[Albion] Hudderfield Away

The Complete Badger said:

leaving them free to show bigger matches over Christmas. Huddersfield v Brighton is a perfect opportunity for them to show two unattractive teams at once, probably on a Sunday lunchtime or a Monday night. Burnley (h) the following week ticks similar boxes.

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Mo Gosfield said:

Tues 7th November. Same day as Spurs tickets go on sale. Gonna be chaos.

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The Complete Badger said:

I've no inside knowledge whatsoever, but my prediction is that Huddersfield (a) will be on TV.

My theory is that none of our festive games are attractive to TV - Watford (h) which thanks to the fuss about Christmas Eve picks we already know TV don't want, Chelsea (a) which won't be shown as it's a routine home win and Newcastle (a) which is a fixture that has already been shown live on TV three times in the last 14 months. Therefore, I think Sky/BT will use us once or twice earlier in December, leaving them free to show bigger matches over Christmas. Huddersfield v Brighton is a perfect opportunity for them to show two unattractive teams at once, probably on a Sunday lunchtime or a Monday night. Burnley (h) the following week ticks similar boxes.

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The Complete Badger said:

Not sure. I thought it went down to the 198 points category that Swansea also went down to. But it definitely took a few days to sell out so you could well be right.

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The Complete Badger said:

It'll only be the top 3,000 people who can buy so surely there will be no more people on the site than for any other game?

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the complete badger said:

just checked:

package e is the 'monday night football' (8pm) and there is palace v bournemouth that weekend, which is probably a more interesting unattractive match.

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relegation dog fight more like!

The Complete Badger said:

Just checked:

Package E is the 'Monday night football' (8pm) bundle, with 18 games on Mondays plus 10 on Fridays; this is the first time Premier League games will be shown live on Friday evenings. There are no first picks in this package.

So on 28 of the 33 weekends of the season Sky will show a Monday or Friday match. On this weekend they can't show anything on Monday (as above) so the odds say there will almost certainly be a Friday match. The rules also state it can never be a first pick (i.e. an attractive match). Huddersfield v Brighton definitely fits the bill, although maybe the fact we have already been picked for two Friday nights will count against us? And there is Palace v Bournemouth that weekend, which is probably a more interesting unattractive match.

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Alba Badger said:

I think making it a Monday night game would be impossible with Brighton playing Spurs on the Tuesday after the Huddersfield game.

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studio150 said:

The Spurs game has been brought forward a day? When was this announced ?

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Kalimantan Gull said:

The way their style of play dominated our style of play in the equivalent game last season I'm not over confident of points in this one, although we will hopefully have a completely reshaped midfield this time around

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