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Post by davidm on Sept 1, 2020 13:53:27 GMT
I need some advice from our regular iFollow viewers, Paul (alptrotter).
I have registered and paid my £10 for this Saturday.
Is it purely a case of, for this Saturday, buying a subscription and then following some link from the BWFC Official Web Site or is there some special app that we must download. I am a basic internet (Google Chrome) user, using a PC, so hope to just log in and follow a link from the BWFC website.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2020 14:41:31 GMT
Hi David, I used ifollow for the past two seasons. I don't buy the season pass, as I can't commit on a regular basis. I see that ifollow have increased their prices too. A matchday pass used to cost me $9. This season $12. So two fingers to that then.
If I remember rightly, open your account then click on 'matches', then click on fixtures. This will open two frames. One for the live match centre on the left and the other to buy tickets on the right. You already have yous, so you should be able to open it up by clicking on the left frame.
They also have a live chat on match days, so any problems and they will help you out.
That's all I can remember unless they've changed things.
If you've paid for a season ticket and it's free under that scheme, then perhaps BWFC can help with that.
Hope that helps. alptrotter used the season ticket pass, if I remember rightly. It may be different, I don't know.
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Post by davidm on Sept 1, 2020 15:03:50 GMT
Thanks, wots.
That sounds easy enough - it will be my first ever use of iFollow but once I use it on Saturday, I expect it will be easy.
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Post by Alptrotter on Sept 3, 2020 12:26:22 GMT
Hi David,
I have had a season pass for the past few years. I simply sign in to i follow, go to the match centre and select the video rather than the audio only option ( that’s for UK based fans I think). I don’t know whether my season pass covers only league games, so I might be trying to sort out a day ticket for saturday myself! Enjoy the game.
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Post by davidm on Sept 5, 2020 13:25:43 GMT
Thanks everybody - connected OK
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Post by realtrottersforever on Sept 18, 2020 20:48:17 GMT
www.bwfc.co.uk/ifollow/video-archive/anyone know if you can re-watch the full 90 mins. ? when i click on the link to do so, it just goes round in circles. it always says "register" on it, but i am registered, and it never offers any options to have upgraded membership to get more, not that i'd want to anyway. the supporters trust put out an email today with advice on ifollow..which seemed to suggest you can do it. i had no probs watching the 3 live matches so far. handy to know for future reference if i'm ever out during a game or half, or miss a game for any reason out of your control e.g powercut / broadband not working etc to know i could watch it "as live" later. just wondered also if WS63 managed to get his freebie pass for this weeks game after having problems himself with last weeks ifollow. again the ability to watch it later "as live" is useful in that scenario too. you might want to do a "Likely lads" , and try and avoid the score
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2020 22:00:25 GMT
Hi, rtf, I found this on google. It only refers to the Championship, but I think it applies to all EFL games. It may help whites too. I only used ifollow last season and if I remember rightly, there were no replays, poor commentating, if at all. You certainly couldn't watch it later. Hope it helps. www.efl.com/news/2020/june/the-journey-continues-ifollow--faqs/
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Post by whitesince63 on Sept 19, 2020 8:08:24 GMT
www.bwfc.co.uk/ifollow/video-archive/anyone know if you can re-watch the full 90 mins. ? when i click on the link to do so, it just goes round in circles. it always says "register" on it, but i am registered, and it never offers any options to have upgraded membership to get more, not that i'd want to anyway. the supporters trust put out an email today with advice on ifollow..which seemed to suggest you can do it. i had no probs watching the 3 live matches so far. handy to know for future reference if i'm ever out during a game or half, or miss a game for any reason out of your control e.g powercut / broadband not working etc to know i could watch it "as live" later. just wondered also if WS63 managed to get his freebie pass for this weeks game after having problems himself with last weeks ifollow. again the ability to watch it later "as live" is useful in that scenario too. you might want to do a "Likely lads" , and try and avoid the score No I haven’t had a freebie for the game, I’ve paid to watch since I never got a follow up message following the initial “we’ll come back to you one. I will see how I get on today and now I know where the chat thing is if I have any further problems I’ll contact them on that. I don’t know whether it was just a wrong code I was sent but the process of having to re-purchase and add the code seems ridiculous. Surely if you’re a ST holder it should be intelligent enough to recognise that. Anyway, I’m hoping I have more luck next time?
