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General Cricket => Latest Matches => Topic started by: Ayrtek Cricket on October 14, 2016, 10:13:43 AM
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Greg James moving to BT Sport to host the SA v Oz series starting on the 3rd Nov then it seems. (Also Aus V Pak and the Big Bash)
Does this make it more accessible to people? Do more people have BT over Sky?
Quote like the Ad too.
https://twitter.com/btsportcricket/status/786861694094114816
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As a Sky subscriber who doesn't have BT Sport is just reminds me it's a farce the former couldn't sort out a TV deal. Ah.
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Swanny & KP together could be interesting after the impression incident....
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As a Sky subscriber who doesn't have BT Sport is just reminds me it's a farce the former couldn't sort out a TV deal. Ah.
Its one of the reasons I stuck with Virgin as BT is included as part of the package + the 200mb broadband!
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This is a massive pain in the (No Swearing Please) for me, BT are charging 21.99 a month to watch BT Sport on Sky, with my bill already being around 70 quid a month for Sky no way am I gonna pay an extra 20.
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My Virgin contract is at £92 ish atm so prob masks over the fact im paying for it somewhere along the line.
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Greg James presenting it??? Horrendous, he's bad enough on the radio, now we have to look at him as well
They'd be better off paying one of us to present it
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Greg James presenting it??? Horrendous, he's bad enough on the radio, now we have to look at him as well
They'd be better off paying one of us to present it
hmmm...aesthetically a huge challenge thou if it's someone from the forum.
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im happy with this as i have bt sport on my phone so i can at least watch some live cricket for a change
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hmmm...aesthetically a huge challenge thou if it's someone from the forum.
Speak for yourself! ;) :D
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Another nail in the coffin for cricket......... more money needed for the serious enthusiast to follow it all.
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Perfect for me! Have BT Sport in the bedroom and Sky Sports downstairs. Now I can escape from the wide in two rooms!
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Surely BT sport is cheaper and more affordable than having Sky though at £3 a month + £19 line rental which most people have to take the hit on anyway.
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hmmm...aesthetically a huge challenge thou if it's someone from the forum.
At least if it's rained off we'd have tutorials on "How to bend it like Bruce".
Ponting would be found out very quickly. Blame it on a conspiracy.
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Surely BT sport is cheaper and more affordable than having Sky though at £3 a month + £19 line rental which most people have to take the hit on anyway.
Are you suggesting people ditch sky for bt?
How do they watch the rest of sky's cricket, f1 and anything else they watch via sky?
To me this is like football. Sky has rights to one portion for the sport, bt the other, so to watch everything I have to pay for both.
Which ain't cheap whichever way you look at it.
So for someone that has sky not just for cricket and now has to add bt, it's just costing us more money while another CEO gets to buy his 5th beach house.
People will spout the "it's bringing money into the sport" yes it is but it's also slowly killing off the fans that love the sport.
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I really need to go down the road of just acquiring stuff illegally, my excuse being I spend hundreds going to test matches/Surrey games over the summer. My Champions Trophy ballot came through the other day at a total of £265 across four games. Welp.
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I got rid of sky sports for the winter. I only really watch cricket and rugby so need BT for Aviva prem. I just watch the highlights on ITV for the tests and if I really want to watch SKY I can log on to my dad's sky go.
I watched the 1st test. Swann, Ponting and Vaughan in the studio. Not really sure why they need 3 people for around 2 hours of punditry. I find Michael Vaughan interesting 50% of the time then really annoying 50% of the time. He is either trying to say something controversial (a la Shane Warne)to get his name mentioned more while looking very smug or so set on his opinion that he doesn't offer other possible theories.
Ponting is interesting but I get the impression he takes it far more seriously than the other two, which I like. Swann tries to get a joke in with his usual self-depricating style but occasionally says something interesting. I'd much prefer two pundits with the three of them rotating.
Greg James can present but not really sure what he brings to the table.
I also would like a cricket journalist in there. I think each punditry panel should mix journalists with former players. You get a better balance and a journalist is far more likely to play devil's advocate to make a discussion interesting, not just three players from the same era agreeing on something.
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I got rid of sky sports for the winter. I only really watch cricket and rugby so need BT for Aviva prem. I just watch the highlights on ITV for the tests and if I really want to watch SKY I can log on to my dad's sky go.
I watched the 1st test. Swann, Ponting and Vaughan in the studio. Not really sure why they need 3 people for around 2 hours of punditry. I find Michael Vaughan interesting 50% of the time then really annoying 50% of the time. He is either trying to say something controversial (a la Shane Warne)to get his name mentioned more while looking very smug or so set on his opinion that he doesn't offer other possible theories.
Ponting is interesting but I get the impression he takes it far more seriously than the other two, which I like. Swann tries to get a joke in with his usual self-depricating style but occasionally says something interesting. I'd much prefer two pundits with the three of them rotating.
Greg James can present but not really sure what he brings to the table.
I also would like a cricket journalist in there. I think each punditry panel should mix journalists with former players. You get a better balance and a journalist is far more likely to play devil's advocate to make a discussion interesting, not just three players from the same era agreeing on something.
Yeah, Punter is the best one by far. Vaughan and Swann lean too far towards the awful Channel 9 moronic banter. The cricket journalist is a good shout, Mike Selvey has a bit of free time on his hands now that the Grauniad have dispensed with his services.
God I hope Swann and Vaughan aren't there for the Australia-Pakistan series or I'll be tearing out what little hair I have left.
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whenever I hear Vaughan or Swann on the radio or TV I can't help think the pair of them are SMUG
dunno...it's probably me....
the pair of them were excellent cricketers just.......well watching Trotty on the verdict I don't get the same feeling. Trott comes across more devoid of ego.
Clearly different character
And despite hating him thru his career(only cos he was Australian and scored loads of runs against us) Ricky Ponting is very good.
His masterclass of batting on Sky breaks it down to club players and that's a gift to explain
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I hate the Sky Sports masterclasses because they made it impossible for me to dislike guys like Ponting. I started playing again after a decade away and I ended up trying to incorporate the stuff on his backlift and initial foot movement in particular into my own game, albeit with decidedly less spectacular results...
There are some guys who you just enjoy listening to when they talk about cricket because they realise it's not about them and focus on their job, Ponting does that and like you said, so does Trott. Vaughan, Swann, Warne etc. are insufferable pricks.
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I hate the Sky Sports masterclasses because they made it impossible for me to dislike guys like Ponting. I started playing again after a decade away and I ended up trying to incorporate the stuff on his backlift and initial foot movement in particular into my own game, albeit with decidedly less spectacular results...
if you can catch Jayawardene on playing spin......it's stuff we can follow
and he was one of the best ive seen playing the twirlies...
if only it was that easy thou,,,,listen to him, watch and replicate in a match :) :)
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if you can catch Jayawardene on playing spin......it's stuff we can follow
and he was one of the best ive seen playing the twirlies...
if only it was that easy thou,,,,listen to him, watch and replicate in a match :) :)
I actually used to be quite good at playing spin (for a tailender anyway!) but since coming back I've discovered, to my horror, that I've forgotten how to sweep.