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yes BT sport is big because of the premier league football it now got

and yes at moment VM got all sky sports channels 2 of them in HD and no bt yet but it should come

yes sky is best for sport as got all sports HD channels hopefully they let VM have the rest sometime but don't expect that

BTsport is important to lots because of the football and rugby but mainly football

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Cheers. Think the confusion with friends was them saying the BT sports channel was the best one for them and I assumed they meant the whole BT tv package.

Still shocked that the HD channels are held for ransom separately!

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Both Sky and BT want to wrangle every last penny out of you they can.

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Not quite right. We have not yet been told the basis on which we will get BT Sports. It is most likely we will get them, but at full price, although VM may decide to subsidise it given that they will be saving on the deal they did with ESPN.

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I think Virgin may have already reinvested the money from the ESPN savings. Over the past 6 months Virgin have added 21 new channels to the XL package. There is a large selection of +1 channels however they all cost money.

ITV2 HD
ITV3 HD
ITV4 HD
TLC HD
Animal Planet HD
TCM HD
Eurosport 2 HD
NHK World HD
Cartoon Network HD
Nick HD
MTV HD

TLC +1
Quest +1
DMAX +1
More4 +1
CBS Drama
Investigation Discovery +1
Animal Planet +1
Discovery Science +1
Discovery History +1
Discovery Home & Health +1

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technically he right VM has not got BT sports yet and not 100% certain it will come either but I think it will

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Could BT Sports launch as a dedicated app on TiVo, rather than watchable channels via the EPG?

BT would just pay Virgin whatever the going rate is to have an app hosted on TiVo. From there BT would have complete control over subscription sign ups, similar to how Spotify Premium customers pay Spotify directly, but can access their music via the TiVo app.

With TiVo having a dedicated 10mb connection, streaming BT Sports in HD should a doddle.

BT win as they can sell the channels to the customer directly. Virgin win as they have the BT Sports channels on their platform. TiVo customers who want access to BT Sports win too.

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I think Virgin adding some 'poor' channels (Shopping Channels, Food Network and more) and putting the prices up early this year pays for the new channels that Virgin have added in 2013.

Virgin still need to pay ESPN up until July 31st.

They will start reusing that money in August.

What will Virgin do???

I think pay Sky more for all the missing channels (Sky News HD) or sign new deals with other broadcasters.

Keep an eye on the Coming Soon to Virgin TV thread.

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What percentage of VM customers have a Tivo? If they went the app route they would have to offer a free upgrade to those that don't or risk them switching suppliers to get the channel if they are in to footy.

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Virgin reported in April 2013 that 1.5 million of their customers now have TiVo. That is 40% of their customer base.

By the time BT Sports launches in August, based on TiVo's uptake rate, Virgin should have 1.7 million customers on TiVo. That pushes the percentage up to 45%.

Having BT Sports as an app exclusive to TiVo might be to Virgins advantage. Customer who don't currently have TiVo, who would want access to the BT Sports app, might be prepared to take a new 12 month contract in return for a free 250gb TiVo box. It wouldn't be the first time content or a service has been exclusive to TiVo.

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[QUOTE=Chad;35591077]
With TiVo having a dedicated 10mb connection, streaming BT Sports in HD should a doddle.

It struggles more times than not with HD on BBC iPlayer!!

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I think SKY will make SKY Atlantic available to Virgin in the very near future. However I believe there will be a sting in the tail. I can't confirm how I know but there is a very good chance that prior to the end of 2013 SKY will be launching a brand new entertainment channel exclusive to the SKY platform.

I know that without a source this just looks like me, as a SKY customer trying, to wind people up. If people don't believe me that's understandable.

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If you have more info - can you PM me.

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Interesting! Do I remember correctly that a French TV channel closed down over here recently? If so, can you give any info as to whether or not the channel is gonna specalise in world tv? (i.e French, Scandinavian, Australian -other than Neighbours etc.Homeland is just a remake from Israel T.V. after all) We have been treated to some belting shows, films and books over the last few years from said other countries. IF (and it is a huge IF) this is the case, I will want this channel much more than I do Sky Atlantic.

