So what's your answer? Don't complain, just shut up and take it?
Complain to the right people and about the right things. The government rules about how many games can be televised are the reason. Change that and they would broadcast more games for cheaper. Like they do everywhere else in the world.
The clubs would get more money; the networks get more content; the fans get more games to watch. Win. Win. Win.
The old fallback of this is what happens in any other industry falls down when in countless examples across other industries a price point has changed to suit demand. If you are expecting people to gobble up the first price point that they come up with then you aren't actually using a comparison correctly.
A simple equivalent would be a theme park or tourist attraction where families go, but are stuck and a captive market, and have no place to go for lunch - so they have the option of either paying over the odds for shit food or bringing in a packed lunch/picnic at a fraction of the cost.
People have the right to complain if it helps the odds of the price being lowered in the future. You're mad to think people shouldn't voice their opinion over this, which is a relatively brand new offering (and therefore brand new price point) in the market.
Well people are basically being forced to cough up for it.
You can not go and watch the match in person, they are not being shown anywhere else so what is the point of the games happening? They are readily available around the globe for buttons but you cant watch the game of the club next door to you unless you cough up an arbitrary £15.
People pay for Sky, BT etc because it is the ONLY way to watch the games. It isn't even the same product without fans anyway.
As has been discussed before, provide a reasonably priced option for people with good quality streams that always work and people would happily pay it and it would not effect any live gates either (once live gates are a thing.)
The current model is totally archaic and screws over the fans multiple times.
Greed is good though right?
Haven’t you got bigger problems to worry about in fairness fella? I know you aren’t the sharpest tool in the box and your posting style is abysmal but surely even you’ve realised if Liverpool don’t win the League, Tottenham probably will?
I have a feeling you’ll be wearing a Liverpool shirt again, on your knees begging us to stop them for the 2nd time in 2 years before long .
Isn’t it strange how Evertonians’ desire to see a season finish, hinges entirely of whether they’re 1st in the table or not.
Don’t blame you for not engaging directly with me Molly, bar the obligatory snide remarks. Everton Fans been done been scared of me for years and I pride myself on that.
I'm 43 years old mate, I have zero interest in engaging with silly shouty arguments about football with some bloke who I don't even know.
More than happy to talk normally with you as I actually quite like you from back in the day but the Rar football! stuff with all the photos and stuff, nah not for me, cant be arsed even reading it, its really hard to follow, maybe its my age?
It's not just you by the way, there are plenty of people I cant be arsed with on here or in general these days.
Beat Man United For The 1st Time in 14 Years Trophy.
Any danger of you lot talking about football rather than reigniting feuds from a decade ago?
This season has been so weird so far. Doesn't feel like there's any team that look like champions at the moment, I mean we're second and should probably be top given the Newcastle game, and we've only played well in two out of seven games (plus fifteen minutes of the West Ham game). City and United are miles off it, Chelsea and Arsenal look as patchy as usual and Villa and Everton have hit the skids after good starts...Liverpool are top but don't look anywhere near last year's level, I suppose you could look at that and say they can improve a lot, but they're very unconvincing right now.
Potentially a big improvement for one of the top sides - David Alaba has had a contract offer withdrawn at Bayern and looks set to leave either in January or for free at the end of the season. Would be a huge signing for United or Chelsea, the only teams who need a centre back and could afford his wages (he turned down £400k a week at Bayern apparently).
City couldn't afford him?
You are right in that in feels pretty wide open at the moment. I think the lack of crowds and playing atmosphere has definitely been a levelling. Not just for players but also for referees. We had Mike Dean yesterday who has a terrible record for us against Man Utd. I think if the crowd is there yesterday he doesn't give that penalty.