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Post by ianmcgibbon on Feb 13, 2024 18:38:15 GMT
It is a bit moist, but for crying out loud, get the game on.
Apparently the corner areas are a concern, unless it is dangerous, it is the same for both teams.
Get playing, think about the supporters!
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Post by ianmcgibbon on Feb 13, 2024 18:41:03 GMT
It is off.
Tinpot
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Post by foxyfreddy on Feb 13, 2024 18:42:00 GMT
Postponed accordingly to Carlisle site
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Post by rhys0204 on Feb 13, 2024 18:43:09 GMT
What a joke. We are a League One football club, we should have a pitch that can withstand a bit of rain. Why did Ben let Leicester Women use the pitch on Saturday?
It seems we are rapidly devolving into being professional in name only.
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Post by popsidepete59 on Feb 13, 2024 18:51:09 GMT
My only thoughts are for them Carlisle fans that have travelled sown, no doubt some have forked out to stop over, like some of our fans did up Carlisle.
This baffles me, these long journeys midweek. We had Carlisle home and away , and Pompey home and away on Tuesday nights.
Bout time the EFL thought about the fans and made the midweek games more local affairs where possible.
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Post by bobgauden on Feb 13, 2024 18:51:45 GMT
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Post by riverman on Feb 13, 2024 18:52:10 GMT
What a joke. We are a League One football club, we should have a pitch that can withstand a bit of rain. Why did Ben let Leicester Women use the pitch on Saturday? It seems we are rapidly devolving into being professional in name only. In fairness there may be questions about the covers or the drainage but the fact that it was played on on Saturday is irrelevant to the amount of rain today. |
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Post by superbrewer on Feb 13, 2024 19:02:02 GMT
Yes we are in league one,but things like this do not put us in a good light.All opposing fans treat us as a non league team ,and you cannot argue with them when we do things like this.
This should have been called off no later than 4.00 pm this afternoon.It doesn't take a genius to look at the weather forecast for the upcoming four or five hours to see that rain is predicted to last until later on this evening.The one thing the weather centre seem to always get right is predicting rain.
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Post by everard on Feb 13, 2024 19:03:14 GMT
I do often wonder if the Brook right next to the stadium has any effect on the pitch & immediate ground around it, over the last few days it was almost at the top of the defenses. It can get up to around 10/11 feet deep compared to a trickle through the summer. I hope we've had the covers on the whole pitch all day today. If we have and its still got through we need some new covers. The ground is currently closed to fans until 6:45 while they keep checking the pitch. 6.45pm.... Not much help to those of us with travel time over an hour! I shudda left 5 mins ago....! Glad I checked my phone before I got on M1 Feel for any Cumbrians who made the journey 3-4 hours each way... assuming no jams |
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Post by bartonyellow on Feb 13, 2024 19:06:11 GMT
Awful decision.
And let’s be honest, our pitch has been poor for some time.
I feel awful for the Carlisle fans - absolutely disgusting to let them wait till 645. And our fans too.
I’m now on the way back to barton as I set off not looking at social media. It’s rained all day but hardly biblical.
Sort the pitch out please Ben. We are not conference north.
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Post by Fred Andrews on Feb 13, 2024 19:06:36 GMT
The pitch is an absolute shambles. It looks like a bog. Did we flip the drainage system back over the wrong way around like it was in 2005/2006?
How on earth was that not called off earlier.
My dad is an ex-groundsman (Port Vale in the 80's) and he has no idea what on earth our groundsman/staff have been up to with the pitch this season, incorrect usage of covers for starters.
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Post by ianmcgibbon on Feb 13, 2024 19:20:29 GMT
I believe that bit on the video there would have been under the 'partial' cover. As the rain runs beneath it (because it is only partial), there is no way it will drain, the cover effectively sucks it to it.
Drainage questionable.
Partial covering questionable.
What time did a referee arrive, bearing in mind the length of time the main sponsors would have had to set off?
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Post by annable on Feb 13, 2024 19:26:26 GMT
I agree that this is not a good look especially having allowed Leicester Ladies to play on it on Saturday lunchtime. There is no benefit to us as a club to not try and get this game on especially having had a good win on Saturday and they're bottom of the league having not won for goodness knows how long. A bit like last week, play it if you can, get three points and pull away from the bottom.
