UEFA's week of football?

legendary.xix

After the first glimpse of UEFA's new week of football, what are the early views and opinions of it?

CSF

I enjoyed it, got to watch 4 qualifiers which isn't something I could ever have said before.

SuperTortoise

Great idea, it's a win win for everyone.

Lovely Bloke

Boring as hell, international football is rubbish, apart from tournament latter stages or groups of death.

The Euro Qual groups, at worst, are "Group of a Mild Cold"

legendary.xix

CSF wrote: »

I enjoyed it, got to watch 4 qualifiers which isn't something I could ever have said before.

I'm the same. Got to watch more games than usual. When there was no football on the Saturday and Sunday between the Friday and Tuesday qualifiers, it only seemed an advantage for other sports to have the weekend headlines.

I had thought RTÉ, TV3 or Setanta would have looked for rights for some of the other games, as the have for the CL and/or EL. ITV4 had Czech Rep v Netherlands last night.

xtal191

I'm delighted its over, cant stand international breaks.

kfallon

There was no games on Saturday, the one day you really want a game on

However I know Ireland are playing on Saturday in the next round of games

Ol' Donie

xtal191 wrote: »

I'm delighted its over, cant stand international breaks.

Ah, you need a break from football every now and then
:-D

Anything on tonight?:-(

kfallon

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Ah, you need a break from football every now and then
:-D

Anything on tonight?:-(

Dover Athletic

Like it, unexpectedly.

However the top 2 going through each group is going to result in some very dull groups

Ol' Donie

kfallon wrote: »

Dover Athletic

Ah for f*** sake. :-(


















What channel?

Guy:Incognito

Poxy round of friendlies the midweek before should be done away with. If they're going to play twice they should have had 2 qualifiers

Harry Palmr

Sucks big time.

Just to add, that the games are spread out so much means players are traipsing back to their clubs over a number of days in the run up to the next league game. This can't really help preparations and assessments of players knocks etc.

legendary.xix

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Poxy round of friendlies the midweek before should be done away with. If they're going to play twice they should have had 2 qualifiers

They will have weeks like that. For the first week they were allowing teams a friendly match in preparation. The August friendlies were removed.

Paz-CCFC

I'm not that interested in international football, but the fact that clashes with Friday night league football are greatly reduced is a big plus for me. The three day gaps, reduced from four, between games won't be ideal for teams, but well worth it if it means less league games moved around.

Richard Hillman

Yes. It is better than just one day of games and then nothing for the weekend. It will get really on the last round of games when teams need results to qualify. Moreso the 2nd and 3rd places.