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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: The Red Baron on March 09, 2023, 12:36:20 pm
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What's the weather like in Donny please? Chances of Saturday's game being on?
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Wet. So far, it's wet.
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Forecast to be very cold overnight Friday. Ice could be an issue.
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Dark clouds but a shaft of light on the horizon. Either that or a stands on fire!
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Forecast to be very cold overnight Friday. Ice could be an issue.
Granted on the temperature but there’s hardly been a sharp frost for the last few weeks, some nights no frost at all
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At least if the game's called off we can celebrate Saturday night knowing we still have the points to play for that we'd have lost earlier!
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Just wet and damp, like the first team coach and team and board
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With Wimbledon fans setting off very early on Saturday , what time should a Pitch inspection take place to save them making a wasted journey.
If the Pitch is frozen over night then the shaded areas are definitely not going to thaw out wjth the temperature not getting much above 2 degrees all day.
I would say a decision needs to be made no later than 9am.
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Rovers as always announcing the covers are on and the game should go ahead. When will they learn
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Has there been no snow in Donny? We've got 6-8 inches of it in Sheffield and much more to come overnight.
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What's the weather like in Donny please? Chances of Saturday's game being on?
John, my guess it won’t be on. The club have an inspection pencilled in for late Friday and two very early on Saturday. The weather overnight on Friday is for very cold weather.
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What's the weather like in Donny please? Chances of Saturday's game being on?
John, my guess it won’t be on. The club have an inspection pencilled in for late Friday and two very early on Saturday. The weather overnight on Friday is for very cold weather.
Yeah agreed, no chance. I'm thinking the rugby might go ahead Sunday but Saturday will be a write off.
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What's the weather like in Donny please? Chances of Saturday's game being on?
John, my guess it won’t be on. The club have an inspection pencilled in for late Friday and two very early on Saturday. The weather overnight on Friday is for very cold weather.
Yeah agreed, no chance. I'm thinking the rugby might go ahead Sunday but Saturday will be a write off.
Dons playing Workington so maybe not.
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Bit snowy this morning
COYR
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The snow will insulate the ground from any frost
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Will it come down to safety concerns then though?
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Just call it off as nobody wants to go. It’s also just said -6 overnight
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Has there been no snow in Donny? We've got 6-8 inches of it in Sheffield and much more to come overnight.
She might get 6 to 8 inches tonight , but it won't last long. :)
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Problem might be more to do with getting in
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Been snowing non stop around me since 3.00 Thurs morning very little chance of me taking my seat on Saturday if there is the predicted freeze tonight
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Just call it off as nobody wants to go. It’s also just said -6 overnight
agree call it off and the rest of the season as well
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Dark clouds but a shaft of light on the horizon. Either that or a stands on fire!
Oh no .. Ken Richardson not at it again ..his he.
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The snows melting well now
COYR
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A very rapid thaw taking place now. If the -6c covers remain on then the -3c overnight temperatures should not be a problem.
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It's going to be one of those where it's dodgy in the morning but likely to be playable at 3pm.
Definitely should continue to assess it with the travelling fans in mind.
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Should be looking at how it is today, totally thawed out by 1pm and although its going to about -5 overnight, it’s then going to be 4-5 degrees late morning so if the covers are on to limit the over night frost, then it should be playable.
However, with how easy games seem to get called off these days, who knows.
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Would it be a bad thing to call it off, it may just prevent us having to sit through another horror show combined with extreme frustration towards the club in its current dealings.
Then again any inclement weather may just even out the odds for us against anyone at the moment.
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What's the weather like in Donny please? Chances of Saturday's game being on?
John, my guess it won’t be on. The club have an inspection pencilled in for late Friday and two very early on Saturday. The weather overnight on Friday is for very cold weather.
Thanks Martin. For exiles like me it helps to know when inspections are planned.
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Next to no chance of this being on imo, given the games that have been called off this season. Some forecasts have it as low as minus 8 tonight & not getting above freezing until 9 or 10am.
Given the travel it will surely have been called off by then.
