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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: Poshrover on December 01, 2023, 10:19:56 am
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Minus 3 tonight and the Family Stand shades the pitch frim the sun. Last season they called off a match at 12 noon on the Saturday after saying the game would definitely go ahead on the Friday. Please all check before leaving home that the game is happening.
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I’m half expecting this to be off even with covers on
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Minus 3 tonight and the Family Stand shades the pitch frim the sun. Last season they called off a match at 12 noon on the Saturday after saying the game would definitely go ahead on the Friday. Please all check before leaving home that the game is happening.
It’s happened many times before of course but this whole business of calling games off a few hrs before kick off has to stop.
I remember the Cheltenham cup game a few seasons ago suffering the same. I ended up stopping off at cov to watch them play kiddy as we were half way to Gloucestershire by the time the game was called off.
The forecast is known for today and tomorrow. With temps not getting much above zero today, and forecast colder tomorrow, if the London road pitch is unplayable at 3pm this afternoon, then it will be unplayable tomorrow at 3. It’s that simple.
The system of it boiling down to just the ref also is in need of review. There is much more at stake than just a game of footy. In adverse weather people travelling up and down the country, at their expense really should be at the forefront of the decision making process. Clubs should be much more involved in this imo.
For the ref to trudge out into the pitch at 10am tomorrow is plain daft when some supporters will already be on their way.
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a game in March was called off at London rd under similar weather conditions, albeit slightly colder. the ref stated the covers there only go down to -3. And the family stand does shade the pitch all day. Here is the refs interview from March.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjT06uliu6CAxWSXkEAHWJSA1kQFnoECA8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Ftheposh%2Fstatus%2F1603738159245926400&usg=AOvVaw3hgSx4fGkOE85h-SkAUIov&opi=89978449
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I’m going to Hamerton early tomorrow so will already be down that way
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Nothing higher than 2 degrees before 3pm? Let's hope for a decision before 12pm..
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Sounds like a really poor travel programme
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Nothing higher than 2 degrees before 3pm? Let's hope for a decision before 12pm..
Hopefully earlier Adam.
The coaches leave the Eco at 11.15.
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Nothing higher than 2 degrees before 3pm? Let's hope for a decision before 12pm..
Hopefully earlier Adam.
The coaches leave the Eco at 11.15.
And I’ll be setting off from home before 10.00am
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Peterborough Sports v Farsley Celtic in National League North has already been called off due to a frozen pitch.
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Nothing higher than 2 degrees before 3pm? Let's hope for a decision before 12pm..
12 is way too late for those travelling. Many travelling rovers will already be there at midday
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Peterborough Sports v Farsley Celtic in National League North has already been called off due to a frozen pitch.
My point exactly. If non league can sort this , why is it so difficult for league clubs not to make this early call?
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Notts County and York City have managed tonight
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However cold it is tomorrow, I refuse to believe that any football match will be colder than Roker Park when we played there on New Years Day in the mid 80's. Absolutely biting winds coming off of the sea, half bricks being thrown at us and a defeat did not make for a good day out.
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Can’t imagine Peterborough want this game postponed. Think they will do all they can to get it on.
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Any weather updates from our local correspondent please
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They should know already. It was freezing there last night and it will be freezing or below until the game is over. If it is frozen now then it isn't going to unfreeze.
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They should know already. It was freezing there last night and it will be freezing or below until the game is over. If it is frozen now then it isn't going to unfreeze.
Unless the pitch has been covered
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Crewe had a pitch inspection at 1-15 yesterday and the ref called their cup game off for today.
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Will be setting off soon, if there was gonna be a pitch inspection surely they would have said something by now.
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King's Lynn Town v Banbury United in National League North just been called off due to a frozen pitch.
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Frost in Boston. Bit of fog. Nothing on their website about pitch inspection
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Currently 11 -national league and lower - games postponed in England. Those santa hats might be welcomed though...
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Peterborough United has started tweeting about the arrangements for today. No mention of a pitch inspection or the game being in doubt.
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King's Lynn Town v Banbury United in National League North just been called off due to a frozen pitch.
Lots of non league have been called off.
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Frost in Boston. Bit of fog. Nothing on their website about pitch inspection
-2.5 in Frampton mate and rapidly descending freezing fog. Although oddly enough I reckon my lawn would take a stud. Crunchy grass but a little softer underneath.
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Maybe we could get the game played on your lawn if it is off down there.
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Maybe we could get the game played on your lawn if it is off down there.
I’ll set out a few garden chairs and get the Mrs to put the kettle on. It’ll be reyt.
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Maybe we could get the game played on your lawn if it is off down there.
I’ll set out a few garden chairs and get the Mrs to put the kettle on. It’ll be reyt.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Have you got some jumpers for goalposts.
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With the weather being a concern, especially for those travelling, you'd think they'd post a status update, rather than let folk assume no news is good news.
