Statement Regarding Fixture Fulfilment

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What about the 8000+ supporters that did manage to make it? Included a sizable number from the North East. How much goodwill would've been generated with them when they arrived only to be told that the game had been postponed?

I think that a decision could have been made to call it off well before it would have become an inconvenience for those who did attend. I'm not suggesting that it should have been postponed at 7pm. Anyway, I'm not saying I don't understand why the game went ahead or that those disagreeing with me don't have a valid argument. I just think the decision was the wrong one. Clearly my own annoyance at bot being able to get there is a factor in that, although I like to think I'd hold the same view regardless (as indeed i did when I thought I might still be able to get there).
 
What percentage of fans being unable/unwilling to attend games should the league use as a reason for automatic cancellation of games? Should this apply if there is a boycott by fans? Maybe it could be used to influence games ie. if your team has a major injury crisis/players out on international duty etc. just arrange a mass boycott and the game will be played at a better time for the club.

A boycott is a choice by the fans of a club. Indeed the boycotting fans would prefer that the match goes ahead, otherwise their protest has no impact. This is an unusual situation in which many did not have a choice but not to attend a match they had paid to watch. I'm simply arguing that the club could be behaving in a more understanding manner. Instead they are giving them impression that they couldn't care less. And perhaps they couldn't.
 
So when are the club sending round that army of highly skilled whores to pleasure me senseless, as a compensation for the fact that I was too lazy to make the effort to go to the game ?

It's Monday, for feck's sake, and not so much as a hand job as yet
 
So when are the club sending round that army of highly skilled whores to pleasure me senseless, as a compensation for the fact that I was too lazy to make the effort to go to the game ?

It's Monday, for feck's sake, and not so much as a hand job as yet

Thanks, Homer, some sense at last.
 
Do you think if you whine enough they will replay the game for all the fans who missed it? I was pretty annoyed that I had to walk for over an hour each way to see the match on the day but it's done now, points won, move on.

People have made good points on both sides and I doubt if many people have changed their minds. Biffa is right - "its done now, points won move on".
 
I couldn't get to Halfords on Friday night because it was cold so I have asked them for a complimentary socket set. I have also asked for some free morphine from the dispensary, the 82 pizzas I would have got from Pizza Hut and a new Range Rover from the dealers.

They'd better give it all to me or run the risk of losing all of my good will.
 
I couldn't get to Halfords on Friday night because it was cold so I have asked them for a complimentary socket set. I have also asked for some free morphine from the dispensary, the 82 pizzas I would have got from Pizza Hut and a new Range Rover from the dealers.

They'd better give it all to me or run the risk of losing all of my good will.

You joke, but would the cinema offer refunds to all the people who had prepaid for tickets on Friday but missed their showing? I doubt it.
 
Ah, nothing like taking a point to a complete extreme using a worthless analogy.

My personal favourite has to be the boycott one - classic.
 
I don't hold the club responsible for the idiotic decision to play the game on Friday. They did what they're supposed to do. I hold those people who purport to represent the interests of health and safety such as the SAG and Police responsible. I also believe that the game would probably have been postponed if it wasn't being broadcast.

It was patently obvious to anyone in one of the h&s roles that large numbers of people wouldn't be able to make the game by about 16.30pm. Anyone that was caught up in the shambolic gridlock around the City between 15.00-19.00 couldn't have come to another conclusion. The game should have been postponed. The fact that it wasn't only demonstrates that these people are incompetent buffoons for whom h&s only applies when it suits.

Contrast it with the decision today to shut almost all schools in Leicester for h&s reasons in far better weather conditions than Friday pm.
 
I don't hold the club responsible for the idiotic decision to play the game on Friday. They did what they're supposed to do. I hold those people who purport to represent the interests of health and safety such as the SAG and Police responsible. I also believe that the game would probably have been postponed if it wasn't being broadcast.

It was patently obvious to anyone in one of the h&s roles that large numbers of people wouldn't be able to make the game by about 16.30pm. Anyone that was caught up in the shambolic gridlock around the City between 15.00-19.00 couldn't have come to another conclusion. The game should have been postponed. The fact that it wasn't only demonstrates that these people are incompetent buffoons for whom h&s only applies when it suits.

Contrast it with the decision today to shut almost all schools in Leicester for h&s reasons in far better weather conditions than Friday pm.

Health and safety wasn't at risk on Friday so I'm not sure how that works? I'd also wager quite a bit of vCash that many of the people moaning are the type of person to moan about health and safety gone mad when people make up stories about kids playing conkers at school.
 
You joke, but would the cinema offer refunds to all the people who had prepaid for tickets on Friday but missed their showing? I doubt it.

Our local Vue has done just that for people who missed shows because of the snow here yesterday.
 
De Montfort Hall aren't for the show my wife missed on Friday.

The stage was deemed danceable, the staff were able to get in despite the odd few that had to run the last couple of miles and Sky were broadcasting it to millions of viewers so of course it was going ahead and it's all your wife's fault for not getting there on time. :icon_wink
 
I think it is terrible that Sky also forced all those matches to go ahead on Saturday. They really are very evil.
 
You joke, but would the cinema offer refunds to all the people who had prepaid for tickets on Friday but missed their showing? I doubt it.

I's very likely that they would if the volume of customers dissatisfied was enough to make them worried that they'd lose custom. Starbucks started paying tax on the back of a bit of faux moral panic and only today HMV began allowing customers to redeem gift cards. Businesses respond to customers; even failed ones like HMV. Indeed HMV went tits up precisely because they didn't respond to the needs of customers as well as their competitors did.

Football clubs get to behave differently because people have an emotional attachment tothem. I'm not going to start supporting someone else now. This is why they can take the piss out of me (within reason; there is a breaking point somewhere, I'm sure). They know I'll be back.
 
Health and safety wasn't at risk on Friday so I'm not sure how that works? I'd also wager quite a bit of vCash that many of the people moaning are the type of person to moan about health and safety gone mad when people make up stories about kids playing conkers at school.

Not me. Health and Safety legislation is good and necessary. Those who moan about it would be first to moan that they weren't sufficiently protected when they were hit by a forklift, for example, if such legislation did not exist.
 
Not me. Health and Safety legislation is good and necessary. Those who moan about it would be first to moan that they weren't sufficiently protected when they were hit by a forklift, for example, if such legislation did not exist.

I agree, many don't. I also think the so called PC brigade aren't a bad thing, but I doubt many agree.
 
I agree, many don't. I also think the so called PC brigade aren't a bad thing, but I doubt many agree.

Agree again. Political correctness, as far as I can tell, translates roughly as 'don't be a dickhead'. I can live with that.
 
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