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I’m sure this forum has a resident cover expert, I’m sure he’ll be along shortly to air his opinion as to the quality of the covers etc
COYR
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The ground is soft, one frost won’t make it solid, the difference with previous postponements was that we had a few days of frosts running up to match day
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I'm usually gutted when Rovers gets called off but I'm a bit blasé about it after Tuesday. Can't put my nephew through another game in a week, he's not even been misbehaving.
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I'm usually gutted when Rovers gets called off but I'm a bit blasé about it after Tuesday. Can't put my nephew through another game in a week, he's not even been misbehaving.
It’ll toughen him up, he’ll be grateful for the experience of the pain and heartache in years to come lol!
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The ground is soft, one frost won’t make it solid, the difference with previous postponements was that we had a few days of frosts running up to match day
The ground is also wet, depends on how the cold weather affects that.
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My Grandson refused to come to the game on Tuesday eve.
He said I haven’t been naughty so why do you want to take me.
He isn’t stupid is he. I said we will score 3 goals v Harrogate.
No its me that’s stupid. :headbang:
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My Grandson refused to come to the game on Tuesday eve.
He said I haven’t been naughty so why do you want to take me.
He isn’t stupid is he. I said we will score 3 goals v Harrogate.
No its me that’s stupid. :headbang:
I don't know why some people are wanting the game to be off, citing the reason as being that we're so crap just now that many people won't want to go.
We'll still be crap when the game's replayed, and there'll be even less wanting to go on a cold Tuesday night.
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My Grandson refused to come to the game on Tuesday eve.
He said I haven’t been naughty so why do you want to take me.
He isn’t stupid is he. I said we will score 3 goals v Harrogate.
No its me that’s stupid. :headbang:
I don't know why some people are wanting the game to be off, citing the reason as being that we're so crap just now that many people won't want to go.
We'll still be crap when the game's replayed, and there'll be even less wanting to go on a cold Tuesday night.
The weather bottoms out tomorrow, the rearranged match will be on a warmer evening, that will suit our cavalier, attacking possession based football!
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My Grandson refused to come to the game on Tuesday eve.
He said I haven’t been naughty so why do you want to take me.
He isn’t stupid is he. I said we will score 3 goals v Harrogate.
No its me that’s stupid. :headbang:
I don't know why some people are wanting the game to be off, citing the reason as being that we're so crap just now that many people won't want to go.
We'll still be crap when the game's replayed, and there'll be even less wanting to go on a cold Tuesday night.
The weather bottoms out tomorrow, the rearranged match will be on a warmer evening, that will suit our cavalier, attacking possession based football!
Id bet good money you struggled to write that with a straight face!!
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We defiantly need the game to go ahead, it must be torture for the players and management sitting on the recent results, they need to get straight back on the horse and gallop away from the nasty ditch. For their own sakes as well as ours.
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If there isn’t a positive reaction to Tuesday’s debacle tomorrow then we seriously have a problem.
We need to see that the players really are playing for this manager and are buying into his way of playing. If we create next to nothing again tomorrow then his way of playing with this group of players, in this league is 100% flawed.
That’s if we didn’t know it already.
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Pitch inspection at 09:00 in the morning
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My Grandson refused to come to the game on Tuesday eve.
He said I haven’t been naughty so why do you want to take me.
He isn’t stupid is he. I said we will score 3 goals v Harrogate.
No its me that’s stupid. :headbang:
I don't know why some people are wanting the game to be off, citing the reason as being that we're so crap just now that many people won't want to go.
We'll still be crap when the game's replayed, and there'll be even less wanting to go on a cold Tuesday night.
The weather bottoms out tomorrow, the rearranged match will be on a warmer evening, that will suit our cavalier, attacking possession based football!
Id bet good money you struggled to write that with a straight face!!
Earlier I was all for Selby coming in as caretaker but the Beast now gets my vote. I like the cut of his jib. I’m ‘hearing what he’s saying’ and, more importantly, ‘’buying into it’. Total football starts in the next match.
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Pitch inspection at 09:00 in the morning
They will make the decision then no matter what I would think due to the away fans travel distance if it had been a more local team the pitch would be given a longer chance to become playable
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It’s got to be off. Put us all out of our misery for now.
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Lows of -9 tonight in donny.
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Lows of -9 tonight in donny.
Who has forecasted that nc?
BBC showing -4
Accu weather showing -3.
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Bbc , just checked.
