BBC announce first live FL fixtures...

[hans kraay fan club]

Under their new deal, BBC get ten live FL matches this season.

They've announce today that the first two will be.....


Newcastle v Werst Brom, and ....

Ipswich v Newcastle.

Didn't see THAT coming.

 

[Austrian Gull]

For f***s sake.

What about the other eight games?

 

[The Ringleader]

We won't get one game. Ever.

 

[Mellotron]

I'm beginning to wonder whether the entire BBC FL thing was a ruse to help Newcastle fans think they're still in the Premiership/important.

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

To be fair , they will want to put on the games that will get the most ratings and those two games will attract a fair bit of attention from your average armchair fan!! i cant see our game against walsall attracting quite the same attention, can you ??

 

[Gritt23]

Live games on terrestrial, I think it's excellent. Of course it's Newcastle, what were you all expecting them to do, Watford vs Doncaster.

If it wasn't for the cricket and NFL, Sky Sports could just go whistle.

 

[shoreham moonraker]

followed by qpr v derby and west brom v notts forest, i think, might have them the wrong way round though

 

[Mr Blobby]

8th August West Brom v Newcastle 5.30pm
26th September Ipswich v Newcastle 5.30pm
24th October Derby v QPR 5.30pm
1st November Cardiff v Nottingham Forest 2pm - Sunday

 

[CHAPPERS]

Cocks.

 

[Arthur]

Cocks.

Hmmmm yeah, fancy showing games people might actually want to watch.

 

[Pavel Srníček's Haircut]

They will show the biggest draws. Newcastle are obviously going to get a lot of airtime. It's car crash TV. It was obvious.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Oh don't get me wrong I understand the first game as it's a big one but they dn't have to give them the first two do they? It's just a bit BENT.

 

[Acker79]

What about middlesborough? They've been in the premiership a while and are probably therefore one of the bigger teams in the FL, why not give them a show?

 

[Easy 10]

Because regardless of whatever division they are in, Middlesbrough are officially the DULLEST team in the entire country.

 

[Marc]

those are the Championship games to be shown live according to the BBC website, no mention of L1 or L2.

 

[Muzzman]

What about middlesborough? They've been in the premiership a while and are probably therefore one of the bigger teams in the FL, why not give them a show?

Because they struggled to fill their ground for Premiership games so the level of support for Championship games will, understandably, be even poorer.

 

[Husty]

I wonder if Palace will get a run out?

 

[Superphil]

To be fair , they will want to put on the games that will get the most ratings and those two games will attract a fair bit of attention from your average armchair fan!! i cant see our game against walsall attracting quite the same attention, can you ??

Why on earth should that matter to the BBC? They are a public service broadcaster, they won't get any more advertising revenue whether it is Newcastle v Middlesborough or Dagenham v Rotherham. They should at least ensure that no team gets on there twice until every other team has been on there once.

 

[TonyW]

Live games on terrestrial, I think it's excellent. Of course it's Newcastle, what were you all expecting them to do, Watford vs Doncaster.

If it wasn't for the cricket and NFL, Sky Sports could just go whistle.

Terrestrial TV is complete toilet.

It should, and hopefully will eventually close down.

BBC Sport may as well close tommorrow to be honest - utter waste of time.

Perhaps they can't afford to bid for live sport - oh hang on a minute, the bastards fleece me (and you) every year for an (illegal in this day age) license fee, so yeah, they can afford it.

 

[keaton]

Terrestrial TV is complete toilet.

It should, and hopefully will eventually close down.

BBC Sport may as well close tommorrow to be honest - utter waste of time.

Perhaps they can't afford to bid for live sport - oh hang on a minute, the bastards fleece me (and you) every year for an (illegal in this day age) license fee, so yeah, they can afford it.

Yeah what's BBC Sport got?

Apart from Live Six Nations Rugby, the best Football Commentary, Match of the Day, Test Match Special, radio county cricket coverage, Wimbledon, Snooker, Grand National, Olympics, Rugby League, Formula One, Confederations Cup, African Nations Cup