International breaks

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International breaks

Post by Woodleyclaret » Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:10 am

Imo extremely annoying and if it's to play the IOM or some other non descript team in a friendly totally unnecessary. Disruption early season is not what we need .

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Re: International breaks

Post by ŽižkovClaret » Thu Jul 10, 2025 10:15 am

Quite glad of the one in October. Means i can happily watch Masters of Reality on a Saturday night in Prague

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Re: International breaks

Post by ecc » Thu Jul 10, 2025 10:57 am

Isle of Man? Do they play international football?

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Re: International breaks

Post by ClaretTony » Thu Jul 10, 2025 11:15 am

Woodleyclaret wrote:
Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:10 am
Imo extremely annoying and if it's to play the IOM or some other non descript team in a friendly totally unnecessary. Disruption early season is not what we need .
International breaks are worldwide and during them we will have several players missing. Do you want us to play games without a lot of players?

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Re: International breaks

Post by Woodleyclaret » Thu Jul 10, 2025 1:15 pm

Fao ClaretTony
No I want all international games played that are important but it seems we have far too many friendly games. The stopping the league programme two weeks in is nonsense and the number of international games need curtailing It appears every season we have more disruption. .

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Re: International breaks

Post by claretburns » Thu Jul 10, 2025 1:19 pm

I think from next season rather than having 2 weeks in September, October and November for internationals we're just going to have a block of 3 weeks (weekend and midweek) of internationals to reduce the break up of the season.

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Re: International breaks

Post by NottsClaret » Thu Jul 10, 2025 1:25 pm

They're a pain but one positive is they do really help attendances at clubs way down the pyramid, they noticeably increase when it's an international break. Not that I imagine for a second that's what FIFA or the FA are thinking about.

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