Thursday Night Football is here to stay

Setanta Sports have vowed not to cut back on Thursday night football. Setanta’s plan was to make Thursday night the home of Non League football. This was proved last season not to be a great success as it seemed to cost clubs revenue through gate receipts and clubs playing away from home suffered with less support.

“We won’t be going away from Thursday’s. In fact, we very much want Thursday night to become Blue Square Premier night on Setanta.” Setanta Sports

One thing Setanta have to get right this season is their organisation of the games they are to screen. Too many times last season games got switched around when they felt like it and clubs felt the impact of this. Stevenage playing Farsley on a Thursday night was one game especially I questioned why they would want to show that?

A cold January evening where we had to make one of biggest journey’s of the season against one of worst teams in the league. Surely it didn’t make the best viewing at home and help enhance the Blue Square Premier as a league. Anyway unfortunately it does look like Setanta is here to stay for the foreseeable future so get used to Thursday night football while we are still in this division.

Halifax striker Jon Shaw is being linked with a move to Boro according to today’s NLP. Surely GW would not be after yet another striker after already signing 4 this summer along with Steve Morison signing a new contract. At this moment in time Boro have 6 main strikers and youngsters Elliot Buchanan and Jerome Anderson coming through, but both are likely to go out on loan this season. Quite simply there is no point in a) Boro looking for another striker and b) Shaw joining us if he wants to play first team football next season. Shaw would have been a good signing if we hadn’t already had too many players in that department and is also being linked with moves to fellow Blue Square Premier sides Rushden & Burton as well as some clubs in the football league.