Amazon have got a Premier League TV Package

[phonics]

Announcement in a couple of hours.

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[Baz]

There’ll still be acestreams, right?

[Pepe]

Fuck Amazon.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Bad move by the PL imo, how far do you want to fragment the product?

[phonics]

You're looking at 100 and something quid a month to watch your team play at most 5-6 games if all of them are picked. I'm sure they'll love that.

[SincereTheRebel]

£700 they claim to watch ALL football next season.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Amazon :drool:

Give them everything.

[Disco]

Anyone claiming to watch all the games is a big fat liar.

[niko_cee]

I already have prime so this is probably the first fragmentation that has benefited me. What they have sounds crap though. In fact, I can't really make sense of either of these two last packages. Are all the games being broadcast simultaneously?

[Baz]

https://i.imgur.com/goXXSKy.png

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44396151

[niko_cee]

To me those last two sound like there are going to be 10 matches broadcast essentially simultaneously (or at least every game from a round of fixtures is going to be televised) in 4 instances. Amazon are going to have 2 days (rounds) of live fixtures in the whole season?

[Pepe]

The state of that shit. :sick:

[Magic]

The match going fans really screwed there.

[Jimmy Floyd]

To me those last two sound like there are going to be 10 matches broadcast essentially simultaneously (or at least every game from a round of fixtures is going to be televised) in 4 instances. Amazon are going to have 2 days (rounds) of live fixtures in the whole season?

Think of the baseball in-house streaming setup I posted a few weeks back, and the boneheadball equivalent etc.

Saturday 19.45 games can seriously fuck off.

[John]

Availability of coverage is the one area of sports where I think the Americans have us soundly beaten.

[igor_balis]

I never really understood the appeal of watching random prem games at home. Rather than paying fifty (?) quid a month to watch ALL THE ACTION!!, i'd rather just go to the pub if there was a game worth watching, and considering how much guff is on it still works out cheaper, even buying a couple of pints, over a whole season. Fairly irrelevant now we're in the championship, but I'd have been far more willing to pay like, £200 or something to watch all the West Brom games.

[bruhnaldo]

Availability of coverage is the one area of sports where I think the Americans have us soundly beaten.

We used to get every Prem match so long as we had the sports package on cable. Now it's $50 for the "130 games" not on cable.

Sucks for supporters of smaller clubs cause it's basically all it is. United's matches were all on regular cable for me so I got lucky.

[Pepe]

In Mexico every single match was shown on free television. No idea what the situation is now.

[Pleb]

I reckon Amazon fucked up by not taking package G the lazy cunts.

BT probably got the best deal out of the last two packages.

[Magic]

Since all this splitting up has happened the SUPER SUNDAYS etc have hot considerably worse. It'll be Cardiff v Huddersfield.

[Baz]

I never really understood the appeal of watching random prem games at home. Rather than paying fifty (?) quid a month to watch ALL THE ACTION!!, i'd rather just go to the pub if there was a game worth watching, and considering how much guff is on it still works out cheaper, even buying a couple of pints, over a whole season. Fairly irrelevant now we're in the championship, but I'd have been far more willing to pay like, £200 or something to watch all the West Brom games.But at the pub you get bellends cheering and shouting at the TV.

[Pepe]

Much rather watch at home than in 'the pub.' Going to the stadium is still the best though.

[Giggles]

There's far more dickheads in a stadium than there is in a pub.

[Pepe]

At least they're actually shouting at someone in the stadium.

[igor_balis]

But at the pub you get bellends cheering and shouting at the TV.

Even in the cultural wasteland of Rugby there's plenty to choose between rowdy lads lads lads shouty pubs and places that are practically empty or just full of quiet old geezers.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Availability of coverage is the one area of sports where I think the Americans have us soundly beaten.

Our sporting cultures are a bit different, for them 'sports' is just popcorn entertainment with largely soulless franchises, for us it's a real thing deeply rooted in the community and it properly matters. As such, we can and do get massively fleeced as sports fans because we will pay big for not much rubbish coverage, just to see our team.

[Magic]

There's little else worse than watching football in a pub.

[Kikó]

Think of the baseball in-house streaming setup I posted a few weeks back, and the boneheadball equivalent etc.

Saturday 19.45 games can seriously fuck off.

Only decent thing I reckon. Day on the beers with the lads and the banter before the train wreck that is the football bringing you back to sobriety.

[Magic]

Only decent thing I reckon. Day on the beers with the lads and the banter before the train wreck that is the football bringing you back to sobriety.

Imagine making your way home from Huddersfield at half 10 on a Saturday

[Kikó]

Big night in Hudds mate.

[phonics]

I hate the 7:45 kick offs. It's 8:45 over here which doesn't give you enough time to get home from work and go back out and also leaves you in the pub too long if you go from work straight there.

[igor_balis]

In the nicest way possible, I think a lot of you would find the other football-watching pub clientele less off-putting if you had some mates to go with you.

[Kikó]

Mates and banter mainly.