Newport Getting Screwed By DA MAN

Fixture congestion hell - with no compromise

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21865986

Shame. Could totally derail their season and I'd love to see them back in the Football League.

Now this is fixture congestion: http://www.offthepost.info/blog/2013/03/guernsey-fc-suffer-from-some-impressive-fixture-congestion/

Our April is pretty bad to be fair....7 games in one month is quite a lot, the same as Newport to be fair.

But 17 games in one month is just plain ridiculous - guernsey are proper screwed there.

I know its ridiculous but wouldn't you love it? A match every other day!

*** G L O V E S *** wrote:Now this is fixture congestion: http://www.offthepost.info/blog/2013/03/guernsey-fc-suffer-from-some-impressive-fixture-congestion/

The Guernsey FC team was only formed a couple of years ago as part of the island’s football development programme.

They subsidise the costs for the other teams travelling to them for their home fixtures (because of that pesky English Channel).

Their crowds are around 1,000 per game in comparison to less than 150 for their league rivals.
Good luck to them.

Rhys wrote:Our April is pretty bad to be fair....7 games in one month is quite a lot, the same as Newport to be fair.

But 17 games in one month is just plain ridiculous - guernsey are proper screwed there.

Newport have 11 games in one month - including 4 in one week, twice. If they do end up in the play offs, they'll only have 3 days to prepare before the first semi-final. That's pretty harsh.

Although, Guernsey do take the tea and biscuits on that front

Gateshead is one of the reasons Newport has a fixture congestion problem - the away game there has been postponed four times already because they have a problem with their pitch. It's now been switched to deepest Lincolnshire, miles away from either town:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21882086