First Division Games?

**don ramo** · 16/01/2009, 4:57 PM

saturday saturday saturday night, we wont be changing any time soon, friday personally i dont like, i cant travel most fridays, so i miss a lot of away games, some clubs have played fridays for year and years, how do they know it will affect there attendances if they switch,

**stann** · 16/01/2009, 7:38 PM

Originally Posted by DRDoc

Waterford considering saturday nights also

No they're not, not any more. Briefly talked about it at committee level before Christmas apparently but decided against it, and signalled that decision to the powers that be over two weeks ago.

**Neish** · 17/01/2009, 10:34 AM

I think all teams Prem and 1st Div should play at least a couple of home games on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon with kickoff some time between noon and 5pm. It would allow parents to bring kids to games and get them back to their beds at a decent time.

Some may say this clashes with FA Premier League but IMO people who want to sit in the pub or house watching these game rather than go support their local side have very little interest in going to LOI games

**CSFShels** · 18/01/2009, 1:22 PM

You'd be surprised the amount of people with an interest in both. It would be madness.

**Neish** · 18/01/2009, 7:37 PM

Originally Posted by CSFShels

You'd be surprised the amount of people with an interest in both. It would be madness.

I don't have any kids but I know from speaking to parents that having all night time kick off dissuade them from bringing their kids to LOI game(as they often don't get back from these game untill after 10pm) meaning they only games they see when young are Foreign teams on TV and by the time parents deem they are old enough to go LOI games their allegiance's often already lie with foreign teams.

I'm not saying all LOI games should have a kick off at this time just 2 or 3 a season(prehaps local derbies) that don't clash with any GAA game, and if the sunday FA Premier games don't alway invlove the big 4