That’s the criteria a local Stockport reporter has suggested. My understanding of the criteria is different - unless things have changed recently - and I believe Stockport were able to request a postponement on Thursday. I guess we will have to wait and see.
Very disappointing. You feel eventually the EFL have to step in and take charge of what seems to be a very piecemeal approach. Or stop scheduling games altogether on international weekends.
She was a Scouser, not an aggressive Eastender, but if you’d heard her speaking offstage you would probably have been hard put to detect the Liverpool accent. She was quite posh.
A catchphrase was “Surprise surprise”, the name of a show I can’t begin to describe.
What’s the status of next weeks Crawley v Shrewsbury game? If that gets postponed we ought to try and play our EFL trophy game against them on Saturday.
Only 2 games left on in L1 next Saturday now. It's farcical. Either scrap the whole schedule for international weekends or make everyone play regardless. Current situation is unfair on fans (but since when have they mattered?).
Yep. It's another of these scenarios that are so achingly obvious, but they'll take ages to address.
The plus side of a few teams getting their game in on the Saturday is massively undone by everyone else constantly having to change their plans at a week's notice 4 times a season.
That might not work, but surely there's a team without much international interest that we're due to play on some miserable midweeker in Winter who'd be up for switching to face us next Saturday?
Probably too much effort for the clubs / league and too little notice maybe?
It is also a sign (to me) that L1 is getting ridiculously wealthy, and that we are in the new "mini-Championship". Give it 5-10 years and most L2 owners will be fabulously wealthy too.
Not a fan of it all, but it makes our 5th place look even better (as we are not really spending our Kazakh riches to an insane degree yet).
Not in League One. There are plenty of work arounds in this league - hence why Birmingham can spend £30 million plus huge wages in League One but not in the Championship.
Just to clarify, he didn't start unexpectedly against Shrewsbury. Fiorini was injured until recently, hence not having featured in other games. He came in to replace Will Collar who picked up an injury last Saturday against Barnsley. It wasn't a surprise that Fiorini was the replacement because he'd looked good in the EFL Trophy game that he played in and had made a couple of sub appearances as he worked his way back to fitness.
It's frustrating for everyone involved, but I can see why my club had it postponed when we have 2 LBs away on international duty and the other injured. We'd be putting square pegs in round holes if it went ahead so while the option is there to have it called off, it's a no-brainer really.
The whole international break is incredibly annoying though. We had a postponed game in the previous round too (on that occasion due to Reading, Adaramola and Fiorini were injured at the time) and it just feels like it's become farcical in L1. I like the idea of playing EFL Trophy games on international weekends.
and then there is the question of why the Scottish FA is picking so many English youngsters to play in their U21 side. They really should be developing their own players.
You have much better knowledge of Stockport County than I do but he was substituted on 60 minutes in the Trophy game.
He was also brought off at half time on Saturday.
I am in Liverpool for work on Saturday morning so the game being off is a right pain as I would have hopped across the M62 and then headed back to Berks. Depending on the Tuesday night date I will probably make the rearranged game too.
I suspect the EFL will have to come up with a solution for League One now 9/10 of 12 fixtures are postponed every International Weekend.
Do you think you will remain top of the Greater Manchester table?
What might work is if League One clubs had to say before the fixture list is published whether or not they want to excercise the 'international weekend off' option. The EFL could then schedule games on International Saturdays between clubs that didn't exercise that option.
I guess there would have to be some sort rules saying that you had to have internationals on the books or a long history of calling off games in the past, but I could be wrong about that.
We would probably have had two TV games in this season so far.
The Trophy game was his first appearance for the club. It was a case of managing the minutes of a player who was injured in preseason and hadn't yet featured. He's not up to a full 90 minutes yet.
On Saturday we made a triple substitution at half time to switch things tactically and he was one of the three sacrificed.
He's not just a fringe player who we've chucked into the team to get a game called off. He's a player that the club paid a decent fee for this summer and will expect to be an important player going forward.
It's really frustrating, and I appreciate that we've been very fortunate that the two games we've had postponed have been home games.
To answer your question about where we might finish, I predicted 12th for us before the season started and would be more than happy with that still. Having said that, we've made a decent start without really putting together a complete performance yet. I still feel like there's a lot more to come from us.
Having seen Wigan on Saturday, I see no reason to believe we can't finish above them. I suspect Bolton will get their act together eventually so I don't know if we will stay ahead of them.
Comments
That’s the criteria a local Stockport reporter has suggested. My understanding of the criteria is different - unless things have changed recently - and I believe Stockport were able to request a postponement on Thursday. I guess we will have to wait and see.
Match postponed. Confirmed via the club’s socials.
As Cilla Black would have said……..
“What’s ya name and where d’ya come from?”
?????
Very disappointing. You feel eventually the EFL have to step in and take charge of what seems to be a very piecemeal approach. Or stop scheduling games altogether on international weekends.
She was a Scouser, not an aggressive Eastender, but if you’d heard her speaking offstage you would probably have been hard put to detect the Liverpool accent. She was quite posh.
A catchphrase was “Surprise surprise”, the name of a show I can’t begin to describe.
