Wednesday nights
Wednesday nights
One of the many questions keeping me awake last night after that performance was this one. Exactly why do we choose to play our midweek games on a Wednesday night rather than a Tuesday? There must be a reason.
Obviously It doesn’t excuse such a tepid performance but I wonder why we choose to have a days less rest than we could have. Just seems to be a disadvantage that we don’t need to give ourselves.
Not a biggy in the scheme of things but I just wondered.
Obviously It doesn’t excuse such a tepid performance but I wonder why we choose to have a days less rest than we could have. Just seems to be a disadvantage that we don’t need to give ourselves.
Not a biggy in the scheme of things but I just wondered.
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Re: Wednesday nights
DRFC train on Tues and Thursday
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Surely it works both ways with longer off until the midweek game from the Saturday .
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Not on the pitch though, and to be honest we played weds at HP too didn’t we?DarloDave40 wrote:DRFC train on Tues and Thursday
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Re: Wednesday nights
Training should be put round the matches for instance
Monday training ,match Wednesday, light session Thursday, match Saturday.
Hard work should of been done in pre season but some go on holiday the weeks before season starts so that's defeating the object.
Monday training ,match Wednesday, light session Thursday, match Saturday.
Hard work should of been done in pre season but some go on holiday the weeks before season starts so that's defeating the object.
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No idea what relevance this has. We chose it like we did at Heritage Park. There are a few clubs who choose Monday night as their midweek which does make some sense you only get 2 days rest after Sunday games but that is the same for both clubs - you basically get yourself additional rest before Saturday.DarloDave40 wrote:DRFC train on Tues and Thursday
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We played one season (Evo Prem Season) at Bishop when we were supposed to be going back to Darlo and we got Tuesday nights. Then we never got back and Bishop had to play on Wednesday nights but were not happy with it so the next season we had to put down Wednesday (Nat North last season).
Clearly we haven't been able to swap to Tuesday's no doubt because of the Rugby training mentioned above, Gray made it very clear previously he wanted to play Tuesday so he could still complete training on a Thursday night.
Just something we have to accept I think.
Clearly we haven't been able to swap to Tuesday's no doubt because of the Rugby training mentioned above, Gray made it very clear previously he wanted to play Tuesday so he could still complete training on a Thursday night.
Just something we have to accept I think.
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Yep but both teams get the same time off Sat to Wed, where on Sat you play someone who played Mon/Tue compared to your Wednesday.gabbas wrote:Surely it works both ways with longer off until the midweek game from the Saturday .
It's an advantage to the team who has had more rest, how much who knows.
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Yep that was the point I was making Les, if you’re getting in early hours of Thursday morning it’s undoubtedly tougher to prepare as well for the following Saturday game.super_les_mcjannet wrote:Yep but both teams get the same time off Sat to Wed, where on Sat you play someone who played Mon/Tue compared to your Wednesday.gabbas wrote:Surely it works both ways with longer off until the midweek game from the Saturday .
It's an advantage to the team who has had more rest, how much who knows.
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Re: Wednesday nights
Trouble is can`t use it as an excuse as we don`t play that many midweek games
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Avoid clashes with local sides like Boro and Sunderland. The Championship usually has Tuesday night games, especially Boro, we may be looking to avoid clashes as fans watch us both?