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Rovers twitter site is broadcasting about the game this morn..
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It better be on, we are a third of the way from Cornwall . Odd that no news to say the game id definitely on, but assuming that is good news rather than bad.
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They have had lamps out on the pitch during the last few nights to make sure the game is on. I set up at Peterborough parkrun this morning and the soil was not as hard as concrete when putting up the finished tunnel. It was quite soft.
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In Peterborough services at the moment on A1 bit misty /foggy outside zero degrees but not looking too bad at all I just flown in from Cyprus where I was sunbathing yesterday 24 degrees
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Pitch inspection apparently. Frozen area in from of Family Stand is the issue.
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Pitch inspection apparently. Frozen area in from of Family Stand is the issue.
Jesus Christ. Busses left half an hour ago.
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if they have the same problem area every time it gets frosty, why the fook don't they concentrate more effort on that area earlier in proceedings..... bloody amateur set-up.
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Pitch inspection apparently. Frozen area in from of Family Stand is the issue.
Source? Can’t see any mention of this on any of posh social media .
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Peterbrough still tweeting about picking up programme for todays game etc.
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TV game Alfreton v Walsall called off while teams warming up and ground full. BBC doing their pre match preview when decision made. Dear oh dear! Gutting.
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TV game Alfreton v Walsall called off while teams warming up and ground full. BBC doing their pre match preview when decision made. Dear oh dear! Gutting.
Utterly utterly disgusting. Someone should be held accountable for that.
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1 minute ago on Peterbrough twitter page state that they expect the game to go ahead.
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Yep they have put out a pic of the pitch covered with heat lamps on along the family stand side
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TV game Alfreton v Walsall called off while teams warming up and ground full. BBC doing their pre match preview when decision made. Dear oh dear! Gutting.
Utterly utterly disgusting. Someone should be held accountable for that.
Seems Alfreton and the ref were ready to play but the Walsall players didn't fancy it.
"Somebody just said to (Alfreton manager) Billy Heath "Are you happy Bill?", and that was after the protective sheets had come off the pitch, and he said "Yeah, we’re happy but they don’t want to play".
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For those interested....
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GAV8gIIWoAAVYL7?format=jpg&name=small)
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TV game Alfreton v Walsall called off while teams warming up and ground full. BBC doing their pre match preview when decision made. Dear oh dear! Gutting.
Utterly utterly disgusting. Someone should be held accountable for that.
Seems Alfreton and the ref were ready to play but the Walsall players didn't fancy it.
"Somebody just said to (Alfreton manager) Billy Heath "Are you happy Bill?", and that was after the protective sheets had come off the pitch, and he said "Yeah, we’re happy but they don’t want to play".
Decision on whether the game goes ahead can be down to one or other of the teams? Surely not right. I understand the difficulty around liability and it would take balls to insist that the game be played but surely there has to be penalties for the club that brought this about at such a late stage.
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TV game Alfreton v Walsall called off while teams warming up and ground full. BBC doing their pre match preview when decision made. Dear oh dear! Gutting.
I thought they were tough in Walsall? Modern footballers. Eh
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By the sounds of it the BBC pushed for a late decision, the ref said the pitch was unplayable at 10:30
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Are the covers off yet?
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By the sounds of it the BBC pushed for a late decision, the ref said the pitch was unplayable at 10:30
That makes more sense, Filo. Thanks
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By the sounds of it the BBC pushed for a late decision, the ref said the pitch was unplayable at 10:30
Maybe. This is what BBC reported at 12:30
"We can report that despite the freezing temperatures in Derbyshire overnight, the pitch at North Street has been passed fit to play - for now.
Here we see the team of officials having a very pensive look at the surface!
The players are warming up on the pitch, but we have word that the game is not 100% certain to begin.
With no undersoil heating, it has been quite an effort to make sure the pitch has been looked after ahead of the club's big day"
Hope those covers are off at London Road now.
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Nothing wrong with the pitch at London Road.
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Do we own any of those lamps? Always our south end of the ground that stays in the shade
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Do we own any of those lamps? Always our south end of the ground that stays in the shade
I seem to remember seeing something like them in the goal area in front of the south stand a few years ago,
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Do we own any of those lamps? Always our south end of the ground that stays in the shade
I seem to remember seeing something like them in the goal area in front of the south stand a few years ago,
I think they were UV lamps, Hound to promote grass growth in the centre of goal. Don't think they do anything to counter the effect of frost.
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Weren't they confiscated lamps from illegal cannabis farms?
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Do we own any of those lamps? Always our south end of the ground that stays in the shade
I seem to remember seeing something like them in the goal area in front of the south stand a few years ago,
I think they were UV lamps, Hound to promote grass growth in the centre of goal. Don't think they do anything to counter the effect of frost.
Ah, cheers, I couldn’t remember what they were.