Thursday night football?

[bergeroo]

Was set for a big family day out at St Andrews at the beginning of March for the Birmingham match against Hull. About 12 people from three different generations, some from abroad. I even told people to stay flexible just in case TV moves it to the Friday night or the Sunday. Now I see today that the match has been moved to a Thursday night!

This is the first time I've known a league match be on a Thursday night outside of Xmas/Easter or a team trying to catch up fixtures. So annoying, now half the people can't make it.

Now I know how the chairman of Leeds United feels.

[bergeroo]

ty for moving my post

[nirvana]

Took my name off a waiting list for a season ticket years ago for this reason. Just can't imagine I would have ever gone to anything other than Saturday 3pm kick offs which aren't very many at the Arse

[TightEnd]

I was saying to tother half yesterday...a card carrying season ticket holder who goes to away games on the coach, that the game is every further removed from the core fan

this is seen in a lot of ticket pricing

its seen in game times moved to saturday lunchtime, sunday lunchtime, monday nights, thursday nights

and it is only going to get more pronounced

some of the fixture scheduling before the start of the season is very odd too. midweeks at the opposite end of the country, local games on a saturday etc too

[bergeroo]

yeah I imagine if you follow a 'top team' you pretty much are never going to see your team play at 3pm Saturday, that means keeping the whole weekend each time until the tv companies set the tv schedules, must be incredibly annoying, especially if you are passionate fan and work shifts for example. Personally I think it is nice to have a day of the week where there is no football (I'm not counting the Europa League!)

On the plus side, the tickets for Birmingham v Hull are now cheap. On the downside, quite possibly a half full stadium, much smaller away support and a worse atmosphere. But hey, we get some money from the TV company!