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Fair, in my view...

 

The Plymouth KO time isn’t to do with Sky though. It’s an FA thing where L1 and L2 games cannot kick off at 3pm on the Saturday of the second round. Same reason the Cardiff v Hudds game also kicks off at 12:30

 

I never moaned about the budget. I did however moaned about the piss poor recruitment of players

 

Foorball will be moving to Netflix , Amazon or Dazn in the next round of bids for football rights in the UK. It’s a matter of time and Sky won’t be able to challenge.

The 3pm black ban will go or you will be able to watch your team play straight after the game.

 

Another thing that is overlooked, is having the match televised gives thousands of fans the opportunity to watch when it's likely they wouldn't have had that opportunity prior.

Had the Plymouth game stayed 3pm and given the geographical challenge, roughly 1,200 would have watched the actual game live (legally anyway), now thousands more of us can, same with Luton away

The Cardiff fans for our home game against them will have the same opportunity.

The TV scheduling will also not detract the number of fans at all those games, we will still take our 1,200 to Plymouth and luton, Donny will sell out our gaff, and Cardiff will still bring a good number.

The argument that a televised match will lead to a smaller attendance is vastly overstated

 

The original Plymouth game would have been televised at 3pm as will all League 1 and 2 games played that day because it’s an international weekend and the 3pm blackout is lifted on international breaks. The rearranged Plymouth game would still have to be televised as it’s contracted to be shown but on the new date the 3pm blackout is enforced so the game has to start at 12.30.

 

So your philosophy is that it’s fine to create huge inconveniences to the smaller minority of the fanbase who will travel to away games no matter what the date or time and it’s all good because then the majority who have no intention of ever travelling can watch at their convenience?

 

A nice early start for those making the trip ! Done Plymouth before on the train, nice journey.

 

Thats not my philosophy at all, football should be 3pm on a Saturday for me but I also understand we aren't in the 1980s anymore and I also understand that if I paid £700m for a product I'd want to do what I want with that too.

The club's aren't blameless in this, they voted for the new deal , and understood the ramifications of it and don't forget Sky didn't call off or rearrange the original fixture at nine days notice. also city and Plymouth agreed to the game being moved to the 8th December.

How many fans were creaming themselves at the thought of 20+ live games for each team this year. How did they expect that to work with 3pm kick offs

 

Why can it not kick off at 1pm or 1.30pm or 2.17pm then?

Rearranging a game to start before the first train arrives in Plymouth is frankly shocking.

 

Clubs should agree a new deal that all games kick off at 3pm but ALL are shown live with no broadcasting blackouts.
Fans like me and many thousands of others will still travel even if on TV

 

Just remove the ancient blackout for championship down and have all non traditional weekend TV games at 3pm Saturday televised via the clubs/sky