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Post by moonboots on Sept 8, 2014 15:52:15 GMT
a number of fixtures have put back 24hours to sat 27th.How about uor game at Peacehaven being switched also. I would prefer it & the players could have a bit more time off with their families.
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Post by southwick1 on Sept 8, 2014 16:11:16 GMT
Keep it on Boxing Day I say.Moving it wouldn't be fare for people who might have to work on the Saturday.Also Local fans might prefer it to be played on the 26th ?
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Post by pmh on Sept 8, 2014 16:45:57 GMT
What are the mangels doing ?,who wants them to have extra days rest, before we play them on NYD.
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Post by moonboots on Sept 8, 2014 17:11:05 GMT
What are the mangels doing ?,who wants them to have extra days rest, before we play them on NYD. Home to Margate on boxing day
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Post by La femme de Vic Jobson on Sept 8, 2014 17:18:24 GMT
a number of fixtures have put back 24hours to sat 27th.How about uor game at Peacehaven being switched also. I would prefer it & the players could have a bit more time off with their families. What about those us hoping to spend less time with our families?
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Post by jdl on Sept 8, 2014 18:29:59 GMT
Never understood Boxing Day fixtures - no bloody public transport!
OK, in the old days, when supporters were more local, you could walk to the ground. In the North, where the League began, clubs were often very close together, so you could even walk to an away derby. But nowadays? Who last walked to an away fixture? Many fans couldn't even get to a home fixture if they didn't have a car or there wasn't a train or bus.
Without a car, and with no public transport, how am I supposed to get to a Boxing Day 'derby' game with Tonbridge, Margate, Ashford, Sittingbourne, or even Chatham?
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Post by daveu on Sept 8, 2014 18:40:56 GMT
Quite a few of us walked to Tonbridge a few years ago, and before that a few hardy souls walked to Dover. Admittedly neither was on boxing day, but still shows it can be done if you really want to.
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Post by jdl on Sept 8, 2014 18:53:44 GMT
I've actually walked both from both (roughly) Chatham and Gillingham's grounds. But, although both were on bank holidays, neither was football related...
I cycled from Rochester once, too (again, not football related). For reasons that completely escape me now, instead of coming the long, easy way round, via Wouldham, etc, I went straight up and over Bluebell hill. I didn't want to chance going down the duel carriageway, so I took the old, back road down the hill. Steep is not the word. I've never gone so fast on a bike - and never want to again!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2014 19:42:09 GMT
In the North, where the League began, clubs were often very close together, so you could even walk to an away derby. Have Newcastle and Sunderland moved further apart then? And Blackburn and Burnley? Interesting history/geography lesson
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Post by jdl on Sept 8, 2014 19:51:34 GMT
My English, rather than Geography. I was making a point about clubs being closer together in the north than they tend to be in the south - because of greater concentration of population in the conurbations that grew up during the industrial revolution. Population centres are more spread out in the south.
Thus, when football 'began' (i.e. when the FL was first formed), it was a all-northern thing, where it was very likely that any one club had two or three (or sometimes more) other clubs close by (easily walking distance in those days). The same argument applies in London (you could, if you really wanted to, walk from Upton Park to Orient, or Millwall, even Spurs or Arsenal - even, in insane moments, Chelsea), but, outside of London (except in rare cases like Bristol), the distances between clubs tend to be much greater.
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Post by nws on Sept 8, 2014 22:38:11 GMT
Move games from Boxing Day!
Utter nonsense!
(unless I'm working)
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Post by pezza on Sept 8, 2014 22:59:49 GMT
Traditionally, matches on Boxing Day are played against local rivals. This was originally to avoid teams and their fans having to travel a long distance to an away game on the day after Christmas Day. It also makes the day an important one in the sporting calendar. In Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. This is and has been the case for all sports from cricket to rugby and why the hell should it not be..... its about the only proud british (commonwealth) evemt we have left i say keep it
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Post by pezza on Sept 8, 2014 23:02:12 GMT
you turn up, hanging, feeling sorry for yourself and topping up from the night beofre........ its what boxing day is all about (leaving your head feeling like 10 rounds with tyson) COys!!!!
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