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It's been confirmed the final game will be a 5:30pm ko for all league 2 games

EFL: Kick-off time confirmed for final round of Sky Bet League Two fixtures

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Championship and league 1 games all kick off at noon

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What a stupid time, no thought at all given to supporters, glad were away.:rolleyes:

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Everybody should avoid the games home or away in all the affected leagues. That is a powerful message the FA will notice. I doubt if they will do anything though.

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Ridiculous decision! And of course, it's down to Sky Sports so that they can fit a lower league game into their schedule!!
Wouldn't have been going to Stevenage anyway but if I was the late kick off time would certainly have made me think twice. It was a similar time when we played the first leg of the play offs down there albeit on a Sunday & it was a long, long journey home.
If we'd had a home fixture though I wouldn't have boycotted it as you suggest Chris, can see where you're coming from but I can't imagine missing a home game unless I was ill & physically incapable of going

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Have to be honest if we had a home fixture i would not have attended.

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Feel sorry for Carlisle they're away to Exeter last game

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As if Satanage in the last game is not bad enough. This is pathetic pandering to coach potatoes.

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Thats my point, no consideration has been given at all to supporters, whilst some may ignore it, i wouldn't.

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It's fitting that this latest knee-bend to the God of Sky was announced by the League 2 club's rep who, according to the Fishy site, thinks it will somehow allow more fans of League 2 enjoy the finale " first hand" (by first hand I presume he means the hand the holds the TV remote control).
The irony is Nixon is from Carlisle Utd.
The train from Exeter to Carlisle leaving after 8pm on Saturday seems to involve a 10 hour overnight stay in the waiting room at Newport :eek: before reaching Carlisle mid-day Sunday.
The only reason why telly shows a match at 5:30pm is to avoid clashing with 3pm kick-offs. But if there aren't any 3pm matches, why not just leave the fixtures alone and televise the game earlier?

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No can do "UK football’s TV blackout rule prevents live football matches from being televised between 2.45pm and 5.15pm on Saturday afternoons"

A bit stupid if this is the result of it.

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Excuse my ignorance but if a match finishes about 7:30pm and it's 3-4 hours home then isn't that a good fit into the end of the weekend? More time for pre match drinkees too. (I accept it's not great for Carlisle v Exeter).

I know it means missing "Heartbeat" or whatever Sunday night viewing is these days but is that too much of a hardship?

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So much for that rule, Duncan.
Just figured that on May 6th Sky are showing a match at 3pm between....guess who? Arsenal and Man Utd.
Still, I suppose those two are so rarely on telly that it's worth we cosseted League 2 fans making a little sacrifice, especially as it'll be pure joy for Orient fans to get from Blackpool, Plymouth fans from Grimsby, and Morecambe fans from Luton on Saturday night.

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Sod all to do with whats on telly,as for more time for pre match drinkies, yes it gives the dickheads plenty of time to get rat arsed,that may suit you LordD, but i know plenty it don't.:rolleyes:

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Sky won't have picked the fixture times that far yet for the premiership so it will be moved. Only games shown abroad and not in the UK can be shown between those times on a Saturday.

Only fixtures up to the end of February have been listed on the Sky site so far.

There is talk of trying to change the rule but it hasn't been yet.

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Blackburn home game against Newcastle on 2/01/2017 was a 3pm ko yet it was live on sky ! And that's partly the reason Stanley hand a lower attendance that one would have expected for a bank holiday game.:(

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The rule only applies to a Saturday

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It's about tie the sweet 'F.A.' realised that football is the property of the fans, who give their time & hard earned money following their team.
The EFL are only custodians of our sport. What gives them the right to inconvenience genuine fans at the whim of Sky Sport. This ludicrous decision has shown they don't give a fig for the fans.
To then wrap it up as somehow being a more exciting deal for supporters just adds insult to injury.
I'd horsewhip the b******s!

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This is nothing to do with the FA.

I'll look up the exact figures but around £70 million comes into the EFL from Sky TV.


ASFC and other L2 clubs get 8% of this money.

As a proud member of the EFL we ( as every other club) take the monies we're given therefore we all have to accept there will be requirements for this cash.

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Requirement that treat the supporters like crap, hardly surprising your in favour of it MRT.:confused:

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agree up to a point MR T as all clubs need the money, but it does seem that this is the be all and end all in the game at the moment. football survived before sky came on board and would certainly survive without it. would it survive without fans. i really doubt it. just something else too anoye fans of all lower league sides who for the most couldn,t care less about the premier league big shots.

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'I'll look up the exact figures but around £70 million comes into the EFL from Sky TV.
ASFC and other L2 clubs get 8% of this money.'



