Harps to play friday Nights

[DvB]

We played you on a Saturday night last year and 100s of Rovers fans travelled to Ballybofey. A lot of them stayed overnight. I should know because I sat up drinking with them all night in a lock-in I organised in our local for you.


It was an entertaining scoreless draw by the way.

Ah yes, remember it well, we arrived up there in plenty of time for pre match refreshment, the pints aferwards were equally enjoyable due to the lateness of their consumption!! :)

Personally i prefer friday games as having a social life fill's up my saturdays well in advance, friday night is footy night as far as i'm concerned! Once the fixtures come out well in advance i'm lucky enough to be able to organise part of my holidays into a few half day batches that allow me to see away games outside the pale!! The only away game i missed last season funnily enough was the harps game on the tuesday night, work commitments meant i had no chance of taking the half day, though that was of my own making to be fair!

Koh

[WeAreRovers]

[QUOTE=mypost;605751]We'll remember that the next time they bring their race night begging bowl to our fans. :rolleyes: [QUOTE]

It hardly needs to be said but the above quote in no way represents the feelings of Rovers fans. :rolleyes:

Good luck to Harps, without us there'll be sod all away fans in the 1st this season anyway.

One point though, as Doctor Nightdub says, why can't people take half days? That's what we all have to do and it makes no difference what division we're in.

KOH

[NY Hoop]

What rulebook?? :confused: Teams can, and do play whenever they like, even weekend games on a Monday and Wednesday night if it suits them. If there was a rulebook, everyone would play on the same day.

There is a rulebook:

20.4 Clubs are obliged to fulfill fixtures at the appointed time and venue as per the fixture list. Clubs are entitled to arrange their home fixtures for a Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday, or Sunday, provided that at least 16 calendar days notice in writing is given to the opposing club and the General Manager in relation to a change of date, or in relation to a change of time, at least 9 calendar days notice is given in writing to the opposing club and the General Manager.


Mypost has there been a point in your life where you have been happy?

KOH

[mypost]

why can't people take half days? That's what we all have to do and it makes no difference what division we're in.

People can't take half days, because they'd be sacked if you asked/took the amount of half days NL fans need to see games. And for those that don't work, school/college commitments mean taking regular half days to travel up to 500 kilometres up/down the country a matchnight nigh on impossible. Bosses/principals have a rigid schedule, which can't be interfered with every couple of weeks. Then there's the financial hit from taking half days, that fans who can go, have to take. LOI football is an expensive business, and by taking half days, the ordinary fan loses more money. Just because most other clubs do it, doesn't make it right.

If games were at weekends, fans wouldn't lose work time, lose money, kids wouldn't miss out on schoolwork, and you can go to games in comfort, not scratching your head wondering how to beat the traffic for ko. It works for 50 other UEFA associations, but we have to be different. :rolleyes:


Mypost has there been a point in your life where you have been happy?

The irony is, for all my whingeing, whining, and so-called WUMming, the only time I have been banned from a forum, was on our mb at the end of last season, for being "too positive". :eek: After the win in Limerick, coupled with the other results in the league that night, I stated the blindingly obvious that with 2 home games left, we had effectively won the league, and for the whole week I got abused, warned, sworn at, ridiculed, Pm'd, infractions, and finally a ban, so of course, we won the two games, and won the league. Even Scully himself, would later say, that we won the league in Limerick.

Unlike most Irish people, when I don't like something, or something is wrong, I don't shut up about it. I complain, and whinge about it until it's put right. Obviously whining works. At least I don't get banned for it.

[Dodge]

Yeah but thats very personal viewpoint mypost. In my experience most people CAN take half days and incur no extra cost whether game is on Friday or Saturday. Not to mention people who work saturdays.

it doesn't suit you, we get it. Most away fans don't mind.