JamboRobbo

Just behind Rangers?

They say they cover pubs also. I agree it's a stretch to say the figures are massively accurate, but rightly or wrongly those are the official figures everyone uses in UK.

http://www.barb.co.uk/

Perhaps. If I recall correctly, SPL was desperate due to Setanta going tits up?

Agreed. but without working out all the figures, we're still getting somewhere around 100k viewers for the non OF content.

Cockwomble may now be regretting playing up the SPL value in that document. Makes their current statements look all the more stupid.

Agree to an extent. But Sky were the only ones at the table at the time. Main point is, Sky won't be walking away. Or if they did, someone else (BT?) would snap up the SPL as it's a bargain at current price, with or without SEVCO.

Without Sevco, it would drop to about 100k average. 10% of premiership average. Sky needs SPL just as much as SPL needs Sky. Cockwombles lies and threats will be exposed soon enough, Sky don't do walking away....

Which shows average Permieship viewers at 1M, with average SPL at 200k. Page 12 for the slow of reading, aka rangers fans.

Pretty simple. Sky has lots of viewers who watch Scottish Football on their channels. Scottish football doesn't cost them very much for the number of viewers it gets. (costs about 2% of what the premiership costs, but gets WAY more than 2% of the viewers). Scottish games get about 200k viewers, compared to 1M viewers for premiership matches. Unless Sky wants to throw away one of it's better watched and cheapest sports, they will have to stick with SPL.

And fill the gaps with what? Rugby? Conference? Scottish Football viewing figures on Sky are decent. They need to fill their sports channels, and scottish football, shite as it might be, gets decent viewing figures. Quite a bit of detail on Sky viewing figures for scottish football here. http://www.kilmarnockfc.co.uk/staticFiles/71/72/0,,10291~160369,00.pdf

Sky has customers. Many of them in Scotland.

Please hurry up and leave. You keep promising to do it, then you always dissapoint.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-18352528 Five years for 600k of tax and NI evasion. Surely Rangers have done the same on a much larger scale?

Injuries and suspensions are the least of your worries. There are a hundred other reasons why they will not be fulfilling any fixtures next season.