Re: IMG Are Seeking Your Views : Thu Sep 29, 2022 10:55 am  

Barstool Preacher wrote:

Rugby League fans seem to be obsessed with "loop fixtures". Celtic and Rangers play each other four teams a season, and it can be (and often is) six if they play each other in both cups too. 50,000 (at Ibrox or Hampden) or 60,000 (at Parkhead) are there every single time, and they could fill every ground twice with ease every time if they had the capacity.

Yes but luckily/unluckily we don't have the religious bipartisanism and sectarianism in a densely populated city of 1M people to drive attendances in the same way. It's way more than a football match.

Re: IMG Are Seeking Your Views : Sat Oct 08, 2022 4:09 pm  

When i started watching the Wire in the mid sixties , there were the Lancashire & Yorkshire Leagues where games counted towards winning a trophy in your own county & all teams played so many teams from over the hills which formed the main competition. Even the bottom team had the chance of playing the top team with giant killing opportunities bringing the fans into the grounds. To help the game to survive a single division once more would be more inclusive to teams who have been marginalised by "the sky concept ".

I think that gave 34 league games over the season ,plus cup competitions ,all played by lads who had full time jobs.