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It's so ridiculous that people have to resort to this.
Anyone who loves going to watch live away games is going to go anyway.

I would still go to a handful of away games every season, regardless of whether I could watch them on iFollow. But there's a heap of away games that I could be legitimately paying for, thereby benefitting my club, that I would not be attending live. So I have to listen for free on the radio and neither I nor the club get maximum benefit.

I'm convinced that clubs are losing money by not allowing fans to subscribe to watch away matches on iFollow.

 

The FA are just encouraging fans to watch the games by roundabout or illegal streams then cry foul when it happens, Fans just want to watch games and pay legally to do it, It is the FA that cause the illagality not the fans

 

It's a nonsense argument though. We wouldn't have sold less tickets for Exeter away if it had been announced the game would be on ifollow BUT, we would probably have sold a hell of a lot of ifollow passes on top of that if the option was there to do so.

 

This year there will be others tentative about going back to live matches after all thats gone on.

The EFL should have embraced the last 18 months and carried on Ifollow on Saturdays.

all theyve done now is forced fans into buying updated firesticks and watching illegal streams.

now the club sees not a penny of the stream fee.

i spent hundreds on ifollow during the pandemic and wasn’t alone looking at the sales figures the club put up.

id rarely pay to go away as dont have the time or inclination to travel all day anymore, but a wham bam, fire up the Ipad or phone when about, then log off at 5 pm after a defeat, is much more preferable.

for balance, i know some that attend would revert to streams too, but would it be that many? The away crowd are hardcore fanatics that go for the day out in many cases. They’ll still go.

 

That was the argument the old duffers at the FA used for years to stop televised TV at games, They were spectacularly wrong with TV boosting the interest and profile of the game and producing record attendances and income for the clubs,
They now seem to be using the same argument which was wrong then and is wrong now

 

You must feckin shattered!

 

Warning of arrest?

Prisons are over flowing and we're releasing dangerous criminals early to make room yet we're going to bang up Fred for watching Cheltenham away on a dodgy firestick?

Not going to happen.

 

Liverpool v Man Utd could be playing at the bottom of my garden, paying me to watch them with free ale and I’d still pay to watch City. Like you say, some lower league clubs are missing out on valuable revenues because of the ancient beliefs of the old farts at the EFL and FA.

 

IIRC, Midweek games were possible to watch on Ifollow before the pandemic - even those at home - it is the Saturday 3 pm ones that they have always banned?

 

So those of us who still don't feel comfortable about being in large crowds will be penalised. I have a 92 year old father who only has one working lung, and a sister in law in remission from breast cancer. Despite really wishing I could be back at VP, especially for the first home match, there is no way that I am going to run that sort of risk. So it's back to the Dynamic Duo on Radio Leeds, and their idiosyncratic approach to the English language.

 

y compris moi....

 

wasn’t it always planned to be available on Tuesday? Midweek were available Pre Covid

 

Yes, that works as a one off. But if I want to watch other away games throughout the season I thought that another account with a different email address might be better.
It really pisses me off that it's come to this. I'd much rather be paying a fee for a legit iFollow stream for away games that I wouldn't otherwise attend, if only they were made available in a rational world.