Posting so you can all adjust your diaries accordingly...due to being on TV... Blackpool away moved to 5:30pm on November 6th, Luton at home moved to Friday November 19th Derby moved to Monday November 29th. Three times in November...seems a lot. Good for us expats, but still a lot.
According to Loft for Words after Saturday we don't have another Saturday game until early December (2x Fridays, 2x Tuesdays and 1x Wednesday).
Yep, 4th December is the next Saturday 3pm kick off at home. I know I'm abroad so it doesn't affect me as much, but once again feels like Sky can dictate their terms, and screw any inconvenience caused to the supporters who go week in and week out.
Very selfishly, as family means I can't make many Saturday games, I'm delighted. I try to get to all the evening kick offs, and so this works well for me. Sorry for those in the opposite position.
Sky just don't want us promoted again, hence they keep sticking our games on. Surely we have to end this Sky hoodoo sometime and our aversion to winning on Friday nights. Be a great time to start !
Why? When I lived in London and could get over from Oslo, I always preferred the far better vibes at the floodlit games. Perhaps not the same now
Think it's more to do with the 3 games were all originally scheduled for 3pm on Saturday so it's quite likely that people have already purchased rail tickets to both Blackpool and Derby or booked accommodation based on those kick off times......... plus God knows what the last time for direct trains back from both places will be but either way it will be a bloody late return...........
Generally Saturday afternoon has been the traditional match time of 'the working men's game'. Obviously some matches need to be played at other times, but to go 2 months without a Saturday match is pretty dire. Most people look forward to a match at the weekend, myself included. I'd go so far as to say that during the season, a matchless weekend leaves me with a rather empty feeling inside.
In Norway it was the tradition to play at 6pm on Sundays. Now some are Friday's, Saturdays' late on Sundays and Mondays. All for Money.
Boxing day football is a tradition, and usually one of the only times people who travel from afar are likely to be close to their home clubs. I'd often see family Christmas Day and Boxing Day, and then head back to Paris on the 27th. Moving the time of the match is one thing, but moving the day with less than 2 months notice is too much. Feel for those who'll have plans messed up by this.
I love Boxing Day games, always used to go with my dad, we’d find somewhere even if the Rs were too far from home. I hope the club gets loads of money from these TV games*, because if I am an valid sample of 1, it is pissing off people who have bought STs in the expectation that we’d see some games at traditional times. *Looked it up. It’s between £10k and £100k per game depending on the time slot and whether you are the home or away team. I suppose if you factor in ST holders pay whatever (how many ST holders do we have?) and it’s probably of more value to bank the telly money than hope for a decent pay for a one off attendance market. ****ers.
Sky patently don't give a f*ck about supporters as has been shown over virtually the entire time they have 'owned' football in this country. So in hock are we to them they do as they please. A plague on their house...
Apparently home team receives "up" to £100k, away side receives a flat £10k......... Off course moving the Boxing Day games means that the other 2 games over the holiday period are pushed back by a day.......
