Another saturday 3pm ko gone

[Lord Bracknell]

This far down and no one seems to be slagging off Paul Barber for it. Must be and NSC record!!!! Personally, I prefer this time as it means can have a few drinks in Lewes before the game, followed by some at the club followed by a few more in the evening back in Lewes. Win Win.

Pre-match, you could always watch Lewes v Concord Rangers and do the drinking on the terrace at the Dripping Pan.

 

[8ace]

Agree with that.

Far too many Saturday home games followed by another home game on a Tuesday night.

Why are the fixtures like it this season? Seem to have 2 away sats then 2 homes games within 4 days. It's not just Albion and those clubs in a similar position must really suffer in loss of gate money as 2 games in a week is pretty expencive.

In reference to consecutive home or away fixtures, this is something that has always been there, but increased significantly when the Championship decided not to play on International Saturday weekends thereby increasing the number of midweek fixtures.



In the compilation fixture rules the Saturday sequence is given the priority and therefore where possible this will be H A H A. If you then insert a midweek programme this sequence is affected and you end up with 2 homes or 2 aways. Taking the earlier Sat sequence you add two midweek programmes (in Red) and you can see this. H A A H H A.



Another time that this can occur is when we reach what we call a sequence break when compiling the list. This is effectively when we “re mix” the fixtures during the season. There are 9 occasions when this occurs although we try to limit the number of occasions that affects each club.



Other issues that will affect the sequence are blank Saturdays for the FA Cup and for International weekends.



We hope that information helps.



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