Should Season Tickets Include I-Follow?

If they did ifollow for games instead of 26 boots on the ground if marketed right could have hundreds on iFollow, Times have changed and covid has accelerated it, Those that fail to embrace it will rightly wither

 

Partly negated by the fact that you follow a club not football in general. If Liverpool v Man Utd (for example) were on ifollow at 3pm on a Saturday, would it make me watch that instead of watching City away at Exeter ? No. If it clashed with a home match or an away match I wanted to attend (and assuming fans are back in) would I watch the PL on ifollow ? No.

If City were available on ifollow for an away match or I could pay £10 to go to Halifax or Guiseley or Farsley or even Eccleshill United, would I go to the match ? No, I'd pay my money and watch MY club.

Non league clubs would only lose out if your own club weren't playing and you chose to watch the "big match" on ifollow rather than go non league.

I don't even watch the PL on match of the day.

 

Fair comment, I guess that out of the circles I move in there must be a fair few casual football fans who attend local matches. When my dad was in the army at Aldershot he did used to go there, despite being a die hard City fan.

 

Without reading 4 pages, has anyone mentioned that ifollow won’t be allowed in the UK after Covid for Saturday 3pm games.
Therefore no point including it in season ticket.

 

I think posters on here are vastly overestimating the appeal of lower league football, it's largely shit. As we see from the ifollow figures this season it is difficult to even get the hardcore to pay to watch it when we're locked down, making it a permanent offer is not going to lead to a bigger audience, though dedicated fans may watch a few more away games at the right price.

 

Offering ifollow as a routine service will cut the away attendance dramatically. It’s a bad idea and shouldn’t even be given light of day.

 

If you read the pages you will see it is a discussion of the EFL getting the rules changed so it is allowed. There is nothing to stop the rules being changed as has been shown currently

 

Well changing the rules to allow live streaming of every game when fans are allowed will harm the game even more in my opinion.

 

Televising Live games will kill football, The stadiums will be empty, Who will go to matches when can view in front room, ( The view of some on the FA when SKY deal proposed )

 

Several posters on this thread have mentioned how difficult it is to get home after work and then get to VP in time for a midweek kick off. Just go straight from work. Fish and chips from Peel Park chippie in the car. Sorted

 

That is one option but midweek games were already available on ifollow prior to this season anyway so not really a problem.

 

No it won't. Poeple who go to away games will go regardless, away fans aren't your casual nothing better to do on a Saturday only going cos the season tickets are cheap fans. Away days are all about the full day experience not watching a crap camera view on TV. Ifollow gives the opportunity to fans who would like to see the away game live but circumstances dictate otherwise. Has to be implemented at some stage.

 

Yeah it was just a general comment really. I could just about get home and then get to the match in time for kick off but my way is much less rushed. Unless I am away, I have never been tempted to watch a midweek home game on ifollow

 

Maybe it should only be offered where the away allocation of tickets is sold out

 

Agree. I posted earlier in this thread. I only go to a few away games because I can't afford the time for the longer trips. If ifollow was available I would still go to the same number of away games because as you say it's about the matcday experience. I would however pay to watch the games I can't get to, so someone is missing out on potential income from me and I expect many thousands of fans across the country

 

If you believe that attendances would be unaffected then ask yourself why Saturday 3pm games are not shown live? Have you seen the dip in midweek attendances at VP when CL or internationals are on TV ? You are the exception but for many it will simply take away the desire to travel to away games, midweek home games etc etc. If it happens then it needs to be limited rather than just being widely available. If travel time is the barrier rather than cost then maybe away games can be exclusively streamed back to VP in the banqueting suites combined with buying a meal.

 

No, in todays world with modern technology why shouldn't people be able to view a game live if their circumstances dictate they can't get to game they would normally go to. Or they live to far away, say in another country. There may have to be something put in place so you can't just buy one viewing pass and everyone is able to see it, could be difficult when its coing through a TV. Maybe way in the future its the one pass for one virtual headset where only one individual can view an individual pass. I dunno, its a tough call but we live in a world where technology allows this to become reality.