Friday Night Games?
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Topic: Friday Night Games?
Posted By: TeflonTed
Subject: Friday Night Games?
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 08:23
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Morning all. Showing my ignorance here, simple question…are there ever any Friday evening games (or Sunday come to that matter). It’s always been a split opinion at Sixways, and the question has been raised on our rugbynetwork forum. ------------- TeflonTed, 2 miles from Sixways |
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Posted By: KnightsBoy
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 08:41
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TeflonTed wrote:Posted By: Trailfinder
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 09:23
| I do wonder though if the plan is to move games to Thursday evenings a la ProD2. Obv not until there is a broadcast deal though. |
Posted By: Stalwart*
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 09:30
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It's a debate at Pirates every season. We had a few Friday evening games. Some people like them and we get a younger average age attending I reckon. Others prefer the traditional Saturday afternoon, and others Sunday. Friday evening downside is that trains don't run late enough to get people home from further up the line after the game. Sunday is preferred by many who support or play for other clubs on a Saturday. ------------- Pirate |
Posted By: Richard Lowther
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 09:41
A pertinent question as Worcester don't have primacy of tenure and would have to look at alternatives for when the football club are at home. ------------- Moderator http://www.leaguerugby.co.uk" rel="nofollow - National League Rugby Message Boards Remember Wakefield RFC |
Posted By: cheshire exile
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 09:53
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Worcester have certainly played Friday nights in the past; I remember a famous Pirates win on a Friday. We’ve historically played a lot of home games on a Sunday as Stalwart says, but it’s not always been popular with the away side.
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Posted By: Bluesman11
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 11:19
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Bedford play a handful of Friday night games each season, usually (but not always) on six nations/autumn internationals weekends. We do get slightly higher attendances on Friday nights. Personally I prefer Saturday fixtures, especially as I live/work in London so the Friday night games can be tricky. ------------- Championship Prediction League Winner 11/12 |
Posted By: seagoon
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 11:50
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Friday nights can be a real P I T A , for semi-pro sides who have to get time off work on the Friday afternoon Not always a gimme Thursdays would present the same problem ------------- Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana |
Posted By: maire99
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 11:58
| The majority of Nottingham’s matches are Friday nights- usually because of the proximity of the two football clubs which usually play Saturdays. |
Posted By: fatbear
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 12:12
| Chinnor typically play two home Friday Night Lights games each season, and had a third this year with the Not The Prem Cup match against Cambridge. Friday night away games were played at Pirates and Nottingham |
Posted By: TeflonTed
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 13:29
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Thank you all for the input. Primacy of tenure, for those who might be confused by the comment, has been granted to Worcester City FC, who have a 5 year contract to play at Sixways starting this coming season. The FA rules require this at their current level in the structure. Their tenancy revenue is clearly important in making Sixways pay for itself. ------------- TeflonTed, 2 miles from Sixways |
Posted By: Stalwart*
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 13:38
Interesting. Is primacy of tenure still a criteria for Premiership rugby? ------------- Pirate |
Posted By: Cov kid 42
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 13:59
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From a Coventry point of view Friday evenings have usually been viewed as a necessary requirement on isolated occasions; I resisted using the words necessary evil purposely, but it has always been close to that. 3,000 plus Saturday gates this season rather adds fuel to our argument as to when best to play. We seem to manage that level too most times when Cov City are at home. ------------- John Butler |
Posted By: knightandday
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 17:08
Good question, I was going to ask the same. Fairly sure it still is, but stand to be corrected. ------------- Winning isn't everything, it just makes the beer taste better |
Posted By: Bluesman11
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 18:35
I though that’s what London Welsh challenged in court and won ------------- Championship Prediction League Winner 11/12 |
Posted By: The Blues
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 18:48
| I do enjoy the a few Friday night home games but wish they kicked off at 8pm and not 7:45pm. Those extra 15 mins helps get there in time and through the gates! |
Posted By: gerg_861
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 19:09
| I attended Friday night lights at Chinnor. Really cold, but it seemed to bring out a younger demographic. |
Posted By: fatbear
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 19:52
It would have been just as cold on the Saturday afternoon !! Friday nights also seem to attract quite a number of visitors from other local clubs who would be playing or watching their side the next day
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Posted By: TeflonTed
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2025 at 22:18
Yes. Primacy of tenure long since gone. https://www.blackstonechambers.com/news/case-london_welsh/" rel="nofollow - https://www.blackstonechambers.com/news/case-london_welsh/ How the FA still apply it might be interesting! ------------- TeflonTed, 2 miles from Sixways |
Posted By: Mickyboy
Date Posted: 05 Jun 2025 at 18:23
| My Understanding is that the RFU insisted that sides play at least either 2 Friday night games or for those without floodlights Sunday afternoons. What arrangements the new set up has I am unsure but no RFU intervention now. Bedford try to avoid clashing with England home games |