Quote Originally Posted by Lofty View Post
So when will Newcastle Football wake up and realise how dumb it is scheduling semi finals on the same day as the first division grand final day. Year on year the same thing happens. I'm unsure of the reason to have the ZPL semi finals on different days to each other. Is it so that supporters can go to both games? If so, I'm fairly certain more supporters will be lost going to the NPL grand final. Surely both games can be scheduled for the Saturday and even staggered in times similar to what happened this weekend in the NPL. Not sure what everyone else's thoughts are. I've been at the Suns for 9 years now and will be choosing the grand final over my own club which is pretty bloody ordinary that we have to make those calls.
the whole system is wrong, the final game of Football in Newcastle, should be the NPL GF, the week before, 2HD GF, week before that should be Zone Leagues and Junior football. that way we build up to the, so called pinnacle of local football. No excuses for crowds etc, as there is no conflict with lower divisions or juniors. The only problem with this is the powers that be might have to admit the local game is in trouble and cant blame no attendance/poor atmosphere on clashes with other comps.