Town and televised games this season - potentially?
Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2023 8:21 am
Just thought I’d post this fans post , as he raises some possibilities re Town snd televised games altering our usual Sat ko’s . I think he has done valid points ….. anyway here’s what he said :
“ The TV deal announced in May https://www.efl.com/news/2023/
says that there will be a minimum of 328 Championship games scheduled, with 5 matches each weekend, so that means around 3 weekday matches per week. They also said that they will announce all the scheduled fixtures up to the FAC 3rd round before the season starts.
With a maximum of 12 matches on a Saturday, presumably that means we can expect quite a few of the Saturday matches to move to either a Friday night or a Sunday. I'm expecting Leeds (H) to get selected and move to either the Friday or the Sunday.
This is gonna get messy. “
I will add he was corrected by couple of other posters who said this new deal doesn’t start this season but next …. But when it does come in it’ll cause a lot of disruption….
A Response says ….
“Looking at this season, we have thirteen non-Saturday/Sunday fixtures, a mixture of scheduled midweek games (8) and those that are played at Xmas / New Year and Easter (5). All of these would be live under the new deal. If you add in the opening day and final day of the season, then that is 15 rounds of fixtures (180 matches).
That leaves around 150 additional live fixtures across 31 weekends, so around 5 per week.
It will be disruptive, with a 40% chance each week that we are not kicking off at 3pm on Saturday.
For the first half of the season, the moved matches will be known when the fixtures are released and there is a commitment to give clubs earlier notice of when they are playing.“
“ The TV deal announced in May https://www.efl.com/news/2023/
says that there will be a minimum of 328 Championship games scheduled, with 5 matches each weekend, so that means around 3 weekday matches per week. They also said that they will announce all the scheduled fixtures up to the FAC 3rd round before the season starts.
With a maximum of 12 matches on a Saturday, presumably that means we can expect quite a few of the Saturday matches to move to either a Friday night or a Sunday. I'm expecting Leeds (H) to get selected and move to either the Friday or the Sunday.
This is gonna get messy. “
I will add he was corrected by couple of other posters who said this new deal doesn’t start this season but next …. But when it does come in it’ll cause a lot of disruption….
A Response says ….
“Looking at this season, we have thirteen non-Saturday/Sunday fixtures, a mixture of scheduled midweek games (8) and those that are played at Xmas / New Year and Easter (5). All of these would be live under the new deal. If you add in the opening day and final day of the season, then that is 15 rounds of fixtures (180 matches).
That leaves around 150 additional live fixtures across 31 weekends, so around 5 per week.
It will be disruptive, with a 40% chance each week that we are not kicking off at 3pm on Saturday.
For the first half of the season, the moved matches will be known when the fixtures are released and there is a commitment to give clubs earlier notice of when they are playing.“