20/21 Fixtures

We don't play a game at Loftus Road in October until 21st, with 2 away games and an international break to start the month. So if they do allow fans or even if they have to move the date back that should be in our favour.



There are 8 games in December and 10 games in the space of 36 days from 28 November to 02 January.

Has anyone else noticed the amount of mid-week games away at faraway grounds unreachable for most hoops fans given our London/SE fanbase?
Only Millwall away is a realistic venue to get to midweek.
Otherwise it's Tuesday/Wednesday night fixtures away at Barnsley, Derby, Norwich, Cardiff, Preston and Swansea.

I know that the EFL is an easy target right now (which is of their own making), but this smacks of more PPP (p*ss poor planning). Not away midweek at Watford? Brentford? Wycombe? Luton?

It's just as bad for other clubs coming to us midweek - Barnsley, Rotherham, Preston, Bristol, and Stoke.

Of course, some might say that proactively preventing away fans travelling is a positive move by the EPL, to reduce potential trouble and policing costs. Sure, that's why out of all of the London/SE clubs to play midweek we play Millwall, twice.

Surely at a time of economic crisis for most clubs, exacerbated by lockdown, every penny of revenue through maximising fan attendance is vital; and the EFL should proactively seek to combine as many fixtures involving nearby clubs as possible?

Another easy and obvious opportunity blown. I despair.

Quite possibly that might happen NWH, but the fixtures were not designed around the possibility of no away fans. The fixtures were just poorly decided; any fringe benefit is purely incidental. And given hopes that grounds may open to fans, whether October or January, any assumptions should have erred on the side of positivity, helping clubs maximise income as and when it happens.

Also, granted there are multiple midweek games; but the fixtures could have easily been done to weight the number of midweek games towards nearer clubs.
14% of our away midweek fixtures are reachable; 86% are not. I could understand if our options were limited but with Watford, Brentford, Wycombe and Luton all options there is clearly no foresight or effort. 50%+ of the vast majority of EPL teams' midweek away fixtures, including ours, could easily have been proactively skewed towards the nearer teams.

Its a done deal!!!! 

We may as well start organising the promotion party now, all round mine for the last game of the season?

I'm not that confident myself kingfisher, but if if you believe in fate we are going up!

Also it has been confirmed that the streaming of matches will continue, on the same terms as at the end of last season, until grounds are 50% full. Then it reverts back to the Sky exclusive contract.

www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8652447/amp/EFL-make-huge-deal-Sky-Sports-allow-clubs-three-divisions-stream-match.html?__twitter_impression=true