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Post by whitesince63 on Sept 19, 2020 13:56:00 GMT
Logged in 15 minutes ago on laptop, followed route to game centre, clicked on video, just a black screen and nearly kick of time. Sent a chat message ten minutes ago, no response!! If this is what we are paying money for count me out, what a complete bag of!!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2020 14:22:34 GMT
whites, check your browser. Use Chrome if you have it. First clear history and cache. See if it works.
I've not been on for a long time, it was basic when I used it, but on their website go to matches then fixtures. You'll see live match centre... Make sure your logged in too.
Hope it helps.
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Post by realtrottersforever on Sept 19, 2020 14:54:11 GMT
Logged in 15 minutes ago on laptop, followed route to game centre, clicked on video, just a black screen and nearly kick of time. Sent a chat message ten minutes ago, no response!! If this is what we are paying money for count me out, what a complete bag of!! oh dear..not another cock up. i did read something somewhere that you couldn't buy the game once it had started ( which surprised me). i don't know whether that counts for actually starting a game late too ,as obvs you're ST and obvs aren't buying it in on the day as such.
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Post by whitesince63 on Sept 19, 2020 14:56:31 GMT
Done all that wots, finally got a reply from iFollow and after a “gentle” word or two from me they agreed to credit today’s game to make up for last week. Now got it on my iPad but still no luck on the laptop despite using Chrome as you suggest. Silly goal to give away at the end with Santos asleep again and their scorer alone in yards of space. No wonder the strikers are frustrated, this just shouldn’t be happening. Let’s hope they can up the pace in the second half.
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Post by kenglowhite on Sept 19, 2020 15:00:48 GMT
The commentary is pathetic - letting the ref get away with murder. Books Comley for a tackle similar to the one just made on Hickman which didn't even result in a free kick. Gives a goal kick when Colchester cleared off the line. Bolton playing too much in their own back third. Midfield again having to do too much chasing of United midfielders, somehow not closed down at the front. Where was Gordon when Eastwood headed in unmarked for their goal . Over all we're not aggressive enough in attack. They're saying how good Hickman is, but why no Darcy ?
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Post by realtrottersforever on Sept 21, 2020 20:07:55 GMT
interesting piece about the how ifollow revenue (per game) is split between home and away clubs...courtesy of burnden aces :
Colchester United Chairman Robbie Cowling has issued the following statement: Streaming Revenues The way it works currently is that the home team keep all of the revenue for the tickets they sell through their own website and they also get the revenue for the first 500 that buy via the away team. For example: for Saturday’s game against Bolton, we sold 452 iFollow passes, (so we keep all of the revenue from those), and Bolton sold 2252 iFollow passes, (of which we get the revenue from the first 500).
This has put a very new aspect on the revenue that is available to clubs this season. Bolton made more money in gate receipts from our home fixture than we did because they had the revenue from 1,752 iFollow passes whereas we had the revenue from 952 iFollow passes. In normal times, we would have expected about £54,000 in home gate receipts from this fixture but we will receive just shy of £8,000, whereas Bolton would have expected about £600 for the 5% commission we pay them but will have received about £14,000 more than that.
We sold just over 300 streams for the away game against Bradford, so we earnt £0.00 for that away game and I expect that to be the case for every away game this season. So based on twenty three away games, Bolton look set to receive about £345,000 from the streaming of their away games this season whilst we can look forward to approximately £0.00.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2020 20:41:47 GMT
How would the reverse revenue look, rtf? I don't have the inclination.
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