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It would never happen but I’d be all for carrying on the league through international breaks and any team who lose players for that game just get on with it just as teams with African players lose them for a period of time during the AFCON.
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Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday... on 14:51 - Oct 11 with 3166 views
I mean the calendar is a disaster isn't it, let's be honest. And it's only going to get worse as they expand the international tournaments, engorge the Champions league, add a new club world cup and so on.
The EFL actually had the right idea a few years ago in reducing the leagues to 20 teams, fewer midweeks, league two split into two north and south divisions. And it got thrown out immediately because of course.
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Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday... on 14:59 - Oct 11 with 3135 views
It feels like there is just sooo much football on these days, every event hyped to the max. Every possible viewing slot engineered for more eyeballs.
In a 'normal' week, we now have early Football League kick-offs to go with the Premier League, the standard 3pm games, a 5:30pm match, and now a Sat evening fixture.
'Super' Sunday fills up the afternoon, then there's MNF with the lads, CL Tues and Weds, and whatever they're calling the other Euro comps on Thursday. They've even thrown in a few early 5:30pm midweek kick-offs - madness.
Then, at the end of the season, the whole thing resets and we do it all over again. The hype train only gets longer & louder.
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Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday... on 15:11 - Oct 11 with 3089 views
12:30 kick offs..Fridays Sundays Mondays…bloody Sky …we never seem to do well on three game weeks.. might seem radical but would anyone consider scrapping promotion to the premier League just keep the EFL gain more control over game scheduling .. I actually hate the Peem League ..rant over!
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Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday... on 19:25 - Oct 11 with 2808 views
The only thing that keeps us going through endless matches against Preston and Blackburn for a decade is the hope that one day we might get another break for a year or two before the next decade of it. Preferably a break which involves playing Chelsea and Spurs rather than Wigan and Bolton.
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Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday... on 20:02 - Oct 11 with 2777 views
I remember those discussions - to hear the newspapers describing it, you'd think the League had suggested going back to giant baggy shorts, flat caps for goalkeepers and them 40lb balls with laces. It makes sense for fans, clubs - everyone really. Never understood why they didn't run the numbers on this.
Just imagine it, waking up in the new season, checking fixture list and not seeing Tues, 11th Jan, Preston (A) 7.45PM.
'What do we want? We don't know! When do we want it? Now!'
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Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday... on 08:57 - Oct 12 with 2405 views
Bit of a problem but not the end of the world for me.......
I, just, hope that MC and his players have worked on their games, systems, fitness, etc, etc so that we are 'fit & ready' for the next game, next Saturday, against Portsmouth.
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Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday... on 08:59 - Oct 12 with 2403 views
Champ players play no more than four more games than when it was a 22 team division up to 1987. And in fact, with the doing-away of replays in the FA and League Cup, far fewer Cup games are played (to the obvious detriment of smaller clubs). Champions League apart (which the top clubs could easily restore to the original knock-out format if there was concerted collective pressure), the only thing that really seems to have changed is one or two international breaks have got a bit expanded.
On which basis, the tired and tiring references by contemporary players and managers to the 'Saturday/Tuesday/Saturday' relentlessness of their programme are risible. I'd be interested to find out if this kind of boring cliche was trotted out in the 1970s and 1980s but certainly don't remember it. It's really a way of whining down expectations about the quality of the product still further as I see it - doing less while making more.
I'm inclined to agree - the only caveat being that, possibly, players in the modern game are expected to “track back” to cover their defences and defenders need to take more part in attacks. Whether any of this is true, I know not.
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Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday... on 22:58 - Oct 12 with 1903 views
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