Wednesday v Sunderland off ?

[snaykz]

19 minutes ago, Tommy Crawshaw said:

They've got four players called up.

Corry Evans for N.I., somebody for Wales U21 and one each for England U19 and U20.

Don't know if those kids ususlly get much first team game time 

 

[thewookieisdown]

Good news I would say. We are likely to improve as the season goes on.

[FopD]

Yes, it's called off according to their site. 

 

https://safc.com/news/team-news/2021/august/sheff-wed-postponed

[ChapSmurf]

I don't think it's a bad thing it's been called off. Yes it adds to the fixture congestion, but is also gives us a couple of weeks as group on the training ground to improve cohesion and to get the walking wounded fit.

[Bouncing Owl]

Shouldn’t be cancelling games in the pub league. Get the game on. 

[WalthamOwl]

Pleased about that. Surprised they have called it off, I think the players they are missing are mainly fringe players? 

[royalowlisback]

2 minutes ago, WalthamOwl said:

Pleased about that. Surprised they have called it off, I think the players they are missing are mainly fringe players? 

Think they all play, at least one has played every minute so far.

[CircleSeven]

I’m unsurprised as the Sunderland website gave a pretty big indication that this might be the case. Am disappointed as it is the last weekend before the kids go back to school so was going to use this game as the base for a family event. Now We are going to end up having a family picnic where we are actually going to have to speak to each other! What a nightmare!

[CalmJimmers]

Better for us, BPF has a big impact.

 

Probably means a Tuesday nighter on TV, which was do so well on traditionally.

 

[morganowl]

to what ive heard this game would have been moved to a mon night on sky . so we wouldnt have got the game saturday with a bumper crowd upto 30000 with them fetching 5000 . to be mon or tues night is a pain so cancelling at least we get our keeper for rearranged game.

[Otley Owl]

Just had a text from a Sunderland mate, Cory Evans has been called up but he's injured apparently!

 

Annoyed that this has been cancelled, I was really looking forward to it. 

[Beighton Owl 87]

7 minutes ago, morganowl said:

to what ive heard this game would have been moved to a mon night on sky . so we wouldnt have got the game saturday with a bumper crowd upto 30000 with them fetching 5000 . to be mon or tues night is a pain so cancelling at least we get our keeper for rearranged game.

It would've been on sky but Saturday lunchtime or Sunday afternoon. Monday night they had picked Portsmouth v Plymouth and when that was called off they picked Burton v Bolton.

[Birley Owl 1867]

I would assume this will be moved to Wednesday 15th September.

 

Pigs at home on the Tuesday so couldn't be then.

[Orlando_Trustful]

Thank God for that. 

[Southie_Owl]

Pros and cons isn’t it but I think it’s good news really,  gives the players time to recover from any knocks and recover their fitness, and any new signings have time to gel with the group before we go again with some tough looking fixtures. Assuming that we will be fielding as many fringe and young players against Newcastle that is permitted. 

[SwellOwl]

First game I could go to but it’s better it’s cancelled with main man BPF unavailable! 

[sexpistol]

With the match being called off, it now means I will be going to the Bolsover beer festival on Sept 4th

[theowlsman]

So glad. We're going for the world record number of clean sheets this season.

[pazowl55]

20 hours ago, CalmJimmers said:

Better for us, BPF has a big impact.

 

Probably means a Tuesday nighter on TV, which was do so well on traditionally.

 

Be very surprised if its on tv.

[Andrew_Owl]

On 16/08/2021 at 09:22, the_vinyl_frontier said:

I'd rather a fixture congestion with BPF in goal, than a single match with Wildsmith in goal... 

Do you still stand by this?