The Galway and Mervue situation is a bit awkward. One of them will have to play on the Sundays I suppose.
Apart from the ROI friendly which caused the fixtures of Friday May 28 to be played on Saturday 29th, the fixtures down for the Fridays of 3 September and 8 October will have to be moved now.
Friday 3 September
Premier games for
Dundalk v Bray
Galway v Pats (Mervue playing on the Saturday)
Finglas v Bohs
UCD v Drogheda
Rovers v Sligo (shut up Sligo fans, we know…)
First Div
Limerick v Longford
Waterford v Derry
Mons v Harps
Shels v Salthill
Games for the 8 October
Premier
Bray v Drogs
Dundak v sligo
Galway v UCD (Mervue playing on Saturday)
Pats v Bohs
Rovers v Finglas
First
Derry v Shels
Limerick v Wexford
Waterford v Harps
Just in the premier some have to move 2 home games (Galway, Dundalk, Rovers) while others none at all (Drogs, Sligo, Bohs)
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The Galway and Mervue situation is a bit awkward. One of them will have to play on the Sundays I suppose.
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
Could see a return to the bad old days with Dundalk playing on a Thursday night and games spread over Thursday, Saturday and Sunday
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The chances were that the Mons v Harps game would have been moved to the Sunday anyway.
I would love the Waterford game to be moved to the Sunday with a 2/3pm kick off, easier for travelling.
yeah, I was just commenting on that specific weekend
However, I'm firmly of the opinion that our (Pats) crowds have suffered over the last couple iof years due to the amount of date/day changes for europe and TV reasons. We went something like 3 months without a home game on Fridays which makes it hard to get into habit etc
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Who would've thunk that Alex Fergusons and his premiership manager buddies year on year whinging would impact LOI fixtures ?
The games down for October will be automatically moved, however the ones in September might stay, as the international game will be over by about 6pm that evening.
Liverpool have played once on Saturday at 3pm at home in the past 6 months, yet 40,000 fill Anfield every week.Originally Posted by dodge
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Well done to them. However its not relevent to the LOI
I note your gate survived hugely from the move to sunday v Dundalk.
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It is, if it's habits that need to attract a crowd.Originally Posted by Dodge
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Most of the crowd at Anfield are either season ticket holders or barstoolers on package trips. With the LoI, we're trying to get the fleeting customer. The habit of going to games is well developed at Liverpool; we're trying to develop it here.
Also, if the 40000 going to Anfield every week decided they weren't going to bother, another 40000 would come along handily enough. Not the case with us.
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We don't get the fleeting customer in our game. The general public at large aren't interested. Most people are st holders or away fans. UCD is one of the biggest universities in the country, but that isn't reflected in your home gates. Most don't want to know despite the fact the ground is 5 minutes walk from the campus.Originally Posted by pineapple stu
The number of barstoolers going to games anywhere in England is a very small percentage of the overall crowd. Some come from other countries, but most are either st holders or locals that can afford a rare game. Saturday at 3pm has, and is the traditional time for games in England, yet some clubs rarely get to play then. But people aren't put off by constant time changes and the fact that they can watch it on tv for a pittance. Habits aren't a factor.
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Our crowds have been poor enough when playing on a Saturday or Sunday so I'd imagine we'll just go back to Thursday for these two games.
Exactly. Not a snowball's chance in hell Devon will let Mervue on the, ahem, 'hallowed' turf of Drom. I would imagine United will end up playing on Sunday. I have been told United have first 'dibs' on Terryland, but no sense in making changes to affect 4 teams (United and Mervue switching games, opposition affected as well), when United can play on Thursday/Sunday and therefore just 2 teams affected
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