I appreciate you will not be able give much away Chad, but if you can cheer me up by telling me that I am wrong in my assumption, I will be very happy. If I guess right, I will be gutted:(

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Chad! the new Media Boy?????? :D;)

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I can't see it having any foreign language entertainment.

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Let's hope they put all their Sky produced shows on it, then I won't care if comes to VM or not.

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Your crystal ball has never been far wrong before Chad.:D

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Only one Media Boy! But it is believable that Sky will try this trick again....

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That's a cast iron certainty Doug.

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Phew, that's a relief, thanks Chad. I doubt I will be overly bothered whatever the channel is now. The only thing I will be upset about is if they stick the ending of Mad Dogs on it!

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The old crystal ball was tuning into wild speculation, rather than fact, for a short period :D

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Too many nights getting drunk and then looking into the crystal one reckons.:D

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What is wrong with that? Sorry no Crystal ball but I normally end up looking at the floor:erm:

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I wish that VM would hurry up and tell us IF BT Sports will be the network.

I have just had an email to say that BT Sports will only be on Sky, BT. and that the only way to watch football from BT Sports.

So come on VM, pull your finger out and tell us whats happening.

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They will soon enough Arthur.

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Arthur, jesus h mate, do you have any patience? you continually whine on about this and numerous posters have told you time and again that we will know when the negotiations are finalised, if Virgin don't know when the actual date is ( that's if we actually get the channel) then how can they tell anyone?

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The premiership starts in 6 weeks so they need to get things sorted fairly soon

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Arthur if you are that bothered do not forget that you have to give VM 30 days notice? Also you gave a cooling off period for any new services you get so you could take BT or SKY and then if VM get cancel

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Is normal for Virgin to inform their customers 4 or 5 days after the channels broadcasting on their platform and we all know anyway!

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I suspect Virgin and BT are still in talks so no anouncement can be made yet,and quite rightly BT can say in their adverts that BT Sports is only available on BT vision and sky digital boxes. I can understand Virgin customers feeling frustrated though. It will be interesting to see just how many customers virgin loose if BT sports isn`t available on virgin. One further point,I read somewhere on this forum that BT sports is now listed on the Freeview EPG,so maybe you virgin customers could get BT sports that way as I used to do with Setanta when it first launched.

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They might not lose any customers, you are assuming that this would be the case , maybe not!

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True it could also be sue to what if anything comes in its place?

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Sure they might not loose any customers but going by some of the comments on here I suspect some will jump ship.

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The frustration is that VM NEVER tell customers what is happening, you only find out when it appears.

Some PR from a so called major company, l always remember when l complained to Sky re that awful set of numbers on the screen during a big game, the VM CS agent had a right old go at me saying they have no choice in putting it there to stop 'illegal streams going into some one house that is not paying VM bill.

What they dont realise is that people just have to break into the 'green box' and just reconnect the thing.

I did ONE day with Telewest, collecting boxes and l found out so much about cable tv, from eginmeers. And its the same system today.

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Just had the email from ESPN asking if its OK to pass my email address across to BT so they can contact me, i said NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I am not giving them my email because i don't want the BT sports channel. They don't have the one sport i watch so why should they have my email address. :)

The email address is unique to ESPN and is from my personal domain. I give individual addresses to individual sites so i will soon know if they still have gone ahead and passed it on. I have never had any mail on that email address from BT so if they do contact me i will know who they got it from.

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Oh come on Arthur, please keep up. VM have told us what is going on, and they are still in talks with BT - what else can they say? Perhaps you can tell us what you want VM to say? And yes, Sky put the numbers on the football too. I guess it will be acceptable on Sky though:rolleyes:

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I like my sports and was happy to get ESPN/ESPN America at no extra charge. I also subscribed to Sky Sports.

When it was announced BT Sports was taking over from ESPN i thought i hope VM get this. But times are getting tough and a couple of months ago i stopped my Sky Sports package to save a few ££.

I know its only the summer but you know what my world hasn't caved in. Life carries on.

