Villa Match moved

[Sir Rodger Doyle]

Bighting the hand that feeds?
Do you honestly think the PL gives a sh*t what we think?
They are talking about playing games on the other side of the world after all.
Next logical step is to stage matches at an acceptable time for world wide armchair fans.
9.00pm kick off anyone?

[weybridgewanderer]

Bighting the hand that feeds?
Do you honestly think the PL gives a sh*t what we think?
They are talking about playing games on the other side of the world after all.
Next logical step is to stage matches at an acceptable time for world wide armchair fans.
9.00pm kick off anyone?

The Asian market is bigger to the PL than the US market

The Asian market is not interested in late night games, that is why they prefer the EPL to the champions league.

To further attract that market games will get earlier rather than later.

[weybridgewanderer]

Indeed. If you were to ask any club chairman, Scudamore - or just about anyone involved in Sky, Setanta or the Premier League - their response would be "it's the price you have to pay for getting £50 million a season to buy and pay players. If you want to go back to watching nondescript English players in crumbling stadiums then you're welcome to do that at 3 pm every Saturday."

Where do I sign up?

I went to see Woking last Saturday

3pm kick off, standing in a standing area for the whole game
paid at the turnstyle
was able to "change ends" at half time

[Stranded]

Bighting the hand that feeds?
Do you honestly think the PL gives a sh*t what we think?
They are talking about playing games on the other side of the world after all.
Next logical step is to stage matches at an acceptable time for world wide armchair fans.
9.00pm kick off anyone?

The Asian market is bigger to the PL than the US market

The Asian market is not interested in late night games, that is why they prefer the EPL to the champions league.

To further attract that market games will get earlier rather than later.

It's the main reason why we have televised games at 12.45 on a Saturday now, captures the primetime Asian television market. I'm pretty sure that if you look at the early Saturday kick-offs the vast majority have at least one of the bigger clubs playing in it.

If you believe the reports as well around a billion people watched the Arsenal-Man Utd game this season - the main reason, a 12.45 Saturday ko making it accessible to the biggest potential tv market.

[Row V]

I don't know what you're all complaining about, 12:30pm on a Sunday is WAY preferable to 7:30am on a Sunday (USA-East coast).
And what about any poor sods on the West Coast - 3:30am!

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

If you believe the reports as well around a billion people watched the Arsenal-Man Utd game this season - the main reason, a 12.45 Saturday ko making it accessible to the biggest potential tv market.

although it was revealed that the "estimate" took some rather absurd assumptions to get to that figure - namely that if every single person in the world who had a tv that received the match decided to watch the game, then 1 billion people would be watching. It's a deliberately misleading true statement (as up to 1 billion could in theory be watching), and it's exactly what the NFL does when it makes the same absurd media announcement about the popularity of the superbowl. They rely on people not thinking about what's been said too closely to overstate the popularity of the competition. The true figure was supposed to be more like 80 million.

[Gordons Cumming]

I don't know what you're all complaining about, 12:30pm on a Sunday is WAY preferable to 7:30am on a Sunday (USA-East coast).
And what about any poor sods on the West Coast - 3:30am!

The cost of living in the USA.

[Stranded]

If you believe the reports as well around a billion people watched the Arsenal-Man Utd game this season - the main reason, a 12.45 Saturday ko making it accessible to the biggest potential tv market.

although it was revealed that the "estimate" took some rather absurd assumptions to get to that figure - namely that if every single person in the world who had a tv that received the match decided to watch the game, then 1 billion people would be watching. It's a deliberately misleading true statement (as up to 1 billion could in theory be watching), and it's exactly what the NFL does when it makes the same absurd media announcement about the popularity of the superbowl. They rely on people not thinking about what's been said too closely to overstate the popularity of the competition. The true figure was supposed to be more like 80 million.

Very true but such a game wouldn't got such figures if it had been the 4pm Sunday clash or even a 3pm Saturday.

I can actually see a time soon when all Prem games in one weekend will kick off at noon or possibly 11am to satisfy overseas viewers esp. if the 39th game doesn't come to fruition.