Sky TV fixtures announcement

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allen said:
I love the thought of Friday night games. Maybe I'm in the minority, but having a match on my favourite night of the week, with the whole weekend ahead, really appeals to me.
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I'm not against Friday Night games in spirit, so long as the fixtures chosen are reasonable

For instance, it's not reasonable to make people trek up from Watford on a Friday night for a game at Goodison. It's too far and requires a day off work and also either an overnight stay or forcing people to leave the game early to make a train or making people drive home for hours late at night. None of these situations are agreeable in my opinion

If games are to be played on Fridays, then there should be a rule that the teams picked should be no more than a 4 hour round trip from each other in a car (2 hours there and 2 back)

So I'm fine with the Manchester sides playing Stoke, Merseyside teams playing Burnley, Southampton playing Arsenal, Bournemouth playing Spurs, Watford playing Chelsea etc

What I'm not fine with is making Liverpool fans travel down to Chelsea, or Southampton fans travel up to Manchester on a Friday night. It's massively anti-supporter in my eyes and a complete slight to the match going fan
 
It'd be an odd choice for a Friday night game, SKY are already said to be giving up on this Friday night lark, coupled with the fact it'll be between ton teams with nothing to play for and add into the mix that it's tough on the Watford fans to get up here for a Friday night. To me it seems like a tough sell for SKY.
 
ianefc said:
It'd be an odd choice for a Friday night game, SKY are already said to be giving up on this Friday night lark, coupled with the fact it'll be between ton teams with nothing to play for and add into the mix that it's tough on the Watford fans to get up here for a Friday night. To me it seems like a tough sell for SKY.
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SKY won't be arsed to be honest, they do what they like

I really think fan groups need to be more active in getting some actual ground rules set out for these Friday night fixtures to ensure fans aren't screwed over
 
allen said:
I love the thought of Friday night games. Maybe I'm in the minority, but having a match on my favourite night of the week, with the whole weekend ahead, really appeals to me.
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Whoa, hoss.

I must say I agree with you that Friday night games are, in theory, fun and would set the tone for a good weekend.

As long as we win.

But speaking as someone whose mood from Saturday afternoon onwards is totally coloured by how EFC have got on, I shudder at the thoughts of a bad result on a Friday night scuppering my whole weekend, particularly my own favourite part of the week, Saturday morning :)

And imagine we faced a trip to Anfield of a Friday night :mad:

So it's. (n) from me for Everton games on Friday night.
 
cant see our game v warford been moved to a friday,the message people are saying will be standard to make sure,as they wont know if its moved or not yet,west ham v liverpool,west brom v arsenal,spurs v man utd,stoke v arsenal and man city v Leicester would be before our game v watford on tv i would think,but who knows
 
Why would they pick such a 'meaningless' game (Watford) to put on tv? There again the game against Leicester probably fell into that catergory and what a game that was.
 
rochdaleblue said:
Why would they pick such a 'meaningless' game (Watford) to put on tv? There again the game against Leicester probably fell into that catergory and what a game that was.
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I always thought bizzare as it might seem,and easy to say after it now,that it was a good choice just because there is always loads of goals between us at Goodison,usually 2-2s,or 3-2s
 
Mikey_Fitzgerald said:
I'm not against Friday Night games in spirit, so long as the fixtures chosen are reasonable

For instance, it's not reasonable to make people trek up from Watford on a Friday night for a game at Goodison. It's too far and requires a day off work and also either an overnight stay or forcing people to leave the game early to make a train or making people drive home for hours late at night. None of these situations are agreeable in my opinion

If games are to be played on Fridays, then there should be a rule that the teams picked should be no more than a 4 hour round trip from each other in a car (2 hours there and 2 back)

So I'm fine with the Manchester sides playing Stoke, Merseyside teams playing Burnley, Southampton playing Arsenal, Bournemouth playing Spurs, Watford playing Chelsea etc

What I'm not fine with is making Liverpool fans travel down to Chelsea, or Southampton fans travel up to Manchester on a Friday night. It's massively anti-supporter in my eyes and a complete slight to the match going fan
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That's a fair enough attitude - but Monday night games set a far worse precedent.

Most people have to work on a Tuesday, at least with Friday there's scope for a lie in if you get in late.
 
Mikey_Fitzgerald said:
I'm not against Friday Night games in spirit, so long as the fixtures chosen are reasonable

For instance, it's not reasonable to make people trek up from Watford on a Friday night for a game at Goodison. It's too far and requires a day off work and also either an overnight stay or forcing people to leave the game early to make a train or making people drive home for hours late at night. None of these situations are agreeable in my opinion

If games are to be played on Fridays, then there should be a rule that the teams picked should be no more than a 4 hour round trip from each other in a car (2 hours there and 2 back)

So I'm fine with the Manchester sides playing Stoke, Merseyside teams playing Burnley, Southampton playing Arsenal, Bournemouth playing Spurs, Watford playing Chelsea etc

What I'm not fine with is making Liverpool fans travel down to Chelsea, or Southampton fans travel up to Manchester on a Friday night. It's massively anti-supporter in my eyes and a complete slight to the match going fan
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This sounds nice but it massively reduces the fixtures you can play on a Friday night. No police force will want a proper derby on that night, and Sky will want to save all the big London matches and Liverpool-Manchester matches for Sundays.

At this point I think it's a failed experiment and it won't return.
 
mmmmsnouts said:
This sounds nice but it massively reduces the fixtures you can play on a Friday night. No police force will want a proper derby on that night, and Sky will want to save all the big London matches and Liverpool-Manchester matches for Sundays.

At this point I think it's a failed experiment and it won't return.
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I doubt you'd get much bother if we played Burnley on a Friday night tbh, nor if we played west brom
 
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