Outrage at late PSL fixtures draw

General manager Derek Blanckensee admits the PSL have left it too late.

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A senior official at a Cape club has slammed the Premier Soccer League's late release of the new season's fixtures. The draw for the 2011/12 league takes place in Johannesburg today, with the preliminary fixtures only expected out in the second week of July. That, in terms of a highly-placed source, leaves clubs no time to organise and plan with the first league game scheduled for the second week of August.

And when it comes time to point fingers for poor marketing of matches and empty stadiums, clubs have to take responsibility. The source said: “The PSL give teams provisional fixtures from the second week of July, which only leaves the teams two weeks to amend and accept.

“And then to plan it leaves us no weeks because the first week of August you play MTN8 then after that when do you plan your league?

“If you want to build on your support base people should have a programme of where the team is going to be for the next 10 months. It's unfair for football fans and administrators because at the end of the day people will say the teams don't market themselves.

“Which leeway did we get to market ourselves as a club and which venues are you able to market as well?

“If you don't have a home venue, you have to apply to the council which runs the application of the even. It's the same for rugby, cricket and music concerts.

“The council controls the passing of the event so how do you make those applications in a week? Compare this to English football where the Premier League fixtures were released on June 17 with the league only starting two months later.”

PSL General manager of football Derek Blanckensee admitted the PSL had left it too late. He said: “I agree with the clubs that it should have come out earlier. There was an issue around the processes on our side and how the draw happens.

“It can be done earlier and next year we will get it done earlier.

“We were in a position where we could have done them a while back but it was just a case of waiting for the relevant meeting.” - Daily Voice

Source: http://www.iol.co.za/outrage-at-late-psl-fixtures-draw-1.1090857

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