Does the club not want Boxing Day games?

FY16JJ

FY16JJ

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Still can't get over the fact we've not won on Boxing Day since we beat Sunderland in the PL. However (and I've not checked), it does feel as if the majority of the subsequent games were away from home (and NAPM and Covid took 4/5 years out of that equation). Genuine question for the @SLO_BFC to ask at the next meeting - do the club ask for us not to have Boxing Day games as they seem few and far between?
 
The fixtures continually bemuse me on an annual basis - long trips in the depths of winter and on Tuesday nights, Christmas should be local derbies and big money earners when most people are off and how you can have two away trips between Xmas and New Year makes no sense at all. Maybe the computer that organises them is made by Fuijitsu!
 
I think the Boxing Day fixture is more one for the fans than anything. Most clubs would probably sack it off if they could.
But yeah we always seem to be away aswell. Burton, Hull and Huddersfield last 3 all away, not sure about before that.
 
FY16JJ said:
Still can't get over the fact we've not won on Boxing Day since we beat Sunderland in the PL. However (and I've not checked), it does feel as if the majority of the subsequent games were away from home (and NAPM and Covid took 4/5 years out of that equation). Genuine question for the @SLO_BFC to ask at the next meeting - do the club ask for us not to have Boxing Day games as they seem few and far between?
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Brilliant OP - You've not checked, but your spider sense is obviously correct and well done for putting the SLO on the spot, rightly so. Yes, of course the club ask not to have games at home on Boxing day, well spotted. The FA are always receptive to clubs asking on which occasions they can have home matches or not. The reason we don't want to play at home on Boxing day is Sadler and Critchley enjoy laughing at supporters having to travel away after too much to eat and drink on Christmas Day.

Either this is a funny WUM Straighters character, or we do really have some strange supporters.
 
When my Dad worked for Lancs police (Oyston era) when the club used to meet with them before the season, they did always request a non-Boxing Day fixture especially against local sides as they didn’t have the man power to cope with it.
 
FY16JJ said:
Still can't get over the fact we've not won on Boxing Day since we beat Sunderland in the PL. However (and I've not checked), it does feel as if the majority of the subsequent games were away from home (and NAPM and Covid took 4/5 years out of that equation). Genuine question for the @SLO_BFC to ask at the next meeting - do the club ask for us not to have Boxing Day games as they seem few and far between?
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I'm not sure how you leap to such an extreme conclusion, especially when you say you haven't actually checked whether you are right or not.

In any case, if we are playing significantly less home games on 26/12, that means we are playing significantly more on 1/1. So what is the issue, exactly?
 
HatfulofHollow said:
The fixtures continually bemuse me on an annual basis - long trips in the depths of winter and on Tuesday nights, Christmas should be local derbies and big money earners when most people are off and how you can have two away trips between Xmas and New Year makes no sense at all. Maybe the computer that organises them is made by Fuijitsu!
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Midweek long trips is a deliberate ploy on the basis not many go anyway. The clubs voted for it.

That's why we've got Cheltenham midweek twice for starters.
 
I love a Boxing Day away game much prefer it to a home.
One of the first fixture our group looks out for is BD.

So thank you BFC for arranging this also brilliant work for having a Home game on NYD after a night on the piss.👍
 
FY16JJ said:
Still can't get over the fact we've not won on Boxing Day since we beat Sunderland in the PL. However (and I've not checked), it does feel as if the majority of the subsequent games were away from home (and NAPM and Covid took 4/5 years out of that equation). Genuine question for the @SLO_BFC to ask at the next meeting - do the club ask for us not to have Boxing Day games as they seem few and far between?
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Surely if we asked for fewer Boxing Day games they’d give us the exact opposite
 
It gives chance for many to watch on Boxing Day.

Lots off work or returning home from U.K./ overseas to visit family
Always big crowds too.
Last game I remember winning at home was against Carlisle in 2006.
 
HatfulofHollow said:
The fixtures continually bemuse me on an annual basis - long trips in the depths of winter and on Tuesday nights, Christmas should be local derbies and big money earners when most people are off and how you can have two away trips between Xmas and New Year makes no sense at all. Maybe the computer that organises them is made by Fuijitsu!
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the only fair way to sort fixtures is to do it randomly. That means not being able pick and choose when you’d play local rivals etc.
 
Why would the club or any club not want a home game on Boxing Day…can’t believe we or any other would not want one .
 
bleach51 said:
Why would the club or any club not want a home game on Boxing Day…can’t believe we or any other would not want one .
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Should request one - Blackpool is a transient population and loads return for Xmas and unfair we never seem to be at home!
 
Clubs were in the past allowed to provide a list of teams they didn’t want to play on Boxing Day. Clubs invariably put on that list teams who they would get a big crowd for on any day. So no local derbies.

Looking at the list for this season it is probably still the case as there are a lot of Lancs v Yorks/North Midlands games

It may be that the club prefers NYD rather than Boxing Day home games, as it gives scope for bigger away followings from the inevitable 80-100 miles when public transport is available.
 
FY16JJ said:
Still can't get over the fact we've not won on Boxing Day since we beat Sunderland in the PL. However (and I've not checked), it does feel as if the majority of the subsequent games were away from home (and NAPM and Covid took 4/5 years out of that equation). Genuine question for the @SLO_BFC to ask at the next meeting - do the club ask for us not to have Boxing Day games as they seem few and far between?
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I hate to be a pedant, but I don’t think we beat Sunderland in the PL on Boxing Day. We were due to play Liverpool at home on Boxing Day and astonishingly it was snowed off. Once in a generation event for the Fylde Coast. I think we won at Sunderland on 28 or 29 December.

I was absolutely gutted as I had a ticket, and couldn’t make the rearranged game in Jan due to work commitments in that there.
 
hampshire_exile said:
Clubs were in the past allowed to provide a list of teams they didn’t want to play on Boxing Day. Clubs invariably put on that list teams who they would get a big crowd for on any day. So no local derbies.

Looking at the list for this season it is probably still the case as there are a lot of Lancs v Yorks/North Midlands games

It may be that the club prefers NYD rather than Boxing Day home games, as it gives scope for bigger away followings from the inevitable 80-100 miles when public transport is available.
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Lincoln return journey was 320 miles at least.
My view and it always has been there should be a Boxing Day and New Year’s Day( mind you when I was first start working NYD was not a bank holiday so I was working along with many in England and Wales)fixtures only but involve matches where the travel between the 2 clubs should be no more than an hour or at least the minimum and back to back as in against the same team.
Of course that will never happen.4 games in 9 days as happened this Xmas was ridiculous.
 
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