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One of the reasons we didn't renew for this season
Would have been a pre booked train ticket wasted and a game paid for wasted
Would have been a pre booked train ticket wasted and a game paid for wasted
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Opening league game now Friday night: (vs Forest, 7th Aug, 7.45pm)
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dejavuatbtn
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One of the reasons for me and the missus not renewing STs was lack of Saturday home games and the inconvenience of midweek ones. Last year it was just over half on a Saturday. By the time this season has panned out it will doubtless be the same. Currently 2/3rds of games are scheduled for Saturdays.
We will miss our decent seats but will be picking and choosing for now - we think we'd rather manage the football we watch, rather than it manage us.
We will miss our decent seats but will be picking and choosing for now - we think we'd rather manage the football we watch, rather than it manage us.
Prince Monolulu
Everything in Moderation
Someone spare a thought for the poor old Notts. Forrest fans too.
Really? You'd have booked those things before the Sky fixtures were announced?
(I have every sympathy for those that do have money wasted when fixtures get changed at short notice.)
smudge
Up the Albion!
This is the worst news. Fly home on the 8th after 14 weeks away; was due to get home in time for the game. Doubt if anyone will take up my ST for this one as it's on the box. Waste of money, but more than anything just absolutely gutted to miss this. 
16bha
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Absolutely this......
T soprano
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At least we can sing "WE ARE TOP OF THE LEAGUE" .... Hopefully at 9:45 Friday night
Wrong-Direction
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Piss up the night before its ok just means we'll be bottom of the table straight away lol
Blackadder
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This is shite news for me. Not sure I can make it now.
- Jun 27, 2012
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There were also a 3pm at Christmas (Boxing Day), a Saturday lunchtime (Watford 12.15)
And several Friday nights at 7.45 (millwall, bournemouth) .
There were 6 midweek 7.45s out of the 23 , 5 Tues and 1 Weds...ie: schoolnights...
Will be billed as the Return of Bobby, surely ? [emoji3][emoji3][emoji3]
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Quite. It does seem like the club are doing their best to alienate long distance STH longtime Albion fans. Sorry, that's a bit harsh. More likely it never even crosses their minds, in their rush to grab the SKY dollar. What goes around, comes around. As the club will only realise too late should they ever dip down a division and come round with the begging bowl targeted emails to former STHs.
Does the club really have any choice - does anyone actually know?
Regardless, in the big scheme of game rearrangements, Saturday to Friday night (within the school holidays) is about as good as it gets. There are always going to be some people who miss out, and some others who 'gain' by seeing a game they otherwise thought they would miss, but overall Saturday to Friday isn't too bad, is it?
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Can't say really [MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION] seeing as how I only live down the road. But as your location currently shows as Bristol, I'd have thought that a switch from Saturday afternoon to Friday night might prove to be at least a bit annoying aye? Besides, this switch was floated a fair number of days back (by you?) while both clubs boards maintained the game was going to be Saturday 3pm. How many folks made arrangements on the basis of both clubs info when the good folks of NSC always knew the game was odds-on to be switched? Same as NSC users have inside info on trains that will be cancelled that the general train-using public don't have access to.
Further proof, should any be needed, that NSC can be a force for good, as well as evil.
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Agree with all of this. I'd been led to believe that Sky call the shots......we don't have a lot of choice in the matter. Only problem with a Friday, particularly in August, is that the trains are GUARANTEED to be shite.
- Jun 27, 2012
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<edited> asked same question as [MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION] above
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Personally, I think I'd put a compensation plan in place such that a STH who's game was switched from a published Saturday 3pm date to a midweek 7.45 date was given some kind of monetary cashback/ voucher acknowledgement that they are going to be majorly inconvenienced by the switch. I mean, the fixtures are still warm off the press. Either that or Football League clubs acknowledge that they will lose - maybe the Albion more than most - significant numbers of long-distance STHs. Either that or the Football league clubs get together and tell SKY to piss off or up the ante.
Pogue Mahone
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- Apr 30, 2011
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Am I alone in preferring this for the following reason - it's mid-summer, so Friday night football means Saturday can be spent on the beach?
Come on, what's not to like?
Come on, what's not to like?
ATFC Seagull
Aberystwyth Town FC
I haven't read the previous 5 pages but I'd imagine I can't be the only person for whom this is a massive result - had resigned to missing this game to go to a wedding of 2 people I've barely met (friends of the Mrs) on Sat 8th.
What I don't understand is why negotiations can't be done with Sky before the fixtures are revealed, so that changes for TV in the opening months of the season are included on day one.
What I don't understand is why negotiations can't be done with Sky before the fixtures are revealed, so that changes for TV in the opening months of the season are included on day one.