All the uncertainty of will VM get BT sports or not has started to bore me now. Sky Sports prices are going up soon - if VM get Bt Sports it will cost more than before. i work out about £600 a year to get the Sports in HD (assuming BT sport does come to VM). Thats too much for me these days (i havent had a pay rise in 3 years) so unless VM do a 'deal' i wont be getting BT Sports even if it does arrive let alone Sky Sports. These days its a matter of priorities.

I wonder how many will subscribe to BT and Sky Sports. If you can afford -good on yer.

i have MLB.TV which i think represents good value for money for my baseball fix and for footy i shall make do with Match of the Day highlights (BBC) for the 'greed is king' 'not in the real world' premier league , FA Cup games (ITV), Champions League games(ITV), Europa League games (ITV), internationals and next years World Cup (BBC/ITV), Scottish football on BBC Scotland and Alba,goals on Sky Sports News, NFL (BBC/C4) as well as stuff on Eurosport- most in HD and all free.

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Of course they would lose some customers, that goes without saying. How many would jump ship is less discernible.

If Virgin were not going to get the BT sports channel it would be in their own interest to not let customers know until the last possible moment anyway. If they got the channel they will be shouting about it straight away, as that is also in their interest.

While it sucks Arthur, you have to remember that none of these companies actually really care about their customers, they care about money so will do what benefits them rather than customers.

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But they are losing customers, there's a few on this thread who have already stated their intention to leave.

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Some really good points. When I had Virgin I cancelled SKY Sports and didn't miss it all all. A combination of free to air football, ESPN in the XL package and Boxnation for £10.00 per month gave me all I needed.

Whilst people want to watch the premiership, there is plenty of good free to air football featuring English and Scottish teams:

ITV - Champions League - 18 games
ITV - Europa League - 29 games
ITV - FA Cup - 16 games
ITV - FA Community Shield
ITV - 2014 (England) World Cup Qualifiers - 4 games + friendly against Scotland
ITV - FA Youth Cup - 2 games
BBC Alba - SPL - 3 games
BBC Alba - Scottish Challenge Cup - 5 games
BBC Scotland - Scottish Cup - 5 games
BBC Scotland - League Cup - 3 games
BBC Scotland - 2014 (Scotland) World Cup Qualifiers - 1 game


88 live games on free to air TV, roughly 2 per week during the football season.

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Stating an intention to leave and actually leaving are two very different things.

Anyway, BT launches August the 1st. I wouldn't be surprised if BT Sport just appeared in place of ESPN.

first BT want to get as many people over to their broadband before launch. They won't get that, if VM say, 'yeah you can watch it on our platform

Next BT will want to get as high a viewership as possible to get Advertising Money incoming. Think of the financial drop-off at the Change over if the channel lost all VM viewers.

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VM will lose customers, just as they have over every period prior to this one. They will also lose customers in the future. VM will be aware of this rather sticky situation and will be and/or currently are calculating possible losses. The losses will be minimal though. There simply are not enough football/rugby fans who may possibly leave that it will effect VM in the long term.

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Yes l had that email as well.

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me also

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I fully expect VM to tweak its packages making them even better ,

Looking purely at the cheapest entry package to XL with a PVR (TIVO) costs £60.99 , compared to £54.00 for Entertainment Extra + (from Sept 13 prices) with Sky of course if your address can only receive poor ADSL speeds requiring you to take Sky fibre this then this makes VM cheaper by around £5.50.

Both companies have introductory offers for new customers however I still believe VM will make XL even more attractive or alter its pricing to make it more attractive to those wanting XL TV via the cheapest method.

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Yes its going to be interesting with what happens in these coming days and months with regards to packages and what channels we might receive.

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Where's Colin when you need him for his input???? :D

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He probably gone off to get some more training from his superiors.;):D

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:clap::clap::clap:

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BT Sport signs lower league football.

Barnet, Luton and Grimsby Town will be among the teams to feature on BT Sport next month after the emerging broadcaster struck a deal with The Football Conference for Conference Premier games.

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/b...contentID=2319

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That's a big blow for Premier Sports...

