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Blues on Tour
Here is something to conjour with.
Fixtures for season 2020/21 should have been released this week. By now we'd have been pouring over them, planning away days and looking forward to knowing who we lose to in the first round of the League Cup. OF course yesterday we saw some play off games in L2, with L2 to follow and a fifth of the Championship still to be played.
The bottom line is that last season will end just when next season should start. Given there needs to be a month of "close season" to allow for the adminstrative side of the business to be handed (this includes things such as preparing fixture lists, sale of season tickets, contract arrangements) and for sides like us, some kind of pre-season. This pretty much takes us to mid September before we start.
By that time, of course, we'd have played 2 rounds of the League Cup (ok, not us), had seven weekend match days and probably 2 midweeks and would have had some involvement in the Checkatrade.
Given the re-arranged Euro 2021 means the season must finish on time at the end May, it begs the question how on earth we are going to fit all those games into a season that will be at least seven weeks shorter than before and compounded by the financial impact of the current situation meaning most clubs wont have the luxury of carrying large squads.
I can see us playing a 23 game season, with a split at that point with the top 12 playing for promotion and the bottom 12 playing to avoid relegation. This of course has a negative impact on ticket sales.
Anyone else got any ideas????
Fixtures for season 2020/21 should have been released this week. By now we'd have been pouring over them, planning away days and looking forward to knowing who we lose to in the first round of the League Cup. OF course yesterday we saw some play off games in L2, with L2 to follow and a fifth of the Championship still to be played.
The bottom line is that last season will end just when next season should start. Given there needs to be a month of "close season" to allow for the adminstrative side of the business to be handed (this includes things such as preparing fixture lists, sale of season tickets, contract arrangements) and for sides like us, some kind of pre-season. This pretty much takes us to mid September before we start.
By that time, of course, we'd have played 2 rounds of the League Cup (ok, not us), had seven weekend match days and probably 2 midweeks and would have had some involvement in the Checkatrade.
Given the re-arranged Euro 2021 means the season must finish on time at the end May, it begs the question how on earth we are going to fit all those games into a season that will be at least seven weeks shorter than before and compounded by the financial impact of the current situation meaning most clubs wont have the luxury of carrying large squads.
I can see us playing a 23 game season, with a split at that point with the top 12 playing for promotion and the bottom 12 playing to avoid relegation. This of course has a negative impact on ticket sales.
Anyone else got any ideas????