Playing on Wednesday's

[bobh]

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We always played our midweek games on Tuesdays from memory.
How come we play on Wednesdays nowadays?

Agree we never used to play on Wednesday, and often wondered why that was

We have played a lot of Wednesday matches though in my mind?
I'm probably wrong.
😂

We always used to play midweek games on Wednesday evening. (60s/70s - and prob before)

[xsnaggle]

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I seem to remember as a kid all the way through the 70s, that Wednesday was our home night. All the European games were Wednesday including Real Madrid.

Yes I remember that too right from early 60s.
Our mid-week games were always on a wednesday and I seem to remember kick off being 7.30 PM

[xsnaggle]

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Another interesting midweek fact is that the standard kick off time until the mid 60s was 7.15pm. It seemed to be 7.30 until the mid 80s when it became the current 7.45

Also the standard Saturday afternoon kick off time at Ninian Park was 3.15 until the 1960s, though it was brought forwards during the winter before floodlights were installed.

Yes 7.15 on a mid week game, not 7.30 as I mentioned in my post.
I think the 3.15 start on a Sat was because the pubs threw out at 3 :hehe:

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Is that just home games though or all games home and away? If it’s all games then it would make more sense as Tuesday matches would have been the away games. Apologies if I have hypothesised incorrectly.

You are on the money here! Of the 40 games played on a Tuesday, 6 were at home. We won 1 of the home games and 1 out of 34 away games!

Of the 54 games played on a Wednesday, 40 were at home. We won 24.

From the start of the 1977 season we won 14 successive league and cup games at home on a Wednesday. The winning run would end in March 1981 against, ironically, Sheffield Wednesday (0-0) and defeat in Jan 1982 to Oldham (1-2) was our first home defeat on a Wednesday for nearly 5 years.

Our longest undefeated run on Wednesdays (bar the break for the war) was between September 2011, when we beat Southampton 2-1 and Jan 2021, when we lost 1-0 at home to QPR. While nearly a decade unbeaten on a particular day sounds impressive, there were only 10 fixtures in those years! :hehe:

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Extreme statting alert.... Decade by decade (or from, say, 1920/21 to 1929/30) games played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Home games first, then aways, then total.

1920s (H A Tot)
Tue 3 5 8
Wed 18 15 33

1930s (H A Tot)
Tue 1 2 3
Wed 10 18 28

1940s (H A Tot)
Tue 1 0 1
Wed 2 5 7

1950s (H A Tot)
Tue 2 5 7
Wed 24 23 47

1960s (H A Tot)
Tue 9 21 30
Wed 43 27 70

1970s (H A Tot)
Tue 6 34 40
Wed 40 14 54

1980s (H A Tot)
Tue 54 51 105
Wed 13 19 32

1990s (H A Tot)
Tue 69 69 138
Wed 5 15 20

2000s (H A Tot)
Tue 59 63 122
Wed 15 19 34

2010s (H A Tot)
Tue 57 47 104
Wed 11 15 26

2020s (H A Tot)
Tue 8 6 14
Wed 6 7 13

In our history we've made 24 more away trips on a Tuesday and Wednesday than we've been at home.

[NYCBlue]

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Not difficult with Excel. Took me about 10 minutes. Yes, I have a spreadsheet with all of our games on it.

You should get into Major League Baseball. It's a statto's dream come true.

[splott parker]

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It’s obviously the Coronation Street thing, by the 80s fans had got pissed off missing Wednesday’s episode, that’s my theory anyway.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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It’s obviously the Coronation Street thing, by the 80s fans had got pissed off missing Wednesday’s episode, that’s my theory anyway.

Good enough theory for me! :hehe:

The change happened in the 1982/83 season.

Prior to that season we had played only 23 home matches on a Tuesday since we started in the league in 1920. Between 1982/83 and 1985/86 we had matched that total.

On the opposite side of the coin, we've only played 40 home matches on a Wednesday since 1982/83, that's over 40 seasons. We played 41 between 1972/73 and 1981/82, that's 10 seasons. In fact, in the last 40 seasons there have been 19 where we haven't played at home on a Wednesday night at all (not including Welsh cup/European games).

I wonder why there was such a change? We had been relegated to Division 3 in 1982. We played more games on a Tuesday in 1982/83 and 1985/86 in the third tier than we did in Division 2 in 1983/84 and 1984/85. It may have been a league thing? I also wonder if it was anything to do with football highlights being on both BBC and ITV on a Wednesday evening?

[Former Labour leader]

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Absolutely. Put your mortgage on it. :hehe:

No thanks!

[Cleve van Leef]

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We always played our midweek games on Tuesdays from memory.
How come we play on Wednesdays nowadays?

50’s 60’s and early 70’s. Midweek games were on a Wednesday as far as I can remember.

[Optimistic Nick]

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50’s 60’s and early 70’s. Midweek games were on a Wednesday as far as I can remember.

At what time? Im sure in the 1990s it was a 1930 kick off

[splott parker]

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At what time? Im sure in the 1990s it was a 1930 kick off

7.15pm mainly, in the 60s.

[bobh]

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At what time? Im sure in the 1990s it was a 1930 kick off

7.15pm mainly, in the 60s.

I guess as we get older we're allowed to stay up later.

[Optimistic Nick]

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I guess as we get older we're allowed to stay up later.

:hehe: