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TV game moves 2024/25

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Larry_LCFC

Larry_LCFC

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16 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

Im sure I read once that clubs have a say in who they want to play around this time.

Literally the time of year most railway works are carried out. Not an easy place to get to or back from at that time of night. Should be a distance limit over christmas

sylofox

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30 minutes ago, Larry_LCFC said:

Literally the time of year most railway works are carried out. Not an easy place to get to or back from at that time of night. Should be a distance limit over christmas

Used to be. We would of had florist. As far as possible you played your neighbours. But late 60's 70's and 80's put a stop to it all. Plus live TV would not want it either.

 

The police put a stop to it though as officers wanted time with family but the trouble of local derbies ment that could not happen.

Fox92

Fox92

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15 hours ago, Larry_LCFC said:

Isn't this the 4th meeting in 6 years between us and Liverpool at 8pm inbetween Xmas and new year - twice on boxing day. It's ****ing shocking. No thought for the fans.

 

15 hours ago, SemperEadem said:

Im sure I read once that clubs have a say in who they want to play around this time.

I always thought they tried to play games as local as possible, which seems to be the case if you check the fixtures for that day. There's just a couple odd ones to me such as Newcastle playing Villa. Surely we could play Villa and Newcastle play Liverpool, unless it's a policing thing. 

Sir Steve Howard

Sir Steve Howard

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16 hours ago, Larry_LCFC said:

Isn't this the 4th meeting in 6 years between us and Liverpool at 8pm inbetween Xmas and new year - twice on boxing day. It's ****ing shocking. No thought for the fans.

Couldn't think of anything worse than driving to Liverpool on Boxing Day with no trains to get pumped by the most despicable club in the world

Gamble92

Gamble92

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15 hours ago, sylofox said:

Used to be. We would of had florist. As far as possible you played your neighbours. But late 60's 70's and 80's put a stop to it all. Plus live TV would not want it either.

 

The police put a stop to it though as officers wanted time with family but the trouble of local derbies ment that could not happen.

For Live TV you could bill it as a bunch of local rivalries on Tele over Christmas. Doesn't have to be all of them in one go either. 

 

Suppose the issue you would have is one fixture is still going to end up being miles away. Probably be us going to Liverpool 😂

Bert

Bert

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13 minutes ago, Gamble92 said:

For Live TV you could bill it as a bunch of local rivalries on Tele over Christmas. Doesn't have to be all of them in one go either. 

 

Suppose the issue you would have is one fixture is still going to end up being miles away. Probably be us going to Liverpool 😂

Police would have a massive issue with that. Christmas time and a full fixture list of rivalries/derbies? Madness. 

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CosbehFox

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3 hours ago, Fox92 said:

 

I always thought they tried to play games as local as possible, which seems to be the case if you check the fixtures for that day. There's just a couple odd ones to me such as Newcastle playing Villa. Surely we could play Villa and Newcastle play Liverpool, unless it's a policing thing. 

They attempt to but I think they add a number of combinations from the other requests etc and you end up with a very small pool of potential opposition. Wolves are another consistently paired with L.pool. 
 

A massive influence on Boxing Day fixtures is the London clubs.
 

Tellingly only one derby takes place on that set of the fixtures. One of the least impactful on police resource - Chelsea v Fulham. 

 

Two London clubs play at home (one of which is the 27th now). 
 

The impact of no public transport and a reduced tube service is big.
 

So it appears they try to get as many London teams away and facing teams outside of London (of course we have 7 London clubs in the league); avoiding derbies to overwhelm policing and not to overly test the reduced transport services
 

As result you end up with a remaining 8 teams and 4 fixtures. The possible combos reduce because of the Manchester and Liverpool clubs - that pre sets that at least two of the fixtures to be Liverpool/Everton v Midlands/North team & same for Man U/Man City v X. You can have one Manchester v Liverpool combo and that’s going to be Everton v one of the Manchester clubs because of policing. 
 

We aren’t going to play Villa or Wolves on Boxing Day either. 
 

So that leaves us the Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle. 

 

Tellingly no Northern team has to go south of Leicester. 


Therefore it’s no surprise that  since promotion in 14/15 excepting last season; we’ve faced a Manchester or Liverpool club 6 lot of 10 times. Newcastle makes another. Spurs and Watford the others 

 

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grobyfox1990

grobyfox1990

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4 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

For Live TV you could bill it as a bunch of local rivalries on Tele over Christmas. Doesn't have to be all of them in one go either. 

 

Suppose the issue you would have is one fixture is still going to end up being miles away. Probably be us going to Liverpool 😂

Lol can you imagine. Police already have enough of an issue with office drones wearing Temu xmas jumpers drinking 3.5 pints of Carling at their xmas party. Can you imagine if the whole football league system was playing derbies! With everyone on holiday, unable to control the fact they've been paid early and with nothing better to do. It would be anarchy.

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Gamble92

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1 hour ago, grobyfox1990 said:

Lol can you imagine. Police already have enough of an issue with office drones wearing Temu xmas jumpers drinking 3.5 pints of Carling at their xmas party. Can you imagine if the whole football league system was playing derbies! With everyone on holiday, unable to control the fact they've been paid early and with nothing better to do. It would be anarchy.

Maybe not the big ones then. Leicester Vs Wolves would be alright 😂

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ealingfox

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On 17/10/2024 at 13:37, grobyfox1990 said:

Lol can you imagine. Police already have enough of an issue with office drones wearing Temu xmas jumpers drinking 3.5 pints of Carling at their xmas party. Can you imagine if the whole football league system was playing derbies! With everyone on holiday, unable to control the fact they've been paid early and with nothing better to do. It would be anarchy.

 

Yeah and there'd be lots of other good bits too.

sharpylcfc

sharpylcfc

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1 hour ago, Fox92 said:

Yes, it got announced in the last batch.

Worked out the other day cause of games moved for TV our game at home against Bournemouth was our last 3pm kick off on a Saturday at home until we play Fulham at home on the 18th of January. 

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hejammy

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37 minutes ago, sharpylcfc said:

Worked out the other cause of games moved for TV our game at home against Bournemouth was our last 3pm kick off on a Saturday at home until we play Fulham at home on the 18th of January. 

errr ya whaaah?

Fox92

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1 minute ago, hejammy said:

errr ya whaaah?

Bournemouth was our last Saturday 3pm home game, Fuham is the next one (January 2025).

Free Falling Foxes

Free Falling Foxes

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2 hours ago, sharpylcfc said:

Worked out the other day cause of games moved for TV our game at home against Bournemouth was our last 3pm kick off on a Saturday at home until we play Fulham at home on the 18th of January. 

I seem to recall in our Premier league winning season and for two or three seasons thereafter, we had very few Saturday 3pm ko.

Might be my memory but that's how I remember it.

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