Saturday 3pm

[Bert]

Bert was wondering, how many of the 23 league home games this season will have kicked off at the traditional kick off time?

Can some bright young spark assist him here?

 

[beatific blade]

More than one.
Less than 23.

Hopefully someone can fill in the rest.

 

[Deleted member 875]

Bert was wondering, how many of the 23 league home games this season will have kicked off at the traditional kick off time?

Can some bright young spark assist him here?

10 (11 if you include the Preston cup game)

 

[Ricky]

Barnsley and Milwall should've been 2 of those but unfortunately if they kicked off 2 hours later people would definitely have died...

 

[Kenilworth]

GMT or BST?

 

[Bert]

10 (11 if you include the Preston cup game)

What a disgrace. We never had this problem in the good old Fourth Division days. In fact in 1970/1 Bert would guess that at least 16 of the 21 would have been at 3pm.

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Losing several weekends to International breaks doesn't help

You think it's bad now?

Wait until they introduce a winter break.

Oh yes and wait until they move kick off times forward three hours to accommodate time lost through VAR

 

[Silent Blade]

What a disgrace. We never had this problem in the good old Fourth Division days. In fact in 1970/1 Bert would guess that at least 16 of the 21 would have been at 3pm.

17. The night matches in the league were Bolton, Hull, Millwall and Birmingham.

We kept BST from 1968 to 1971

 

[Bert]

17. The night matches in the league were Bolton, Hull, Millwall and Birmingham.

We kept BST from 1968 to 1971

Cardiff was a night game

 

[YES Blade]

What’s the big deal with Saturday 3pm other than tradition?

Maybe it was a good time 100 years ago or whenever the tradition began with it being scheduled around the working man, but for me it’s a crap time.

Either kick off at 12pm-1pm or 5:30pm-7:45pm. 3pm just doesn’t give you much time to do anything else with the day other than going to the match.

 

[Bert]

What’s the big deal with Saturday 3pm other than tradition?

Maybe it was a good time 100 years ago or whenever the tradition began with it being scheduled around the working man, but for me it’s a crap time.

Either kick off at 12pm-1pm or 5:30pm-7:45pm. 3pm just doesn’t give you much time to do anything else with the day other than going to the match.

7.45pm Saturday night a good time for the modern fan? Presumably you live right next to the ground and have a very busy life which makes fitting football in very difficult.

 

[SteveBlade]

3pm would be a weird time for any other activity.

I work 10-6 on Saturdays sometimes. 7am or 7pm kick offs would be ideal.

 

[Silent Blade]

Cardiff was a night game

I meant Cardiff not Birmingham!

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

What a disgrace. We never had this problem in the good old Fourth Division days. In fact in 1970/1 Bert would guess that at least 16 of the 21 would have been at 3pm.

Every time I see you refer to yourself as the third person I burst out laughing

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Either kick off at 12pm-1pm or 5:30pm-7:45pm. 3pm just doesn’t give you much time to do anything else with the day other than going to the match.

Which aren't very good times for those of us who have to travel from afar either for the early start from home or the late arrival at home

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Every time I see you refer to yourself as the third person I burst out laughing

Some of us have been laughing about it since before t'owd Queen died .....

 

[YES Blade]

7.45pm Saturday night a good time for the modern fan? Presumably you live right next to the ground and have a very busy life which makes fitting football in very difficult.

No, I live about an hours drive away with traffic. My point is that an early kick off or a late afternoon/evening kick off gives you more opportunity to do something else alongside football with your Saturday.

What is so good about 3pm other than tradition?

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

No, I live about an hours drive away with traffic. My point is that an early kick off or a late afternoon/evening kick off gives you more opportunity to do something else alongside football with your Saturday.

What is so good about 3pm other than tradition?

Meadowhall is apparently very busy at 3pm on a Saturday ....

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

No, I live about an hours drive away with traffic. My point is that an early kick off or a late afternoon/evening kick off gives you more opportunity to do something else alongside football with your Saturday.

What is so good about 3pm other than tradition?

It gives me an excuse to go out at 12 and come home at 7. I only live in S6.

A 1pm kick off doesn’t allow such freedoms.

For ‘1pm kick off’ read “our lass”

 

[Isar]

Personally I think a 1:00 or 1:30 kick off on a Saturday would be a good thing. That should be enough time for visiting fans to travel and also to get back home a little earlier.
In the winter the game would be over before dark.

 

[Damski]

3pm's perfect for me. Wake up at 7am, leave the house at 8am, train to Sheffield at 9.30am, land in the Shining Steel City at midday, 3 golden hours in the pub, watch the game, couple more hours in the pub, catch the train back to London at 7.30pm, get into St Pancras at 9.30pm, get to the pub for the last hour, go home. Sod yer late kick off.

 

[ScottishBlade93]

What’s the big deal with Saturday 3pm other than tradition?

Maybe it was a good time 100 years ago or whenever the tradition began with it being scheduled around the working man, but for me it’s a crap time.

Either kick off at 12pm-1pm or 5:30pm-7:45pm. 3pm just doesn’t give you much time to do anything else with the day other than going to the match.

Ridiculous statement. What about away fans? I personally wouldn’t want to spend my Saturday night on a coach travelling back from a game .. got better things to do haha.

 

[1973Blade]

Every time I see you refer to yourself as the third person I burst out laughing

1973Blade bursts out laughing at this as well.

 

[Trigger Blade]

Every time I see you refer to yourself as the third person I burst out laughing

You should have a bit more respect for your elders and betters.

And you too 1973Blade, it's no laughing matter.

 

[Rusty view]

It gives me an excuse to go out at 12 and come home at 7. I only live in S6.

A 1pm kick off doesn’t allow such freedoms.

For ‘1pm kick off’ read “our lass”

Nailed it. Same here. Same location.

 

[Pinchy]

Who cares about tradition? Everyone knows that football was invented by Coca-Cola and didn’t exist before SkySports introduced the Premier League.

Let’s do away with kick-off times altogether. It’s tiresome and inconvenient to have to go to a live football match, especially at jaded old three o’clock. Play all the games on Junior Computer Soccer.

 

[Gimli]

I don't understand the line of argument that a 3pm kick off is an inconvenience and gets in the way of doing other stuff. If you'd prefer to do other things then fair enough but don't let the kick off time be the excuse.

 

[Seanshoreham]

What a disgrace. We never had this problem in the good old Fourth Division days. In fact in 1970/1 Bert would guess that at least 16 of the 21 would have been at 3pm.

We oldies love the nostalgia of the 'good old days' remember the Woodbines and Magnet well - pits were still open too

 

[More Bladier than thou]

In the future all games will be played 'on demand' for every fans convenience.

 

[Ginger Gnome]

In future they'll probably play the entire season in one go so it can be released as a boxset for the Netflix-type luvvies who can't handle a weekly schedule.

For now, it's weird that we've had so few Saturday 3pms. Burton was off because of snow, and the Villa game was displaced by a home cup game, but other than that, Forest is the only 3pm home game so far this year, and Preston is the only other one left.

Before the Forest game we hadn't had a Saturday 3pm since Bolton just before new year and before that it was Hull at the start of November. It was better before that with two in October, one in September and two in August. So 5 in the first 3 months, but only 4 for the rest of the season.