Post by John Anderson on Nov 1, 2020 15:43:42 GMT
I have often thought it wise to front load the seaosn with midweek games. This season, with the late start, it seemexd more important for everyone especially with the chance of anpother lockdown. The Southern League were handed a two gifts in the Premier South division with the vuluntary relegation of Blackfield and Langley. This left the league with an odd number of teams so each week one team had a free Saturday or Midweek. Just one week into the season, Merthyr withdrew from football for the season. Thus the league was now 2 teams short.
It would have been an almighty task BUT by rearranging the fixtures for the rest of the season and front loading the midweek fixtures, we could have been approx 30% through the season but it is less than 20%. The likelyhood is that there will be 32/33 games for each team to play after Xmas. So 18 weeks to play 32/33 games rather than the 28/29 it couild have been.
It would have been an almighty task BUT by rearranging the fixtures for the rest of the season and front loading the midweek fixtures, we could have been approx 30% through the season but it is less than 20%. The likelyhood is that there will be 32/33 games for each team to play after Xmas. So 18 weeks to play 32/33 games rather than the 28/29 it couild have been.
