Feckin Fixture Madness

What sense does this make travelwise on a Tuesday night?

It's time the powers that be realise its ultimately the clubs and fans that suffer. I'm sure a more calculated and sympathetic approach wouldn't be (if they actually do give a ****?) that hard to come up with?!?

Leeds v Bournemouth
Brighton v Wendy
Us v Reading
Charlton v Forest
Blackburn v Watford
Yeovil v Leicester
Birmingham v Millwall

 

I'm sure I read somewhere that, believe it or not, this is a deliberate act by the fixture planners - summat to do with making sure all the easy travel games are on Saturdays, in the hope and expectation that more fans will attend.

Stupidity of the highest order IMHO.

 

If that's the case, then those in charge have clearly never understood the concept of a day/weekend away of football.

Makes sense really, seing as though in power have never really been football fans.

 

Rather have those as midweek rather than a local derby. Also I read that many clubs request it so they can travel on the day of the game.

 

I blame police, they want as few away fans at midweek games as possible, so they can have fewer police

 

...and as I understand it many clubs - I think BFC included - COMPLAINED about it because of the times they have to travel back!

Bad journey or overnight stay either way.

 

See I prefer it that way. I would only ever travel to close places and as I couldn't make an away match on a Tuesday where it was close or not because of work, I'd rather them put the furthest away on a Tuesday. I know I may be in the minority there.

 

I am in that minority too JD. They inconvenience as few people as possible this way as not many travel that far anyway even if it's a Saturday game.

 

Agreed - even on a Saturday we wouldn't take many to those games.

 

You can't please everyone. IMPOSSIBLE

 

I'll be doing them all again this season no matter what day their on, but would have liked Brighton on a Saturday and Ipswich but they are when they are so i'll just have to book Holiday days at work.

 

I've heard this as well, but I doubt there is any scientific reasoning behind it, it's just someone's opinion. It should just be completely randomly selected by the computer. If you live in Barnsley and wanted to go to the Bournemouth game last week, you'd have to take the Tuesday afternoon off work to travel down and, unless you can function on a couple of hours sleep, you'd need the following day off as well, whereas something like Forest away you could easily go after work and get home with enough time for a decent kip...unless you're a milkman.

 

I was saying this the other week when we played Bournemouth. That same night, Yeovil travelled to Ipswich and Doncaster travelled to Watford. Fans will always suffer but on theother side, rather Barnsley play local games on a Saturday. Atmosphere tends to be better, especially at home and a bigger crowd.