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

[duckyellow]

Gutted! Was really looking forward to going to this. No chance now.

 

[holdsteady]

Pretty sure I saw them at the Zodiac once.

Didn’t the lead singer wear a see through crotchless catsuit and p**s in a cup on stage? Or maybe that was Coldplay.

 

[CaptainOx]

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!

They're on the fringe of the playoffs already - in 8th, 2 points off 6th. And given they play Derby on Saturday, combined with Boro and Blackburn not playing, they could be in the playoff positions come the end of this weekend coming.

Other games that weekend

Saturday 8th March
Coventry City v Stoke City (12:30)
Watford v Millwall (12:30)
Bristol City v Hull City
Burnley v Luton Town
Derby County v Blackburn Rovers
Plymouth Argyle v Sheffield Wednesday
Sheffield United v Preston North End
Sunderland v Cardiff City
Swansea City v Middlesbrough
West Bromwich Albion v Queens Park Rangers

Sunday 9th March
Portsmouth v Leeds United (12:00)

@holdsteady I think the EFL commitment was that we'd be on at least 20 times across SkySports+ and the main football channel.

SkySports+: Stoke (H), Luton (A), Portsmouth (A), Derby (H), Hull (H), Sheff Utd (A), Millwall (H), QPR (A), Millwall (A), Luton (H), Stoke (A), Burnley (A), Derby (A), Coventry (H), Hull (A), QPR (H) [16]

Sky Sports Football: Norwich (H), Coventry (A), West Brom (H), Watford (A), Norwich (A) [5]

On the basis that the midweek games are automatically on SkySports+ (in bold above), I think our minimum of 20 has already been hit and beaten.
I can't remember about the rules on Good Friday and Easter Monday so haven't included those two and have probably forgotten another one.

 

[holdsteady]

They're on the fringe of the playoffs already - in 8th, 2 points off 6th. And given they play Derby on Saturday, combined with Boro and Blackburn not playing, they could be in the playoff positions come the end of this weekend coming.

Other games that weekend

Saturday 8th March
Coventry City v Stoke City (12:30)
Watford v Millwall (12:30)
Bristol City v Hull City
Burnley v Luton Town
Derby County v Blackburn Rovers
Plymouth Argyle v Sheffield Wednesday
Sheffield United v Preston North End
Sunderland v Cardiff City
Swansea City v Middlesbrough
West Bromwich Albion v Queens Park Rangers

Sunday 9th March
Portsmouth v Leeds United (12:00)

@holdsteady I think the EFL commitment was that we'd be on at least 20 times across SkySports+ and the main football channel.

SkySports+: Stoke (H), Luton (A), Portsmouth (A), Derby (H), Hull (H), Sheff Utd (A), Millwall (H), QPR (A), Millwall (A), Luton (H), Stoke (A), Burnley (A), Derby (A), Coventry (H), Hull (A), QPR (H) [16]

Sky Sports Football: Norwich (H), Coventry (A), West Brom (H), Watford (A), Norwich (A) [5]

On the basis that the midweek games are automatically on SkySports+ (in bold above), I think our minimum of 20 has already been hit and beaten.
I can't remember about the rules on Good Friday and Easter Monday so haven't included those two and have probably forgotten another one.

Any game not at 3pm on a Saturday so all Bank holidays, both Easter games with Leeds likely to be moved. Don’t think you have our Xmas home games in your list. Last game of the season will be on tv as well.

Plymouth away, like all midweek games, was shown as well.

I make it well over 20 already with scheduled games to come.

 

[MarkG]

They're on the fringe of the playoffs already - in 8th, 2 points off 6th. And given they play Derby on Saturday, combined with Boro and Blackburn not playing, they could be in the playoff positions come the end of this weekend coming.

Other games that weekend

Saturday 8th March
Coventry City v Stoke City (12:30)
Watford v Millwall (12:30)
Bristol City v Hull City
Burnley v Luton Town
Derby County v Blackburn Rovers
Plymouth Argyle v Sheffield Wednesday
Sheffield United v Preston North End
Sunderland v Cardiff City
Swansea City v Middlesbrough
West Bromwich Albion v Queens Park Rangers

Sunday 9th March
Portsmouth v Leeds United (12:00)

@holdsteady I think the EFL commitment was that we'd be on at least 20 times across SkySports+ and the main football channel.

