Overthehills
Long term sufferer - Ever optimist
Just read an article in which Scot Parker vents about the fixture changes that his side have encountered this week... To be honest, the bloke probably has a right to be a little bit aggrieved. But then again, surely Bournemouth could have adjusted to make things a bit easier for themselves? Whether they should have had to is another story, but to make things just a little bit easier for themselves?
As with us and pretty much every team, Sky came in and meddled with the fixtures in order to accommodate TV coverage. Bournemouth originally would have played West Brom on Tuesday night and then us at the usual 3pm on Saturday.
Sky however had other ideas.... in the space of a couple of days, they changed Bournemouths trip to West Brom to a Wednesday night...they then came back and change Bournemouths trip to the Lane to an earlier 12.30 kick off.
Parker I obviously aggrieved by this.....
His Bournemouth team only returned from West Brom at around 3am this morning apparently. But now he has little time to prepare for his trip to BDTBL Lane and his team will have to board a coach and travel all the way up to us tomorrow, in order to get some shut eye before Saturday's early kick off.
Whilst obviously we will welcome some tired legs and minds when we play them at the weekend, part of me see their point..... all this fixture changing is a pain in the arse and it does cause problems to teams and fans alike.
But perhaps Bournemouth could have helped themselves a little better here?
Whilst it's a Ball ache granted... I have seen similar with teams in the past and they have stayed up north. I know that there is an option in which teams can utilise St George's Park in scenarios like this. Therefore wouldn't it have made a bit more sense to stay up north? Grab a training session and utilise the state of art facilities, before the reasonable journey over from Burton to Sheffield?
They didn't have to travelled all the way home did they....they chose to.
I do get it, it's annoying...... but we have to use it to our advantage hopefully. UTB
As with us and pretty much every team, Sky came in and meddled with the fixtures in order to accommodate TV coverage. Bournemouth originally would have played West Brom on Tuesday night and then us at the usual 3pm on Saturday.
Sky however had other ideas.... in the space of a couple of days, they changed Bournemouths trip to West Brom to a Wednesday night...they then came back and change Bournemouths trip to the Lane to an earlier 12.30 kick off.
Parker I obviously aggrieved by this.....
His Bournemouth team only returned from West Brom at around 3am this morning apparently. But now he has little time to prepare for his trip to BDTBL Lane and his team will have to board a coach and travel all the way up to us tomorrow, in order to get some shut eye before Saturday's early kick off.
Whilst obviously we will welcome some tired legs and minds when we play them at the weekend, part of me see their point..... all this fixture changing is a pain in the arse and it does cause problems to teams and fans alike.
But perhaps Bournemouth could have helped themselves a little better here?
Whilst it's a Ball ache granted... I have seen similar with teams in the past and they have stayed up north. I know that there is an option in which teams can utilise St George's Park in scenarios like this. Therefore wouldn't it have made a bit more sense to stay up north? Grab a training session and utilise the state of art facilities, before the reasonable journey over from Burton to Sheffield?
They didn't have to travelled all the way home did they....they chose to.
I do get it, it's annoying...... but we have to use it to our advantage hopefully. UTB
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