SKY Coverage

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Happy with any football on telly. as long as nix games are live, will be happy with highlights of the rest. Used to watch all the games, then came new job, new baby boy, increased nagging from partner about staying up late, so had to cut back to keep sanity in the family.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Top effort LF1

and Sky to I guess they could've easily dumped the lot so thanks, I'm one who doesn't get bored watching the other teams in the league,Ii'll just need to convince "the other half" that we should get MYsky I'll try using the old "you could record all of the Hills and sex in the city or Whatever other crap it is you need to watch three repeats of "

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

crewemad wrote:

Ah yes... thank goodness for grown-up kids mate. My wife
tends to be a bit like that too...at least they still care enough to say something though, eh??

Improving,,on the up, a work in progress from Italiano and the Nix. Bring on the bathroom bling in '24! COYN!

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

True......but talking during the football

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Yes I know, I know...

Improving,,on the up, a work in progress from Italiano and the Nix. Bring on the bathroom bling in '24! COYN!

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Lol - my partner will constantly look at what else is on, using the menus on sky to make it blatantly obvious what she wants haha. I don't often give in

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Royal wrote:

Hey - even if you don't watch the games, make sure your decoder is set to the channel showing them.
Sky figures go completely off what channel you are watching - that's how they keep track of viewer numbers. If you go out, make sure the decoder is on the correct channel. They don't know if your tv is on or off.
Better still, 'book' the games so the channel switches at game time. That way they see figures change.

That's the better way of doing it. Sky's computers will note that you were not just watching any old programme, but tuned in especially to watch an A-League game. A much stronger statement of interest.

If all Nix fans did that this year, and got their friends to do the same, Sky's "viewing figures" for A-League games would shoot up.

That would get their attention!

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

i knew 'hardnews' was talking sh*t.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

That seems awfully brave to slag the person who can ban you... and where exactly was I wrong ?

As far as I'm concerened non-live coverage of most A-League matches is a cut in the coverage. They have removed the match introduction show and as yet we have no idea if the commentators team has been changed.

How's my driving? - Whine here

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

whooooooo wrote:

i knew 'hardnews' was talking sh*t.

BANSTICK

ffs, are you really 29?

ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Hard News wrote:

I'm not entirely convinced that a 3:00 AM delayed coverage of a match is the way to grow the following of the league or assist it. Seems to me a way of justifying a 'no one watches it' campaign for the future.

Exactly the same thing happens to the Warriors in Aussie. Almost every Warriors game is on at 3 am delayed or not even played at all

But I agree with you. This is just their way of slowly cutting it down until it disappears imo.
valeo2009-07-28 19:14:27

a.haak

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

How hard would it be to get a satelite that broadcasts Aus tv? I knwo people who have done it with China/Japan Tv.

ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

removed the match intro show? it was always pretty short anyway.... Unfortunately the way the games were aired last season is like they couldn't give a toss anyway - no prematch rant, no post game analysis, straight to the adverts as soon as they'd shown four or five highlights.

Definitely good news that they are showing every game, but to be honest I was hoping for something more in keeping with BBC-type coverage, especially considering for the first time in nz professional football history we actually HAVE A DECENT TEAM

(he says,

thinking about match of the day')

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

its not hard to get fox and sbs in NZ, just illegal.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

UberGunner wrote:

its not hard to get fox and sbs in NZ, just illegal.

Ah.

ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

basically you just need a bloody big dish pointed at the optus satellite and a chipped custom satellite decoder.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Have to say. i did expect it to be much worse.

I'm pretty happy with the coverage. only would like the pre game show to be back. gives much more atmosphere than just cutting to at kickoff.

Ah well.

All Aboard the Phoenix/ All Whites Bandwagon!!

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Pretty poor really - I don't like watching delayed coverage of games, it just isn't the same. The temptation to check whether you are about to sit through a 90 minute 0-0 piece of crap is too tempting IMO.

Better after November I guess.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

UberGunner wrote:

basically you just need a bloody big dish pointed at the optus satellite and a chipped custom satellite decoder.

sounds easy as pie.

Central Hawkes Bay Nix
and tragic follower of Charlton Athletic

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

UberGunner wrote:

basically you just need a bloody big dish pointed at the optus satellite and a chipped custom satellite decoder.

