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We may know more in the morning if it is indeed on again.BartonRaz wrote:I heard from a couple of people tonight that this may be back on????
The UCL should be hanging their heads in shame. We have close to 100 members Under 10 and the night games mean that they can't watch the team on a school night as it finishes too late.Formic wrote: As I mentioned on another thread, to only have 8 Saturday home league games in a 37 week season, even allowing for FA competitions, ground-sharing and postponements doesn't seem to be very fair. (There look like being 16 Saturday away league games if we don't get further postponements).
I've mentioned this a few times and did wonder, knowing full well what was going to happen when it got to winter, why there weren't any midweek games til October. Someone did say it was because of replays in the early stages of comps like the fa cup and vase, but having a look back at the Div 1 fixtures for August and September, there were a few weeks where hardly anyone had a game midweek, e.g the week after the Thrapston game, only Oadby had a game in the battle of britain cup (whatever it is), the 2nd week after the Wootton game, only Bugbrooke had a game in the fa cup and then the weeks after the Harrowby and Olney games, not a single team in the division had a midweek game.Sara Pascoe wrote:Also a 36-game season that has to stretch to early May is ludicrous, even taking postponements and cups into consideration. I don't understand why there were no August/September midweek games. This league is a ****ing joke.
What was the reason for the postponement? Anything other than an unfit pitch would be a disgrace.Formic wrote:In case anyone is wondering, the Chenecks Reserves v Ringstead Rangers Reserves has now been postponed
Olly wrote:I've mentioned this a few times and did wonder, knowing full well what was going to happen when it got to winter, why there weren't any midweek games til October. Someone did say it was because of replays in the early stages of comps like the fa cup and vase, but having a look back at the Div 1 fixtures for August and September, there were a few weeks where hardly anyone had a game midweek, e.g the week after the Thrapston game, only Oadby had a game in the battle of britain cup (whatever it is), the 2nd week after the Wootton game, only Bugbrooke had a game in the fa cup and then the weeks after the Harrowby and Olney games, not a single team in the division had a midweek game.Sara Pascoe wrote:Also a 36-game season that has to stretch to early May is ludicrous, even taking postponements and cups into consideration. I don't understand why there were no August/September midweek games. This league is a ****ing joke.
The ucl prem must have played midweeks near the start of the season as they're 10 games ahead of us! Holbeach are on 70+ points already
Even if there is the potential for replays at that stage of the season, there's so few teams that will actually have those replays, that I really don't see any reason why there couldn't have been a game or 2 in those weeks like most leagues have.