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Re: Carlisle game

Post by olbarrafancumbak » Fri Jan 31, 2025 3:43 pm

spirit of 1990 wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 3:41 pm I guess the corporate bookings will take a hammering as well….
Don’t be surprised at how many Barrovians will now sit at home or in a pub watching it.

Shocking - but SKY won’t give a toss.
A school night Ian, not many will be able to have a pint or ten now unless they use valuable holiday entitlements!!

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Re: Carlisle game

Post by blue nige » Fri Jan 31, 2025 3:45 pm

spirit of 1990 wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 3:41 pm I guess the corporate bookings will take a hammering as well….
Don’t be surprised at how many Barrovians will now sit at home or in a pub watching it.

Shocking - but SKY won’t give a toss.
Agree Ian £300,000 , over the years we'll probably just break even !

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Re: Carlisle game

Post by HenneysKnee » Fri Jan 31, 2025 3:47 pm

spirit of 1990 wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 3:41 pm I guess the corporate bookings will take a hammering as well….
Don’t be surprised at how many Barrovians will now sit at home or in a pub watching it.

Shocking - but SKY won’t give a toss.
Agreed; Carlisle will still sell out you would imagine despite no trains home but the home gate will be well down

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Re: Carlisle game

Post by olbarrafancumbak » Fri Jan 31, 2025 3:49 pm

Suppose...

If we all take half day on match day and day off following and just hit the crossbar and the fan zone to boost coffers and give us all that little lube to get the noise levels up a notch or 3..

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Post by olbarrafancumbak » Fri Jan 31, 2025 3:52 pm

Plod wouldn't have had a say in this would they???

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Post by BarrowLad71 » Fri Jan 31, 2025 3:57 pm

olbarrafancumbak wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 3:52 pm Plod wouldn't have had a say in this would they???
Carlisle begged for it so they could get home safely for once apparently

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Re: Carlisle game

Post by Fazered » Fri Jan 31, 2025 4:08 pm

olbarrafancumbak wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 3:40 pm A rendition from both sides on the night of "sky TV, is [SwearFilter] sh ite, sky TV is [SwearFilter] sh ite"
Good idea and let's repeat this on the match thread
Just say no to VAR :sentoff:

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Re: Carlisle game

Post by blue nige » Fri Jan 31, 2025 4:13 pm

The irony of all this is that SKY gain nothing let's be honest no one apart from Barrow and Carlisle fans are going to watch this !

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Post by litefoot » Fri Jan 31, 2025 4:24 pm

spirit of 1990 wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 3:41 pm I guess the corporate bookings will take a hammering as well….
Don’t be surprised at how many Barrovians will now sit at home or in a pub watching it.

Shocking - but SKY won’t give a toss.
They don't give a toss about L2 or even L1 with the exception of Wrexham (because all broadcasters think all football fans love an "underdog" story that revolves around a bunch of millionaires throwing money at club - see also Salford). All the L1 and L2 games they show, along with the EFL Trophy and most games in the first two rounds of the EFL Cup are just there to boost their "we show XXX number of games per season" boast while paying the clubs a pittance that doesn't make up for the money lost through the turnstile or anything else, not to mention that more kids start off going to Saturday games than midweek ones. More games at stupid o'clock means kids are less likely to be taken to their first game and people are less likely to buy season tickets.

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Re: Carlisle game

Post by kenny lowe fan club » Fri Jan 31, 2025 4:43 pm

Are the actually going to show it this time on Sky Sports Football or are they making us change our date and then drop the match at the 11th hour like the did on Wednesday leaving us out of pocket?

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Post by behind the goals » Fri Jan 31, 2025 4:49 pm

Will effect the attendance and income for Crossbar and Fanzone getting pis*ed off with Sky now, but if Barrow and the rest of the EFL voted it in nothing the fans can do about it, hopefully next season both games will be on the original date and time.

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Post by Desmond2-2 » Fri Jan 31, 2025 5:01 pm

My god it’s certainly upset folk on here. Anyway one positive, better atmosphere under the lights.

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Post by Jonty » Fri Jan 31, 2025 5:31 pm

It may affect the hospitality take up but will it really affect the attendance that much?

We had just shy of 3k home fans for the midweek game v Doncaster so if we cant draw a 4k+ crowd for the biggest home fixture of the season then when can we? Carlisle will sell out regardless.

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Re: Carlisle game

Post by Bombadel » Fri Jan 31, 2025 5:47 pm

Desmond2-2 wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 5:01 pm My god it’s certainly upset folk on here. Anyway one positive, better atmosphere under the lights.
Another small positive, it might draw some mid week contractors working in the yard to come, still a shit decision though. As per a previous comment, maybe the police did have a say as well.

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Re: Carlisle game

Post by bluedevil » Fri Jan 31, 2025 5:53 pm

You could give us the home end as well, that would make sure the attendance is reasonable. ;)

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