Far prefer Saturday Football, but for some reason which I cannot comprehend, everyone is always more up for a Night game Atmostphere wise. Sunday Football is great to watch on TV not when it's your club involved though, I suppose we cannot have it both ways.
Agree with Ketman completely. Everyone wants a 3pm saturday football but we'd be the first to moan if none of our games got shown on sky and we got no tv income. My only moan would be that they seem to have shown loads of our home games on sky but hardly any away.
Also over the past couple of months the breaks have helped us in getting some players back from injury.
[quote][cite]Posted By: AFKA Bartram[/cite]a season as stop start as this ?
its getting ridiculous. As a supporter, do you prefer it, giving you free weekends scattered about, or is nothing but a pain ?
As a team, have the enforced breaks been a help or a hindrance ?[/quote]
As long as we are picking up the points I don't care. But I can't remember a season before where we've had a game every second week as we've had recently. Hopefully the two week break to Wigan is fortunate in that it allows Darren/Marcus Bent and Thatcher to get fit and we have momentum going into those last few games with a fit squad.
Although it is a pain i can cope with changed kick off times on a Saturday as it is acknowledged and accepted to be "football" day. However Sunday is very difficult and Monday nights mean having to go cap in hand to the boss asking to leave early like a little school boy so I can get home to pick my daughter up and then get back up to Charlton in time.
Still as others have said the fans are irrelevant to football in the 21st century. The money comes from Murdoch and that is all important as far as the clubs are concerned.
I agree it's a pain in so much that we have had to wait 2 weeks for Newcastle then another 13 days for Wigan and in a season as exciting as this the wait is excruiating but with the injuries we've got the extra days should be god sends especially if it means people like Thatcher return and Baby Bent is fit for the remainder of the season.
[cite]Posted By: CharltonDan[/cite]The only positive is that with the long gaps between games its more likely that DB can stay fit / recuperate between matches
It also gives the young lad Lisbie time between games to recuperate whilst he gets used to the demands of senior football!
How is a club able to build up a head of steam with the fixtures so spread out? I cannot easily get to away games so waiting around for extra blank weekends just makes it worse. But just when your used to waiting ages for fixtures, three come along almost once. My nerves are shot to pieces as it is let alone waiting for weeks for the fixtures to come along.
Getting the injuries sorted out is the only compensation.
Its a pain, being football mad i would like to see games every week. Why is it that there are no Premiership fixtures (Apart from the Semi Final) on FA Cup Weekend?
thought it just topped it all when last sundays game was a 1.30pm kick off for no other reason than the police requesting it supposedly or because it was mothers day maybe?
with so few away on international duty it must have helped Pards in part his philosophy of how the game should be played, he will have spent a lot of time on the training ground with them before it comes thick and fast from Easter. I think it has been a help this season but a hindrance in the past, Whenever we have gone out of the FA cup in the 3rd round it has ben like this through Feb and March.
[quote][cite]Posted By: buckshee[/cite]thought it just topped it all when last sundays game was a 1.30pm kick off for no other reason than the police requesting it supposedly or because it was mothers day maybe?[/quote]
I think it was to allow the Newcastle fans time to get home while it was still Sunday.
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The breaks seemed to have helped lately.
They just keep killing the game what with sunday and monday football just not the same
Also over the past couple of months the breaks have helped us in getting some players back from injury.
its getting ridiculous. As a supporter, do you prefer it, giving you free weekends scattered about, or is nothing but a pain ?
As a team, have the enforced breaks been a help or a hindrance ?[/quote]
As long as we are picking up the points I don't care. But I can't remember a season before where we've had a game every second week as we've had recently. Hopefully the two week break to Wigan is fortunate in that it allows Darren/Marcus Bent and Thatcher to get fit and we have momentum going into those last few games with a fit squad.
Still as others have said the fans are irrelevant to football in the 21st century. The money comes from Murdoch and that is all important as far as the clubs are concerned.
It also gives the young lad Lisbie time between games to recuperate whilst he gets used to the demands of senior football!
Getting the injuries sorted out is the only compensation.
I think it was to allow the Newcastle fans time to get home while it was still Sunday.