Last experienced at...Gateshead in the cup?I've also just noticed Gillingham v Bradford is postponed and that doesn't take place till tomorrow. Maybe if there is a possibility of the game not going ahead the correct call is to postpone it. I'm sure everyone has a memory back in the day of travelling miles and finding out when you got to the ground the game had been called off. With the cost of living crisis it would be even worse for this to happen now.
Last experienced at...Gateshead in the cup?
Any other candidates for the "Long way for nothing" trophy?
Where I am in littlemore it's sunny but chilly the ground has defrosted and I have a feeling if England weren't playing @7pm.they wouldn't have called our game off I'm also abit peed off but hey ho more drinking time for meProblem is the pitch was inspected at 9am before the sun even come up. They probably done it early so they didnt let down the majority of away fans traveling down from Barnsley. By 12pm the pitch would of probably been touch and go as to wether it would of been playable.
^^ @OX14 post -
I've been for a few circuits ,walking around Headington Hill park ( with my other half and her dog)- frosted/frozen grass areas were pretty much all 'defrosted' by 12.45 & areas with a small amount of frost visible
had very nearly defrosted ( vast majority of frozen/frosted areas were / had been basking in the Sunshine ...... that said, the back garden were I am has had no sun and is still frozen/ frosted
IF the covers at the breeze block had been removed to allow the sun to get to the pitch- AND, IF there wasn't an England world cup game kicking off at 7pm this evening- I wonder if today's scheduled Saturday game ( last home game before xmas) would've been postponed - as its a balmy 4 degrees outside at the moment
Its going to cost the club shop some lost revenue in merch sales methinks- and will a tuesday night game at a date tba attract 600 or therabouts travelling Barnsley fans
Sooner were out of the breeze block and in a stadium that has undersoil heating the better
Im quite miffed and peeved the game has been postponed- Ive now got a boring 5 hours or so to fill
Bastard referee !
I’m just the other side of the ring road and my garden hasnt defrosted ! Going for a walk the ground is very patchyWhere I am in littlemore it's sunny but chilly the ground has defrosted and I have a feeling if England weren't playing @7pm.they wouldn't have called our game off I'm also abit peed off but hey ho more drinking time for me
Hope you are playing with a red golf ball!I find it slightly bizarre that our pitch is considered unplayable and the last time of looking at a map we are located in southern England and bizarrely nearly every other club in southern England are still playing today and as far as I know none of them have under-soil heating? Even that load of country 9 fingered cousin's have got their game on too....
I'm now off to play 9 holes of golf where it is playable and this is in Oxfordshire. Let the games pile up high.
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Morecombe and Accrington also had their games called off just saying.Bit rubbish of us to be honest when you look at the clubs who have got their games on. Tinpot clubs really.
shouldve double layered the covers thenKarl revealed that our pitch covers only protect the grass down to -4C. Last night it hit -6C at the stadium.
shouldve double layered the covers then