iFollow

Quoted from GrimPol

I've never used VPN, does it do the trick?

Should do.

Quoted from arryarryarry

But the match still has to be filmed by someone and I still say that home clubs wouldn't allow a visiting camera crew in to film/stream the game so whether it be ifollow or some other service you would still have to subscribe to the home clubs service.

Under EFL rules home clubs only have to provide a spot for the away analyst to film from.

Under the agrement with SkyBet the home team has to film/streem their home games, but the rights to showing/streeming said game is with SkyBet not the home club. Skybet make it available to both home and away teams. Clubs can use iFollow or there own platform to stream/show the match.

Quoted from Grantham_Mariner

Under the agrement with SkyBet the home team has to film/streem their home games, but the rights to showing/streeming said game is with SkyBet not the home club. Skybet make it available to both home and away teams. Clubs can use iFollow or there own platform to stream/show the match.

Actually the home team does not film the games they are filmed on behalf of the EFL for Sky and ITV by designated camera operators employed by an agency used by Sky and a live feed is sent through so Sky have access to live footage and the necessary equipment is installed in several places at BP.

In a similar way to being in the National League the club's own video crew filmed the game for the club but for the BT Sport highlights show they were filmed separately by students.

If GTFC was to film the games for Sky and ITV the camera equipment is going to be very expensive and will have to work with the transmitting equipment on the gantry.

I think i-follow, or similar, will be available for those fans who cannot make it to the game.
Looking at the list of clubs that do not use it, I can see that I have watched, last season, quite a few of those teams.
Sunderland, Bournemouth, Derby, Sheff Utd are just some of them I watched live.
UTM

https://www.accringtonstanley.co.uk/news/2022/july/statement-a-letter-to-the-efl-from-the-chairman/

"Accrington Stanley chairman Andy Holt has sent the following letter to the EFL:

I write to you to inform you that ASFC wants no part of your iFollow operation and as such insists the EFL ceases offering streams of our club with immediate effect.

To be clear we want no part in it. We do not want any income from it nor do we want others selling our LP.

For many years now I have argued that the income distribution is wrong, but the EFL wanders on ignoring the obvious.

The EFL taking our IP and allowing others to sell it for their private profit ends now.

When the EFL started this deliberately flawed concept, Accrington Stanley were amongst the clubs that refused to join, which was our right. Later the EFL board threatened my club with loss of income if we didn't join its project. It was coercion at a time when the club was just recovering from near bankruptcy. The board knew our clubs position then on iFollow and that position has hardened as the EFL pushes on blindly with its daft streaming plans.

Two days before the EFL summer conference, whilst I was in Majorca, we were informed by Email that there was to be no votes in regard to iFollow at the meeting. I objected to this because this gave me no time to prepare my argument nor was I able to attend to put my argument.

This is the usual EFL M.O. and it's embarassing. It's bounced on clubs at the last minute deliberately to avoid proper debate.

I contacted Steve Curwood, our L1 rep who responded that there would be no binding vote.

The day after he came back to me telling me he was wrong. It's a shambles of organisation.

I want to place on record that I support streaming as a collective.

If the proceeds were split equally as the collective TV deal is or, as with physical matchday tickets, the home club got the income, my club would happily participate.

Currently the EFL is taking away matchday income and taking away our streams against our wishes and allowing others to seel them on for their private gain. I do not know how anyone at the EFL can argue this is right or just.

Last week the EFL informed us that our home Boxing Day fixture against Barnsley is amongst ADDITIONAL fixtures to be streamed against our will.

This is not collective in any sense.

As the saying goes thanks for the offer, but sadly we're out."

Quoted from GrimPol

I've never used VPN, does it do the trick?

Yes, sometimes with issues. IP addresses get blacklisted, it's a case of choosing a different location. Had issues with NordVPN not having it at all. Surfshak relatively low cost and simple and always worked for me. Ifollow also available on IPTV, but I'd always pay for it as it's generally more reliable and goes to the club. I'd be at the vast majority of home games, a good portion of away games. Mainly Tuesday night away games for me, as I'm up early on Wednesday's.

Quoted from Manchester Mariner

https://www.accringtonstanley.co.uk/news/2022/july/statement-a-letter-to-the-efl-from-the-chairman/

"Accrington Stanley chairman Andy Holt has sent the following letter to the EFL:

I write to you to inform you that ASFC wants no part of your iFollow operation and as such insists the EFL ceases offering streams of our club with immediate effect.

To be clear we want no part in it. We do not want any income from it nor do we want others selling our LP.

For many years now I have argued that the income distribution is wrong, but the EFL wanders on ignoring the obvious.

The EFL taking our IP and allowing others to sell it for their private profit ends now.

When the EFL started this deliberately flawed concept, Accrington Stanley were amongst the clubs that refused to join, which was our right. Later the EFL board threatened my club with loss of income if we didn't join its project. It was coercion at a time when the club was just recovering from near bankruptcy. The board knew our clubs position then on iFollow and that position has hardened as the EFL pushes on blindly with its daft streaming plans.

Two days before the EFL summer conference, whilst I was in Majorca, we were informed by Email that there was to be no votes in regard to iFollow at the meeting. I objected to this because this gave me no time to prepare my argument nor was I able to attend to put my argument.

This is the usual EFL M.O. and it's embarassing. It's bounced on clubs at the last minute deliberately to avoid proper debate.

I contacted Steve Curwood, our L1 rep who responded that there would be no binding vote.

The day after he came back to me telling me he was wrong. It's a shambles of organisation.

I want to place on record that I support streaming as a collective.

If the proceeds were split equally as the collective TV deal is or, as with physical matchday tickets, the home club got the income, my club would happily participate.

Currently the EFL is taking away matchday income and taking away our streams against our wishes and allowing others to seel them on for their private gain. I do not know how anyone at the EFL can argue this is right or just.

Last week the EFL informed us that our home Boxing Day fixture against Barnsley is amongst ADDITIONAL fixtures to be streamed against our will.

This is not collective in any sense.

As the saying goes thanks for the offer, but sadly we're out."

This is phenomenal. I wonder if we are part of this conversation?

It would be nice to know what, as a club, we are doing regarding streaming of matches. Any news that can be shared?

Fingers crossed it's i-follow.
Simple, cheap and more than adequate for those that cannot make it to the game!

Quoted from Morris Minor

Fingers crossed it's i-follow.
Simple, cheap and more than adequate for those that cannot make it to the game!

It's definitely not iFollow, the club have confirmed that. We closed that door when we sacked off their website.