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Post by surreystokie on Oct 1, 2012 12:02:55 GMT
Hopefully, there may be nothing in it, but if what I was hearing, at the week-end, is true, then I'll be absolutely furious.
Boxing Day is for a release, after the work, (food preparations, etc) childrens' crises and (often false) family bonhomie, of Christmas day, with a football fixture relieving the stress, in a relaxing, festive environment.
Last season, the late k.o. upset schedules and caused even more travel problems, and the club (for they do have the final say) would be remiss to accept any repeat of yet another out of synch match, on this particular Bank Holiday.
If is merely a rumour, let's 'go with the crowd'. If it is not, I'd like to know why SCFC has drawn the short stray, and accepted it, in consecutive seasons, when there are nineteen other clubs from which to choose.
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Post by Not_Nick_H on Oct 1, 2012 12:05:26 GMT
I heard this somewhere too - was it on Radio Stoke?
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Post by u2oxeterstokie on Oct 1, 2012 12:05:28 GMT
So what have you heard?
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Post by y_oh_y_delilah on Oct 1, 2012 12:06:17 GMT
Our Nige let it slip in his post match interview with TP that the Liverpool home fixture would be played Boxing Day evening.  TP said that we would just have to get on with it! |
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Post by werrington on Oct 1, 2012 12:07:44 GMT
When you are in The Premiership and you want the Sky money you have to accept the fixtures they want.
It really is that simple as much as people moan and groan ( not you personally Surrey )
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Post by mark71 on Oct 1, 2012 12:16:18 GMT
When you are in The Premiership and you want the Sky money you have to accept the fixtures they want. It really is that simple as much as people moan and groan ( not you personally Surrey ) Agree. If you sell your soul to the devil you have to dance to his tune. |
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Post by stokiedj on Oct 1, 2012 12:23:01 GMT
When you are in The Premiership and you want the Sky money you have to accept the fixtures they want. It really is that simple as much as people moan and groan ( not you personally Surrey ) Exactly, people will moan about anything. They pay that much to clubs they are allowed to tell them play whenever. Night games are better anyway i prefer it. |
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Post by marra315 on Oct 1, 2012 12:51:06 GMT
They said it at the game too :/
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Post by StokieMatt on Oct 1, 2012 13:10:37 GMT
just go normal time and go pub till kick off, enjoy the Christmas holiday ;D
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Post by mattintheprem on Oct 1, 2012 13:11:42 GMT
I much prefer 3pm on a Saturday so i'm glad we are the least popular team to put on live (joint winners with Wigan), this is the breakdown of number of live Sky & ESPN games up to the end of Nov for each team Arsenal 9 Aston Villa 5 Chelsea 7 Everton 5 Fulham 3 Liverpool 8 Man City 10 Man Utd 9 Newcastle 6 Norwich 4 QPR 4 Reading 3 Southampton 4 Stoke 2 Sunderland 5 Swansea 4 Tottenham 6 West Brom 3 West Ham 7 (why??????) Wigan 2 but how they can justify making us move again to an evening kick-off for boxing day i'll never know. I always look forward to Boxing Day home games as a tradition but the propsect of having 3000 scousers in the pubs all day is about as close to bah humbug as I can take.  |
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Post by Robo10 on Oct 1, 2012 13:13:56 GMT
I have heard that it will be a 5.30pm kick off, not the nightmare that was 8pm last year
To be honest after the shitness and whole non event of last seasons game I'm amaze that they would want us on TV ever again!
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Post by surreystokie on Oct 2, 2012 22:38:32 GMT
u2oxeter, I was not being evasive and did say that it was like last season, i.e. 8 pm. I heard of it from within the Brit, 'Nick'. Also werrington and others, don't let anyone kid you that clubs have no choice but to accept. Maybe it is because the ignorance of supporters is assumed, that they get away with it. Please note, TP and others, that we don't just have to "get on with it". Clubs in the PL last season all received the sum of £5,776,662m if they appeared live on TV on up to 10 occasions. If more, then each game elicited another tenth, and so on. As we are unlikely to appear more than ten times, a refusal on Boxing Day would actually make no difference, financially!! But then us mere fans (and managers  )aren't meant to be aware of that........... |
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Post by Olgrligm on Oct 2, 2012 22:43:17 GMT
I'd rather Sky left and took all the money out of the game, so we can have maximum ticket prices of £10, every game at 3 PM Saturday, a transfer cap of £50,000, a wage cap of £2000 per week with appropriate bonus limits and real football.
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Post by JoeinOz on Oct 2, 2012 23:39:48 GMT
Clubs have the final say. The only examples i can think of are Man utd refusing a kick off change. but it's easier for Man utd to do.
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Post by Kewstokie on Oct 3, 2012 7:48:15 GMT
As we are on this subject when are the December / January tv fixtures coming out? I thought this season these were going to be published further in advance and this batch should have been out by the end of September.
Makes hell of a difference financially to travelling Stokies, home or away games, as you at least get a chance to get some cheaper train seats.
Do the PL care about the delay - no, thought not.
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Post by RINGO STARR on Oct 3, 2012 8:16:47 GMT
When did we actually last play a Boxing Day fixture at the Britannia at 3pm? ? ?
I really am struggling to remember.
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Post by banburypotter on Oct 3, 2012 8:32:44 GMT
Preston, 1-1 late goal to earn us a point?
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Post by y_oh_y_delilah on Oct 3, 2012 9:11:16 GMT
I remember a 1-0 Boxing Day defeat by Preston with a wind assisted goal from Michael Jackson (no, not that one!) but maybe this was before the 1-1.
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Post by djralphy2k9 on Oct 3, 2012 10:56:49 GMT
I remember a 1-0 Boxing Day defeat by Preston with a wind assisted goal from Michael Jackson (no, not that one!) but maybe this was before the 1-1. ??? John Eustace penalty in the 90th minute in the freezing cold, wind and rain, mental time ;D |
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Post by nott1 on Oct 3, 2012 11:42:52 GMT
Why can't Sky show repeats like every other channel and let us get on with Xmas?
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Post by RF10 on Oct 3, 2012 11:48:58 GMT
I'd rather Sky left and took all the money out of the game, so we can have maximum ticket prices of £10, every game at 3 PM Saturday, a transfer cap of £50,000, a wage cap of £2000 per week with appropriate bonus limits and real football. I think is opinion of most. Unfortunatley now got to a point where this is impossible as clubs would not survive. A transfer cap / wage cap should happen with the latter being more realistic. Following meetings recentley happend hopefully FFP will come into force across board rather than if a team qualifys for Euro. |
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Post by finchampstead2011 on Oct 3, 2012 12:01:38 GMT
Hi Re Boxing Day I heard the same thing from the Ladies at reception in Deliahs.
I am driving up on Sunday so will no doubt see you then, BUt I thought if this is true and moved to 8 pm I will take you uip and get you home.
C
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)aren't meant to be aware of that........... 
