https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/ ... lf-cricket Anyone seen this? People were saying they didn't want to pay for football and this may sort that. No dates when it is planned though.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/ ... lf-cricket Anyone seen this? People were saying they didn't want to pay for football and this may sort that. No dates when it is planned though.

I think this will show that football in actual fact is way over valued and about time too.

It's all about SKY losing money in recent years anyway because of Kodi etc.. and all because of their ridiculous price hikes and the millions upon millions they spend to line footballers pockets. No sympathy from me and i hope they keep bleeding money till they go bust.

just get a streaming box then you only have to pay for internet



of hope they put rugby league on sky sports mix free to air channel then its happy days!

Absolutely



And Rugby League will more than likely be a sky sports 3 or 4 package... a tier down from football along with darts, golf and tennis kind of banding i would say.

The article suggests : "by having genre-themed sports channels each will effectively act as a “profit and loss” account for the popularity of each sport and therefore what the rights are really worth to Sky"

Could affect future negotiations esp if everyone's tuning in via Kodi

Looking forward to seeing more details of this, I haven't got sky mainly cos I would have to pay so much for the sports package so might be time to be getting it!

Reduced funding from sky will be a major issue, but the RFL need to be prepared to get a better deal come the contract discussions.
We have some very hard nosed business people running clubs and Woods and Co shouldn't be afraid to ask for help.
This will be a chance to loose Thursday night rugby and maybe speak with a second broadcaster. If you pay less your control will be less retrospectively.

Super League definitely needs to be looking at alternative deals for TV when the rights come around. Personally I think Sky are stuck 20 years in the past. Amazon are already looking at buying the rights to the IPL cricket apparently and if they or Google or any of the other tech firms look at buying Premier League rights, Sky can't compete and I think it will be end of them as a company.

It's easy to envisage buying a season pass to stream sports like they already have in the US, it would be great if something like that was available for Super League, a couple of live matches a week and access to recordings of all the other matches, I would certainly pay more for that than I would for Sky Sports.

Would be very interested in going back to sky IF it was going to be a lot cheaper just to watch Rugby League instead of the Nancy boys.

And as for Kodi its Mainly Android interface so cant see them able to do anything regarding stopping it,It would mean trying to stop ever phone and Tablet as well, Plus there's plenty of other programs that stream sky & other channels.



Up The Trin

That would be fantastic! I would be happy to pay for that.

People who use Kodi are parasites. Yes, enjoy your smugness, but it is theft and it's illegal.

Well, iv'e paid thousands and thousands of pounds into the SKY corporation coffers over the years to be hit year after year with big increases in my bill to the point i can't justify paying it anymore.

I don't feel one iota of guilt for pursuing other avenues, if Sky kept prices at reasonable levels i would very likely still be a customer but corporation greed has meant i and many others have gone down the 'parasite' route.