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Perhaps lineker has side tracked into forecasting ? -9 seems a bit extreme.
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Perhaps lineker has side tracked into forecasting ? -9 seems a bit extreme.
Oh no, no snowflakes, please.....
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It will no doubt fail an inspection at 09:00am but will no doubt be absolutely fine by kick off
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Currently minus 4 at 6.20 am, but should be above freezing by the time of the pitch inspection and a high of 6 degrees by half time.
COYR
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Yet on the met office the temp never went below-2 on bbc at the same time -6 and on both its +1 now which is/was right
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Not been outside, but looking through the window there is no frost on my car and just the faintest bit of white on the grass, can’t see the ground being hard at all, especially come mid afternoon
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I looked at BBC forecast at 9.00 pm yesterday eve.
It showed -8 degrees YES -8 at 4,5 & 6 am this morning.
Met office showed -1 degree for same hours.
How can one be so different to the other. Surely the BBC get their info from the Met Office don’t they?
Anyway got up at 7-30 this morning and not even a frost. No ice on car windscreen either.
So I would assume the match should be on should it not?
Or is it arctic at the lakeside and tropical in Campsall.?
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Just done a quick garden inspection, the areas in bright sunshine and nice and soft, areas in shade are frosty, not solid, but ancrispness to the grass. I'd be amazed if they didn't call it off..even tho it Will probably be fine by 3pm.
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I looked at BBC forecast at 9.00 pm yesterday eve.
It showed -8 degrees YES -8 at 4,5 & 6 am this morning.
Met office showed -1 degree for same hours.
How can one be so different to the other. Surely the BBC get their info from the Met Office don’t they?
Anyway got up at 7-30 this morning and not even a frost. No ice on car windscreen either.
So I would assume the match should be on should it not?
Or is it arctic at the lakeside and tropical in Campsall.?
bbc changed to Meteogroup a few years ago. Not as reliable as Met Office. But having said that, none are consistently good. I need to know the weather for my job and have countless apps on my phone that are all drastically different. You just have to pick the bones out of it and take an average somewhere.
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If I was a betting man I'd say game on, doesn't seem too bad outside and we've not exactly had a long cold spell.
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I looked at BBC forecast at 9.00 pm yesterday eve.
It showed -8 degrees YES -8 at 4,5 & 6 am this morning.
Met office showed -1 degree for same hours.
How can one be so different to the other. Surely the BBC get their info from the Met Office don’t they?
Anyway got up at 7-30 this morning and not even a frost. No ice on car windscreen either.
So I would assume the match should be on should it not?
Or is it arctic at the lakeside and tropical in Campsall.?
Actually CR , no they get their info from the Meteo Group not The Met Office any more
Been doing that for 3 maybe 4 years
Should still be capable of being closer than a 7 degree spread
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Just looked and it was Feb 2018
Govt made BBC put out tenders for it's weather info and Meteo Group won
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Only 2 Tuesdays available if it is OFF
28th March & 25th April.
That’s assuming this Tues 14th March is discounted. Very rare any game is re arranged so soon.
Tues 21st March we have Crawley away.
One other Tuesday free is 4th April but as we play Gillingham away on the Friday 7th, so i would very much doubt that date would deem suitable.
We then play Grimsby at home on the following Easter Monday 10th so that rules out Tues 11th.
Tues 18th we are away at Stevenage.
So what I am saying is with a fairly congested end to the season as it stands every effort should be made to play today imo.
Another reason is we need to get back on the horse asap after the Harrogate debacle.
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One thing is for sure, if the covers haven’t protected the pitch this time they need binning, they are not fit for purpose
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Game on
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One thing is for sure, if the covers haven’t protected the pitch this time they need binning, they are not fit for purpose
On the basis it was only -1 degree then you are correct Filo.
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Game on
Is that an opinion br ... Or has it been announced yet pls
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Game on
Is that an opinion br ... Or has it been announced yet pls
announced
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Game on
Brilliant. Great news imo.
Now let’s see what this manager and group of players really are. This is a big game. Has to be a turning point.
If we produce another Sh.t show then should the board be looking for a new manager an experienced one.
Season ticket sales will be a disaster if we have this garbage to watch for 12 more games.
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