Barnet play Braintree tomorrow night, then we play Braintree the following Tuesday. Anyone know why there are random Tuesday night fixtures dotted around when nobody else is playing?

Because the conference is excrement

Someone somewhere alluded to it possibly being Braintree trying to get as many games out of the way before Xmas before their pitch gets ruined again like last year when they had to play 3 games a week once or twice.

Quoted from Tom13

Someone somewhere alluded to it possibly being Braintree trying to get as many games out of the way before Xmas before their pitch gets ruined again like last year when they had to play 3 games a week once or twice.

I wondered as much. I've looked further on and pretty much everybody else had two midweek games in early December which could benefit us in the long run as that's a busy period.

I guess if the two clubs agree and give the league sufficient notice they can play them when they want? We don't have the concept of "rounds" at this level.

Quoted from GrimRob

I guess if the two clubs agree and give the league sufficient notice they can play them when they want? We don't have the concept of "rounds" at this level.

But we could have and should have!

Quoted from ex-merseymariner

But we could have and should have!

Why? It'd all go out the window when the bad weather comes anyway.

Chris Hargreaves was complaining a couple of weeks ago about the fixtures where his team was not playing when everybody else is playing, he was also moaning about the refs in league a bit surprised since he played in this league and was captain of the Torquay team that got promoted through the play offs. He should know all about the refs in this league.

Sounds a sensible plan to me. We're always complaining when we've got too many games to play because of success in the Trophy and cancellations of away games in Jan/Feb.

Quoted from ex-merseymariner

But we could have and should have!

I think it's impossible to have Rounds with the FA Trophy being the way it is. Or the FA Cup which some teams always get to Rounds 2 and 3 in. You also have some teams who have big county FA tournaments (the eqivalent of the Lincs Cup)  which they take part in. Put all those things together with the weather and I think there's no chance of playing all the games in Rounds. So far the season has gone like clockwork though. Silly Season starts soon though!

What happens if we need a replay in the cup?

The game is replayed

I would hope that the manager and club secretary are having regular fixture and scheduling meetings, so that if a spare Saturday or Tuesday night presents itself, the secretary can be on the phone to another club to get another game in, brought forward from later in the season.

We're always told that PH and the players would rather have games than training, so if the management and players feel they're on a roll and fancy themselves to turn a particular team over, they can try to get it into the diary and have the added benefit of giving themselves a bit of a winter break!

It doesn't seem to work like that.

If you remember last season, we had four games in a week, we asked if we could move one, against Dartford, I think it was, & they refused. They wanted to play us when we were knackered to give themselves an advantage.

Both teams have to agree on a move, & the league don't want to get involved.

Quoted from mimma

It doesn't seem to work like that.

If you remember last season, we had four games in a week, we asked if we could move one, against Dartford, I think it was, & they refused. They wanted to play us when we were knackered to give themselves an advantage.

Both teams have to agree on a move, & the league don't want to get involved.

Grrrrr-- they are our next home game lets knacker them(fuyou_2)

Quoted from mimma

The game is replayed

:)