Chris Clapham Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Due to failed floodlights at Cobham FC, tonight's league game against Horley Town will now take place at Wibbandune subject to confirmation at 2pm from Horley Town FC. This move has been sanctioned by the league. Kick off remains at 7.45pm. More later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Clapham Posted March 20, 2013 Author Share Posted March 20, 2013 LATEST NEWS........Wednesday 20th March 2013 - 1.58pm Due to failed floodlights at Cobham FC, tonight's league game against Horley Town has been postponed. Unfortunately, attempts to play the game at Wibbandune were thwarted as Horley could not notify all of their players in time. New date to follow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chubby Brown Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 What a load of old tosh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Clapham Posted March 20, 2013 Author Share Posted March 20, 2013 What a load of old tosh! Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big J R Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 What a load of old tosh! I'm intrigued to know why you think that, Chubby ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carthorse Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 If the floodlights worked last night how did they know they had failed today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKP Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 My guess is that Chubby is referring to whether players have mobile phones or not...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big J R Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 My guess is that Chubby is referring to whether players have mobile phones or not...? Hardly unlikely in this day and age, HKP ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Clapham Posted March 20, 2013 Author Share Posted March 20, 2013 If the floodlights worked last night how did they know they had failed today? Only some of the lights at Cobham worked last night. The league allowed the game to go ahead with permission of both clubs and the match officials. Cobham won 1-0. When they were tested this morning at around 11am NONE came on! We spoke to the league IMMEDIATELY and Horley re switching a one off game to Wibbandune which was agreed but The Horley manager could not contact all of his players before the 2pm curfew both clubs and the league had set to sort out food, programmes etc etc etc. For the record ALL at CWUFC are gutted to have yet another game re-arranged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie10 Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 So how have they have communicated to say game is off? Surely same method to say change of venue. Just saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Clapham Posted March 20, 2013 Author Share Posted March 20, 2013 So how have they have communicated to say game is off? Surely same method to say change of venue. Just saying. Less of a rush I guess to contact players when a game is off? It would have taken me 2 and a half hours to print programmes and collect covers. Then get ready and get to ground. Food has to be bought and prepared. The 2pm cut of was fair to EVERYONE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKP Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Hardly unlikely in this day and age, HKP ! Exactly, couldn't all the players be sent a txt message? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Clapham Posted March 20, 2013 Author Share Posted March 20, 2013 Exactly! ...and I agree. But phones are switched off when people are at work in some cases aren't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie10 Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Less of a rush I guess to contact players when a game is off? It would have taken me 2 and a half hours to print programmes and collect covers. Then get ready and get to ground. Food has to be bought and prepared. The 2pm cut of was fair to EVERYONE. Understand, wrote mine before seeing your earlier comment lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FSB Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 I was contacted by CWU about 11.30am but was in a meeting until 12pm and so Tony Hurrell left me a message. I spoke with Tony at 12pm and we agreed to switch the game based on me being able to get a response from at least 12 of my 15 man squad by 1.45 to allow time to make the decision. I had only had replies from 8 by that time. Some cannot have phones switched on during work, 1 cannot get a signal at his work and i rang him at 16.10 because he hadn't responded. it his now 16.20 i have still to make contact with 3 of them, i have tried to ring them and goes to voicemail. I'm just hoping they have thier phones with them and check their messages before they travel. There was no reason for us not to want to play. The last thing we want is to have to play 3 games in a week, which is probably what will happen now. So no conspiracy theory guys, both clubs did their level best to get the game played at the alternative venue but time ran out. Ali Rennie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big J R Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Thanks Chris and Ali. A very clear explanation all round. Lets hope this will now shut the 'Doubting Thomas's' up !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krooner Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 I was contacted by CWU about 11.30am but was in a meeting until 12pm and so Tony Hurrell left me a message. I spoke with Tony at 12pm and we agreed to switch the game based on me being able to get a response from at least 12 of my 15 man squad by 1.45 to allow time to make the decision. I had only had replies from 8 by that time. Some cannot have phones switched on during work, 1 cannot get a signal at his work and i rang him at 16.10 because he hadn't responded. it his now 16.20 i have still to make contact with 3 of them, i have tried to ring them and goes to voicemail. I'm just hoping they have thier phones with them and check their messages before they travel. There was no reason for us not to want to play. The last thing we want is to have to play 3 games in a week, which is probably what will happen now. So no conspiracy theory guys, both clubs did their level best to get the game played at the alternative venue but time ran out. Ali Rennie My goodness an outbreak of sanity on this board !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chubby Brown Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Why did the deadline need to be set at 2pm?? Surely the match could have been played without programmes?! Not suggesting any conspiracy but just think more could have been done in order to get the game played. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Clapham Posted March 20, 2013 Author Share Posted March 20, 2013 Why did the deadline need to be set at 2pm?? Surely the match could have been played without programmes?! Not suggesting any conspiracy but just think more could have been done in order to get the game played. It has been explained by Ali and myself why the curfew was required. Don't think I'll bother on here anymore. Too many nosey [****!!****]ers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krooner Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 It has been explained by Ali and myself why the curfew was required. Don't think I'll bother on here anymore. Too many nosey [****!!****]ers! Only people who dont have much idea how much work goes into running football clubs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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