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It would not surprise me if they are taken over soon.

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I am surprised they have survived as long as they have...

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Update.

TV Live web site is reporting that this new BT deal is for two years for 30 games per season to be shown (Also play offs as part of deal).

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Indeed but they are losing more and more rights now.

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Something is up as Premier Sports has sold their Premier Sports Extra channel number to an other broadcaster last month.

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Not really, they just don't have enough stuff to warrant two channels.

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At the moment that means another channel I cannot see Luton on VM:(

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I could not agree more regarding the fact that the cost is now beating customers, and NO companies don't care about its customers.

It is great news that BT Sports have gone into the lower leagues of football, some of the games on there are better than PL/Championship football.

My only gripe is the fact that Sky, BY and Talk Talk getting into the act should make it bigger and better for fans, but its not.

What people have to realise is that these companies could make it cheaper for the customer, clubs are raking it in from sponsors, but the problem is that it is forcing Tv broadcasters to up the cost of games.

It is going to come to the crunch when it will be easier to actually going to watch a game instead of watching it on Tv.

If prices go up anymore, l will seriously consider packing all the football on Tv, and just watch it on ITV, as just recently it was announced that ITV are planning on getting a new 'pay' channel - possible for football in connection with Bt Sports.

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No, no it wasn't. They said a classic drama or US imports pay channel. The fact ITV Sports Channel nearly killed them most likely taught them a lesson.

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I've always thought VM could do with offering their top 'collections' (Premiere & VIP) with a single STB option. I do think they represent good value as they stand but I, and no doubt many other VM customers, only require a single STB.

For example, VIP is £113.99 per month, take off the additional V HD box and the price goes up to £130.24 when surely they should offer it for £107.49 (£6.50 less due to removing the additional STB). Sky packages are all built around a single STB with additional ones available if required (albeit at extra cost).

Just wonder if it would benefit VM to do this as Sky's top package (without getting into the comparing apples and pears argument) is around £93 so VM's is about £20 more. Surely a single STB VIP collection with a lower headline cost would benefit VM and reduce the price gap but still allow those who want additional STBs to add them at the regular cost of £6.50+.

Anyway, back on topic with the loss of ESPN in the XL pack and the current negotiations with Sky, does anyone think we may see the end of the Sky Premium HD charge? My logic behind this is that Sky Sports on Sky will be £22 a month from Sep plus about an extra £5 for HD making it £27ish per month. If Sky Sports on VM does go up by over £3 then it is going to touching £30 a month without HD. So if the Premium HD was dropped, it would still be about £3 a month more than on Sky and wasn't the Premium HD charge originally introduced so VM couldn't appear to offer Sky Sports in HD for less than Sky (back when their HD charge was around £10 per month)?

Obviously it's only a thought but some people (me included) enjoy watching sport in HD but will think twice about it now if it's going to be £37ish a month for the privilege. Surely with the launch of BT Sport, Sky will be keen to get as many Sky Sports subscribers as possible even if that means getting them through VM? Alternatively, they could give us all the Sky Sports channels in HD but even then £37ish is still a bit steep.

Interesting times ahead me thinks especially as Sky will be wanting to fight off BT and surely LG must have something up their sleeves as part of the aquisition of VM?

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Very good post indeed Superblade7

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nice thought but no way will sky drop the cash maker that the HD charge is and no way would they let VM drop the charge either

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Actually it is been possible since April to do that, it's exactly the same price as with the additional box , but it's not something that's promoted (or possible to do online at the moment) as obviously VM would prefer people to take both

However Virgin have included it in VIP since around the time it started http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...10/td-p/107314

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After a considerable outcry....

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That's useful to know Ben so thanks for confirming. If it's them same price though I guess you may as well get the AO installed even if you don't use it!

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Sky and BT scrap over pick of the TV games

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/g...s-8692765.html

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Laughable attempt from Bt to make it look like they have any say in the matter. Sky get to choose their top picks, and also get to tell Bt which matchdays they have to take their top picks from. There is no negotiation, Sky got pack D!

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Like I said previous, utd v Liverpool and arsenal v Chelsea will be on sky not BT.

