Charlton v Ipswich Next Sat will be different time / day (Confirmed for 12.30pm on the 17th)

AFKABartram

To be confirmed, not to clash with Prince Philip’s funeral 

InspectorSands

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/56705816

JaShea99

Interesting choice of date/time for the funeral.

SouthWest_Addicks

Will have to be the Saturday as we are playing on the Tuesday. 

Don’t think this decision would have been taken if their were crowds in attendance IMO

letthegoodtimesroll

AFKABartram said:

To be confirmed, not to clash with Prince Philip’s funeral 

Sod ‘em. If they want to watch the game they could always rearrange the day or time of the funeral...

ValleyGary

12:30 kick offs?

stoneroses19

SouthWest_Addicks said:

Will have to be the Saturday as we are playing on the Tuesday. 

Don’t think this decision would have been taken if their were crowds in attendance IMO

Wouldn’t have been possible. Couldn’t have moved 32 games to different times considering thousands of people would have already bought train tickets etc.

Cafc43v3r

stoneroses19 said:

SouthWest_Addicks said:

Will have to be the Saturday as we are playing on the Tuesday. 

Don’t think this decision would have been taken if their were crowds in attendance IMO

Wouldn’t have been possible. Couldn’t have moved 32 games to different times considering thousands of people would have already bought train tickets etc.

They could!! 

ForeverAddickted

stoneroses19 said:

SouthWest_Addicks said:

Will have to be the Saturday as we are playing on the Tuesday. 

Don’t think this decision would have been taken if their were crowds in attendance IMO

Wouldn’t have been possible. Couldn’t have moved 32 games to different times considering thousands of people would have already bought train tickets etc.

Yeah agree with CAFC43v3r, we live in the country where the rail companies dont give a toss once they've got your money

Would have received a shrug and a, "well its not our fault" when anyone tried to get a refund

stoneroses19

ForeverAddickted said:

stoneroses19 said:

SouthWest_Addicks said:

Will have to be the Saturday as we are playing on the Tuesday. 

Don’t think this decision would have been taken if their were crowds in attendance IMO

Wouldn’t have been possible. Couldn’t have moved 32 games to different times considering thousands of people would have already bought train tickets etc.

Yeah agree with CAFC43v3r, we live in the country where the rail companies dont give a toss once they've got your money

Would have received a shrug and a, "well its not our fault" when anyone tried to get a refund

On second thoughts, you’re both probably right.

Dansk_Red

There are eight games being played on Tuesday so not sure those teams will want to play on Friday. Think they should move the Saturday games to Sunday and next Tuesdays games to Wednesday. When all teams are playing.

Jac_52

Ridiculous

Weegie Addick

Would have made a lot more sense to have the funeral at 12 or 1pm surely? 

colthe3rd

Weegie Addick said:

Would have made a lot more sense to have the funeral at 12 or 1pm surely? 

Couldn't have 7 hours of build up on the BBC then. 

clb74

If it was down to me the country would be shut down for the day.

Afternoon Delight

clb74 said:

If it was down to me the country would be shut down for the day.

Couldn't agree more.

ElfsborgAddick

clb74 said:

If it was down to me the country would be shut down for the day.

100%

RonnieMoore

According to Talksport all games now postponed 

ValleyGary

Yeah we haven’t had enough shutting down of stuff recently....

cafctom

Think early kick offs are the most likely outcome.

ValleyGary

RonnieMoore said:

According to Talksport all games now postponed 

Absolutely ridiculous.

Weegie Addick

cafctom said:

Think early kick offs are the most likely outcome.

Doubt it. Later or different day much more likely. 

SELR_addicks

Why can't they just move all games to 3pm Sunday? 

MuttleyCAFC

ValleyGary said:

RonnieMoore said:

According to Talksport all games now postponed 

Absolutely ridiculous.

I can't see that being the case with the fixture congestion issues. 

EricBanterna

SELR_addicks said:

Why can't they just move all games to 3pm Sunday? 

Because I have a double header Sunday.

MuttleyCAFC

I think next Friday evening is the obvious day. With Tuesday kick offs next week and the week after, it allows the minimum 3 day gap for all teams. 

golfaddick

Weegie Addick said:

Would have made a lot more sense to have the funeral at 12 or 1pm surely? 

This in spades.

One funeral which could be held at anytime on any day now trumps 30-odd football matches that has officials & associated ground staff all needing to change.

I'm not anti-royalist, far from it, but this all seems a bit much. No reason why the funeral couldnt be at 12 noon, or even on Sunday. 

3pm Saturday had been the standard kick off time for league football for almost 100 years.

clb74

That's it fit the funeral in round the football.

golfaddick

RonnieMoore said:

According to Talksport all games now postponed 

And played when.....?

There are no spare midweeks to play them. If they are going to postpone then the only sensible option would be to do what they did last season & just move every game on a few days. So we play Ipswich on tuesday 20th, Crewe on the Sat 24th & finish with Hull on Tuesday the 11th.

LargeAddick

With no crowds it’s hardly an issue so why not just play at say 7pm?

MuttleyCAFC

I want to be careful in saying this, as I am also not anti royal and I respect Prince Phillip and his service to the Queen and this country. But, I think we have gone a bit too far putting blanket TV coverage on the main channels etc... Sometimes less is more and watching journalists talking for the sake of talking and repeat after repeat on what is being said is painful to watch. I'm sure some will want to watch it but it only needs to be on two channels.

There will be football supporters who wish to watch their team and the funeral but as Golfie says, 12pm or 1pm on Saturday would surely have been a better time.