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Quoted from Limerick Mariner

Of course our top 4 home attendances in the last 50 years were night games, all over 20k...

Cup games and over 40 years ago.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Cup games and over 40 years ago.

Three cup games and Exeter. We didn't have any 20k crowds in the 60s. 22,408 v Norwich in 1971 in the League Cup was the biggest since Aug 58 21,004 v Middlesborough - on a Saturday. 22,261 had been at Blundell Park the previous Tuesday v Lincoln

I always find the 7:45 kick off is a rush personally.  Getting home from work, sorting bits out, having tea and then rushing to the game.  For an evening game it's not unusual that I'll get in the ground just after kick-off, thankfully that wasn't the case on Tuesday!

Did get me thinking though, are people put off by the rushing about.  Would making it an 8pm kick-off be of any benefit to give people that extra bit of time to get to the game or would it actually hinder gates?

Again, completely from a personal view, I'd favour the extra 15 minutes and I wonder how many people don't get to evening games because it is too much of a rush.  

Quoted from diehardmariner

I always find the 7:45 kick off is a rush personally.  Getting home from work, sorting bits out, having tea and then rushing to the game.  For an evening game it's not unusual that I'll get in the ground just after kick-off, thankfully that wasn't the case on Tuesday!

Did get me thinking though, are people put off by the rushing about.  Would making it an 8pm kick-off be of any benefit to give people that extra bit of time to get to the game or would it actually hinder gates?

Again, completely from a personal view, I'd favour the extra 15 minutes and I wonder how many people don't get to evening games because it is too much of a rush.  

Agreed the extra 15 mins would help home fans i think and v few away fans midweek anyway. It would suit me better anyway

btw just seen the wright goal. surely it took a deflection didn't it? otherwise he's got a foot like a banana to get it to loop up and down like that!

Quoted from forza ivano

btw just seen the wright goal. surely it took a deflection didn't it? otherwise he's got a foot like a banana to get it to loop up and down like that!

Looked like it took a heavy deflection from the pontoon

Quoted from forza ivano

btw just seen the wright goal. surely it took a deflection didn't it? otherwise he's got a foot like a banana to get it to loop up and down like that!

Yeah, it took a big deflection. Would have just gone straight to the keeper if it hadn't I reckon.

Quoted from TheultimateMariner

Not sure which stand you were in, but in the pontoon everyone seemed to clap him and a few we’re singing the infamous ‘Greeny’ chant. Didn’t hear anyone booing in the pontoon, and if anyone did, it’s totally unjustified.

In the upper.....wasn't loud but definately a grumbled boo heard in the stand not just a tiny pocket.

15 mins extra is a long time for those who have to be ay work early next morning

Quoted from The_Laughing_Mariner

15 mins extra is a long time for those who have to be ay work early next morning

And kids, my lad gets home at gone eleven o’clock for night game and personally I preferred the old 7.30pm kick off but appreciate for many that’s too early.

Re crowds and differences in Saturday’s and Tuesday and how this has changed over the years we were talking about this on the way to the game on Tuesday. One thought we had was thirty years ago there were thriving local football leagues throughout the County so loads of lads who couldn’t get on Saturday could on a Tuesday. Nowadays there is very little local football so there is no positive difference between the two days.

Plus we now have a generation brought up on day to day, wall to ceiling football on the box whereas our youth enjoyed the Cup Final, European Finals and England v Scotland hence winning the FA Cup carried such great prestige as like the Grand National it was a national treasure. Now I don’t even watch the cup final because by May sick of tv matches