SkySports+: Stoke (H), Luton (A), Portsmouth (A), Derby (H), Hull (H), Sheff Utd (A), Millwall (H), QPR (A), Millwall (A), Luton (H), Stoke (A), Burnley (A), Derby (A), Coventry (H), Hull (A), QPR (H) [16]

Sky Sports Football: Norwich (H), Coventry (A), West Brom (H), Watford (A), Norwich (A) [5]

On the basis that the midweek games are automatically on SkySports+ (in bold above), I think our minimum of 20 has already been hit and beaten.
I can't remember about the rules on Good Friday and Easter Monday so haven't included those two and have probably forgotten another one.

Do the club get tv appearance money per match ?
I get that we may have “beaten” our minimum guaranteed games.

 

[Steve Gilbert]

They're on the fringe of the playoffs already - in 8th, 2 points off 6th. And given they play Derby on Saturday, combined with Boro and Blackburn not playing, they could be in the playoff positions come the end of this weekend coming.

Other games that weekend

Saturday 8th March
Coventry City v Stoke City (12:30)
Watford v Millwall (12:30)
Bristol City v Hull City
Burnley v Luton Town
Derby County v Blackburn Rovers
Plymouth Argyle v Sheffield Wednesday
Sheffield United v Preston North End
Sunderland v Cardiff City
Swansea City v Middlesbrough
West Bromwich Albion v Queens Park Rangers

Sunday 9th March
Portsmouth v Leeds United (12:00)

@holdsteady I think the EFL commitment was that we'd be on at least 20 times across SkySports+ and the main football channel.

SkySports+: Stoke (H), Luton (A), Portsmouth (A), Derby (H), Hull (H), Sheff Utd (A), Millwall (H), QPR (A), Millwall (A), Luton (H), Stoke (A), Burnley (A), Derby (A), Coventry (H), Hull (A), QPR (H) [16]

Sky Sports Football: Norwich (H), Coventry (A), West Brom (H), Watford (A), Norwich (A) [5]

On the basis that the midweek games are automatically on SkySports+ (in bold above), I think our minimum of 20 has already been hit and beaten.
I can't remember about the rules on Good Friday and Easter Monday so haven't included those two and have probably forgotten another one.

As new boys and the smallest team in the league we were always going to be on Sky quite a lot. They did the same when Wycombe came up.

I imagine all games over Easter will be on Sky sports + as they aren’t Saturday 3pms so will be treated like Mid week games.

I would also say that all games on the last day of the season will be shown on Sky sports too.

 

[Steve Gilbert]

Do the club get tv appearance money per match ?
I get that we may have “beaten” our minimum guaranteed games.

No the new deal was that all clubs got a flat fee regardless of the amounts of times you are shown on TV.

 

[dickwalton1964]

Great news this has been moved to Friday ! It’s an away day I was really looking forward to - never been to Carrow Road before - but it was coinciding with a stag do on the Saturday and a 3pm kick off with at least a 3 hour drive back was going to scupper that so will be able to do both now ! I loved the atmosphere at Watford on that Friday, hoping this will be as good but with a better result.

 

[RyanioBirdio]

Didn’t the lead singer wear a see through crotchless catsuit and P**s in a cup on stage?

No, you’re thinking of Firestick Grannies.

 

[NorthWestOx]

What I don't get is why the hell EFL picked this game for a Friday night.

It's the 40th year annivesary of Norwich winning the Milk cup, against the club who won it the year after.

 

[Bicester Yellow]

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.

And if sky didn’t pay the money they do we wouldn’t be able to compete in the championship on our current revenue streams, no good moaning when the current revenue allows us to be semi competitive at this level along with our owners.

 

[Bicester Yellow]

No the new deal was that all clubs got a flat fee regardless of the amounts of times you are shown on TV.

Yes worth around £8m. Maybe more. If we didn’t have that money coming in we would be nowhere near competitive at this level with our current revenue streams unfortunately & is the price of our success

 

[m]

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!

Maybe not, but you need surprises to keep a marriage fresh.

 

[m]

And if sky didn’t pay the money they do we wouldn’t be able to compete in the championship on our current revenue streams, no good moaning when the current revenue allows us to be semi competitive at this level along with our owners.

Not sure I follow this logic at all!

We surely compete at a disadvantage to established, and therefore historically monied clubs?

In short: we get nothing that everybody else in the championship doesn't, and we've been getting that for less long!

 

[RgYellows]

Not sure I follow this logic at all!

We surely compete at a disadvantage to established, and therefore historically monied clubs?

In short: we get nothing that everybody else in the championship doesn't, and we've been getting that for less long!

As we have less revenue, the TV money is a bigger share of our overall revenue. Losing £8m hurts a team that otherwise makes £5m more than a team that otherwise makes £40m.

 

[holdsteady]

Not certain football in this country would exist, it would certainly have to start again, if no broadcaster was paying cash in.

