Slough vs Ashford - Inspection @ 11.15

[GarySTFC]

Pitch inspection arranged for 11.15 at Beaconsfield.

[GarySTFC]

Just waiting on confirmation now from a local official. Chris is up at the ground and there is zero chance.

[GarySTFC]

Game off as expected.

[GarySTFC]

Game now scheduled for 19th April - 1945 kick off.

[Martin]

Very frustrating. Going to be a manic run in now. I appreciate the pitch will be waterlogged but back in the 70s matches were dumped in sand and played in bogs. Was this not an option?

[GarySTFC]

You ask Nat Lofthouse if that pitch was playable. I'll tell you what he'd have said...

 

Sadly not in this day and age. Whilst I wasn't at the ground myself, I am reliably informed the pitch had standing water all through the middle, so not a chance.

[BFR]

And yet when the fixtures pile up we'll end up with a ludicrous decision to play in a monsoon on a Thursday night so the league can finish on time, just like we did against Worthing a few years ago

[Staines-upon-Thames Rebel]

With the amount of standing water in the middle of the pitch (considering the areas substrate is sand - the two big gravel locations either side of the ground - i.e. the tip along side of the M40 and the current excavations between Beaconsfield and Woburn) it looks like the work done to the pitch in the summer has had a negative effect on drainage.

 

Or is there to be a change to the sporting nature of the SYCOB lido?

[A Rebel and a Saint]

Looks like (out of the teams at the top), Aylesbury and Rugby got their games on.

According to Twitter, Rugby won 4-0 against Uxbridge, and from the Hitchin forum, they beat Aylesbury 3-1.