Quote: Dave Lister "It takes 20 minutes to get to Twickenham Station from Waterloo.'"
True, and it's dead handy if you're near Waterloo. Trouble is most of London isn't. And a lot of London isn't near a transport link that will get you to Waterloo quickly.
Quote: Dave Lister "Even if you were coming from Docklands you would struggle to miss kick off.'"
That rather depends on when you're allowed to leave work. Some people in this world work fixed hours.
Quote: Dave Lister "The idea behind that game, although poorly executed, is to attract those that work in London and head out after work. Someone on our forum posted saying he was bringing 10 mates from work to the match.'"
I hope he did bring them and that they enjoyed themselves. My worry is that they saw a poor team performance, a small lack lustre home crowd, no away support, no banter, no atmosphere. Not a great advert for the game.
Quote: Dave Lister "Bleating because the club have tried to do something different...'"
Given that they've played weeknight games in every year I've followed them, how does this constitute 'something different'?
Quote: Dave Lister "...is incredibly short sighted and selfish.'"
I was at the match, heard you gobbing off, east stand block FD I'd estimate. This isn't about me, I'd rather you didn't make it personal.
Quote: Dave Lister "Organise your life better if this impacts you so much.'"
Like I say, some people work fixed hours, they simply cannot 'organise their life better' without compromising their employment.
Quote: Dave Lister "Just imagine if teams played on a Friday night and away fans had to take a half day minimum to make the 250 mile journey.
Oh, wait...'"
This is surely another reason why we should avoid Friday night games.
This is the 17th year I've followed them and I've worked in London all that time.
There are many seasons where the only way I could make a Friday night game would have been to take a days holiday, and in some jobs I didn't have many of those to start with. So my assertion that travel time / logistics are an issue for some people is learned from personal experience.
I am struggling to think of a weekday match I've been to where the crowd wasn't well below the season average.
How many times do we try this before admitting that Friday night games do us no favours?