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Even if BT gets them, they will still be on Sky. BT sports is on Sky tv

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You don't need to subscribe to Sky to get BT Sports.

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very interesting Den :)

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Never said you did.

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My point is...even if BT sports gets those games, they will still be on sky..because you can watch BT sports on Sky

Sky and sky sports is wholly different

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In my opinion I still think that VirginMedia will get BT Sport from launch but it will be the same price as on Sky (£12 for SD & £15 for HD) and not part of the XL package as ESPN was

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Nope, it's BT's channel. You pay BT for the channel and Sky are pimping out space on their EPG just to keep customers. You get it VIA Sky, not on Sky.

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Nope..read what you said
"Like I said previous, utd v Liverpool and arsenal v Chelsea will be on sky not BT."

i said it would be on sky, even if BT sports gets first pick.

Because BT sports channel is on sky

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Speaking for myself I don`t care which channel the football is on as long as I have the channel. The so called scrap between sky sports and bt sports over who has the top games is down to attracting advertising revenue and subsribers. If like me you have both channels then the only thing to `worry` about is whether the games you tune into will be entertaining,and we all know the so called big games can often turn out to be `turkeys`!

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True...but this year, i am hoping for lots of drama. High hopes

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And Pellegrini better deliver for you or he will go the same way as the dodo.;)

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Would that not be the same for all managers? Why pelligrini?

Brenden Rogers? Finishes top 8? (which most would think liverpool are capable of)

Bad season for Man Utd..Moyes won't be under pressure?

etc etc

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Calm down dear as its nothing more then a bit of banter.:D

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My point was that the season is exciting, because of all the change.

I try not to be specific, unless it is warranted

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Yes it will certainly be interesting and could we have a surprise team get into the top 6.

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Next season we will see the revival of the mighty Arsenal!

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Yes with the right signings but alas so far this transfer window Arsenal have done sod all again apart from the signing of a younger player.

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Yes, if they get a few decent signings. They are about three players from a reasonable side.

But i guess you could say that about all the top 5 or 6

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Not all managers! (I reckon Ollie is safe for a while yet).

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I hope Manuel Pellegrini does it for City this year, i'm pretty sure he'll have them playing with style.

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I was not commenting on the games.

Again, it's on Sky's EPG via BT. You cannot get it on a Sky TV deal alone. It's splitting hairs I know, but there we are.

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I think so, all they have needed recently is a better start to the season. Lets not rule out Spurs either, if they get a couple of strikers they will be a real force. That said, Paulinho's arrival should allow Bale to play off the striker up front and cause havoc!

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I cannot see it myself its all down to finance Top 6 in no particular order Arsenal,Chelsea,,Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd and Spurs.

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Wow..you have liverpool in top 6..I am surprised

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I would have gone Everton, but without Moyes I cannot see them doing it. Liverpool have under performed for years considering the amount of money they have thrown at the team.

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Very possibly, but I'll probably settle for top half :D

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...well just to quell the pedantic, sky sports is available on VM, BT sports is not so they are not the same.

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Talk Talk put together a handy chart

http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/6571/qlku.jpg

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Yes that sounds very agreeable to me but alas some might disagree.:p::D

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http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2013/...orts-channels/

"The UK’s digital terrestrial pay-TV broadcaster Top Up TV has been unable to reach an agreement to resell BT Vision’s new sports channels on the Freeview platform. As a result, Top Up TV is withdrawing from the premium sports channel business.

The platform has done a deal with Sky to recommend that Top Up TV customers transfer to Sky at a reduced rate if they wish to continue to receive Sky Sports channels.

Top Up TV will cease broadcasting Sky Sports 1 and 2 at the end of June and will cease broadcasting ESPN at the end of July.

BT Vision will direct sell its sports channels to the customer and so bypassing both Sky and Top Up TV."

So no carriage deal with SKY, and no carriage deal with Top Up TV.

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But of course, BT will wholesale it to VM out of the goodness of their own hearts :rolleyes:

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Exactly. I don't think there is a chance in hell of it being on Virgin.