sounds good. especially during soccer season, a game following straight after suer sunday on Sky sports 1 could get a fairly larrge audience potentially

I've always been surprised by the teams who prefer Friday night games when they are not SKY-enforced. Surely less away fans travel on a Friday night after a hard week at work, contending with Friday traffic and arriving home very late at night.
Surely Sunday at 3.00ish allows away suppoerters to travel more flexibly and be home at a decent hour? I know I enjoy an away game as my main Sunday activity, but to be honest I'm usually too knackered to travel far on a Friday night.

I don't finish work while 18.30hrs Friday so it rules out any away games.

barely any teams bring an away following worth bothering about the KC. The diehards that do travel will come whether its a friday night or sunday.

sure it annoying that I probably won't be able to get to Wigan on friday for a game that could see us go top of SL, but i completely understand why Wigan choose that time to play their games.

I think Hull having the leagues most expensive away end ticket prices has something to do with that. They charge £5 more than Wigan.

Its hardly affecting viewing figures much, when you consider only around 40k people will watch the games live at the ground on a friday.

Of those 40k how many have Sky?
Probably only a fraction

Then you have to factor in that many fans just would not be interested in watching a TV game between two teams they dont support.

So we are probably only talking about viewing figures taking a hit of a few thousand viewers.
Hardly important when games are drawing 250k+ viewers