I was a big fan of dear Priscilla. Loved Blind Date but Moment of Truth was my favourite.
absolutely pathetic and gutless by Stockport ...Hope every team in the league nails them...even reading!
What’s the status of next weeks Crawley v Shrewsbury game? If that gets postponed we ought to try and play our EFL trophy game against them on Saturday.
The game will go ahead as scheduled
Only 2 games left on in L1 next Saturday now. It's farcical. Either scrap the whole schedule for international weekends or make everyone play regardless. Current situation is unfair on fans (but since when have they mattered?).
Yep. It's another of these scenarios that are so achingly obvious, but they'll take ages to address.
The plus side of a few teams getting their game in on the Saturday is massively undone by everyone else constantly having to change their plans at a week's notice 4 times a season.
That might not work, but surely there's a team without much international interest that we're due to play on some miserable midweeker in Winter who'd be up for switching to face us next Saturday?
Probably too much effort for the clubs / league and too little notice maybe?
You’d think we’d be able to do something. Feels like we played someone in the EFL Trophy on a Saturday last season in this sort of situation.
Yes, we definitely did. But maybe they think for that sort of game very few bother to go anyway, so less of everything needed to sort.
But you'd think even with 1 week notice we'd get a higher attendance for most games than a midweeker in Dec/Jan.
It is also a sign (to me) that L1 is getting ridiculously wealthy, and that we are in the new "mini-Championship". Give it 5-10 years and most L2 owners will be fabulously wealthy too.
Not a fan of it all, but it makes our 5th place look even better (as we are not really spending our Kazakh riches to an insane degree yet).
We are certainly not spending on transfer fees but the wage bill must be a big step on from even last season.
I was of the opinion that our wage bill could only be in line with revenue. Or have I mis understood
Any money the owner puts in counts as revenue
Not in League One. There are plenty of work arounds in this league - hence why Birmingham can spend £30 million plus huge wages in League One but not in the Championship.
Hi, Stockport County fan in peace.
Just to clarify, he didn't start unexpectedly against Shrewsbury. Fiorini was injured until recently, hence not having featured in other games. He came in to replace Will Collar who picked up an injury last Saturday against Barnsley. It wasn't a surprise that Fiorini was the replacement because he'd looked good in the EFL Trophy game that he played in and had made a couple of sub appearances as he worked his way back to fitness.
It's frustrating for everyone involved, but I can see why my club had it postponed when we have 2 LBs away on international duty and the other injured. We'd be putting square pegs in round holes if it went ahead so while the option is there to have it called off, it's a no-brainer really.
The whole international break is incredibly annoying though. We had a postponed game in the previous round too (on that occasion due to Reading, Adaramola and Fiorini were injured at the time) and it just feels like it's become farcical in L1. I like the idea of playing EFL Trophy games on international weekends.
Playing EFL trophy games on international weekends would be a good solution.
Not sure if it would be possible to schedule like that with the u21 teams involved , as some of their youngsters might have under age call ups too.
Who cares about them? If it annoys them they might leave the competition and that would be excellent news.
and then there is the question of why the Scottish FA is picking so many English youngsters to play in their U21 side. They really should be developing their own players.
Only 3 of the 21 players in the current U21 squad were born in England.
If we could kick them out in the process then that would be even better.
You have much better knowledge of Stockport County than I do but he was substituted on 60 minutes in the Trophy game.
He was also brought off at half time on Saturday.
I am in Liverpool for work on Saturday morning so the game being off is a right pain as I would have hopped across the M62 and then headed back to Berks. Depending on the Tuesday night date I will probably make the rearranged game too.
I suspect the EFL will have to come up with a solution for League One now 9/10 of 12 fixtures are postponed every International Weekend.
Do you think you will remain top of the Greater Manchester table?
What might work is if League One clubs had to say before the fixture list is published whether or not they want to excercise the 'international weekend off' option. The EFL could then schedule games on International Saturdays between clubs that didn't exercise that option.
I guess there would have to be some sort rules saying that you had to have internationals on the books or a long history of calling off games in the past, but I could be wrong about that.
We would probably have had two TV games in this season so far.
The Trophy game was his first appearance for the club. It was a case of managing the minutes of a player who was injured in preseason and hadn't yet featured. He's not up to a full 90 minutes yet.
On Saturday we made a triple substitution at half time to switch things tactically and he was one of the three sacrificed.
He's not just a fringe player who we've chucked into the team to get a game called off. He's a player that the club paid a decent fee for this summer and will expect to be an important player going forward.
It's really frustrating, and I appreciate that we've been very fortunate that the two games we've had postponed have been home games.
To answer your question about where we might finish, I predicted 12th for us before the season started and would be more than happy with that still. Having said that, we've made a decent start without really putting together a complete performance yet. I still feel like there's a lot more to come from us.
Having seen Wigan on Saturday, I see no reason to believe we can't finish above them. I suspect Bolton will get their act together eventually so I don't know if we will stay ahead of them.
Interesting to hear Blooms suggest we made our summer signings with an eye to not missing games during the international break.