Re: Bulls at 11:30am : Thu Jun 24, 2010 2:02 pm
StuMain wrote:
Binks, surely this outcome wouldn't have taken the club by surprise? From my WC2010 wallchart I could have told you months ago that there were two possible times when England's second round game could be played.
If Cas want to avoid a clash, and they are right IMO to do so, why didn't they decide straight away to have either a Friday night game, Saturday afternoon game, Sunday lunchtime game or Sunday evening game?
That way, there would be no chance of clashing with England, regardless of how they fared in their group and all the fans would know well in advance what the scheduling was, rather than giving people 3 days notice.
If Cas want to avoid a clash, and they are right IMO to do so, why didn't they decide straight away to have either a Friday night game, Saturday afternoon game, Sunday lunchtime game or Sunday evening game?
That way, there would be no chance of clashing with England, regardless of how they fared in their group and all the fans would know well in advance what the scheduling was, rather than giving people 3 days notice.
Of course as you say, Friday would have been a better option, if it had been in the original fixture list, but I imagine the club thought like everyone else (including the England players), that England would walk the group and be playing Saturday. OK it's not ideal playing on Sunday morning (would have preferred 12.30) but it's preferable to Sunday night and I'm sure more people would have been put out if they had changed it to any time on Saturday.
