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2015/16 Football League TV Fixtures Thread
jazzydrury3
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As from next season Sky will be showing 112 FL games in the regular season, i thought it deserved its own thread like they do with the Premier League fixtures
Hopefully with more games being shown, before the season starts, we will get a nice block of fixtures announced but not counting chickens.
We dont no what the quota will be, maybe show every team at least twice a season at home.
Maybe a minimum of every team 3 times would be good, then they could do what they wanted.
I guess the teams with most picks will be, Leeds, Derby, Notts Forest, Wolves, QPR, Hull, i guess deep down they would love Newcastle to get relegated
Hopefully with more games being shown, before the season starts, we will get a nice block of fixtures announced but not counting chickens.
We dont no what the quota will be, maybe show every team at least twice a season at home.
Maybe a minimum of every team 3 times would be good, then they could do what they wanted.
I guess the teams with most picks will be, Leeds, Derby, Notts Forest, Wolves, QPR, Hull, i guess deep down they would love Newcastle to get relegated
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I agree that with the new deal the minimum for home games and games generally should be increased. I don't think it helps in a way that unless you're a big team or going for promotion etc that you won't get many home games live as obviously if you're a big team you likely have a decent amount of money, and getting another dollop of it say 7 times a season if you were shown live 7 times just increases your financial advantage as such, personally I'd like it to switch to more like the PL model where you get paid for x number of games being shown regardless of how many times you actually do get shown (random numbers being say £500k guaranteed but then if you are shown more, especially at home, you only get a small amount more, maybe £10-20k).
If Newcastle do go down (I don't think they will given Hull's last 2 games of the season and realistically needing to win 1 of those I'd say) then it'll be like the other year where the majority of their games were live on TV (that sort of situation where a massive team comes down is a good reason to have a sensible maximum quota in my view).
Not sure what the split is in terms of Championship, L1 and L2 but either way I hope we don't end up with some teams being shown say 12-15 times a season now that more games can be picked.
started the thread as there is already a Premier League version
not sure how many games that would mean, but it would be good, if they went around the grounds.
show as many matches thet can, by showing a team at home, just the once.
Sky Sports HQ, could spend the day at the ground, doing an access all areas type thing.
Because no doubt, BT will have some live programming during the day hypeing up there CL stuff
Definitely agree about them showing a game maybe every Tuesday/Wednesday of the midweek rounds, with more emphasis possibly on if it's a CL midweek. There's usually around 10 midweek rounds a season (it might vary year to year but it's usually between 8-10) so you could show nearly every team at home in a midweek round (if there were 10 midweek rounds that is).
Obviously next season FL games on Saturdays will still kick off at the same time as they do now, but I expect that when the new PL deal kicks in, Sky will switch their live Saturday FL games to Saturday evening again so it doesn't clash with their own PL coverage on the Saturday lunchtime.
The rest of them I expect to be Friday nights along with the occasional Sunday and Monday.
Would Ssaturday evening work i mean 7.30/7.45 as having Plymouth v Wycombe last saturday was something different
Perhaps ask the Wycombe fans that question...
I think most Wycombe fans enjoyed going down to Home Park... I doubt you'll get much More out of us this morning...
(I sadly had to watch in the pub...)
BT new Champions League contract
OR
Sky new Football League deal ???
If it was Sky then they would not have suggested midweek games
July 2013: Sky wins FL rights 2015/18
http://www1.skysports.com/watch/news/8829834/sky-sports-agrees-deal-to-broadcast-football-league-until-2018
November 2013: BT wins CL rights 2015/18
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24879138
Yes, but that was also started early. Should I start the 2016-2017 season threads anyone, afterall we know they will happen.
With regards to the question, about Saturday 7:30pm/7:45pm kickoffs, I would like to watch X factor and Strictly come dancing, Ant & Dec's Saturday night takeaway, and Britain's got Talent. Yes I like football, but football at that point on a Saturday (after there has already been 2 live matches, and all of the 3:00pm kickoffs would be a bit too much for me.)
Charlton v QPR (London derby, QPR newly relegated)
Leeds v Burnley (big team at home to newly relegated team)
Possibly Hull v Huddersfield (newly relegated team plus it's sort of a bit local though none of our fans really consider it a local derby)
Preston v Middlesbrough (newly promoted team at home to team that lost in the playoff final last season)
If they show any L1/L2 games they might go for Coventry v Wigan, Colchester v Blackpool, Exter v Yeovil or Leyton Orient v Barnet.
Think it will be 2, Friday Night and Saturday Lunchtime i reckon
Preston v Boro maybe for the friday night, as it isnt a derby,
Anyway, wonder where they'll show their extra games. there's 10 midweek rounds (for the Championship teams at least, not sure about L1/L2) so if they can show midweek games then that's 20 of the extra 35 or so accounted for. Apart from that, only other thing I can think of is either more Friday night games or a few Thursday games perhaps (or Monday's if there's no PL Monday fixture with no FL midweek round that same midweek).
Nottm Forest v Leeds Utd looks likely
Leeds and Derby are likely most weeks.
I agree re Boxing Day and Forest v Leeds being picked even if both teams are in midtable obscurity
Yes international breaks will cover most of the L1/L2 fixtures as normal
Yes Sky like to show at least 1 relegated team on the opening weekend
Derby were only picked so much last season as they looked like certainties to get promoted, whereas Leeds were basically only shown however many times it was because it was Leeds
Oh and although it's in August which maybe isn't as bad as if it was in December, but got to feel sorry for Carlisle fans, who have to travel all the way down to Plymouth on a Tuesday night. I know they say they try to minimise midweek travel where possible, but cripes!
http://www.football-league.co.uk/news/article/2015/channel-5s-football-league-tonight-to-broadcast-highlights-2496661.aspx
Just show the goals/action, a few interviews, maybe a few features with various clubs throughout the year and that's it, no farting about with a studio audience, emails, or whatever. Nobody cares for those aspects of a highlights show, they just want, well, you know.............HIGHLIGHTS!