podgers1903 Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 After a discussion at work i had a look back at fixtures, Cant believe the last time Scotland played a home fixture at 3pm on a Saturday was 4 years ago (8th September 2012) against Serbia Does anyone know the reason why internationals are no longer 3pm on a Saturday instead we have 7.45 on a Saturday night. Pretty shit for a lot of the Tartan Army having to travel back up north to Aberdeen, Inverness etc. Dont think we can really blame Sky cause as far as i remember am sure they still showed 3pm games live on TV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dandydunn Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Because uefa/fifa said so Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Its part of UEFA's "week of football" thing where there can spread as many games over a certain amount of days. Was only suppose to be for the Euro's, but UEFA got FIFA to agree to let them use the format for the World Cup formats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristolhibby Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 The week/orgy of football came along and the rest is history. Compare now to the Euro 08 campaign when all home games were Saturday games, many of which were 15:00 KO. Off the top of my head the last time I got to a Saturday home game was the 2-2 v Czech Rep back in 2011. Can't remember if that was a 15:00 KO or not? Think it was. J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Just now, Bristolhibby said: The week/orgy of football came along and the rest is history. Compare now to the Euro 08 campaign when all home games were Saturday games, many of which were 15:00 KO. Off the top of my head the last time I got to a Saturday home game was the 2-2 v Czech Rep back in 2011. Can't remember if that was a 15:00 KO or not? Think it was. J There was a bit of luck getting that, as the Ukrainians and Georgians kicked off at the fixtures meeting (IIRC we were suppose to start at home v Italy) and it went to UEFA to pick the fixtures through the computer. Think the Italy game was the only one not to kick off at 3pm, as the rules were the final games had to kick off at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristolhibby Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Just now, wanderer said: There was a bit of luck getting that, as the Ukrainians and Georgians kicked off at the fixtures meeting (IIRC we were suppose to start at home v Italy) and it went to UEFA to pick the fixtures through the computer. Think the Italy game was the only one not to kick off at 3pm, as the rules were the final games had to kick off at the same time. Yes and all the away games were on the Wednesday. Perfect for me as I had no kids then and plenty of leave. Quite like having away games at the weekend now as I'm not leaving the missus/in-laws doing the school run. So far so good. Bagged the Mother-in-law to do Tuesday/Wednesday for the Slovakia game, and have a late afternoon flight out to Vienna so I can do the drop (in full kilt) on the Monday. J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmcca5 Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Games under the lights are far far better that 3pm kick offs IMHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McDange Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 SImple really. TV dictates everything in football. Loosely touched on BBC's Scotland's Game that many will have watched - think that on a bigger scale. I like the evening games too but understand the frustrations for those travelling further afield. But we only have a few homes games per year so I like to think of each one as an event. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonny78 Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 40 minutes ago, dandydunn said: Because uefa/fifa said so This. I hate the basas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney Rubble Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 41 minutes ago, wanderer said: There was a bit of luck getting that, as the Ukrainians and Georgians kicked off at the fixtures meeting (IIRC we were suppose to start at home v Italy) and it went to UEFA to pick the fixtures through the computer. Think the Italy game was the only one not to kick off at 3pm, as the rules were the final games had to kick off at the same time. The Italy game was our final game, but it wasn't the final group game because Ukraine and France played the following midweek. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristolhibby Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Just now, Barney Rubble said: The Italy game was our final game, but it wasn't the final group game because Ukraine and France played the following midweek. Right enough. There was a sliver of hope requiring Ukraine to beat the French by 2 for us to sneak into the playoffs IIRC. J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jagtag Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 When I was a kid all our games were Wednesday nights. As far as I can remember only the England game was ever Saturday afternoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaid Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 People forget that it's only for a relatively short period that internationals were on a Saturday at 3pm* For years games were only on Wednesday nights. *england games in home internationals excepted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Hunt Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 If it was anything other than this game we love so much ( or big business more like), we would all walk away in disgust and not look back. They've got us cos we're addicts. I keep going back to be exploited. Even buy the programmes. Makes it even worse when I can see what is happening yet keep doing it. Love going to Scotland games but not sure if is all pleasure. Torture a lot of the time. Well 90 minutes at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney Rubble Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Bristolhibby said: Right enough. There was a sliver of hope requiring Ukraine to beat the French by 2 for us to sneak into the playoffs IIRC. J I think that might have been the case had the Italy game finished 1-1, but Panucci's goal took that very slim chance away. Edited September 9, 2016 by Barney Rubble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirrelhumper Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 I quite like them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 1 minute ago, aaid said: People forget that it's only for a relatively short period that internationals were on a Saturday at 3pm* For years games were only on Wednesday nights. *england games in home internationals excepted Recall all the Euro 96 games were a Wednesday, so must have been WC98 qualifiers it started, and even then Saturday games were something of a "luxury" up to the early-mid 2000's..... 98 I only recall Estonia, Sweden and Latvia being on Saturdays.... Euro 2000 I think only the Estonia and Lithuania games were a Saturday (think Bosnia at Ibrox was also suppose to be a Saturday, but game was canceled pretty late)... even World Cup 2002 I seem to only recall the Belgium, Croatia and Latvia games being a Satuday.... after this period Saturday home games seemed to become more the norm until 2010-ish (Slovenia in 2004 is the only home qualifier from this period I can think of not to take place on a Saturday). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 1 hour ago, Jagtag said: When I was a kid all our games were Wednesday nights. As far as I can remember only the England game was ever Saturday afternoon. We'd usually play Wales or N. Ireland the Saturday before as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 1 hour ago, wanderer said: must have been WC98 qualifiers it started, Aye, first Saturday qualifier I went to was Estonia at Rugby Park. The England game next year will be on a Saturday afternoon (at 5pm). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willie Miller's tache Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 2 hours ago, wanderer said: There was a bit of luck getting that, as the Ukrainians and Georgians kicked off at the fixtures meeting (IIRC we were suppose to start at home v Italy) and it went to UEFA to pick the fixtures through the computer. Think the Italy game was the only one not to kick off at 3pm, as the rules were the final games had to kick off at the same time. I think France was also 5pm. Either that or I felt like I had an extra 2 hours in th pub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristolhibby Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 36 minutes ago, Toepoke said: Aye, first Saturday qualifier I went to was Estonia at Rugby Park. The England game next year will be on a Saturday afternoon (at 5pm). Oooft! That England game is going to be HUGE! J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JECK Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 IIRC the Sweden game at ibrox for France 98 was a Sunday afternoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JECK Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Ps worth reiterating to the folk that moan about the non 3pm Saturday game that we're not a special case (not saying you OP as it was a valid question) and it's not SFA's fault or anybody else connected to the Scottish game that you can have a pop at. Countless folk have done on here, in person and Facebook, I would imagine. Total morons the lot of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney Rubble Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 2 hours ago, JECK said: IIRC the Sweden game at ibrox for France 98 was a Sunday afternoon. I can confirm that was the case. Jim Leighton's finest performance for Scotland, in my view. Sweden brought on a certain Henrik Larsson for an ineffectual Martin Dahlin that day - and promptly did us a favour by sticking him out on the right wing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceudmilefailte Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 3 hours ago, Toepoke said: Aye, first Saturday qualifier I went to was Estonia at Rugby Park. The England game next year will be on a Saturday afternoon (at 5pm). Remember that game Estonia had a flat back four with another flat back four just in front of it, add the two in midfield and Iget were Craig Levine was coming from Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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