Boro Away fixture change....

[Mello Yello 2,294]

Will now be played on Friday April 14th at 8pm instead of Saturday April 15th at 3pm.....Coz Sky wants it on the telly-box....

[Graham Paddons Beard 2,431]

Great . (Sad face) 

[cambridgeshire canary 6,720]

8pm kickoff? Bit of a late one then, don't see it too often

[The Raptor 1,211]

Always 8pm on a Friday I think. 

 

[All the Germans 1,078]

This is relatively local for me. I had planned to take my younger son (6) to his first game, but it probably finishes too late to do that now, he'll be gutted.

[daly 501]

He can sleep through it 

 

[AJ 1,221]

41 minutes ago, daly said:

He can sleep through it 

 

Don't need him to experience any more nightmares

Edited March 17, 2023 by AJ

[Norfolk Dan 308]

That will be a handy move for those who booked a train ticket... 

Club cabbage and a day off work for the brave ones.  I only hope you are rewarded with a performance.. 

[pete 319]

Yet another opportunity to drink up the airwaves.  Losing to top team rather than a bottom developer at least not a surprise.  A stuffing that will see us falling further out of Webber promised Too 26 dream.

[Satriales 651]

Great, so now we can all watch on TV as Boro smash us 4 - 0 with Ramsey getting at least a couple.

[The Real Buh 3,432]

Is it just me or have the fixtures been the worst ever this year?

where’s the Saturday 3pms gone? Why do sky give a crap about us?

[......and Smith must score. 1,343]

1 hour ago, Norfolk Dan said:

That will be a handy move for those who booked a train ticket... 

Club cabbage and a day off work for the brave ones.  I only hope you are rewarded with a performance.. 

I've learned that if you book advance train tickets for football matches it's best to do it through a company that offers full refunds.

Chiltern Railways does and there's probably others. 

[Capt. Pants 4,234]

The silver lining is there should be plenty of streams if it's on Sky 😜

Or Friday night pub with the lads.

[Ulfotto 634]

13 minutes ago, Satriales said:

Ramsey getting at least a couple.

Is this not inevitable and will almost be the perfect way to bookmark the end of a season where we seem to find new ways to shot ourselves in the foot each week.

Edited March 17, 2023 by Ulfotto

[Canary73 160]

This is exactly where a regulator should be stepping in and rejecting the movement of the game based on the fact that it is being moved when people have pre booked travel or hotels, the kick off time prevents more fans travelling and is being altered in less than a month before the original fixture was scheduled.  

[Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man 3,820]

10 minutes ago, Canary73 said:

This is exactly where a regulator should be stepping in and rejecting the movement of the game based on the fact that it is being moved when people have pre booked travel or hotels, the kick off time prevents more fans travelling and is being altered in less than a month before the original fixture was scheduled.  

The rule is four weeks' notice, and that has been followed, just. Anyone who books travel and accomodation before that knows they're taking a risk.

[Commonsense 624]

1 hour ago, Canary73 said:

This is exactly where a regulator should be stepping in and rejecting the movement of the game based on the fact that it is being moved when people have pre booked travel or hotels, the kick off time prevents more fans travelling and is being altered in less than a month before the original fixture was scheduled.  

The list of announcement timings is clearly available on the EFL website. The announcements have kept to those dates. It is your own risk if you ignore them.

[Canary73 160]

That isn't good enough and is why a regulator needs to step in - the tv companies have too much say and it is time someone stepped in to put the fans first - saying those are the rules isn't sufficient.

[Commonsense 624]

30 minutes ago, Canary73 said:

That isn't good enough and is why a regulator needs to step in - the tv companies have too much say and it is time someone stepped in to put the fans first - saying those are the rules isn't sufficient.

So are you saying there should be no tv deals, so the funding system of modern football just collapses. A regulator is not going to do that.

[Nuff Said 5,141]

2 hours ago, pete said:

Yet another opportunity to drink up the airwaves.  Losing to top team rather than a bottom developer at least not a surprise.  A stuffing that will see us falling further out of Webber promised Too 26 dream.

Peak pete. 👍

Edited March 17, 2023 by Nuff Said

[Canary73 160]

11 hours ago, Commonsense said:

So are you saying there should be no tv deals, so the funding system of modern football just collapses. A regulator is not going to do that.

It should have powers to levy penalties for a change of fixture, reimbursing fans for out of pocket expenses. 

[Commonsense 624]

5 minutes ago, Canary73 said:

It should have powers to levy penalties for a change of fixture, reimbursing fans for out of pocket expenses. 

But you only have out of pocket expenses because you booked your train before the timings were confirmed.

[Newtopia 517]

It would be great if those cost were reimbursed, can't see it happening......

[......and Smith must score. 1,343]

13 hours ago, Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man said:

The rule is four weeks' notice, and that has been followed, just. Anyone who books travel and accomodation before that knows they're taking a risk.

Exactly.

OK downside is that you may not be able to go and hotel bookings will be a little more expensive if a refundable option is taken up. If you can get a full refund on train bookings too I don’t really see there’s a problem.

[Nuff Said 5,141]

14 hours ago, ......and Smith must score. said:

I've learned that if you book advance train tickets for football matches it's best to do it through a company that offers full refunds.

Chiltern Railways does and there's probably others. 

Is that advance tickets or “Advance” tickets? I thought it’s impossible to get your money back on those?

[percy varco 198]

17 hours ago, Canary73 said:

This is exactly where a regulator should be stepping in and rejecting the movement of the game based on the fact that it is being moved when people have pre booked travel or hotels, the kick off time prevents more fans travelling and is being altered in less than a month before the original fixture was scheduled.  

Sky run football. Its their money that has it where it is. Us fans are now Customers whose ticket purchases are a very small part of a clubs income. 

[......and Smith must score. 1,343]

3 hours ago, Nuff Said said:

Is that advance tickets or “Advance” tickets? I thought it’s impossible to get your money back on those?

I think you're right. Just looked on Chiltern's site and it doesn't allow refunds on Advance tickets but you can pay a tenner to switch to a different date.

Maybe the full refunds I've had weren't advance tickets ?