Petition to sky

Petition to sky

CelticFC2007-06-11 22:38:15

You might find that not many people care about the SPL. They won't even show England Estonia so SPL will be a big no no :)

If it isn't Old Firm derby then i don't think people are going to jump at the chance to watch the SPL. I enjoyed watching NZFC highlights i think when there isn't rugby on a friday night they should have a live game of the NZFC.

They don't have NZFC on a friday night, but I think NZFC, A-League, EPL and Champions League should come before the SPL.

bro they already show the aleague epl and champs league> theres to much ruga not enough footy

The only way they will show the NZFC is if someone pays them too.  That ain't happening.

how about everyone on yellowfever devotes all there money and savings to the NZFC getting showen on sky... PFFFFT

couple of seasons back sky showed SPL and the dutch league through ESPN.

I've just ditched Sky (despite the upcpoming phoenix games) becuase it just aint worth the money.

There would be more point in having a football channel than a rugby channel.

Why dont you go to the Wellington Celtic Supporters Club on Cambridge Tce and watch the games there. They have live coverage off the Net.

You should try online streaming of games, not entirely legal and the quality isn't great, but its better than near non existant coverage of football on sky. herman2007-06-11 21:30:11

www.sopcast.com does all the prem league etc.

Petition for Sky to make a football channel

well world football is available here on various satellites, I now that TRT shows some turkish games and highlights, Dutch chanel shows some games from the dutch league and ERT shows almost every olympiakos game and Greek derby game, unfortunatly i doubt people would watch these leagues but also becasue of the language barrior.
My point is that there is world footy available ao they could make a channel quite easily but i dont think it would fly, although TVNZ could put say 4 hours of highlights on the Maori channel instead of showing that random map all the time (the hours its not screning anything) or make a sports channel on that new satellite tv thing theyre making    

Sky is introducing a new channel next month called Sky Sport Highlights. Might see some more football through this maybe? Although it will probably just be rugby replays all week.

Sky ditched the SPL and Dutch League to buy Primera Liga games and a crap Serie A game now, Yeah Cagliari, Lazio!! But I like this set up better than the previous.

Yeah getting a satellite dish may get you channels that you want, you'd need to check the channels list for our area to see if you can get that. Costs a bit to get it done but no monthly fees.

To be honest I think that number of people who are into football in this country is big enough that we shouldn't have to be mucking around setting up our own satellite dishes etc. There is a buck to be made here and Sky isn't doing it because they don't have to - they have a nice cosy monopoly and consumers just have to take whatever bullsh*t gets pumped at them...

No way. If they have a football channell then all the epl games and HAL games would be shown live on there instead. I'm quite happy paying the standard sports package but I aint paying another farkin cent if I don't have to.  

id get it depending on how much OTHER football they showed

Champions League is on both ESPN and Sky. We definitely need a football channel. Someone should write a letter to Sky concerning it.

QUOTE=loyalgunner]Champions League is on both ESPN and Sky. We definitely need a football channel. Someone should write a letter to Sky concerning it.[/QUOTE]

would sign it myself too celt

Currently Sky has in as well as ESPN has good coverage of: English Premier League, Spanish La Liga, UEFA Champions League, A League.

And shows some games from: Italian Serie A, MLS, German Cup, Englsih FA Cup, English League Cup, UEFA cup.

Internationally: Good coverage of the two major events (World Cup, European Championship), currently playing U21 Euro, A few friendlies and International Qualifiers.

Sky had Scottish Premier League, Dutch Eredivise and various Highlight packages from around Europe and the World.

A dedicated football channel would be hard to have as many football matches are played at the same time. What other leagues would you like to see?

French Ligue 1
Scottish Premier League
Die Bundisliga
Eredivisie...

This sounds like a message from Sky TV. Anyway, I'd like to see more Serie A games even just a few big games instead of Lazio, Ascoli, Cagliari, Torino. Milan derby would be good and some highlight shows with recent games not what they used to have highlights of games 2 weeks old. Other than that I'm pretty happy with the current coverage, Although whats with All Whites games getting the elbow to SS2 for Rugby games that don't involve the ABs.

i'd like to see coverage of all the games (in top flight football) with Kiwis involved, eg: Celtic, Toronto, Columbus etc etc.


a football channel would be great, but sky would charge like a wounded bull, tinny bastards.

what sites can you stream for free???

ive been paying to watch Greece play in the Euro08 campaign,

ps i dont mind if its in a random language either

You know what.  Whilst I support the idea of a footie channel instead of the current deal, I have a feeling like some here that sky would put all football onto it leaving nothing on the normal bands.  That ain't good for the pure fact that most kiwis would have absolutly no chance of watching football at all.  Its a pity really. disco_mart2007-06-13 09:48:21

ESPN is a joke, and a poor quality one at that. They have some good games albeit with budget picture. And the rest of the time they have spelling bee, hot-dog eating, and once I had the misfortune of switching to ESPN and unless my memory decieves me, it was either showing Chess or Scrabble, I can't remember which. I mean that is just down-right pathetic. I've also seen "women's pro action bowling" on ESPN, something must be done!

I am glad that I have got that off my chest :)

"I just believe that NZ media is deliberatly trying to subvert football, be it TVNZ, SKY the papers or radio.  Its ingrained into them to do it."

The problem I have with ESPN is that sky has no control over content, they get the whole package "as is" of the satelite. I have stayed up late to watch WC or Euro qualifiers that they list on the little blue bar at the bottom of the screen. Then I checked the online guide and there is no mention of the football, and to my suprise 3am rolls up and there is replays of national line dancing competition or some other bollacks. I have phoned sky to ask about this and they say, they are told what will be on, advertise it as such, then at the last minute espn may change the time or omit it completely. I subscribe to Arsenal's TV online and i get to listen to every live game whether its league cup, fa cup or priemeir league, just no live images as that would piss of the networks . What im saying is i would pay for a Decent Football channel. When i was in singapore on holiday my wife struggled to drag me out of the hotel as they nearly had 24 hour football coverage on there Star network. And i could watch live games at a decent hour :)

That sounds brilliant, not having to get up at 3 in the morning to watch a game.

[/QUOTE] disco_mart2007-06-21 07:11:48

any word on the streaming sites mate,

also it was brought to my attention that certain media companies in Aus linked with AFL purposefully dogged the melbourne fans and the A-league pulling the hooligan card which i think is very cowardly and childish

i immagine us chanting semi loud, banners, bit of jumping after goals and if we are lucky a flare.

....we are not going to behave any where near fans at a PAOK VS ARIS game in greece or euro derby match....

where fans, take bombs, light fires, light upwards of 40 flares, fight with each other, police and firemen too, attack players from opposing teams equipment like thier bus......the list goes on.....this is hooliganism not what we will be doing



so i fear we will be attacked by the media and im posative that rugby fans fear the development of this sport in NZ,rugby is a mino game and always will be only afew countries actually care about it, NZ, SA and wales, plus pacific countries.

also the fact that parents prefere their kids to play footy not rugby for obvious reasons

when the time comes we should discuss a family zone for games where parents can be assured that no violent or offensive behvior takes place. Hopefully this will combat anti footy media