MDK Posted August 5, 2017 Report Share Posted August 5, 2017 I AM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted August 5, 2017 Report Share Posted August 5, 2017 1 minute ago, MDK said: I AM! Good, I made it out of love Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDK Posted August 5, 2017 Report Share Posted August 5, 2017 Just now, Rooney! said: Good, I made it out of love Then tell that egg @Baddar not to talk shit about my team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted August 5, 2017 Report Share Posted August 5, 2017 21 minutes ago, MDK said: Then tell that egg @Baddar not to talk shit about my team He may be an egg but he was just stating a fact Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidMarrio Posted August 5, 2017 Report Share Posted August 5, 2017 I've done my fourfold of league winners again despite Doncaster fucking everything up for me on the final day In terms of the football league I've went with Championship: Middlesbrough League 1: WiganLeague 2: Coventry. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted August 5, 2017 Report Share Posted August 5, 2017 Grimsby 2-0 against Chesterfield at half time, let's keep this going, solid start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidMarrio Posted August 5, 2017 Report Share Posted August 5, 2017 IT'S YOUR YEAR!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted August 5, 2017 Report Share Posted August 5, 2017 2 hours ago, Titi Camara said: I've done my fourfold of league winners again despite Doncaster fucking everything up for me on the final day In terms of the football league I've went with Championship: Middlesbrough League 1: WiganLeague 2: Coventry. I've gone Man City, Villa, Blackburn, Luton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9 to 5 Posted August 5, 2017 Report Share Posted August 5, 2017 So it's Matt's fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobfoc Posted August 5, 2017 Report Share Posted August 5, 2017 Well, I can tell this season will be another fun one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugobomb Posted August 5, 2017 Report Share Posted August 5, 2017 While obviously not the way I wanted Blues' season to start, at least we're not starting as badly as Yeovil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DFF Posted August 5, 2017 Report Share Posted August 5, 2017 Billy Sharp picking up where he left off last year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted August 5, 2017 Report Share Posted August 5, 2017 What the hell are Yeovil playing at? Have they been on an extended lad's holiday for 3 months? Solid performance from Rovers today, albeit not quite enough cutting edge to get the win. Only 0-0 draw in the division but it wasn't a bad game to watch. Bring on Blackburn next week now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanky316 Posted August 5, 2017 Report Share Posted August 5, 2017 Well starting the season seeing six goals wasn't too bad I guess. Couldn't do much about the Newport second but disappointing to concede a pair of scrappy goals and Newport should've scored 4 with Frank Nouble making an early claim for miss of the season. Can't complain too much about the scrappy goals conceded when our first came from them working their way back from a freekick in a decent position right back to the 'keeper with our first touch being the one to take it past him and into the net and a silly penalty to concede. Still, first game of the season and a point with a few players already out injured not too bad. Hopefully iron out those niggles early as a few fixtures that look tricky early on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colly Posted August 5, 2017 Report Share Posted August 5, 2017 5 hours ago, Titi Camara said: I've done my fourfold of league winners again despite Doncaster fucking everything up for me on the final day In terms of the football league I've went with Championship: Middlesbrough League 1: WiganLeague 2: Coventry. Doncaster (and Scunthorpe) did me too, luckily I went each way and got a ton back (would've been closer to 400, stupid Donny). I've gone Boro, Wigan, Luton. And Arsenal as my odds builder to ruin it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lusophone Posted August 5, 2017 Report Share Posted August 5, 2017 Starting with a loss, but we were on top for plenty of the match. Conceding early in the half was seemingly a thing we did all the time last season and it looks like it might continue based off of that performance. More work to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DNB Posted August 6, 2017 Report Share Posted August 6, 2017 I'll take 8-2 as a start. Nathan Jones has made some terrific signings, fingers crossed this is our year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Ellis Posted August 6, 2017 Report Share Posted August 6, 2017 1 hour ago, DNB said: I'll take 8-2 as a start. Nathan Jones (who has been to jail) has made some terrific signings, fingers crossed this is our year. FTFY 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Lineker Posted August 8, 2017 Author Admin Report Share Posted August 8, 2017 Quote Sky is set to retain the rights to the Football League in a blockbuster bidding battle with BT that has seen the price as much as double to £180m a season. The Football League is understood to have entered into exclusive talks with Sky for the live rights, in a three to five-year deal worth between £500m and £900m. The official announcement, which could come as soon as Wednesday, will scupper any hope that the recent years of inflationary bids for the crown jewels of sport might be at an end. Bosses at the Premier League will be rubbing their hands at the outcome of the bid, with Sky and BT set to go head to head in a potential £6bn battle for the UK’s most expensive sports rights at the end of the year. ITV is heavily tipped to win the Football League highlights rights from Channel 5. It is understood that the Football League, which decided not to take up an automatic one-year extension with Sky, although the broadcaster still has two years left on its current deal, had been expected to make a decision last Friday. However, it is understood that bids from BT and Sky extended the auction timeline, vindicating the Football League’s decision to take its rights to the market early. The deal, which will be for three or five years, is crucial for Sky to win as it has just embarked on a new strategy of scrapping its numbered Sky Sports channels in favour of themed ones focused on specific sports – led by football, golf and cricket. With two football channels, the flagship focusing on Premier League matches, to lose the Football League would have been a hammer blow. “Sky needs this deal more than BT,” said one source. “BT can survive without it on the same model. Sky has its new channel strategy to fill and the Football League is the number one product in a lot of households in places like Leeds, Nottingham, Derby and Norwich. Most of the eastern side of England has no Premier League.” It is the second time in as many months that Sky has gone head to head with BT in a big-money deal: it spent £1bn to retain the rights to all international and domestic cricket in England with the England and Wales Cricket Board. The £220m a year deal, which included the BBC getting some Twenty20 matches, is worth about three times the £75m a year Sky paid under its existing deal for exclusive rights. With its dedicated cricket channel, Sky, which has said that cricket is the most valuable sport for its business after domestic football, had to win the rights renewal. Later this year, Sky and BT will face off again for the biggest prize of all when the Premier League rights come up for renewal in what could be a £6bn sports rights auction. The pair could be joined by Amazon, which earlier this month poached the UK rights to the ATP men’s tennis world tour – all the tournaments outside the grand slams and the finals at London’s O2 Arena each year – from Sky. Amazon has deep pockets, but may not be ready this auction cycle to commit such sums to drive its Prime Video service and wider business, but the threat could spur more big spending from BT and Sky. The spiralling cost of sports rights, primarily the Premier League, has weighed on Sky’s business. A one-off £629m rise in its Premier League rights deal contributed to a 14% fall in profits at its UK and Ireland operations in the year to end of June. Earlier this year, BT’s chief executive, Gavin Patterson, who has said that he believes an end is coming to eye-watering sports rights inflation, authorised a £1.2bn deal to hold on to exclusive Champions League rights. Last month, Jeremy Darroch, the chief executive of Sky, said that the company had “walked away” from bidding for some sports rights recently as there was better value in spending the cash elsewhere in the business. Sky has spent years building its entertainment programming, including long-term deals with Game of Thrones maker HBO and launching Sky Atlantic for top-flight shows, and spending hundreds of millions of pounds annually on original commissions such as glitzy Riviera. Sky, BT and the Football League declined to comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobfoc Posted August 12, 2017 Report Share Posted August 12, 2017 That's a bit better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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