Ohh hell I threw a chipped custom satellite decoder out just the other day darn it, bloody murphy and his law was right

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

i was just havin a laugh.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Scottishbhoy wrote:

whooooooo wrote:

i knew 'hardnews' was talking sh*t.

BANSTICK

ffs, are you really 29?

where did you get THAT from ?

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

UberGunner wrote:

basically you just need a bloody big dish pointed at the optus satellite and a chipped custom satellite decoder.

I think they're doing a special on that stuff this week at Dick Smith.

Where Everyone Gets A Bargain.

Or is it Liquor King? Queen? Jack?

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

scribbler wrote:

UberGunner wrote:

basically you just need a bloody big dish pointed at the optus satellite and a chipped custom satellite decoder.

I think they're doing a special on that stuff this week at Dick Smith.

Where Everyone Gets A Bargain.

Or is it Liquor King? Queen? Jack?

Isn't that THE WAREHOUSE ?

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

12ubb3rduck3y wrote:

In a way yes if people just see them scoring freekicks and goals and the "nice" highlights they might be incline to watch the nix more just like the way people that don't stay up for EPL games just see the highlights and all of a sudden have an EPL team.

Damn that is a stupid thing to say

Botafogo - Rio de Janeiro and Wellington Phoenix, my two teams til death do us part.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Hard News wrote:

Decent news in general but I agree with your point Dave. I struggle to understand how with 3 sports channels you can not find a way to show a match live, and if you've paid for it, why not make every effort to show it live?

Normo's coming home

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

crewemad wrote:

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

hmm

I get it- Whiskies cat food?

Am i right...

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

beaten by the cat?

A small town in Europe........looking to bounce straight back up....well that aint going to happen

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Oh I get it. P___ W____. Tis a bit harsh I thought...

I let my guitar speak for me

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Good news on the coverage.

extra motivation to watch non Phoenix A-League games is to see the other kiwis playing....Smeltz, Moss, Brockie....and the scots kiwi mckinchley???

smeltz for golden boot....moss for best A-league keeper

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

zinidane wrote:

Good news on the coverage.

extra motivation to watch non Phoenix A-League games is to see the other kiwis playing....Smeltz, Moss, Brockie....and the scots kiwi mckinchley???

smeltz Greenacre for golden boot....moss Paston for best A-league keeper

You know we belong together...

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Might get around to subscribing now...

You know we belong together...

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Boro4eva wrote:

beaten by the cat?

I think it's a Bevan joke, but I don't quite get it...

Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I am going to watch as many games as the Missus will let me on the telly... and record the others to watch later :)

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

pussy

whip

boom, chish

Normo's coming home

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Scottishbhoy wrote:

How hard would it be to get a satelite that broadcasts Aus tv? I knwo people who have done it with China/Japan Tv.

My parents have got the international dish - but im pretty sure it only picks up European channels (mum's dutch). Its just a one off payment though, so if you could get Auz channels then would be oh so cheap.

Dont think itd work though because I think they would be the free to air channels. The footy is on FOX over there right?

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

So for the first half of the season you only get two live games per round? If I had Sky I would be very pissed off with that. I doubt Sky viewers will even get the delayed game in full either; probably they'll be truncated to fit into precise 90 minute time slots as the replays are here on Fox. If so then this amounts to a reduction of coverage anyway.

And even if it isn't it's still unacceptable in my book. What's to stop Sky reducing live matches for the entirety of next season, based on the reasoning that no one said boo last time round and in fact some people actually thanked them?

StopOut2009-07-28 23:31:08

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

we were going to get sky last night but then we didn't.

True stroy.

Central Hawkes Bay Nix
and tragic follower of Charlton Athletic

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

whooooooo wrote:

scribbler wrote:

UberGunner wrote:

basically you just need a bloody big dish pointed at the optus satellite and a chipped custom satellite decoder.

I think they're doing a special on that stuff this week at Dick Smith.

Where Everyone Gets A Bargain.

Or is it Liquor King? Queen? Jack?

Isn't that THE WAREHOUSE ?

Could be. Maybe everyone's got them on special.

But if the satellite decoders are chipped, they might be seconds.

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