Tangled up in Blue
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No, I'll keep less thank you. Less seating.
I saw what you did there.
No, I'll keep less thank you. Less seating.
Melbourne Community Stadium is primarily an athletics stadium, which is owned by the local council. The athletics this weekend is the Essex County Championships and could well have been pre-booked before the play-off date was set.
Furthermore if they'd contacted the Council and asked them to re-arrange the athletics event in case they make the playoff final and just happen to be at home, they'd have got short shrift.
Melbourne Community Stadium is primarily an athletics stadium, which is owned by the local council. The athletics this weekend is the Essex County Championships and could well have been pre-booked before the play-off date was set.
Furthermore if they'd contacted the Council and asked them to re-arrange the athletics event in case they make the playoff final and just happen to be at home, they'd have got short shrift.
Why? MP is certified as having a 'B' ground-grading which meets Van South and play-off requirements. There has been successful segregation / all-ticket matches in the past to accommodate large away followings as the stadium could not cope with several thousand 'visitor's - notably 900 fans from AFCW in 2007/8 in an official record gate of 3,201 and more recently for Col Utd in the FA Cup.
Absolutely this.
If you do not reward the team who finished higher in the league table with a tangible advantage? Then why bother with a league table?
The current Football league play-Off system is not based on what teams have achieved ...but once again based on money and therefore a two-leg affair.
You do have an advantage finishing 3rd/4th, if it goes to extra time (as we did a couple of seasons ago) the higher team gets to play the extra 30 at their ground.