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You still haven’t said what you think is recent. The 3 specific years that I’ve quoted were selected at random as I knew international breaks have been a fixture for at least 15-20 years, it’s clearly even longer than that. Please check any of the other years in between and I’m sure you’ll find...

I don't want to have a debate, but this is nonsense. If 2010 isn't recent to you, how about 2003? Or 1998? Our games were disrupted by international breaks in both of those years and no doubt those years in between, so to say international breaks are only ""recently" the norm" is just plain...

A very rational explanation [emoji106] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Good for you. Leaving aside the power of the people nonsense, can you share their explanation of why our games were chosen? 3 of them were/are midland derbys so that might have something to do with it or is it deeper and more complicated than that? Agree next season will be better pre-Christmas...

What do you mean by “recently”? A quick check on our fixtures shows that there were international breaks in the Championship at least as far back as autumn 2010 and that has been consistent for PL & Championship since at least that time. It obviously didn’t affect us in Leagues 1 & 2, but this...

Yes, in post #20. Before that he was complaining about the number of night matches. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You might be right. A lot depends on whether Sky are going to show PL & Championship games in parallel or not. They have been generally reluctant to do this until now, but the sheer quantity means they might have to double up. If they don’t double up then Thursday night and Sunday night (18:30?)...

The additional “rearranged for TV” games will likely be within the Friday-Sunday period so hopefully not too bad from a school perspective. I guess there is an outside chance that they might use Thursday nights as part of the “weekend” fixtures. There will be the usual number of scheduled...

You might be right on O’hare, Simms and Kelly but the only way Fadz is coming on is if there are injuries to both Thomas & Kitching… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Correct re the notice given. All pre-January TV games will be announced before the season starts and then the notice period gets shorter as the season progresses. The original announcement is below (note interesting point about greater parity between the clubs): “With the substantial increase...

That goal was well-taken, but one unchallenged header doesn’t make him good in the air. I don’t think I have seen him compete successfully for any aerial challenges all season, nor look interested in doing so. Whatever his strengths may or not be, there’s zero evidence that aerial ability/desire...

Indeed. There will be a maximum 7 Championship games at 3pm Saturday, the other 5 will be live on TV over the weekend. I would expect plenty of Saturday & Sunday lunchtime games and probably Saturday evening games, as well as the Friday night slots. It wouldn’t surprise me if they introduced...

The OP was complaining about the international breaks - that’s what I said happens every season. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It sounds like you think this is unusual - it happens every season Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I thought BNC yesterday was exactly the same as last season, i.e. ran around like a headless chicken, no positional sense, defensively shambolic but with the occasional spark going forward that made you think there might be some talent there. We sure as hell have upgraded in that area. Sent...

There will only be 5 televised games across leagues 1 & 2 combined, so likely 19 out of 24 will be Saturday 3pm. So much less impact. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Next year we’ll be lucky if 10 out of 23 home games are on Saturday 3pm. But if people want to cling onto that as being the only time for football then I assume they would have been happy for us to stay in League 1 or 2? That’s the only way it’s going to happen and no amount of complaining is...

Only one of the remaining 5 this year has been changed for TV, the rest are normal evening fixtures that we would have every season. Next season with the new TV deal will obviously be a different matter (but the main issue likely to be Saturday games being rearranged over the long weekend rather...

I’m not missing the point. His performances have been declining since the playoff final and he has been average/poor for most of this season, culminating at Preston. No disgrace in that, age catches up with every player eventually. He has been great for us but his time as automatic first choice...

Correct. If it was just a case of Fadz’s personal issues he would have kept the same formation and brought on one of the other CBs at half time. He wanted the formation change in order to alter the game, which it did. And he knows damn well that Fadz is not quick enough to play in a back 4 at...