If you want more 3pm Saturday games and the cash then only one solution, get rid of the 3pm blackout, which is only a blackout if you don’t know anyone who can can sort you out a fire stick or you can can’t use google.

 

[m]

As we have less revenue, the TV money is a bigger share of our overall revenue. Losing £8m hurts a team that otherwise makes £5m more than a team that otherwise makes £40m.

Yes. But nobody is losing £8M in this scenario.

It's equation solving, remove £8M from both sides to simplify....

 

[RgYellows]

Yes. But nobody is losing £8M in this scenario.

It's equation solving, remove £8M from both sides to simplify....

It isnt equation solving, because our budget and Leeds’ don’t equal one another.

Remove 50% from one budget and 10% from another and see who cuts back more.

 

[Bicester Yellow]

Not sure I follow this logic at all!

We surely compete at a disadvantage to established, and therefore historically monied clubs?

In short: we get nothing that everybody else in the championship doesn't, and we've been getting that for less long!

Yes but without it we wouldn’t be nowhere near, with the Kassam and our current revenue opportunities we are doing very well considering.

We rely on the tv money to even be remotely competitive.

 

[Stranger]

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!

I get that you're US based (judging by the way you spell defence) but why not suggest to the mrs a nice little trip over the pond to spend a few nights on the Norfolk Broads?

PS. I spent a night on a Norfolk broad once. She was lovely

 

[Carpy]

PS. I spent a night on a Norfolk broad once. She was lovely

What’s the chances she felt the the same

 

[Stranger]

What’s the chances she felt the the same

Remote, tbf

 

[ECYellow]

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!

There is no way that the Leeds home game will be good Friday at 3pm, so brace yourselves for that one moving.

TVP will be all over it, especially if Leeds are on the brink of promotion, which they could well be by then.

 

[ECYellow]

Not certain football in this country would exist, it would certainly have to start again, if no broadcaster was paying cash in.

If you want more 3pm Saturday games and the cash then only one solution, get rid of the 3pm blackout, which is only a blackout if you don’t know anyone who can can sort you out a fire stick or you can can’t use google.

I think that is probably what football in this country needs. The English Football League sold their soul to Sky in 92. Since then, the disparity between the top 6 in the PL and the rest has got bigger and bigger. It's why stories like Leicester winning the league are so special. It will probably never happen again.

I'd love the European super league to get the green light. Let the greedy bastards go and have their super league and leave the rest of us to get on with it.

Football is not a patch on what it used to be. VAR, Sky, players feigning injuries every 5 minutes... it is all driven by greed and geared towards the 'super clubs'.

 

[Toe knee]

Fans comments of all clubs pissed off at the beginning of the season.. That was before we all really knew how bad it really was gonna be .

 

[holdsteady]

I think that is probably what football in this country needs. The English Football League sold their soul to Sky in 92. Since then, the disparity between the top 6 in the PL and the rest has got bigger and bigger. It's why stories like Leicester winning the league are so special. It will probably never happen again.

I'd love the European super league to get the green light. Let the greedy bastards go and have their super league and leave the rest of us to get on with it.

Football is not a patch on what it used to be. VAR, Sky, players feigning injuries every 5 minutes... it is all driven by greed and geared towards the 'super clubs'.

Trouble is ours is one of the clubs that would go under, the big boys will flick off to a European super league and a 130 years of Football League history will be gone.

The bad guys survive while the little guys and the history goes up in flames.

 

[m]

Remove 50% from one budget and 10% from another and see who cuts back more.

Yeah, I get that, but no-one is losing budget.

increasing budgets by fixed amounts means a lesser % increase for a larger budget of course, but in absolute cash terms, it's no different.

 

[ECYellow]

Trouble is ours is one of the clubs that would go under, the big boys will flick off to a European super league and a 130 years of Football League history will be gone.

The bad guys survive while the little guys and the history goes up in flames.

What is the history worth when you've seen oil and saudi money buying their way to the titles over the last 20 years?

 

[holdsteady]

What is the history worth when you've seen oil and saudi money buying their way to the titles over the last 20 years?

Without that have we got? This season has been interesting and entertaining because we know what we went through to get back to this level, without that context its 22 men chasing a bag of wind about.

 

[ECYellow]

Without what have we got? This season has been interesting and entertaining because we know what we went through to get back to this level, without that context its 22 men chasing a bag of wind about.

What, prior to the super rich buying up a working mans game and using as their play thing?

We had a football pyramid that had a degree of integrity to it. Now, we have super rich Birmingham paying £10,000,000 plus for a centre forward and players moving to Saudi in the peak of their careers to earn £500,000 a week.

You'll not convince me football is better for all of the money and Sky influence.