The Football News Thread 2014/15 - Everything not Wolves News Related

[Kenny]

Forest have paid their debt and the full tranfser embargo has been removed

 

[Lord Knows]

Blackpool’s owners seek £150,000 in damages from supporters’ forum.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/feb/10/blackpool-karl-owen-oyston-libel-back-henry-street

 

[Tredman]

Blackpool’s owners seek £150,000 in damages from supporters’ forum.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/feb/10/blackpool-karl-owen-oyston-libel-back-henry-street

Pure scum. Should be boycotted by every self respecting football fan

 

[Alan]

And I was (...) that close to supporting them. Lucky me I didn't. What a shit situation for their fans.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

LvG is such a wazzock.

Louis van Gaal’s irritation about the “long-ball United” tag applied by Sam Allardyce manifested itself in an unorthodox press conference in which he came armed with a four-page pamphlet of statistics aimed at dismantling the allegation and then asked his audience to show it to West Ham United. “Copy it and go to Big Sam,” an indignant Van Gaal said.

Stop playing Rooney on the right of a midfield diamond and using "hoof it at Fellaini" as your only Plan B. Then maybe people will be less critical of you and your shit football.

 

[Alan]

I'd be willing to bet that more than a few of Ham's "long" passes are on the ground into the flanks where they tend to exploit a lot of room on counters. Hardly "lumping it forward" in the same sense many apply to Allardyce.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

The press woman knows :icon_lol:

 

[Carrotdude]

LvG is such a wazzock.

Stop playing Rooney on the right of a midfield diamond and using "hoof it at Fellaini" as your only Plan B. Then maybe people will be less critical of you and your shit football.

Rooney in midfield with Herrera on the bench along with Mata while playing two very similar poacher type strikers up front. I don't get it. Di Maria seems to be a bit crap at the moment too which isn't helping. The whole team just doesn't seem have the right balance to it but at least he played a 4 man defence.

 

[Nando]

Di Maria has no space to work in. The two strikers contribute absolutely nothing and thus they get forced up the pitch.

Rafel----CB---CB-----Shaw

------Herrera----Blind------

Januzaj-----Mata-----Di Maria

-----------Rooney-----------

That's not where Di Maria should be long term, but that side would have a nice balance to it. At least Rooney would attempt to work the defence. RVP and Falcao are shite as it stands.

 

[Carrotdude]

I think Rooney up front with either Falcao or RvP and Herrera in midfield from the other night would go a long way to making them better.

I don't get the januzaj hype btw, doesn't really do anything of note.

 

[Alan]

Money money money money

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Broadcasting rights from 2016/17 announced.

126 games a year on Sky (Sat 12.30, Sun 1.30, Sun 4.00, Mon 8.00, Bank Hols, Fri nights + some extra midweek games)

Rest on BT (Sat 5.30 + some extra midweek games)

£5.136bn total package.

So basically the same as we have now except Sky have hoovered up the new Friday nights as well.

 

[Carrotdude]

5 billion. Wow.

So sky have the saturday early kick offs again then and not the evening one?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

5 billion. Wow.

So sky have the saturday early kick offs again then and not the evening one?

Yeah, that's swapped around - BT have the later Saturday game now.

In the grand scheme of things, at least domestically, it's pretty much nailed down now that Sky are untouchable. BT aren't really having any more impact on the Premier League rights than Setanta or ESPN were despite huge financial clout and pre-existing brand exposure (their coverage is ok too, nothing revolutionary but ok). Just picking up the scraps that Sky aren't allowed to have as you can't have a monopoly any more (thanks EU for that one, costing everyone more money for the same thing).

They're going to hope more people climb on board with them due to having all the Champions League and Europa League rights from next season, I'm not sure that's going to work out for them. Certainly I think they were hoping more PL games + all the European games = being able to do away with bundling the sports channels with their broadband for free and having them as standalone subscription models. Can they do that now? Tricky position as the astronomical sums they spent on the European stuff will have been budgeted for based on increased subscriber numbers, but I'm not sure people are that bothered about it in general. Not on its own anyway. The CL group stages are often a procession these days and the Europa League has sat on C5/ITV4 for years for a good reason. Whereas if you got say, 100 PL games with all that, they could have pitched it as a genuine alternative to Sky. They can't now, they are still a "as well as" rather than an "instead of". And if people can't afford both there'll only be one winner.

 

[Carrotdude]

Slightly annoying for me as I get home from work as the Saturday evening games start so it's been nice having them on sky as I don't have BT. The Friday night games will be good to have on, slightly annoying for the football league but I'd rather get to watch a PL game at that time.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I think there are only 10-12 games per season slated for Friday nights. There are probably at least that many blank slots a year where there is no Football League game shown (indeed there are no televised FL games on a Friday now until 6th March).

 

[Carrotdude]

It'd be good if they manage to have a game on most Friday evenings from across the leagues then

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

So 5.136bn / 2 = 2.58bn roughly. Divide by twenty = 139m. Per club over the three years. And that is before position prize money and payments for actually being on telly. Then you need to add in the money from the highlights package. Good lord.

 

[FrankMunro-371]

As I just heard on the radio, " The greed league just got greedier."

Maybe clubs will reduce admission prices now.

 

[Kenny]

Maybe clubs will reduce admission prices now.

Put that in the joke thread