Woking FAT Cup
Woking FAT Cup
The official site is still saying:
"A pitch inspection will be held this morning ahead of Saturday's scheduled home game against Woking on Saturday"
If the photo on the club site is anything to go by I don't think you need to be an official FA referee to work out that the pitch is unplayable. Although Blackbird Leys looks quite pretty in the background - which is something you don't hear very often.
"A pitch inspection will be held this morning ahead of Saturday's scheduled home game against Woking on Saturday"
If the photo on the club site is anything to go by I don't think you need to be an official FA referee to work out that the pitch is unplayable. Although Blackbird Leys looks quite pretty in the background - which is something you don't hear very often.
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I doubt it, the print run hese days is usually ordered within 24 hours of kick off. I would be surprised though if there weren't some coies of the Boxing Day fixture floating around."Hog" wrote:The programme collectors will be positively orgasmic if it is!
Looking at our fixture list, then assuming we have to either play Round 3 or the postponed Round 2 FAT games (so Wrexham is postponed to the following Tuesday) then I reckon the next time we have a gap in the fixture list is Saturday 6th March (p.s. does anyone know why this is blank???.
This of course assumes we don’t make any further progress in the FAT. If we get to the semi-finals then another 3 games plus any replays will need to be postponed.
Thank God we don’t have the Setanta Shield this season…
This of course assumes we don’t make any further progress in the FAT. If we get to the semi-finals then another 3 games plus any replays will need to be postponed.
Thank God we don’t have the Setanta Shield this season…
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Answer provided via TiU."Snake" wrote:does anyone know why this is blank???
http://www.oxfordshireforums.co.uk/topi ... mp#1153606
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I seem to recall that Mr Lee and Co stated that it was very difficult to get all teams to play every Saturday.......?? It must be tricky with an even number of teams!
I wonder if it has anything to do with their method of compiling the fixtures by hand rather than using some basic software.
Picture the scene:
Brian - I've finished, it's only taken me 5 days!
Colleague - But you've missed a fixture here, and here..and here
Brian - Quiet, no one will notice
I wonder if it has anything to do with their method of compiling the fixtures by hand rather than using some basic software.
Picture the scene:
Brian - I've finished, it's only taken me 5 days!
Colleague - But you've missed a fixture here, and here..and here
Brian - Quiet, no one will notice
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I guess that Dennis decided there were enough Saturdays in the normal season to give a decent mix of Saturdays and Tuesdays for league football (allowing for cup comps too), but that if he gave every team a Saturday fixture every week, the league would finish too early. So cancel a Saturday fixture for each team but spread them between the teams and throughout the season and we all finish at the same time and there is not a completely blank weekend for the league."Snake" wrote:Bump."Snake" wrote:does anyone know why this is blank???
Someone must know..
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The real reason for the blank saturdays is more tinpot. Before the fixtutes were compiled some of the smaller clubs objected to being required to travel long distances to away fixtures on Tuesday nights. To accommodate these requests some teams were forced to give up a saturday fixture. The tail really does wag the dog in the BSP. It is the first time since Headington/Oxford United have been given a blank saturday fixture in the football season since turning professional in 1949 (and probably a long time before that).