Or, they think it's the best night for midweek games. How does Wednesday sound with league games to follow on Friday? As has been pointed out several times; once the clubs and players want to start in March and end in October (with a break in June), midweek games are a must.
Absolutely
FWIW, the Midweek scheduled games;
14 March
9-10 May (most clubs going with Tuesday 10)
15-16 August
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This is Cork City's fixture list between April 15th & April 29th.
April 15th,. Galway vs City.
April 18th. City vs Waterford.
April 22nd. City vs Harps.
April 25th City vs Rovers.
April 29th City vs St Pats.
That's 5 games in 14 days.
Pure madness. Yes 4 of the games are at home but its still madness with fans expected to shell out for that amount of games in such a short space of time.
There has to be a better way ?
To be fair, the Game against Rovers is the one that was postponed because of the under 21s International, there is no other time to play it until one of us get knocked out of the cup which might not happen too early
I dont get this fatigue issue in football that is rolled out by managers. High intensity and impact sports like rugby during 6 nations, for example, have 6/7 days recovery between games over a month and then provincial competitions too. Tennis players can be on court for 3 or so hours days in a row. Cyclists doing 1000's of km's over 3 weeks day after day. In gaelic games, albeit less common now, you had dual players at inter-county and club games in both codes certain times of the year + training. Maybe i'm missing something and it is a different type of fatigue for the association footballer but when you hear a manager complain about even 2 games in 7 days it seems like complaining for complaining's sake or maybe its a mind game bluff even. It may not be at the highest levels of sport but I know plenty of chaps who were playing GAA, football, maybe even rugby, all year round with the odd 10k local run or golf etc and very little complaint about physical fatigue. Is it just a mindset?
Some of the excuses put up by some around here are funny especially coming from guys who spend most of their season inside the M50
Our game against Cork Monday will be our fourth game in 11 days and on top of that next week is the third time from the last four weeks we're playing Friday and Monday and we're part time and ya don't see us on here complaining (Not *counting having three away games in arrow in the league). Youse are supposed to be full time and your moaning build a bridge........
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Away and sh!te all of ye. You're ruining my nice thread.
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2,339 at Dundalk v Sligo. All present and counted.
Joking aside you can see the gaps from last year, I moved from the stand for the second half to the open seating town side and that area would have been well packed last season, was less the half full. The shed side is keeping its numbers, stand probably ok too, granted the away support was low, but you can't be counting on away fans to boost your figures.
Overall Dundalk are down around 600 on their 2015 average (to date) if you look at the last 2 games, maybe complacency is creeping in, but it's early days I suppose. There can be no blame on tv tonight though, and although it was around 250 more than the Derry game, it's still a disappointing turn out.
#DundalkFC - First Irish club to win an away game in Europe (1963), first Irish club to win points in a group stage in Europe (2016).
1,557 at Galway v Cork. Great game, especially the second half, but that is a disappointing crowd considering how well Galway are playing.
919 at Harps and again a bit disappointing.
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