Toquay game to be moved?

[Goal Drought]

Skysports viewers:

 

Stoke v Blackburn what a lunchtime thriller we have in prospect here!!

[Twitters]

Friday games under Adams:

Fri 14th Oct 2011 - Vale 3 Northampton 0 (NPL2)

Fri 18th Feb 2011 - Vale 2 Bradford 1 (NPL2)

Fri 26th Nov 2010 - Vale 1 Accrington 0 (FAC1)

 

We did lose twice on a Friday in 08-09 under Glover as TLV said.

[Smugsy]

Friday games under Adams:

Fri 14th Oct 2011 - Vale 3 Northampton 0 (NPL2)

Fri 18th Feb 2011 - Vale 2 Bradford 1 (NPL2)

Fri 26th Nov 2010 - Vale 1 Accrington 0 (FAC1)

 

We did lose twice on a Friday in 08-09 under Glover as TLV said.

 

Uurgh. That FA Cup defeat by Macc still haunts me.

 

In fairness it's not Stoke's or Sky's fault. If Sky had shown no interest in the Stoke Blackburn game, we'd have had to move anyway. The Premier League rules all. The fault lies in the numbnuts who schedule both teams at home on a Saturday. In this day and age of sophisicated computer programs, how difficult can it be?

[Row L]

Its quite common here in belgium for games to be played on a Saturday evening. Lots of us then go straight out for a few beers afterwards. We should have just moved the KO time back until 6 or 7.00

[Birches Head Fred]

Just a thought........does the rearranged time have to be agreed by Torquay?

If so then perhaps they chose Friday night as they can drive up on Friday, and return directly after the game whereas had it been early Staurday, or 3.00pm Sunday they would probably require an expensive stop-over.

I doubt they gave their 'army' of travelling fans much forethought.......

[Phil]

Birches Head Fred

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Posts: 7,091 Just a thought........does the rearranged time have to be agreed by Torquay?

If so then perhaps they chose Friday night as they can drive up on Friday, and return directly after the game whereas had it been early Staurday, or 3.00pm Sunday they would probably require an expensive stop-over.

I doubt they gave their 'army' of travelling fans much forethought.......

 

Yes, they do have to agree, if clubs don't agree then the League decide. I don't know Torquay's views, but if they said no does anybody think it would have made any difference?

[Timothius]

I remember us losing 3-0 to Doncaster on a Friday night when Billy Bremner was their manager. A dour 0-0 draw with crewe, a narrow defeat by a soon to be promoted to the prem Middlesborough in a game we should have won, defeat by Macc and there must be more such games. Friday nights aren't all what they are cracked up to be!

[Tosh]

Another bad game played on a Friday was Lincoln when Glover was in charge, we lost 0-1, the previous Wednesday Glover told Kyle Perry that he had no future at the club and then picked him from the start on the Friday:unsure:

 

Torquay have also moved their home game with Barnet forward to a Friday night in December for some reason.

 

http://www.torquayunited.com/page/News/0,,10445~2502125,00.html

[TEB300968]

Who cares, Burslem after the game looks good to me!

[Leicestershire Valiant]

You make an excellent point there. I hope someobody at the Vale is going to pursue this as this fixture change to a Friday night for an away team over 200 miles away is seriously going to affect the Vale

 

It's going to affect me too. I work on Friday evenings. Keep it on Saturday at 3.00pm

[Loggerheads Sage]

It's going to affect me too. I work on Friday evenings. Keep it on Saturday at 3.00pm

 

I can't see the problem anyway - neither games are potential hot spots are they. Surely if we had put it back say 1 hour til 4.00 there couldn't have been a problem with joint stewards etc - this will cost a lot in hospitality - get on to it Perry!

[Twitters]

If the police have said move it, the club get no choice.

[smithie]

EDL rallies go ahead at huge cost to the taxpayers.

 

Is it really beyond the capability of Staffordshire Police to manage two games? Two games that will struggle to generate more than 1500 away fans between the two visiting teams?

 

Pathetic decision.

[bycarsender]

I am really annoyed at this decision I am on nights. I would have been able to go this match on the Saturday afternoon. Why do we have to continue to move our fixture dates?

[Phil]

Twitters

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Join Date: Oct 2005

Posts: 6,763 If the police have said move it, the club get no choice.

 

They didn't though. We've moved because we wouldn't have any stewards, gatemen and presumably other match day staff who do both clubs.