Yeah cos that time is gonna have a massive effect on how many we bring. We're talking our away following here, not yours.[/QUOTE] No **** Sherlock.... A lot of the losers who follow your club come from far afield and places that have either no football team or an even worse one than yours
Many people work Saturday mornings and I can't get my lad to a 12.30 kick-off because he finishes school at lunchtime on a Saturday(though in this particular instance it's not an issue as he'll be on holiday).
Would it also affect Saturday League players? I only ever played Sundays so I don't know what time they kick off on Saturdays.
It seems a rather stupid thing to do. It won't effect anything, or at least it won't help anything, it just seems to be because it's what's done for "problem" fixtures for some reason. "How should we deal with this Yorkshire derby?" "Why don't we just make it horribly inconvenient for both sets of fans?" "Brilliant!"
That's bollocks. How often do you really see this perceived violence that football is conveniently linked with? It's been shown on here in the past that Beverley races among other things sees more arrests than any football match, it's a total myth that just because two clubs don't like one another (or just us not liking them in this case) there is this violence going on at every meeting. The problem is that people can't make it. It makes the journey more difficult for away fans and some people can't make it at all, a lot of people work Saturday mornings.
That's probably nearer the mark than anything else. There's times you think the police are just there to cause trouble.
The vast majority of Yorkshire derbies in the league will be lunchtime or Tuesday evening kick offs I'd have thought. Seems it's a given now, and I don't think there's any real reason for it. The only thing can be that it suits the Police more, but next to nowt in terms of trouble will happen. It gets on my tits.
The plod seem to like making mountains out of molehills. Been to Hull V Leeds matches in the past, and yeah it can be hostile in the ground but pre and post match i've walked to and from the ground with Leeds fans enjoying a bit of banter and talking over the game. As ISTPLT says, events such as Beverley races probably lead to more arrests and problems than a football match does. The 12-30 kick off time doesn't bother me too much for convenience on this occasion, it's the Christmas holidays so I won't have work and i'll be home from University though I understand it's still awkward for some people. Just the motives behind some of these changes to kick off times are daft to be honest.
You should be getting much bigger attendances then Hull City because you have a much bigger stadium but you are only getting a couple of thousand more then us
The amount of super-tanned women, covered in sick with their fannies out pissing in the middle of the road is to be seen to be believed at Ladies Day. Much more of a scum magnet than our local derbies.
I think the fact that Leeds is a lot bigger than Hull is a far more convincing argument as to why they should have a larger fanbase, rather than the size of their stadium.
Leave Charlie to it, he lives in his own world. Darlington have a stadium that holds 24K which holds more then say Burnley so should they get a bigger attendance then them?
