Fixture congestion

[tenacres]

Gateshead off tonight & still have 5 games to play. That’s going to be a struggle with only 11 days of the season left.

Halifax off tonight as well, they may play the Thursday before they face us on the final day.

[unknownquantity]

I think i have said on more occasion on this forum that our run of 4 matches in 8 days was a major factor in us missing out on the playoffs last season. The one slight difference is that this season more than team will play 5 matches in 7 days.

Actually last season FC Stratford played their last 6 matches of the regular season from 15th to 22nd April and played the playoff semi final on 25th April.

[hantslondoner]

May already have been mentioned, but since the council owners of Halifax's ground also let the rugby league team play on it, with the weather we've been having it's completely trashed.

www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/sport/football/were-incredibly-disappointed-heres-what-calderdale-council-have-said-about-fc-halifax-town-having-to-seek-alternative-venue-for-oldham-athletic-match-4584997

They are looking for alternative venues, but with three home games scheduled in the next week (today's game v Oldham was in fact postponed yesterday) they have big problems. And of course a crucial trip to the Silverlake on the last day.

[reeced100]

Apr 9, 2024 23:02:37 GMT unknownquantity said:

I think i have said on more occasion on this forum that our run of 4 matches in 8 days was a major factor in us missing out on the playoffs last season. The one slight difference is that this season more than team will play 5 matches in 7 days.

Actually last season FC Stratford played their last 6 matches of the regular season from 15th to 22nd April and played the playoff semi final on 25th April.

That's a very poor excuse lad, Guernsey once played 17 matches in 30 days and still managed a promotion.

[unknownquantity]

I was bot making an excuse and I do not think the club 2was either, but merely an observation. At the start of this sequence of matches we had just drawn away at Boreham Wood which appeared at the time to be a better result for us than them. I think that at the start of this four match schedule we rested a couple of players which in my view proved to be a mistake. If we had been able to reschedule one of the fixtures in this sequence for one of the two following midweeks where we had no midweek fixture we might have been less inclined to rest players.

I think that playing twice or more in midweek is definitely less common at our level and above than it is lower down the pyramid, and I have known this season a cup tie in a minor competition finally being played at the sixth attempt.