staines_rebel_Jr Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 I have been looking back at fixtures in the last 10 years and how many games we play on average each month. Month - Average games - (least/most) August - 4.6 - (4/6) September - 5.7 - (5/8) October - 7.2 - (5/9) November - 6 - (3/8) December - 4.7 - (3/6) January - 5 - (2/7) February - 4.2 - (2/7) March - 7.1 - (5/9) April (+May) - 7.1 - (3/11) Total Season - 51.6 - (45/58) A lot of people have talked about having a winter break in either January of February but the data from previous 10 years show that the average of games played in either January of February isn't particularly lower than other months so probably wouldn't be beneficial to have a winter break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staines_rebel_Jr Posted January 21, 2016 Author Share Posted January 21, 2016 table for the last 10 seasons will hopefully be attached to this post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richierebel Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 or just throwing it out there, do what rugby league did a few years back and move your season to March - Nov for Non League football. Might get bigger crowds as not competing with premier league clubs, infact those fans may come to some games! You wont have as many postponements and therefor cashflow issues like are landlords are currently having wont happen either! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HorshamRebel Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 And games being postponed as the pitches are too hard due to too much sun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richierebel Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 or just throwing it out there, do what rugby league did a few years back and move your season to March - Nov for Non League football. Might get bigger crowds as not competing with premier league clubs, infact those fans may come to some games! You wont have as many postponements and therefor cashflow issues like are landlords are currently having wont happen either! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Carpenter Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 What about the FA Cup and Promotion/relegation issues between League Division 2/National League. Unless the whole of football moves this proposal seems unviable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Cox Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 We can say that our squad has had a winter break anyway ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brighton on holiday Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 When we've got our 3G we wont be getting a winter break http://sloughtownsoapbox.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/baring-apocalypse.html?m=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HorshamRebel Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Depends on how good they build the drainage system. There's been quite a few 3G matches postponed in the last few weeks due to waterlogged 3Gs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brighton on holiday Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Really? Which ones (asking for a friend) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HorshamRebel Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Whyteleafe for one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Within the last 4 weeks Slough had a training match postponed at Langley Academy as their 3g pitch was waterlogged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Carpenter Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 As Horsham Rebel stated adequate drainage is essential. In a recent thread I noted the hypothetical situation whereby a 3g pitch was located adjacent to an overflowing river. In equity a 3g pitch will clearly be less susceptible to inclemental conditions; that is not to say however that the occasional difficulty will not occur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Rebel and a Saint Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 In this case the talk on 3h pitches is pointless when you think that of the 5 games postponed, 4 have been away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HorshamRebel Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Not if those away teams had "3h" pitches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staines_rebel_Jr Posted January 23, 2016 Author Share Posted January 23, 2016 One problem with trying to get every team in the league to have a 3G pitch is that they are very expensive and although it is possible to get grant money to help, currently the grant budget isn't that big. There are far too many teams at our level who are financially unstable so giving them a grant is risky as the club could go bankrupt before the pitch is installed or it has paid for itself. The other problem is most teams from our league and the one below are small towns and you couldn't always be sure that there would be enough demand from the community to use it to make the money back from installing the pitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Rebel1965 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 Only 2 games played this January - 1 home 1 away. Now lots of Tuesday night games including a 4 hour each way trip to Bideford - who benefits from this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reading Rebel Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 Next season postponements could be November, December, January or February, who knows? Hopefully in our new ground most home games should be played. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RebelDelaney Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 Around last Nov/Dec Frome decided against getting a 3G pitch after spending £4000 on a study to decide if it would be a good investment. This was because if promotion was on the cards they would get turned down going into a higher league But i did see during January the National lower leagues voted in favour of all clubs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RebelDelaney Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 With 3G pitches moving through the leagues with no problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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