Kings Lynn Re-arranged

[chels - WEFC]

i can't recall any first team fixtures being called off myself

[mattwefc]

you're right there, last year was the first time for a long time when we had a whole season with no postponements. at this rate we'll have a fixture back log like the last time we got promoted..you never know it could be a good omen

[Guest]

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dansilk said:
Let's just ask him to wait until there's a game we really want postponed... on the off-chance.

I can no longer make this footballing feast tomorrow night so am hoping that it will be off.

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[chels - WEFC]

You know its gonna be like the Carribbean here tomorrow, 40 degrees in...the shade and lush green grass at the meadow!

[mattwefc]

or more like hammering rain and a mudbath...

[chels - WEFC]

Optimistic young Matthew.

[Big J R]

I blame global warming.

 

And just to think ! - We've still got a hose-pipe ban in force here ! (Sh1t ! I was going to water the garden this afternoon !)

[Hammerman]

2 games cancelled this year after 25 grands worth of improvements!

How many games cancelled last season.

Didn't someone on this forum earlier in the season ask why we didn't play more games in the better months!

[Jezdog]

To be fair though, they were improvements, not a miracle cure. Pitches are a natural thing, they're not man-made, so we can't expect them to instantly do what we want them to do. We've had some unusual weather recently, but it won't last forever. At this level, you've got to expect the occasional hiccup. We'll soldier on regardless!

[Windsor_Sec]

Hammerman, very few pitches could cope with the rain we've had in the last week or so with virtually every game in the area off on Saturday and again last night. If you had a pitch with drainage that could cope with what we've had you would then have an added problem that you would have to water it every day for 12 hours a day whenever it didn't rain!

[Hammerman]

With the hype of the 25k spent on the pitch it looks in worst nick now than it did last year when all the slough players/supporters were complaining about it.

Then we had you (Windsor Sec) saying how great this new feature is then all of a sudden a bit of rain and its all off.

We had bad weather last season and we still had no games cancelled!

[Windsor_Sec]

Hammerman, the 'new feature' you refer to is a pop-up irrigation system and it has nothing to do with drainage of the pitch. The 'bit' of rain you refer to was enough to form a lake once again down by the flood-relief culvert and, when that happens, we know we've had a lot of rain.

A pitch can be likened to a sponge, it will only take so much before it's saturated and that point was reached early on Saturday morning last week and it was the same elsewhere which was why so many games were called off.

The other problem we've faced recently is the amount of rain coming at the wrong time ie in the lead up to games, last year we had bad weather yes, but it always seemed to fit in around the schedule of matches so I guess we were just lucky then. If you could make arrangements for it only to rain on Sunday, Wednesday & Thursday in future then I'm sure we won't have any more games called off!

Finally, £25k was not spent on the pitch, the vast majority of that was the irrigation system and its installation which, has been said many times before, will benefit the pitch in the coming years. Next close-seasons' work will [funds permitting] see further imporovement work on the drainage with the introduction of sand-slitting and, hopefully, a complete re-profiling of the pitch so the water runs away from the middle instead of towards it.

[Fuzzy]

Our pitch has been a pain in the back side for many years, every time some work is done it always seems temporary and everyone moans that it doesn't last. When we finally do something for the long term benefit of the pitch, that will initially make the pitch poorer everyone complains that the pitch is poor. It seems the club can't win. It is unfortunate that it conincides with a class team that plays the ball around nicely on a good pitch (which don't have this season!!) however if we can grind out results on a poor pitch, get promoted and have a good pitch for when we play against better sides then I think we will all agree that is for the best.

It is just poor timing that the postponements coincide with big matches (Kings Lynn and the effect it had on the Bashley game)but we have to give it time.

Lets give the pitch time and stop bitching about it, if it is still rubbish next year then maybe wee will have soemthing to complain about.

Also, i bet we play on worse pitches this year come Jan and Feb and especially if we get very dry weather in April and May.

[Guest]

What chance the game on this Saturday as its still raining very heavily in Slough and has been most of the night and AM today.