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Leeds H - moves to 12.30 16:03 - Feb 13 with 4498 views

Predictably, now 12.30 March 15.

Slightly less predictably it's not the main game, just on the poxy streaming service.,
The main match that lunchtime is the BIG ONE between Millwall and Stoke.

Leeds H - moves to 12.30 on 10:38 - Feb 14 with 891 views

Watford_Ranger

Leeds H - moves to 12.30 on 08:10 - Feb 14 by Northernr
As Simmo says I think it's a pretty flagrant attempt to remove opposition to the 3pm blackout. I've always been in favour of it but am not any more, which is clearly entirely the point.

If the binned the blackout I don’t see them not still having various games at 12:30.

Leeds H - moves to 12.30 on 13:11 - Feb 14 with 730 views

LimehouseR

Leeds H - moves to 12.30 on 17:13 - Feb 13 by marky67
nightmare for anyone like myself that has to work saturdays and not finish untill around 2pm, so thats me out.

Used to be a postie in W12 and if they ever moved it to a 12:30 KO (less often 10-15 years ago) on a Saturday I would have to fly round my walk and then hot foot it to the ground. Some of the older boys in the delivery office wouldn't be so lucky!

Leeds H - moves to 12.30 on 18:01 - Feb 14 with 540 views

Paddyhoops

Leeds H - moves to 12.30 on 08:10 - Feb 14 by Northernr
As Simmo says I think it's a pretty flagrant attempt to remove opposition to the 3pm blackout. I've always been in favour of it but am not any more, which is clearly entirely the point.

Couldn’t agree more . It won’t affect our attendances anyway but it may lower down the league.

Leeds H - moves to 12.30 on 12:16 - Feb 15 with 369 views

saxbend

I'm not worried about losing the blackout. Real fans who support their clubs know that you don't get very much out of watching on tv instead, even watching your own team, never mind some other fixture just because it's on telly. Those fans only watch on TV because they cannot get to the game, and they're far more likely to be able to get to it if it hasn't been moved.

For every fan that decides they'd rather stay at home and watch Man City on telly instead of travel 150 miles or more each way for their own club's away game, there'll be six more attending because their game is at 3pm and hasn't been moved to 12:30 or Friday/Monday night. Sure we'll still have to play a few 12:30 games each season so that people in India can watch Leeds at 6pm instead of 8:30, but on the whole everyone should get more 3pm kickoffs and I really don't see it affecting attendances that much. Not ours or teams in league one or two, who have some of the most loyal fans there are.

Leeds H - moves to 12.30 on 13:37 - Feb 15 with 296 views

FrankRightguard

The whole point of the 3pm blackout isn’t really to protect the league sides, it is to protect the pyramid as a whole. If people are going to go and watch their league team, they’ll still go. If they were maybe going to their local non league side instead but then sack that off to watch a live, legal, 3pm game then it’s the non league side that loses the tenner on the gate, tenner in the bar, fiver at the burger van. Football without fans is nothing trumpet Sky. Without fans the pyramid as we know would totally collapse.

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