Southampton Banter Archive July 18 2014

18 Jul 2014 12:19:42
According to Sky Sports we're 'heavily linked' with 27 year old River Plate midfielder Leonel Vangioni, but the player has no intentions of leaving the club.

18 Jul 2014 07:42:37
Is anyone else aggrieved that we only have 2 TV games up til 1st December?

That's a lot of sky subscription for only 2 matches.

Correct me if I am wrong, but are all clubs supposed to get a minimum of 10 tv matches in a season?

If that's correct then maybe it'll be a great latter part of the season - maybe sky predicting were going to be up there 2nd half of the season and will make or better tv?

We are on TV the first Sunday of the season V Liverpool and then twice in one week the back end of November, away to Villa and home to Man City.

I think really this tells us what Sky thinks Southampton will achieve next season more than anything else. Sky clearly expects us to sit in mid table and not trouble either end of the league so aren't too bothered about televising our games because they won't have major effects on the league outcome.

I don't think there are such restrictions on which games can be shown but it would be nice to have a certain number of games guaranteed. Although I imagine the Eds would know the ins and outs of the TV deals better than I do.

18 Jul 2014 12:21:57
Said it a couple of days ago Jim and like I said I think now SRL/AL and Luke have gone they think we are just a small team on the south coast that will be struggling against relegation again. We have proved everybody wrong in the last couple of years and think we will do it again. You don't get someone like Ronald Koeman unless you have real ambition because he believes in the Saints project and I am sure we will improve quickly under his guidance, do you think he would have gone to the likes of Palace, West Brom, Stoke, Crystal Palace, Burnley etc. I don't think so and therefore I believe before we are 6 weeks into the season I think Sky will re-arrange their schedule and show us well before December and admit they got it wrong.

If you're worried about not being able to watch the non-televised matches it is very easy to find streams online! al jazeera and fox have nearly every match (epl is popular in middle eastern countries and the USA). All it takes is a little search on google to find them

Don't think that is the point Aidan it is Sky's total disregard for Saints as a credible force in the Premier League that is annoying.

18 Jul 2014 16:47:15
every team in the premiership should have equal telly time over a season
i don't want to watch utd or liverhampton every other week as I am not interested in what they do or not do
i think a lot of other fans are the same
forestsaiont

Most of us will be at the games but I totally see your point.

Im glad we're not on much as generally we're awful when on telly and very rarely win

I'm sure that if we start as we did last season, we'll get far more games, especially if we are up near the top of the league. That said, we'll do well to maintain our progress from last year

18 Jul 2014 23:33:39
10 games each? That works out a lot of games on sky. I'm not complaining, I watched every saints game on TV last season. Wizziwig :)

I go to games lol