Stockport away picked for tv coverage (8th March 12:30pm)

clive · February 6

Charlton's Sky Bet League One trip to Stockport County on Saturday, March 8th will now kick-off at the earlier time of 12.30pm (GMT) after being selected for live coverage on Sky Sports+.
https://www.charltonafc.com/news/stockport-trip-selected-tv-coverage

bolloxbolder · February 6

Excellent news

Nicholas · February 6

oh fuckoff

golfaddick · February 6

Cool.

killerandflash · February 6

Humph. It won't affect my journey as I'm staying over anyway, but 12:30 kick offs are never as enjoyable

paulsturgess · February 6

C***s

soapboxsam · February 6

Bad decisions for the fans who go to most away games but good for the rest of us who used to go to some away games up north but prefer the sofa end now.

BrentfordAddick · February 6

Sympathy for people who have booked train tickets, if that is still a thing.

Billy_Mix · February 6

I thought that more notice was to be given of TV enforced rearrangements
A month is more than previously and early enough to avoid messing up people's decisions about spending on tickets but I thought it was to be longer still?

GD78 · February 6

Train we're booked on, and I speak for a lot of people here, arrives in Stockport at 13.09....

olster · February 6

GD78 said:

Train we're booked on, and I speak for a lot of people here, arrives in Stockport at 13.09....

luckily we're usually better in the second half

fenaddick · February 6

Billy_Mix said:

I thought that more notice was to be given of TV enforced rearrangements
A month is more than previously and early enough to avoid messing up people's decisions about spending on tickets but I thought it was to be longer still?

Longer for the first half of the season or so and then a month onwards. Given the price of train tickets that really isn’t enough. Not expecting the second half to be selected at once but 6 weeks notice would be good at least

shirty5 · February 6

Billy_Mix said:

I thought that more notice was to be given of TV enforced rearrangements
A month is more than previously and early enough to avoid messing up people's decisions about spending on tickets but I thought it was to be longer still?

https://www.efl.com/how-to-watch/tv-game-selection-process/

CoveredEnd1905 · February 6

Like said above it is now a months notice. If we're doing well towards the end of the season I imagine this will put games like Wrexham, Huddersfield, Barnsley and Wycombe at risk. Proper pain in the arse. Will still probably do Stockport but annoying we now have to hold on for a while in booking trains and that

Lincsaddick · February 6

mmm I was planning to go to this one .. we will see

Callumcafc · February 6

Ugh now I have to wake up at 6:15am to watch the game on my stream from bed!

HandG · February 6

BrentfordAddick said:

Sympathy for people who have booked train tickets, if that is still a thing.

It is and we have....

Lincsaddick · February 6

HandG said:

BrentfordAddick said:

Sympathy for people who have booked train tickets, if that is still a thing.

It is and we have....

really annoying, my sympathies

killerandflash · February 6

Nowhere near enough notice for long distance away games, where advance tickets are the only way to make travel affordable.

They had better options the week before, but moving the Orient game would have caused few problems for most of us

clive · February 6

GD78 said:

Train we're booked on, and I speak for a lot of people here, arrives in Stockport at 13.09....

Did you think it was going to be moved to a 17.30 kick-off?
I always plan to arrive by train by noon for Saturday 15.00ko away games.

Lordflashheart · February 6

Booked our trains ages ago to get cheap deal, but we get to Stockport at 11.56, so not an issue

Has buggered up my planned pub crawl up the high street pre-match though - I had done meticulous research, incl ringing pubs and asking about their away fan policy 🙄

At least won’t get home at stupid o’clock - IF we can change return journey ……….

killerandflash · February 6

Lordflashheart said:

Booked our trains ages ago to get cheap deal, but we get to Stockport at 11.56, so not an issue

Has buggered up my planned pub crawl up the high street pre-match though - I had done meticulous research, incl ringing pubs and asking about their away fan policy 🙄

At least won’t get home at stupid o’clock - IF we can change return journey ……….

Or a post match pub crawl up the high street to celebrate our 1-1 draw

HandG · February 6

Lincsaddick said:

HandG said:

BrentfordAddick said:

Sympathy for people who have booked train tickets, if that is still a thing.

It is and we have....

really annoying, my sympathies

We get in at 12:09 so should just about be okay - a first world problem but the best bit of an away game is the pre match pub so sad to be losing that….

RedPanda · February 6

Nicholas said:

oh fuckoff

Yep we are now like the French, Polish, Spanish leagues where you can't plan anything until 4 weeks before the fixture.

There's no going back now, booking cheap trains 3 months before a game is a thing of the past.

Lordflashheart · February 6

killerandflash said:

Lordflashheart said:

Booked our trains ages ago to get cheap deal, but we get to Stockport at 11.56, so not an issue

Has buggered up my planned pub crawl up the high street pre-match though - I had done meticulous research, incl ringing pubs and asking about their away fan policy 🙄

At least won’t get home at stupid o’clock - IF we can change return journey ……….

Or a post match pub crawl up the high street to celebrate our 1-1 draw

😂

Not a place I want to spend post match in any longer than needed

clive · February 6

RedPanda said:

Nicholas said:

oh fuckoff

Yep we are now like the French, Polish, Spanish leagues where you can't plan anything until 4 weeks before the fixture.

There's no going back now, booking cheap trains 3 months before a game is a thing of the past.

Since lockdown i never book trains that early, i normally wait until about month before a fixture, also i've noticed sometimes cheaper advance fares are still available then, but maybe i'm fortunate that i have a railcard.

soapboxsam · February 6

paulsturgess said:

C***s

Don't sit on the fence !

The reason as you know why Premier footballers are multi millionaires is because of Sky, BT and the international selling of matches on TV.

Is there always more notice for when Premier games are going to be on TV ?

How much do League 1 teams make when they are shown ?

And the difference between a named match on Sky as opposed to the 'Now' selection of EFL games that start 5 minutes before KO.

Lots of Questions!