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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.

i wonder what sort of gate they would have had if they had switched it to roots hall.
 
I'm surprised the Melbourne Community Stadium would even pass as a conference standard ground to even allow them into the playoffs. It's got nil segregation, how would they deal with a large away contingent of several thousand who showed up for an important fixture?
 
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.
 
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.

Yep, correct, Mick. The athletics weekend is regarded as a highly prestigious event for Chelmsford (by the council) and is booked-up a long time in advance, there's no way CCFC would have been given preference on dates.
 
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.

Indeed, I was in the real highest crowd at the first match there.
 
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.
 
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.

Is a tenuous advantage. IF the thing goes to extra time.
But IF you finish higher in the league - I think you should have significant advantage as you have earned it. It may also stop club's like Huddersfield Town perverting the league by playing under-strength line-ups for the final three or four games as they knew they were in the Play-Off and rested players. IF they knew they could gain significant home advantage - Huddersfield Town would have finished 3rd this season.
 
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