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  • Emerald Hill
    bloodstainedangels
    • Jan 2008
    • 103
    #1

    Thanks for nothing Foxtel!

    I know this has been dealt with in the Gameday comments but I thought it deserved it's own thread.

    I probably have no right to complain as I don't subscribe to Foxtel but I went down to the Rising Sun Hotel in South Melbourne to be with other Swans fans to watch the last game of 3 of our club's champions. I reckon barely 10 seconds had passed after the final siren when, with no warning at all, the coverage crossed to an English soccer match. The farewells, the interviews, the tears, the laps of honour, retirees being chaired off - Foxtel viewers missed them all! What a disgrace! It was a huge disappointment to Swans fans who couldn't get to the game and the height of disrespect to our retiring stars!

    As I said, I don't subscribe to Foxtel. And now I never will!
    "Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up." - Pascal
    Tags: foxtel, Swans, sydney
    • Big Al
      Veterans List
      • Feb 2005
      • 7007
      #2
      I love my Foxtel but from what I've read here tonight it was utterly unacceptable not to show the the games emotional aftermath.

      Smarten up your act Foxtel or people will start voting with their feet.
      ..And the Swans are the Premiers...The Ultimate Team...The Ultimate Warriors. They have overcome the highly fancied Hawks in brilliant style. Sydney the 2012 Premiers - Gerard Whately ABC

      Here it is Again! - Huddo SEN

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        • timtayla
          On the Rookie List
          • Mar 2004
          • 112
          #3
          I was watching from a tab in perth and the 50 people that was there yelled at the poor guy behind the counter thinking he change the channel. He is a pom

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            • Lucky Knickers
              Fandom of Fabulousness
              • Oct 2003
              • 4220
              #4
              I recorded both Channel 10 and Fox, neither Channel had much on of the aftermatch ceremonies.

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                • Nolie
                  On the wing
                  • Jul 2004
                  • 522
                  #5
                  Originally posted by Emerald Hill
                  I know this has been dealt with in the Gameday comments but I thought it deserved it's own thread.

                  I probably have no right to complain as I don't subscribe to Foxtel but I went down to the Rising Sun Hotel in South Melbourne to be with other Swans fans to watch the last game of 3 of our club's champions. I reckon barely 10 seconds had passed after the final siren when, with no warning at all, the coverage crossed to an English soccer match. The farewells, the interviews, the tears, the laps of honour, retirees being chaired off - Foxtel viewers missed them all! What a disgrace! It was a huge disappointment to Swans fans who couldn't get to the game and the height of disrespect to our retiring stars!

                  As I said, I don't subscribe to Foxtel. And now I never will!
                  Ditto. I sent them an e-mail complaint telling them. Fancy crosing to a pissant soccer game - it really is a boring game.

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                    • dimelb
                      pr. dim-melb; m not f
                      • Jun 2003
                      • 6889
                      #6
                      I e-mailed too, including an incredulous "ENGLISH soccer match." Pissant outfit.
                      He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)

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                        • IrishSwanPerth
                          On the Rookie List
                          • May 2009
                          • 253
                          #7
                          I agree, I went back to foxtell news and seen the tears and brought tears to my eyes.
                          Very sad day, I still think Micky could have gave another year, he still as good as most forwards in the comp.

                          Dont really want to talk about the game it was all about the three lads and the memories

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                            • DST
                              The voice of reason!
                              • Jan 2003
                              • 2705
                              #8
                              Total lack of respect from Foxtel.

                              A mate of mine sent the funniest e-mail I have ever seen as a complaint to a company. Didn't help that he was three sheets the wind at the time.

                              Hopefully they will decide to play the game as their game of the week midweek and we get to see some of the aftermatch for the first time.

                              DST
                              "Looking forward to a rebuilt, new, fast and exciting Swans model in 2010"

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                                • The Big Cat
                                  On the veteran's list
                                  • Apr 2006
                                  • 2378
                                  #9
                                  Ditto about an email. A bloody soccer game is bad enough. But an English one!
                                  Those who have the greatest power to hurt us are those we love.

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                                    • DST
                                      The voice of reason!
                                      • Jan 2003
                                      • 2705
                                      #10
                                      Any other interstate people wishing to complain, please do so to the following as they are the owners and operators of Fox Sports.

                                      Premier Media Group

                                      [email protected]

                                      Also copy in the club through the Melbourne office to let them know how you are feeling over the whole thing.

                                      DST
                                      "Looking forward to a rebuilt, new, fast and exciting Swans model in 2010"

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                                        • GoSouth33
                                          On the Rookie List
                                          • Mar 2005
                                          • 695
                                          #11
                                          The lap of honour capped off a wonderful night: an exciting, competitive game but with the wrong result for us.

                                          The three players walked a lap (anticlockwise) with the team following them inside. The Lions players respectfully stayed on the ground near their exit race until the Swans came around. Handshakes and slaps on the back all round. Amid all the hooting and hollering the Swans continued around to where we were in front of the MA Noble. I noticed some wet eyes, and not just the players! Air was thick with emotion and it was difficult not to have been moved by it all. Even the younger players observing all of this would be storing away some precious memories and no doubt in time will appreciate the place they (the players and club) occupy in our hearts and minds.

                                          Oh, and did I mention....I managed to get Bob Skilton's and Paul Kelly's autographs....hehe.....
                                          Run2Live,Live2Run

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                                            • stellation
                                              scott names the planets
                                              • Sep 2003
                                              • 9737
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by Lucky Knickers
                                              I recorded both Channel 10 and Fox, neither Channel had much on of the aftermatch ceremonies.
                                              NERD!
                                              I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
                                              We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time

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                                                • Primmy
                                                  Proud Tragic Swan
                                                  • Apr 2008
                                                  • 5970
                                                  #13
                                                  Originally posted by stellation
                                                  NERD!
                                                  Hero!!!!
                                                  If you've never jumped from one couch to the other to save yourself from lava then you didn't have a childhood

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                                                    • Dalai Lama
                                                      Suspended by the MRP
                                                      • Nov 2008
                                                      • 632
                                                      #14
                                                      Fox on the Run

                                                      Cutting to the EPL Chelsea V Burnley block buster incident was a disgrace!

                                                      I - don't wanna know your name
                                                      'Cause you don't look the same
                                                      The way you did before
                                                      O.K. - you think you got a pretty face
                                                      But the rest of you is out of place
                                                      You looked allright before

                                                      Fox on the run
                                                      You scream and everybody comes a running
                                                      Take a run and hide yourself away
                                                      Foxy is on the run
                                                      F - foxy
                                                      Fox on the run
                                                      And hide away

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                                                        • Lucky Knickers
                                                          Fandom of Fabulousness
                                                          • Oct 2003
                                                          • 4220
                                                          #15
                                                          Originally posted by stellation
                                                          NERD!
                                                          Yes and thank god for Foxtel.
                                                          Cancelling fox is like ripping up your membership.

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