Early kick offs

[the_anticlough]

A 0-4 home defeat might be enough to finish off IB there

[countygump]

Comments this afternoon from their forum.......

"Another howler. We're simply not good enough to play out of defence the way we do."

"Shambles. I know DV backs his managers but we are just a mess right now."

"I would just like to ask IanB why every team we play appears to want to win the match more than we do."

"I’m sorry but it Should be meet the new manager on 18th October !
need to move quick Dale before it’s too late."

"Time to face facts, we got a wrong one in charge."

0-4

[the_anticlough]

0-4

Hope their Chairman hasn't stooped to finding his replacement while these important games are going on, and then announces it right after the end of a game....hopefully nothing underhand like that

[jackal2]

Look at the best and most successful managers and the first thing they do when they arrive at a club is assess their squad, assess the strength of the opposition/league, and adopt a style of play that gives their players the best chance of getting results. I don't think IB goes through this process. He arrives at a club and tries to impose the same style of play wherever he goes, and you can't keep taking such an idealistic approach and getting away with it. Forest Green Rovers are not going to take on the likes of Ipswich, Sheffield Wednesday and Derby and outplay them. Indeed, as we saw today, they can't even do it to Exeter.

[nw6pie]

No appetite in the EFL for early kick-off times this winter:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63081722

An overnight stay due to an earlier kick-off would probably prove more expensive than any money saved by not switching the lights on for a couple of hours each week.

[uysapie]

Not a fan of early kickoffs.

[Bushwacka]

No appetite in the EFL for early kick-off times this winter:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63081722

An overnight stay due to an earlier kick-off would probably prove more expensive than any money saved by not switching the lights on for a couple of hours each week.

FGR chairman Dale Vince tweeted yesterday that they'd looked into it and it costs about £100 a match to have the lights on (and that's non-LED lights), so it's neither here nor there for bigger clubs.

Lots of replies from FGR fans saying they'd be happy to play in the dark at the moment.....

The further down the pyramid you go (the likes of Long Eaton, Hucknall and Ilkeston) it might make more sense though.

[magpie_mania]

Probably a bigger cost in floodlights for midweek winter training sessions for non-league clubs.