A quick poll

When would you prefer premier league games to be played? And WHY?

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2001

Answers

Following on from another thread, I'd like to put my weight behind night time games. That would give us a weekend off to do other things that we enjoy doing during the daytime.

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2001

Sat morn. 6am.

So i can enjoy Sat 4pm and still go out Sat night and not make excuses to get home early!!

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2001

Night time is difficult to get home from away games. And as a bairn I wasn't allowed to go to night games. Saturday is fine.

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2001

Saturday 6pm.

Shops have closed (or about to) and the game'll finish 8ish so it's not too early to hang on in town for a few refreshments after. Also not too late for the bairns to head home.

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2001

Saturday afternoon, 3pm.

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2001

Anything but Sunday 2pm. Bliddy aaful, AND we've got another one in a few weeks! Like the idea of Saturday at 6pm.

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2001

2pm was horrendous, it meant you could do nothing else that day. 6pm Saturday would be very very good. Can't understand why the traditionalists want to stick with 3 pm. It's a daft time when you think about it.

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2001

Another traditionalist. 3pm on Saturdays.

Sunday is a hopeless day for a match. If it's at 2pm you miss your Sunday dinner!

Don't mind the odd Weds night but hate Mondays as well.

For those of us travelling to the Toon from afar, Saturdays are best!

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2001

3pm was a good time pre floodlights (2pm in winter).

i'm all for 6pm saturday, sort it out someone.

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2001

No no no! Think of all the poor souls who travel to the Toon. You get out of the ground at around 8pm if it starts at 6. Wouldn't get back to my house until 11pm. For people further afield than Manchester it would be even worse.

Think about the away fans or think about it when NUFC travel to southampton for instance.

It'll never catch on.

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2001

Also, think about the Neds who'll spend all afternoon getting tanked up before the game. A recipe for trouble.

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2001

OK how about Saturday 5.15pm then?

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2001

Yes that 45 minutes would make such a difference!

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2001

Yes it would Lynda, you'd be able to get back to Atherton or wherever well before midnight.

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2001

I know but I would like to have some kind of social life outside of supporting the Toon! At least a the moment I can get back at around 9 and still go out. (Unless we've lost and then I stay in with no supper)

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2001

Perhaps you would explain why you think 3pm Saturday is so 'daft', Rik?

It leaves Saturday morning free to dee the shoppin, get the coal in an aal that, and still enables a good Saturday neet on the lash doon t' Clerb - leaving Sunday free ti gan ti chorch etc., have a pint or three at' Club, eat yer Sunday dinner stone cold, and then have good kip afore yer tea.

What more could a clean livin' Geordie lad want from life for crying out loud?

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2001

Well , a lot of people work on Saturdays to start with. An evening kick off would enable people to do some work on a Saturday, perhaps abit of overtime.

Then there's the people who don't work. You could take your bairns out for a day out, rather than an hour or two in the morning. If you like to get away, you could have a full day at somewhere like Keilder or you could go for a round of golf in the Scottish borders and still get back for the game and a drink or two afterwards.

3 pm cocks it up as you only get the morning free Then you have to grap some dinner, gan to the match, have a few drinks, stagger home for 9pm and go straight to sleep on the couch. That's if you're lucky, if you take a bairn you have to come back at 6 - 7 o'clock and then you're stuck with babysitting as the missus wants to go out (seeing as I went to the match like).

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2001

Agree 2pm is terrible. I play Sunday Morning and my game didn't finish till 12:15 on Sunday. by te time I had showered and changed I had to leave straight away so had no time for me dinner. got dropped off at Manors at twenty to two so had to go straight to the ground n buy some overpriced food there. Too much of a rush and av got to do it again in a couple of weeks time.

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2001

Saturday's at 10am. Well, that's the time I'm usually sitting down to the webcast or in the pub here! No time to get tanked before, but you've got your whole day free after. ;-))

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2001

Is the tottenham game 2pm kick off?

If so does anyone want a couple of cheaper tickets?

Two for £35? .... not joking, I'll even throw in a flag to wave about.

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2001

The major train of thought o'er here in the west is that yer major professional sports events will happen on a Sunday afternoon. The tele is loaded (in Bermuda the local footie is equivalent to watching Rushden and Diamonds play) American football, Euro Soccer, baseball, Nascar, even the toon on occasinon. This ends up turning Sundays into a bit of a problem as we who have no choice but to be pub dwellers or couch potatoes, the bairns are left to amuse themselves, the wives know the deal, better if they just left us well enough alone.

This brings up the point. How in the hell can we be expected to enjoy the footie on Saturday and fall into the Sunday cauldron of entertainment without repercussions??? The answer lies in the question itself. We do, and we do and we deal with the repercussions.

BTW - by mid-day Wednesday all is forgotten and we've caught up with the chores, the wife is smiling again, the bairns are happy to be helping Daddy, and very eagerly we see the new target plain as day... the next weekend!

This can be expected to run on consecutive weekends from mid-August until the end of June after the NBA playoffs. July is too hot here to do anything but sleep anyway!!!!!!

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2001

3pm Saturday with occasional weekday evening matches (as you can use them to fantasise about being back in Europe)...That wonderful Worthington night against Brentford doesn't sound the same as That wonderful European night against Barcelona, tho' but.

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2001

3pm Saturday, nothing wrong with that.

I like the early games though, 11pm on Boxing Day and that, a nice refresher.

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2001