Bristol City home brought forward

[Royals and Racers]

With both the Royals and city out of the FA cup could the home match be brought forward from Tues 31st Jan to 4th round day Saturday 28th ?

[peterroyal76]

With both the Royals and city out of the FA cup could the home match be brought forward from Tues 31st Jan to 4th round day Saturday 28th ?

Why?

[West Stand Man]

To make it easier for fans to get there maybe?

[T.R.O.L.I.]

Yes it can be brought forward - as long as both clubs agree.

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

Bloody good idea, lets hope the clubs think the same.

[Royals and Racers]

Bloody good idea, lets hope the clubs think the same.

London Irish are away that weekend

[Mary Hinge]

Local police force will probably say no.( Not enough notice, staffing, etc )

[biscuitman]

Local police force will probably say no.( Not enough notice, staffing, etc )

Utterly confused by this. Not enough notice? If we had beaten Stevenage we would of been at home that day..

[LoyalRoyalFan]

Don't they get paid extra for policing football games anyway?

[Dan - B15 Royal]

stupid idea as its one of a handful of games i can get to due to working wekends, so im quite looking forward to this one. (yep im selfish!)

[Svlad Cjelli]

Local police force will probably say no.( Not enough notice, staffing, etc )

[Police require 7 days' notice, so that wouldn't be a problem. And that's assuming that this would be a match that needs police presence -the majority are police-free.

[Barry the bird boggler]

Sounds too much like good sense, therefore never going to happen. Anyway we had to trek down to Bristol on a Tuesday night, don't see why City fans should have it any easier...

[Big Foot]

Local police force will probably say no.( Not enough notice, staffing, etc )

[Police require 7 days' notice, so that wouldn't be a problem. And that's assuming that this would be a match that needs police presence -the majority are police-free.

Far from the majority

[Svlad Cjelli]

Local police force will probably say no.( Not enough notice, staffing, etc )

[Police require 7 days' notice, so that wouldn't be a problem. And that's assuming that this would be a match that needs police presence -the majority are police-free.

Far from the majority

I think last season it was about 14 or 15 games - definitely more than half of the games.

[Big Foot]

Hasn't been the case this season

[mr_number]

Apparently the games has now been rbought forward to Saturday.

[Svlad Cjelli]

Confirmed : http://www.readingfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10306~2570931,00.html

Arse biscuits to this!

[JR]

I have never been so angry with my football team - this is an outrageous decision and an abuse of fans.

I am someone who takes advantage of weekends free of home league games to make other plans, so cannot go to the 'rearranged' game. The club have to appreciate that people have lives outside of football.

So not only did I have to sit throught the inept performance on Saturday (worst I have ever seen from Reading), but now I cannot watch a league game I have already paid for.

It is an absolute disgrace.

[Svlad Cjelli]

It's a real pisser, yes.

They're doing refunds for people who bought tickets for the Tuesday and can't go - I wonder if that extends to ST holders.

(Rhetorical question, really - I know the regulations well enough to know that there's not a whelk's chance in a supervova that this will happen.)

And I suppose for everyone pissed off by this another one will be happier - I'm well and truly stuffed by this decision, though.

[Ginger Ninjas]

I have never been so angry with my football team - this is an outrageous decision and an abuse of fans.

I am someone who takes advantage of weekends free of home league games to make other plans, so cannot go to the 'rearranged' game. The club have to appreciate that people have lives outside of football.

So not only did I have to sit throught the inept performance on Saturday (worst I have ever seen from Reading), but now I cannot watch a league game I have already paid for.

It is an absolute disgrace.

So you wouldn't have gone to Reading V Man Utd in the FA Cup Round 4 on that date (had it panned out differently)?

Makes perfect sense to me, keeps the 7 day break between games, which should be an advantage