Match Day Thread Hull City v Plymouth

12.30pm kickoffs just ****ing **** on every single fan

 

Yes - and Sky will keep on doing it until they get the 3pm ban on live games lifted

 

And people will keep swelling Sky's profits by paying their subscriptions.


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You are right, but the EFL is just as complicit as Sky - the EFL agreed this deal that sees so many games moved, they didn’t have to but wanted to max out the money.

There’s a scant case for the 3pm protection now, the world has moved on.

 

Agreed, the 3pm ban will go.


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To be fair, it should be. In the top 2 tiers anyway.

 

Can see the case for it in the lower leagues still where match day revenue comprises the majority of income, but in the top 2 tiers its pretty redundant IMHO.

 

Isn't the argument in favour of the blackout that people would stay at home and watch Liverpool rather than go and see their local side? In which case, lifting it for the top two divisions wouldn't mitigate that at all.

 

We still have enough to get a result.

 

I agree, but we also have the ability to self destruct. You just don't know what you are going to get from City atm.

 

They already do in Hull so makes no difference to us

 

Enoughs enough. 3 bloody home points. Whatever it takes. Failure is not an option.

 

If Plymouth had any sense they’d rest a couple for the Man City game, they aren’t winning that away from home, unlike Liverpool they won’t rest players as it’s their only trophy chance . If they go all out for that when going to lose 3 or 4 probably , and knacker themselves for this game their manager is an idiot

 

See your point to an extent, but how often to they or other top prem sides play at 3pm Saturday these days?

 

1-1 draw , neither team to improve their respective poor home/ away records would be the most likely outcome

 

Well they don't because of the blackout surely.

 

So you agree it's getting increasingly redundant?

 

Always seems that when we expect the stupid loss in advance it doesn't come. But when we go into the game full of confidence after a good result, like we did at Cardiff, we're always brought back down to earth with a defeat. Losing to Plymouth now is too obvious. It'll be 1-1 as you say; that way we can be disappointed by the result but also don't even get to revel in the laughable misery of a predictable home defeat against the worst away side.

 

I'm not sure where I stand on it overall, but I think there is a valid argument that lifting it for the top teams could lead to them playing at 3pm and being televised, leading to people across the country staying at home instead of watching their local side at that time.

I'd have thought the argument for lifting it for sides below the PL is a better one than the top levels. Barely anyone is staying at home from non-league games because there's a Championship or League 1 game to watch on TV, surely.

 

I think the way forward is EFL and non-league pick a time and day for a black out and the PL televise as many matches as they want outside it.

If the PL want to abandon 3pm on a Sat that’s fine - it’s up to them but you need to protect the pyramid too.