Matches Norwich Away - Now Friday 7th March @ 8pm

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Horrendous move.

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Friday Night Lights For Norwich City Away | Oxford United Football Club

Oxford United's away match to Norwich City has been moved to Friday 7 March with a 8:00pm kick-off.
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Woeful in terms of timing but as per the criteria they set out at the beginning of the season:
  • Selections for matches scheduled after the first weekend in March will be made by the broadcasters on a four-week rolling basis starting from February 1 (e.g. a selection for the first weekend in April will be selected in the first weekend in March).
 
Just-in-time management by the Sky team.
Hopefully people hadn’t already booked travel and/or accommodation.
 
Away end attendance has probably just gone from 1500-2000 to probably 500 maximum.

Horrible the way football is going.

Completely killing any enjoyment out of the game.

We also then have to travel 4 days later to Hull on a Wednesday night. This is sandwiched between 2 12:30 home games.

Starting to really dislike the championship.
 
BillyTurleys CurlyWurly said:
Away end attendance has probably just gone from 1500-2000 to probably 500 maximum.

Horrible the way football is going.

Completely killing any enjoyment out of the game.

We also then have to travel 4 days later to Hull on a Wednesday night. This is sandwiched between 2 12:30 home games.

Starting to really dislike the championship.
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The down side of being successful in the modern game. This was always going to happen once we got promoted with games getting moved to stupid KO times.

The 12.30pm Saturday games aren't so bad but Friday night games are a nightmare due to traffic on the roads and having to get out of work. We haven't had a Sunday lunchtime game yet but they seem to save them for the derby matches.
 
BillyTurleys CurlyWurly said:
Away end attendance has probably just gone from 1500-2000 to probably 500 maximum.

Horrible the way football is going.

Completely killing any enjoyment out of the game.

We also then have to travel 4 days later to Hull on a Wednesday night. This is sandwiched between 2 12:30 home games.

Starting to really dislike the championship.
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Is Watford at home a 12:30?!
 
Last train back to London is at 10pm so of course they've also made it an 8pm kick-off rather than 7:45.
 
I prefer Friday night away games keeps the weekend free for the middle isle in Aldi & Lidl 🤭.

Anywhere & everywhere we go to follow our team ...................
 
BillyTurleys CurlyWurly said:
Away end attendance has probably just gone from 1500-2000 to probably 500 maximum.

Horrible the way football is going.

Completely killing any enjoyment out of the game.

We also then have to travel 4 days later to Hull on a Wednesday night. This is sandwiched between 2 12:30 home games.

Starting to really dislike the championship.
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Unbelievably, I went to the last Norwich away match v Oxford in 1998 and from memory that was on a Sunday at 1pm and again on sky back then!

We won 3-1 and I'm sure we took around 500 on the day. From that perspective some things never change!

COYY'S
 
werthersoriginal said:
s**t unless you're staying over
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I understand that’s it’s not brilliant, but in some way it’s a better than the 400 or so of us faced on Tuesday going to Burnley with the majority of us having to work the next morning. With a Friday night game there surely is the benefit of the “majority” not working the following day, and then a whole weekend then free? Suprised (but actually I saw it coming) of the overreaction once again by our fans - Pompey, Plymouth and other championship clubs may moan but would still take a good take.
 
What I don't get is why the hell EFL picked this game for a Friday night.

It's a team that might be on the fringes of the playoffs if things go well at home against a team that might be dragged into the relegation scrap if things go poorly.

There's surely more important games that weekend; and if we are due another Friday night game, there's surely more important Oxford games they could have moved? (games against Leeds, Sunderland & Sheffield United for starters)


Also personally annoying (though not as annoying as for those of you who were planning on travelling to see it in person) as that's my 10th wedding anniversary and I already promised the wife I'd take the afternoon off so that we could do something together. I don't think staying at home to watch us play the Canaries on Paramount+ was what she had in mind!
 
WokinghamYellow said:
This is on the EFL for selling broadcast packages for Friday night games. Sky are just doing what they were allowed to buy. If the EFL didn’t sell them then it wouldn’t be on a Friday night
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It's also 'on' every single person who buys a Sky package. Far too many, up and down the country, moan whilst paying for it.

And of course there are far too many armchair fans to begin with - not helped by an abundance of firestick fannies now either.
 
tonyw said:
What I don't get is why the hell EFL picked this game for a Friday night.

It's a team that might be on the fringes of the playoffs if things go well at home against a team that might be dragged into the relegation scrap if things go poorly.

There's surely more important games that weekend; and if we are due another Friday night game, there's surely more important Oxford games they could have moved? (games against Leeds, Sunderland & Sheffield United for starters)


Also personally annoying (though not as annoying as for those of you who were planning on travelling to see it in person) as that's my 10th wedding anniversary and I already promised the wife I'd take the afternoon off so that we could do something together. I don't think staying at home to watch us play the Canaries on Paramount+ was what she had in mind!
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Much like Man United always being a featured FA Cup game, I'm sure Sky would rather show the big matches on Friday nights. However there is a commitment I believe that each club is on tv a minimum number of times each season and they can't just show Sheffield Utd / Leeds / Sunderland / Burnley every Friday for the whole season.

I think we've been pretty lucky with only Coventry, Watford and now Norwich as moved evening kick-offs. No Sunday or Monday night games so far.

Last year I think we had a few Sunday games as a relatively big club in L1.
 
tonyw said:
What I don't get is why the hell EFL picked this game for a Friday night.

It's a team that might be on the fringes of the playoffs if things go well at home against a team that might be dragged into the relegation scrap if things go poorly.

There's surely more important games that weekend; and if we are due another Friday night game, there's surely more important Oxford games they could have moved? (games against Leeds, Sunderland & Sheffield United for starters)


Also personally annoying (though not as annoying as for those of you who were planning on travelling to see it in person) as that's my 10th wedding anniversary and I already promised the wife I'd take the afternoon off so that we could do something together. I don't think staying at home to watch us play the Canaries on Paramount+ was what she had in mind!
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Leeds is nailed onto be 8pm on Good Friday, they played against Watford away on that day last year and it’s hard to see why there visits to the smallest away allocation in the same day would be any different.
 
MarkG said:
Much like Man United always being a featured FA Cup game, I'm sure Sky would rather show the big matches on Friday nights. However there is a commitment I believe that each club is on tv a minimum number of times each season and they can't just show Sheffield Utd / Leeds / Sunderland / Burnley every Friday for the whole season.

I think we've been pretty lucky with only Coventry, Watford and now Norwich as moved evening kick-offs. No Sunday or Monday night games so far.

Last year I think we had a few Sunday games as a relatively big club in L1.
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May well be true - but in that case, surely they would have been better off picking our games against Pompey or Cardiff so that they could sell them as a relegation tussle?

Not sure what the narrative is for this one other than "We've got to have them on a certain number of times per season, so may as well have 'em both on at once and write it off......"
 
Is there still a rule about how many times each team is shown on proper sky? Not like we have not had plenty of games on Sky plus, although I suppose you don’t get the same level of coverage.

By the end of this season we must have absolutely smashed the record for our games being televised, I make it 22 league games either played or planned, with at least 5 more guaranteed and two cup games, so likely to be 30 plus of 49 games on the box.
 
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