. Where I used to live & breathe for the weekends, meeting up with the boys before our own games, exchanging banter about how the clubs we support are doing, or are going to do. That was what created the love for the game. But now it's faded.

I've found, if it's not Spurs, I'm really not at all interested. I'd rather come on here & see what people are saying about the games, rather than watch them myself. And I'll obviously watch MOTD.

But flip the coin to Tottenham & you'll see me nowhere near the match thread until the game has finished. Why? Well because Tottenham matters.

Well that & the fact that the match thread (Cockwomble Corner) is absolute fucking comedy gold after the game has finished.

Marty · Mar 19, 2019

coopsieyid said:
I see your point, and I'd have agreed with you a few short years ago. But then I stopped playing.

Since then, the love of football has very much diminished. Where I used to live & breathe for the weekends, meeting up with the boys before our own games, exchanging banter about how the clubs we support are doing, or are going to do. That was what created the love for the game. But now it's faded.

I've found, if it's not Spurs, I'm really not at all interested. I'd rather come on here & see what people are saying about the games, rather than watch them myself. And I'll obviously watch MOTD.

But flip the coin to Tottemham & you'll see me nowhere near the match thread until the game has finished. Why? Well because Tottenham matters.

Well that & the fact that the match thread (Cockwomble Corner) is absolute fucking comedy gold after the game has finished.

I'm on board with your last two paragraphs. The rest, I can see how love of the game in general can diminish over time, but even though I stopped playing at 17 (I was shit, tbh) my love of football in general has never stopped. Though I'll happily admit that teams like Man City, Chelsea and PSG with the truly awful regimes that bankroll them leave a sour taste every once in a while.

Saoirse · Mar 19, 2019

Through disability I've never been able to play the game to a standard where I wouldn't be a totally useless embarrasment even at school/pub/sunday league level. And I probably am someone who's only really interested so far as it affects Spurs. I do wonder if the two are linked.

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