Playoffs qualifiers...
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Spot on dude, I very much agree. I personally cant see any advantages of playing home first. Given the choice I think most would play away first. Devils fans going to Sheffield will now have to travel back late on Sunday night/Monday morning, when we have finished above them? Bit strange to say the least.
I agree with you on this big time, we should have had the second leg at home tried to keep it tight at their rink and got them back here and finished the job, come on it's not as if we are playing Edinburgh or Belfast it's only a three hour bus ride away max, and in my opinion we have handed the advantage to the Squeelers who finished below us in the League standings, i hope i'm wrong but i can't see us making it going by away form this season.
Has anyone thought to ask if the decision was made by G ?
Just maybe he wants to play Saturday because he believes that this will give us the best chance of progressing?
He knows he is under pressure and a wrong decision might well mean no employment next year, so I just can't see him doing something simply because the Steelers say that they want the home leg second....
Just maybe he wants to play Saturday because he believes that this will give us the best chance of progressing?
He knows he is under pressure and a wrong decision might well mean no employment next year, so I just can't see him doing something simply because the Steelers say that they want the home leg second....
Wow thats a pretty scathing attack, but your making some big assumptions IMO. Did the Devils management really capitulate or was it their choice? As has been said earlier in the thread G prefers to play the home leg first and we asked for a Saturday.
If we go through then G will have been proved right, so lets just hope we do. I'll be going to both matches whatever days there on anyway.
If we go through then G will have been proved right, so lets just hope we do. I'll be going to both matches whatever days there on anyway.
The conspiracy theories can be put to bed.
Shannon told a few of us before the game tonight that this was decided at an Elite League Board meeting a month ago. Devils took a calculated risk at that time that they would probably be playing Edinburgh and preferred to play them home first on the Saturday making Edinburgh travel down and back before the second leg with the Devils only having to do the journey north on the Sunday.Home and away preferences were decided a month ago as the arena teams had to book their dates in advance.
Shannon told a few of us before the game tonight that this was decided at an Elite League Board meeting a month ago. Devils took a calculated risk at that time that they would probably be playing Edinburgh and preferred to play them home first on the Saturday making Edinburgh travel down and back before the second leg with the Devils only having to do the journey north on the Sunday.Home and away preferences were decided a month ago as the arena teams had to book their dates in advance.
So that in effect makes a mockery of the ruling that the club who finishes in the highest position has the choice of where they play first. And worst still that Shannon said this on the webcast just this Friday gone.
"It is not yet decided whether Cardiff play Sheffield or Edinburgh, so we will have to wait and see. It looks as though it could be Sheffield now, but we can't make decisions yet. The two legs will be over the weekend of Saturday, March 27 and Sunday, March 28. By finishing fourth we have the option when to play our home game".
"It is not yet decided whether Cardiff play Sheffield or Edinburgh, so we will have to wait and see. It looks as though it could be Sheffield now, but we can't make decisions yet. The two legs will be over the weekend of Saturday, March 27 and Sunday, March 28. By finishing fourth we have the option when to play our home game".
