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Scottish Challenge Cup expanded to include teams from Wales & NI

The Scottish Challenge Cup is being expanded to include teams from Wales and Northern Ireland from season 2016-17, following approval from Uefa.

The SPFL say the majority of fixtures will take place during international weekends, while BBC ALBA, S4C and Premier Sports will all show live matches.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36483962

denphone

09-06-2016 13:50

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How can you call it Scottish then?.

Media Boy UK

09-06-2016 13:59

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35841944)

How can you call it Scottish then?.

What will happen if an team from Wales or N. Ireland win it? (View from an local Radio Channel - Clyde 1)

My own view they pick the name due to football here in Scotland - An ideal name would have been "The Celtic Challenge Cup".

Before anyone ask I am an Motherwell fan.

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But saying that England have some teams from Wales in their league - and yet they will not let Rangers or Celtic join.

1andrew1

09-06-2016 14:04

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35841944)

How can you call it Scottish then?.

I guess it's because all the matches are played in Scotland.

denphone

09-06-2016 14:06

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When the league started it was just the football league and Welsh teams were encouraged to join. When the Welsh league started it was predominantly amateur. Welsh clubs were given an option to switch to that league but didn't because of quality of opposition (the English Football league is professional) Most Welsh clubs who were in the English league chose to stay, even the smaller clubs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_in_Wales

Media Boy UK

09-06-2016 14:06

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 35841952)

I guess it's because all the matches are played in Scotland.

Nope - from link:

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One Welsh side and one from Northern Ireland will be guaranteed a home tie.
Draws will be regionalised throughout the competition and seeded for the first three rounds, with the final to be played in March.

"We are very pleased to be supported by Uefa in delivering an element of cross-border competition through the invitation to our colleagues in Northern Ireland and Wales," said Scottish Professional Football League chief executive Neil Doncaster.

denphone

09-06-2016 19:53

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Sky's shares up after €3.5bn German Bundesliga TV deal.

https://www.theguardian.com/business...esliga-tv-deal

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Sky is paying €876m per year in the four-year deal with the German Professional Football Association (DFL), up from €486m under its existing deal, and has been forced to give up some of the rights to rival Eurosport.

1andrew1

10-06-2016 00:03

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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35841946)

My own view they pick the name due to football here in Scotland - An ideal name would have been "The Celtic Challenge Cup".

Yes, that name would be too similar to a certain Glaswegian football club. ;)

Mad Max

10-06-2016 00:59

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 35842091)

Yes, that name would be too similar to a certain Glaswegian football club. ;)

:td::td::td:

denphone

10-06-2016 14:44

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Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35841751)

Or maybe the channels aren't really viewed that much and they are trying to keep their low cost offering as competitive as possible.

Talk Talk axe even more TV content.

http://www.seenit.co.uk/talktalk-axes-more-tv-content/

muppetman11

13-06-2016 16:12

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35842175)

Talk Talk axe even more TV content.

http://www.seenit.co.uk/talktalk-axes-more-tv-content/

Sky's high price for football rights puts squeeze on channel providers

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/...-channel-prov/

denphone

13-06-2016 16:37

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Whatever way you look at it the end result will be higher prices for pay TV customers in my opinion.

Dave42

13-06-2016 20:22

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35842815)

Whatever way you look at it the end result will be higher prices for pay TV customers in my opinion.

prices will continue to go only ever one way Den and we all know that's up and up

1andrew1

14-06-2016 09:31

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Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35842812)

Sky's high price for football rights puts squeeze on channel providers

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/...-channel-prov/

Interesting that TalkTalk is playing hard ball on this too ie we're not going to accept your price rise, we'll leave it, thanks very much.

denphone

14-06-2016 09:37

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The trouble is because of that they will probably lose even more customers Andrew.

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