12:30 kick offs. Team perspective (3 Viewers)

[Johhny Blue]

I know us fans hate the early kick offs
(4:30 a. m. for me) but how does it affect the team and staff?

 

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[hill83]

I like early kickoffs tbf. Early start on the bevs and back in the pub for 3pm.

 

[clint van damme]

but how does it affect the team and staff?

Early start on the bevs and back in the pub for 3pm.

 

[torchomatic]

I like early kickoffs tbf. Early start on the bevs and back in the pub for 3pm.

I like em too. We were back from Bristol on Saturday at 5.30. Be especially handy in the winter.

 

[Skyblue Bangkok]

I know us fans hate the early kick offs
(4:30 a. m. for me) but how does it affect the team and staff?

It's not as though it's a novelty ko time for them .

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

I guess players don't like it as it messes with the routine and preparation.

Guess they could adjust training in the week prior to get used to the intensity around that time but pre-match meals etc. are messed up entirely.

 

[Frank Sidebottom]

12:30? When I were a lad we sometimes had to travel all the way to Brinklow for 10am on a Sunday Morning.... and when we got there we'd have to put the corner flags out and the nets up.
Bloody youth of today.... don't know they're born.

 

[Winny the Bish]

I read one player saying they like it as they’re not waiting around hours extra, but the biggest complaint most have about early KOs is that eating pasta at 9am is grim.

 

[The Great Eastern]

12:30? When I were a lad we sometimes had to travel all the way to Brinklow for 10am on a Sunday Morning.... and when we got there we'd have to put the corner flags out and the nets up.
Bloody youth of today.... don't know they're born.

and clear up all the dog shit on the pitch...

 

[itsabuzzard]

Hill83 is the Conditioning Coach.

 

[Brylowes]

Hill83 is the Conditioning Coach.

He will coach but only on condition he’s in the pub by 3pm.

 

[Skybluedownunder]

Early kick offs fantastic for me


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[harvey098]

Yeah I prefer 12.30ko’s personally. Means can still do things with your Saturday.

 

[Johhny Blue]

Yeah I prefer 12.30ko’s personally. Means can still do things with your Saturday.

Not as many as me!

 

[Wyken Sky Blue]

Yeah I prefer 12.30ko’s personally. Means can still do things with your Saturday.

You're not doing it right, you should be half cut by 3pm!

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[Brighton Sky Blue]

Don’t really like them as it makes lunch a pain in the arse

 

[Ashdown]

Hate them with a passion!

 

[Tommo1993]

Don’t really like them as it makes lunch a pain in the arse

Like 12:30 KO, but this is the biggest con. Just have to have bigger and slightly later breakfast.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Like 12:30 KO, but this is the biggest con. Just have to have bigger and slightly later breakfast.

For us the travel in means we either have to wait until 2.30 or arrive ridiculously early for kick off. If it were shifted to 1 pm probably wouldn’t be an issue.

 

[Travs]

I read one player saying they like it as they’re not waiting around hours extra, but the biggest complaint most have about early KOs is that eating pasta at 9am is grim.

Poor souls.

I've had to eat Rice at 7am this morning to prepare for a big training session, and in a couple of weeks it'll be 6am as i'll be racing at 10am.

You just get on with it.


"Don't know they're born", etc

 

[Winny the Bish]

Poor souls.

I've had to eat Rice at 7am this morning to prepare for a big training session, and in a couple of weeks it'll be 6am as i'll be racing at 10am.

You just get on with it.


"Don't know they're born", etc

Rice is a very common breakfast item across the world. Just saying.

 

[Stafford_SkBlue]

12:30 kick off would be much better for the players as its similar time they do there training. Less waiting around etc.
Away games, may mean more overnight stays.
For me - much better time

 

[procdoc]

All of the 12:30 kick offs have been flat for every team so far I think.
It annoys me too, I’m sat in Wetherspoons and it ain’t even 09:30 yet

 

[oscillatewildly]

Don’t really like them as it makes lunch a pain in the arse

I don't understand the correlation with an early kick off and the need to engorge a ploughman's, anally?

 

[Balli001]

I know us fans hate the early kick offs
(4:30 a. m. for me) but how does it affect the team and staff?

Sheaf and rudoni were asked at the last evening with. They said they prefer them

 

[play_in_skyblue_stripes]

A better time for me also.
Gives people chance to do other things.

 

[fatso]

12.30 home games are good, not so much fun when travelling away though.

 

[skybluegod]

12.30 home games are good, not so much fun when travelling away though.

Imagine living 4 hours away and doing this for home games too...

 

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

I read one player saying they like it as they’re not waiting around hours extra, but the biggest complaint most have about early KOs is that eating pasta at 9am is grim.

I'm doing it right now for my game this afternoon. Bit of an odd breakfast for sure!

 

[oscillatewildly]

Sheaf and rudoni were asked at the last evening with. They said they prefer them

Well if that's the 'preference' (admittedly only 50%) then it's gonna be a long season.

 

[Johhny Blue]

If today is any indication most of them aren’t awake yet

 

[steve101]

It is a concern as we have been particularly poor with the midday kick-offs. Surely the performance director has been advising?!

 

[AngryAnt]

Imagine living 4 hours away and doing this for home games too...

This is me too. We have to set off around 7:30am to get to the ground as family need to be close to the disabled spots (couldnt get one this year). So it's a very early start and then after the hour+ getting out of the ground, pretty much the whole Saturday is gone anyway.
I personally prefer night games, the atmosphere is better in my opinion.

 

[COVKIDSNEVERQUIT]

Going by today's Performance, the Players Still Think it's a 3 O'clock kick off.

 

[Ashdown]

I hate these early kick offs, blatantly our players hate them too going by our performances. Oh and as for Coventry as a city…..the pubs were full of people who were arseholed by 6 pm ! Good buzz but we came away I reckon before someone lit the blue touch paper