Quite!

It"ll cause less problems for City in the Premier league next year.

However all is not lost I"m sure our new coach will soon have us screaming up the table.
Then Sky will want us on every week.

I don't disagree, but some on here are paiting AP as some kind of charlatan who's coming in to rob us all blind, people go on about giving players and coaches a chance and yet many (who I would wager have never spoken to AP at any leghth) are already doubting his motives.

and, for ehfcf et al, when (if) AP does something wrong then I'll be the first to criticise, as yet, he's done nothing wrong in my opinion.

Welcome to the Internet age.

TBH without knowing how many surveys were sent out it's difficult to judge. Bear in mind that the number of fans registered with The Grapevine is likely to be a relatively small fraction of the total fanbase, and will also tend to comprise people who will respond quickly to this kind of thing.

Just another example of the loutish minority making more noise than the silent majority.

Why announce it early at all? Unless you have to. He must have needed to as by making the decision this early he's opened himself up to similar criticism the old regime received by not consulting fully.
If Kath had done this there'd be uproar on here. I'm worried AP isn't understanding fully why attendances are dropping.

It helps me playing on a Sunday, but I'd much rather the players were consulted about the fact they'll have to go to places like Wigan, Saints & Leeds on a 5 day turnaround.

Do you have any presentable evidence for your claims that people are "painting him as a charlatan out to rob us blind"?

whilst you do have 5 day turn arounds you also get 9 day turn arounds so its swings and roundabouts which do equal out during a season

One would suggest that the advantage of a 9 day turnaround to play the *lesser* teams of Wakefield etc.. is not needed. We do it fine now, it's playing Wigan/Leeds/Saints that present us with massive problems.

I think he announced it 'early' because it's been a big talking point, he'd already mentioned that they were looking at it, and the majority of survey returns were in favour. Announcing as early as possible gives people plenty of time to adjust to the idea before passes go on sale and also means that the club can start planning for it right away. In other words - why wait?

And if you read the article in full it's abundantly clear that the change to Sundays is just one part of an overall strategy to try and increase crowd numbers...



Hence I'll be keeping an open mind on this.

He can't win really can he , some people want friday some want sunday

Is there still a market on a Sunday, if so how about the parking.

I don't think Pearson is under any illusion as to why the attendances are down, especially if the amount of people on here who said they have put their comments re our current coach as a reason not to renew.

Friday / Sunday is one that will never please everyone and there will unfortunately be winners and losers same as when we changed from Sundays to Fridays originally.
He wont just be changing for the sake of it he will have no doubt looked back to what the club did when it played Sundays etc and formulated his plans on what he believes is the best way forward and the majority of fans surveys returned so far have probably unanimously backed up his plans.

He has come out and actually told us early and the reason why, he could after all of just waoted till the survey was done then just fed us a line like the old BOD but he hasn't he has been open and upfront.

Strange they have announced it early as the Survey is not supposed to close till the 5th of September.