£23K- is that all we get from the EFL?

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It's funny how for all but the last day of the season, Sky Sport completely ignore league 2.
Their raison d'etre is live Premier League football for pseudo football fans, or as Exile aptly calls them - 'couch potatoes with a remote'.
The pittance that drips down to the lower leagues are breadcrumbs to give an appearance that they 'care' about the game.
The fact that it's the league 2 fans who are facing the biggest inconvenience proves that we're at the bottom of their priorities.
:mad:

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Aye but MrT says "Proud Member" of this useless lot.:rolleyes:

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Not £233K?

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Whatever it is, no price is worth selling yer soul for.;)

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While I would agree with you, I doubt the money men at clubs agree.

Take the Accy example, TV money of £233,333 per season is just over £10,000 per home game based on 23 home games compared to in the region of £20,000 per game based on a crowd of 1700 paying from £20 down to £5. This shows that at our level the fans are important but so is TV money to a lesser extent.

However last time Burnley were in the Premiership they made a net profit of 40 million euros or roughly £35m. If we assume a crowd of 20,000 paying £30 each is £600,000 x 19 home games = £11.4m. So even if no fans went they would still have a net profit over £20m.

I know there are other things to factor in such as profit from merchandise and catering but it shows the total imbalance in football and how the higher up you go the less fans matter to the money men.

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Still none the wiser.
I'm happy to go to a 7:45 KO, happy to go to a 3pm KO..... I even remember watching England v Brazil in a pub at 9am many moons ago.
What's the beef with 5:30pm?

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The beef is having to be in Stevenage at all.

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PS, I hope none of the people who complain about scheduling have, or have ever had, Sky TV (or equivalent).

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I think Lord D that 'the beef' is that Sky can dictate times when games are to be played & be hanged to any inconvenience to fans, just my opinion of course

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If every Accy fan that had Sky Sports cancelled it or didn't have it in the first place it would mean the square root of hee haw to Sky. There target audience are armchair fans watching the premiership.

Plus most tech savvy people can get live football by other means anyway without paying Sky TV or equivalent :D

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Let's not write the 5pm Satanage game off just yet! We could be going there needing points for league survival. How ironic would that be after last season's final game?:(

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This decision means that Newport county and Newport dragons rugby team kick off at the same time at the same ground

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used to have it but got rid years ago mainly due to them attempting to run football. if i can,t get to live football due to age or infermity i,ll just not bother.

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If it is a dead game how many of the 40 fans going will it put off?

How many complained when games where put back to 3pm after getting floodlights etc? No it is seen as a traditional time, but it never was.

5.30pm isn't that bad, it would have been better at home, though as it is only really the away fans it affects badly. Having League 2 live on tv may bring more interest to league 2.

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I've never had Sky, apart from paying to watch one match a few weeks ago.
Fair enough that 1,300 Accy fans make little difference, but if you have ever bought it then you have still sold your soul to the devil and must put up with the consequences.
I'm fairly ambivalent about the effects of Sky TV after a couple of decades of being completely outraged by it. There are, I grudgingly admit, a lot of positives from it.

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If you believe that, you'll believe anything.
We all know football's sold its soul to the TV companies years ago.
Yes, it does bring some benefits to lower league teams, mainly in FA cup games when there's the possibility of a 'David v Goliath' match.
I can understand that clubs must toe the line and accept the status quo, they can't be seen to bite the hand that feeds them.
However, the real problem is there's too much football on TV, not too little.
To the extent that watching Premiership games from the lower reaches, Swansea, Sunderland, Hull, Watford etc. have become one big yawn.

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It did the opposite taking cricket of main stream tv in 2005.

Stanley fans were proud to be on telly in the last promotion year, "we won it on sky etc" and were glad of the attention as crowds boomed.

Fact based, not the opinion of a moaner :)

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This will be the most interesting battle on May 6th.
Newport Dragons are scheduled to play Cardiff Blues at 17:15 in the final games of the ProGuiness league. All games to kick off at the same time.
As it was, having Newport County scheduled for a 3 pm on the same day was problematic enough.
Now they are playing at the same time!
Could make for an interesting game of two refs, four line judges, 26 a side, three points for a screamer over the bar...

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Both teams have been told by league bosses they are not allowed to change match date or kick off time so should be an entertaining match

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Well I really hope that SKY choose to cover this match!:130:
It should be a real spectacle.:tongueout
I reckon that Newport...(ie either of the Newports!)....should sign on Akinfenwa as he would really be at home playing under the 'Duel Rules' on offer!:hehetable

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knowing westley he,ll have some nasty evil plan up his sleave if they need the points.