Breaking News National League working on introducing a streaming platform for the second half of the season

rigsby · Sep 17, 2022

Strykr said:
I dont think it will tbh, there is money to be made, and it seems foolish to me they dont already.

Within 3 years most people will have free football via some site or another. The crowds will be down and the clubs will be making very little from the service.

blues exile · Sep 17, 2022

yogi bear up the cagire said:
Comes at a really good time for me. This Season I've lost my cheap coverage of the Premiership, refusing to pay four times the price for the privilege. What I really want to see is not necessarily top flight football with it's silky skills but MY team.......even with all it's horrors

This is good news for us exiles. I too lost Premiership coverage this season, contracts must have been up, but managed to find a package with Viaplay which covers not just all Premiership games but EFL Championship, European cup games and leagues all for E9,99 pm. They seem to be a Scandinavian outfit so not sure if its available in France. I have added it to my TV sub but I gather you can download the app as an alternative.

Holy Joe · Sep 17, 2022

Spaceman Spiff said:
Really good news, especially for the ex-league clubs who are more likely to make a few quid from exiles around the World. Quite surprising that the Boreham Woods of the World have been ok with this, when they aren’t likely to make too much from it.

Depends on revenue split - may not all accrue to the 2 teams in each match

Shrimpet steve · Sep 17, 2022

Ozzer said:
Tells us little about what is likely to happen. Fully functioning platform launch? What are the recommendations?

Patience lol

brigg blue · Sep 17, 2022

rigsby said:
Within 3 years most people will have free football via some site or another. The crowds will be down and the clubs will be making very little from the service.

Free streams have been available for premiership and efl matches for several years, attendances seem to be holding up okay.

rigsby · Sep 17, 2022

brigg blue said:
Free streams have been available for premiership and efl matches for several years, attendances seem to be holding up okay.

We are in the national league. Unlike the PL we rely on people attending and we don't have Korean families in their bran new club shirts to take any available seats.

When BT made our home game live this time last season we lost money as we only get £6,000. We lost more than that on away fans ticket sales alone.

Crowds have often been 30/40/50 lower when we are playing poorly. With the option of nipping round your mates house to watch his dodgy live stream it will become the norm for many......Thats exactly what I did during lock down.

southendkid · Sep 17, 2022

wiggy said:
EFL get every Saturday afternoon through IFollow, what’s the difference?

Only if you're abroad, Saturday matches are blocked in the UK (although obviously there are ways around it).

rararblue · Sep 17, 2022

yogi bear up the cagire said:
Comes at a really good time for me. This Season I've lost my cheap coverage of the Premiership, refusing to pay four times the price for the privilege. What I really want to see is not necessarily top flight football with it's silky skills but MY team.......even with all it's horrors

Here, we are using DAZN for all premiership games - 12euros per month

rararblue · Sep 17, 2022

Spanish commentary, though

RHB · Sep 17, 2022

brigg blue said:
And of course no-one will use a vpn

Absolutely not

wiggy · Sep 17, 2022

southendkid said:
Only if you're abroad, Saturday matches are blocked in the UK (although obviously there are ways around it).

Plenty of free apps that show it every week, I have a good laugh at Col U when we’re away…..

wiggy · Sep 17, 2022

brigg blue said:
Free streams have been available for premiership and efl matches for several years, attendances seem to be holding up okay.

Spot on…..we’ve had ours 3 years along with plenty of others, crowds fine….still far better to go home and away

yogi bear up the cagire · Sep 17, 2022

blues exile said:
This is good news for us exiles. I too lost Premiership coverage this season, contracts must have been up, but managed to find a package with Viaplay which covers not just all Premiership games but EFL Championship, European cup games and leagues all for E9,99 pm. They seem to be a Scandinavian outfit so not sure if its available in France. I have added it to my TV sub but I gather you can download the app as an alternative.

Yep, I was paying 9€ a month with my internet provider sfr for as much Premiership football I could gorge myself with. Canal+ have now withdrawn their rites to show the games and joining Canal works out abot 40€ a month. I am still left, for the moment, with access to European Cup soccer but of course their choice of games have a French slant. Will consider my options.

Ailsa Road Shrimper · Sep 17, 2022

After witnessing the officials today it seems the National League pander to whatever Wrexham want!

Yorkshire Blue · Sep 17, 2022

wiggy said:
EFL get every Saturday afternoon through IFollow, what’s the difference?

Hopefully that it’ll work, better customer service etc

brigg blue said:
Free streams have been available for premiership and efl matches for several years, attendances seem to be holding up okay.

For now. What’s dangerous is splitting that link between attending in person. Once you lose that it may never come back. For us who have grown up on watching our club that’s not an issue. But the next generation?

wiggy · Sep 17, 2022

Yorkshire Blue said:
Hopefully that it’ll work, better customer service etc

For now. What’s dangerous is splitting that link between attending in person. Once you lose that it may never come back. For us who have grown up on watching our club that’s not an issue. But the next generation?

Free or pay a tenner, i still like the option to watch away matches that are pretty impossible to get to at great expense.
Local ones I also have the choice and would always favour travelling away.

Murkey_Mouse · Sep 17, 2022

I rather watch live steam in midweek, especially in away games that is too far to travel after work!

southendkid · Sep 17, 2022

Yorkshire Blue said:
For now. What’s dangerous is splitting that link between attending in person. Once you lose that it may never come back. For us who have grown up on watching our club that’s not an issue. But the next generation?

You're assuming there that if streaming isn't an option then kids will go to all the matches live, far more likely they'll just watch a premier league match and follow one of those teams instead.

Yorkshire Blue · Sep 18, 2022

southendkid said:
You're assuming there that if streaming isn't an option then kids will go to all the matches live, far more likely they'll just watch a premier league match and follow one of those teams instead.

I feel like live football is a vastly superior experience but geography and cost are constraining factors for live football whereas they aren’t for streamed football. In a world of streamed football we’re going to lose out. There are Saturdays now where if their Premiership team isn’t playing at home they may come along. If we play like today they may then return. But if their team plays away and they can stream we’re going to struggle to get them to come along in the first place and experience it live to realise it’s a superior product.

And if streaming away games is easier than attending away games we’ll end up with no away support which will diminish our product. I realise some of this is out of control but it’s a slippery slope. I’d have bought a stream for Tuesday’s game v Chesterfield but is that a good thing?

Holy Joe · Sep 18, 2022

Yorkshire Blue said:
I feel like live football is a vastly superior experience but geography and cost are constraining factors for live football whereas they aren’t for streamed football. In a world of streamed football we’re going to lose out. There are Saturdays now where if their Premiership team isn’t playing at home they may come along. If we play like today they may then return. But if their team plays away and they can stream we’re going to struggle to get them to come along in the first place and experience it live to realise it’s a superior product.

And if streaming away games is easier than attending away games we’ll end up with no away support which will diminish our product. I realise some of this is out of control but it’s a slippery slope. I’d have bought a stream for Tuesday’s game v Chesterfield but is that a good thing?

But the premiership games are either televised or easily stream able now - don't think it will effect our home attendance much - might impact Tuesday night away games abit. But I suspect it will just increase the numbers actually watching the game either at the ground or streaming.