Millers v Bradford home game new date.

[crookadile]

Rotherham United v Bradford City

Thursday 2nd October 2025

8pm KO

AESSEAL New York Stadium

Live on Sky Sports

Sky Bet League One

[UlleyMiller]

F*** Sky.

[mellowmiller]

Hate this!
I've got some friends coming over for that weekend and had planned to take them into the lounge for the Bradford game.
Not possible now. Thanks a lot Sky ��

[Nardendee]

It really is a xxxxshow. Thursday night is diabolical. Will be less City fans come over too I would imagine.

[Tigerish]

What can we do to stop this bunch of shysters killing the game we love? We boycott them. That's all we can do. Unsubscribe. Stop going in pubs showing that match that's been hyped for days But will you do it? Ask yourselves seriously, will you? I'd love to see Sky go bust. (Ah yes, but look at the money they've put in. Look at the lovely stadiums they've paid for.) Yes but they've ruined the game we grew up with when small clubs could dream of getting to the top.

[avondalemiller]

Where would most lower league clubs be without the Sky money? I agree its sh1te being messed about but what can the smaller clubs do?

[Tigerish]

They were there before Sky. I started watching in the mid Sixties. There wasn't a constant financial meltdown in professional football then? So what happened subsequently to change something that seemed quite stable financially? I wish I knew

[fc_miller]

It really is a xxxxshow. Thursday night is diabolical. Will be less City fans come over too I would imagine.

They will still sell out away end

[UlleyMiller]

Where would most lower league clubs be without the Sky money? I agree its sh1te being messed about but what can the smaller clubs do?

I'd be more interested to see if the gulf would be as vast without Sky money. Seems like it widens the gap and (along with other nonsense such as the 80-man squads PL teams carry) steadily renders 'smaller' clubs less and less able to grow. The money at the bottom end is trivial in comparison to the top, and Sky's increase in televised games has got to impact car park revenue, food and drink sales, etc. Poor for the atmosphere, bad for local pubs and businesses.

[Ericsladkilnhurst]

Where would most lower league clubs be without the Sky money? I agree its sh1te being messed about but what can the smaller clubs do?

They were there before Sky. I started watching in the mid Sixties. There wasn't a constant financial meltdown in professional football then? So what happened subsequently to change something that seemed quite stable financially? I wish I knew

Tiferish In the 1960's mate the Millers were owned by the Pursehouse family, the club was a selling club to balance the books, the club has sold a lot of good players over the years since
Now we don't turn out a player worth big sums of money, so sky money is needed to keep clubs afloat.
You might say we have turned out some decent players, but we have let them run down their contracts, or not got the real worth of a player due to no one on the board having football knowledge in valuations or contracts

[avondalemiller]

They were there before Sky. I started watching in the mid Sixties. There wasn't a constant financial meltdown in professional football then? So what happened subsequently to change something that seemed quite stable financially? I wish I knew

They scrapped the minimum wage, agents got involved, players demanded silly wages( some still do) and some Chairmen will pay it, and the snowball gets faster.

Like ELK says we were run by the Pursehouse family who ran a string of butchers, cash wise they wouldn't be able to run Popeye's now.

Players turned Professional instead of working at Silverwood pit.

[Tigerish]

Yes it's a game that has lost its soul. Just look at Man United. Season ticket holders who've had seats for years told they can get lost so that some corporate client can get the best view. It's horrible. The genuine fan doesn't really count any more