Jeff Stelling in Talks With BBC & Amazon

As much as I like Jeff, and as much as Soccer Saturday was good when it first started (and for quite a while), who is actually watching it now? The majority of fanatical fans have IPTV on their firesticks so they’re not watching Soccer Saturday. I bet viewing figures have bombed this last 5-10 years and he’s probably an expense they can do without, assuming he isn’t on a pittance.
 
atypical_boro said:
As much as I like Jeff, and as much as Soccer Saturday was good when it first started (and for quite a while), who is actually watching it now? The majority of fanatical fans have IPTV on their firesticks so they’re not watching Soccer Saturday. I bet viewing figures have bombed this last 5-10 years and he’s probably an expense they can do without, assuming he isn’t on a pittance.
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“The majority of fanatical fans”…… Who did this empirical survey you have information of 😉
 
Amazon makes sense if it's presenting their live games. It's only 2 weekends of football in the whole season. BBC makes less sense. If he's not happy with the quality of the pundits on sky then the BBC lot aren't going to be an improvement.
 
Jeff is not fashionable with most TV media companies, wrong age, wrong gender, wrong orientation, wrong ethnicity - GB News next move?

I still like Sky's format - the cover anchor people are OK, but they are cover for Jeff.

That Northern Irish guy that used to be on Quest, could be worth a go to see how he gets on. He's younger than Jeff and nice and regional which the people controlling the media associate with football.
 
I’ve not watched it for years… pundits are terrible now there’s no ‘fun’ to it anymore either.

As Atypical said, there’s better options out there these days
 
BBC are just as bad as SKY, employing pundits that only tick boxes, Alex Scott been one of them.
So I cannot see Jeff working for the BBC, I can see him going to BeIN sports, or a similar sports channel.
He might work for talksport, with Laura Woods now leaving for BT Sports.
 
atypical_boro said:
As much as I like Jeff, and as much as Soccer Saturday was good when it first started (and for quite a while), who is actually watching it now? The majority of fanatical fans have IPTV on their firesticks so they’re not watching Soccer Saturday. I bet viewing figures have bombed this last 5-10 years and he’s probably an expense they can do without, assuming he isn’t on a pittance.
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I would think a lot of fans whose teams are playing away would tune into Soccer Saturday around result time. The programme is/was better presented and viewer friendly than BBC's Final Score or whatever it is called today. Viewers felt they had a rapport with Jeff due to his style of speaking to them and not at them.
 
atypical_boro said:
As much as I like Jeff, and as much as Soccer Saturday was good when it first started (and for quite a while), who is actually watching it now? The majority of fanatical fans have IPTV on their firesticks so they’re not watching Soccer Saturday. I bet viewing figures have bombed this last 5-10 years and he’s probably an expense they can do without, assuming he isn’t on a pittance.
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When there wasn't a Boro match on, I was watching it.
I enjoy seeing the scores come in on TV more than refreshing the apps on my phone.

I don't really think that Sky can take the attitude of "the majority* of fans are thieves, so why bother?".

*I doubt it's the majority of football fans that are using piracy.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if viewing figures have dropped massively. I presume they have for Match of the Day as well. Apps tell you the score instantly, and provide more detail and stats etc so it's not even like there is more information from Soccer Saturday. All the goals/highlights are available as clips in various places as soon as they happen so even if people aren't watching a 3pm game via a dodgy stream they are still getting something from elsewhere. It used to be worth watching because of the entertainment but that has been watered down completely. I would guess people were still watching because of Jeff and a lot more will stop now.

It was great back in the day but like most things its day has gone. The constant adverts doesn't help either. I can't stand watching Sky Sports News anymore because of the constant repetition. I'm sure it's fine for people with dementia that like the familiarity but it's mind numbing beyond a single advert break.
 
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