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I suppose there's the conflict with sponsorships and rights deals. Which are ultimately the ones funding the prize money so can't have too many complaints.

There's also the tradition of splitting the gate in the Scottish Cup. With a variety of streaming models being used it probably simplifies the hassle of working that out.

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22 minutes ago, FairWeatherFan said:

I suppose there's the conflict with sponsorships and rights deals. Which are ultimately the ones funding the prize money so can't have too many complaints.

There's also the tradition of splitting the gate in the Scottish Cup. With a variety of streaming models being used it probably simplifies the hassle of working that out.

Those issues are no different to the League Cup? It also has a sponsor, it also has a TV deal, and it also has gate-sharing. Those issues were clearly not taken as king, and clubs were able to stream games in the groupstage and beyond.

If anything you'd think the League Cup was harder to sort out: there is no TV deal for Scottish Cup preliminaries and this season's cup has no sponsor currently. (Why would streaming games... most of which are behind-closed-doors... be to the detriment of a sponsor anyway? Will there be no streaming throughout the cup: R3 day in January and you've 12 ties involving Premiership downward no-one can watch?).

Penicuik v Musselburgh was already streamed in PR1 incidentally.

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15 hours ago, HibeeJibee said:

Those issues are no different to the League Cup? It also has a sponsor, it also has a TV deal, and it also has gate-sharing. Those issues were clearly not taken as king, and clubs were able to stream games in the groupstage and beyond.

If anything you'd think the League Cup was harder to sort out: there is no TV deal for Scottish Cup preliminaries and this season's cup has no sponsor currently. (Why would streaming games... most of which are behind-closed-doors... be to the detriment of a sponsor anyway? Will there be no streaming throughout the cup: R3 day in January and you've 12 ties involving Premiership downward no-one can watch?).

Penicuik v Musselburgh was already streamed in PR1 incidentally.

The issues might be the same but it's a different competition with different organisation/sponsors/broadcast partners. Will it change at some point I don't know, Penicuik getting streamed just highlights to me it was an issue that flew under the SFA's radar and now they're scrambling. Which is the way the SFA usually operates with little to no foresight.

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1 hour ago, FairWeatherFan said:

The issues might be the same but it's a different competition with different organisation/sponsors/broadcast partners. 

Premier Sports have the deal to show the Scottish Cup ( along with BBC). They also have the deal to show the League Cup and clubs were allowed to live stream those matches after negotiations by the much-maligned SPFL head honchos.  

So is it the BBC who are the problem here or the SFA? In the current climate it's ridiculous if our national broadcaster or national association are stopping supporters from watching their team. An absolute w**k move if it they are not for budging on this issue  

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32 minutes ago, Mick1867 said:

Premier Sports have the deal to show the Scottish Cup ( along with BBC). They also have the deal to show the League Cup and clubs were allowed to live stream those matches after negotiations by the much-maligned SPFL head honchos.  

So is it the BBC who are the problem here or the SFA? In the current climate it's ridiculous if our national broadcaster or national association are stopping supporters from watching their team. An absolute w**k move if it they are not for budging on this issue  

No idea. Part of me still wonders about the initial concern over not starting the 2020-21 Scottish Cup until the 2019-20 Scottish Cup due to the supposed concerns over the title sponsor.

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On 03/12/2020 at 12:48, Ginaro said:

Forecast not looking good for Wick and other places as well, constant rain from tonight.

Edit: whoops, getting ahead of myself, the games are of course next weekend.

You were right anyway! - Wick v Musselburgh is the first to be declared OFF.

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