As a Phoenix fan who lives out of town and is already paying a lot to go see the game (Tickets are $90 each..) ..I'm a bit annoyed that I'll have to pay an extra $25 just to watch the other game on TV.
WTF, my 84 year old father who has the basic Sky package cannot afford to pay the extra $39.95. Things are tight enough for him,yet watching the Phoenix is one of lifes few pleasures left for him. Try telling that to a few others out there too. I bet my father isn't alone in this respect.
Encourage fans to the Games? Bollox. Those who were going to go will go. Those who weren't will find something else to do instead. This will turn some off. I haven't yet paid anything extra to wztch something on Sky and wont start, would rather leave it for a few days then watch the replay. Sky sports are putting fheir prices up yet again too. Another fucken grab. Seriously thinking about abandoning sky completely.
I wonder if ticket sales to Auckland and Dunedin are that shit that Domey has gone along with this idea? Sorry to say it David but the students down south would rather soend their money on a box of Woodstocks rather than pay to watch these games. And Sky never does anything for free. Being in a monopoly allows them to dictate anything and everything. I note too that their movie channel and the Thugby channel are having their prices for the month cut. Subscribers dumoing them because of the endless repeats?