[essexspireman]

is it just me or is anybody else finding most of the Premiership games on TV boring? The crowds can't come back soon enough to put a bit of pressure on the players.

[Maddog Tannen]

essexspireman, on 01 March 2021 - 09:50 PM, said:

is it just me or is anybody else finding most of the Premiership games on TV boring? The crowds can't come back soon enough to put a bit of pressure on the players.

Yeah i havn't watched a live premiership game for years as find it totally boring and then VAR came along and made it even worse :-)

[azul]

There’s just too much of it

[Westbars Spireite]

Stokespireite, on 01 March 2021 - 09:55 PM, said:

Yeah i havn't watched a live premiership game for years as find it totally boring and then VAR came along and made it even worse :-)

How do you know if you haven’t watched any?

[calvin plummers socks]

Stokespireite, on 01 March 2021 - 09:55 PM, said:

Yeah i havn't watched a live premiership game for years as find it totally boring and then VAR came along and made it even worse :-)

I don’t like rum and raisin ice cream and haven’t had any for years

[Paul Fisher]

Premier League.

Hasn't been called the Premiership (sponsorship reasons) for years.

[Maddog Tannen]

Westbars Spireite, on 01 March 2021 - 10:18 PM, said:

How do you know if you haven't watched any?

Cos iv seen the odd highlights and that was bad enough :-)

[dazcarrlegend]

Paul Fisher, on 02 March 2021 - 09:14 AM, said:

Premier League.

Hasn't been called the Premiership (sponsorship reasons) for years.

Exhibit A

[Paul Fisher]

dazcarrlegend, on 02 March 2021 - 10:17 AM, said:

Exhibit A

Ha Ha.

[clarevoyant.]

calvin plummers socks, on 02 March 2021 - 04:40 AM, said:

I don’t like rum and raisin ice cream and haven’t had any for years

Welcome back, good holiday was it?

[Happ Hazzard]

It was the Premiership when ITV had the highlights nearly 20 years ago.

[Siberian Spireite]

Diving and money-madness (the 'greedy six' especially) had degraded the Prem enough, but I was still watching MOTD every time. Haven't paid for Sky, BT etc in years.

Add empty stadia and then bash the whole thing to smithereens by implementing VAR in the worst possible way and the whole thing dies... MOTD not even worth watching now, as a club funded by an Arab state run away with the league.

Apparently the future TV deals will be worth less as younger generations are not so keen on sitting down for 90 minutes plus, watching a whole match. VAR has made live games almost unwatchable anyhow. Perhaps a period of deflation instead of continued financial growth might re-introduce some realism.

[h again]

Siberian Spireite, on 02 March 2021 - 11:46 AM, said:

Diving and money-madness (the 'greedy six' especially) had degraded the Prem enough, but I was still watching MOTD every time. Haven't paid for Sky, BT etc in years.

Add empty stadia and then bash the whole thing to smithereens by implementing VAR in the worst possible way and the whole thing dies... MOTD not even worth watching now, as a club funded by an Arab state run away with the league.

Apparently the future TV deals will be worth less as younger generations are not so keen on sitting down for 90 minutes plus, watching a whole match. VAR has made live games almost unwatchable anyhow. Perhaps a period of deflation instead of continued financial growth might re-introduce some realism.

Maybe there's hope for football if people do stop watching it, because it's those who want to watch five matches in a weekend and pay for the privilege who're contributing to the farce the upper leagues have become, not to mention the obscene money being paid to average players. If you don't have an emotional attachment to a team, then a terrible lot of the football is just boring.

And despite the disaster that VAR undoubtedly is, can you imagine going back to relying on the referee? The nit-picking and whingeing would be far worse than before now that the 'analysts' have really got into their stride.
The reason it's such a mess is because there's so much money at stake that human error isn't acceptable any more, and there's so much money because so many people are paying the TV moguls.
Which is where I came in.

[dim view]

Siberian Spireite, on 02 March 2021 - 11:46 AM, said:

Diving and money-madness (the 'greedy six' especially) had degraded the Prem enough, but I was still watching MOTD every time. Haven't paid for Sky, BT etc in years.

Add empty stadia and then bash the whole thing to smithereens by implementing VAR in the worst possible way and the whole thing dies... MOTD not even worth watching now, as a club funded by an Arab state run away with the league.

Apparently the future TV deals will be worth less as younger generations are not so keen on sitting down for 90 minutes plus, watching a whole match. VAR has made live games almost unwatchable anyhow. Perhaps a period of deflation instead of continued financial growth might re-introduce some realism.

Yep. I've evolved into watching MOTD2 on iPlayer sometime on a Monday.

Your observation that droves of supporters are turning off must be known to Lineker and Co. but there is never any debate about it.

[Siberian Spireite]

dim view, on 02 March 2021 - 12:19 PM, said:

Yep. I've evolved into watching MOTD2 on iPlayer sometime on a Monday.

Your observation that droves of supporters are turning off must be known to Lineker and Co. but there is never any debate about it.

At this moment it must be difficult for them to split the combined effects upon viewing numbers of covid/empty stadia from that of VAR, and the longer term effects of differing viewing habits developing, especially among younger generations.
What should eventually become clear when crowds come back is that the golden goose is getting sick. TV deals will be worth less. If the likes of Liverpool and Man U get their way and an even bigger piece of the pie, making the league less competitive, the goose will be terminal.

[h again]

dim view, on 02 March 2021 - 12:19 PM, said:

Yep. I've evolved into watching MOTD2 on iPlayer sometime on a Monday.

Your observation that droves of supporters are turning off must be known to Lineker and Co. but there is never any debate about it.

That's a surprise - they debate every other blasted thing to screaming pitch.

[Spire_78]

Commentators offering apologies for 'inappropriate' language irritates me, it's top level football ffs not a WI meeting

[essexspireman]

Palace v Man U zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Happ Hazzard]

All three games today have been poor.

[Comeonyouirons]

Oh I thought this season was kind of ok so far