Quote: jools "It's pointless comparing to football.
Would the fa cup semi finals be held on a Thursday night I wonder?
No chance!!!
Midweek games in football are already part of the fixture lists so people know exactly where they are at the start of the season and can arrange shifts etc in advance. How many does each football club have moved for sky? Not the half a dozen a SL team can have in a season!
Anybody can see this doesn't expand and improve our game- sides are losing ST holders as a result of changes by sky - and if the money isn't coming in the product will be worse. The giants have resorted to offering money off the next years ticket for any game sky moves if people don't attend.'"
With reference to your first point, up until very, very recently, didn't the Champions League Final be played on a Wednesday night? The biggest indivdual club game in football? Add to that the recent changes in FA cup kick of time (admittedly not the day).
Further to this, Sky (and now presumably BT) do change EPL games days and times to fit their schedule, yes. When Sky announced their first set of TV fixtures, they only ran to November (if memory serves). I would imagine teams like Man Utd and Chelsea etc as well as teams involved in the basement battle have a fair few rescheduled as the season develops. So really, football is a fair comparison in this discussion I think.
The Thursday night games only started this year, so we cant say how this impacts on ST sales. Sky's responsiblity is to gain TV viewers, clubs are responsible for gaining ST season ticket holders. The two shouldn't be confused.
Huddersfield have also made good offers on tickets in their continued efforts to boost crowds. I think these offers and your success this year, especially if sustained in the future, will see these attendences at your place grow, which is superb!
As I say, I'm not "for" Thursday games, but certainly not against. I just think its in our DNA as RL fans to dislike anything that changes!