That said, and I know this will be an unpopular opinion, but as somebody who lives 10 minutes from the ground the last two Tuesdays have been remarkable in the fact that we have had really heavy rain from 3 o'clock onwards on both days and it's continued more or less up to kick off. Those saying it should have been called off earlier, think of the travelling fans, the point is that when both Cheltenham and Carlisle set off it wasn't raining as it has been now and unless i've missed something you can't call a match off until the ref deems the pitch unplayable. Sorry lads, stay at home as it might rain later and the pitch might be unplayable. Weather can actually deviate from the forecast.
I get that there is the wider issue of the pitch itself and how it stands up to these spells of heavy rain and its ability to withstand these sort of conditions. I would imagine that it's just outside the budget to do something about it, like lots of other things. To be fair i've never thought that we are a club who regularly has games called off so think we have just struck unlucky on the last two Tuesday's. Also, we're not the only ones calling games off at short notice. Peterborough and Grimsby have called games off today as did Walsall last week.
Be interesting to see when this is rearranged for. Surely not towards the end of April in between the last two games!
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Post by andrewb77 on Feb 13, 2024 19:44:07 GMT
Conference North would have played because most of there pitches are 3g 4g what ever. We have bad management. Someone in our back room staff is taking the urine,and putting it on the pitch.
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Post by staffbrewer1950 on Feb 13, 2024 19:50:08 GMT
An absolute shambles, another wasted 60 miles round trip for us.The game should have been called off much earlier,the club knows it's a non league standard pitch.I feel for the Carlisle and Cheltenham fans last week.They are right,tinpot club.
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Post by ianmcgibbon on Feb 13, 2024 19:56:36 GMT
I agree that this is not a good look especially having allowed Leicester Ladies to play on it on Saturday lunchtime. There is no benefit to us as a club to not try and get this game on especially having had a good win on Saturday and they're bottom of the league having not won for goodness knows how long. A bit like last week, play it if you can, get three points and pull away from the bottom. That said, and I know this will be an unpopular opinion, but as somebody who lives 10 minutes from the ground the last two Tuesdays have been remarkable in the fact that we have had really heavy rain from 3 o'clock onwards on both days and it's continued more or less up to kick off. Those saying it should have been called off earlier, think of the travelling fans, the point is that when both Cheltenham and Carlisle set off it wasn't raining as it has been now and unless i've missed something you can't call a match off until the ref deems the pitch unplayable. Sorry lads, stay at home as it might rain later and the pitch might be unplayable. Weather can actually deviate from the forecast. I get that there is the wider issue of the pitch itself and how it stands up to these spells of heavy rain and its ability to withstand these sort of conditions. I would imagine that it's just outside the budget to do something about it, like lots of other things. To be fair i've never thought that we are a club who regularly has games called off so think we have just struck unlucky on the last two Tuesday's. Also, we're not the only ones calling games off at short notice. Peterborough and Grimsby have called games off today as did Walsall last week. Be interesting to see when this is rearranged for. Surely not towards the end of April in between the last two games! But if the problem area (as shown) was under the cover. What is the point of the cover. The water under there will not drain away with a vacuum cover on top of it. Or, if I am wrong and that area was as bad as that before under the cover before this afternoon's rain, why wasn't that the first bit inspected at 2pm before the main sponsors set off? |
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Post by bennyboy on Feb 13, 2024 21:24:05 GMT
I agree that this is not a good look especially having allowed Leicester Ladies to play on it on Saturday lunchtime. There is no benefit to us as a club to not try and get this game on especially having had a good win on Saturday and they're bottom of the league having not won for goodness knows how long. A bit like last week, play it if you can, get three points and pull away from the bottom. That said, and I know this will be an unpopular opinion, but as somebody who lives 10 minutes from the ground the last two Tuesdays have been remarkable in the fact that we have had really heavy rain from 3 o'clock onwards on both days and it's continued more or less up to kick off. Those saying it should have been called off earlier, think of the travelling fans, the point is that when both Cheltenham and Carlisle set off it wasn't raining as it has been now and unless i've missed something you can't call a match off until the ref deems the pitch unplayable. Sorry lads, stay at home as it might rain later and the pitch might be unplayable. Weather can actually deviate from the forecast. I get that there is the wider issue of the pitch itself and how it stands up to these spells of heavy rain and its ability to withstand these sort of conditions. I would imagine that it's just outside the budget to do something about it, like lots of other things. To be fair i've never thought that we are a club who regularly has games called off so think we have just struck unlucky on the last two Tuesday's. Also, we're not the only ones calling games off at short notice. Peterborough and Grimsby have called games off today as did Walsall last week. Be interesting to see when this is rearranged for. Surely not towards the end of April in between the last two games! Correct me if I'm wrong, our head groundsman left the club last season or before that. I don't recall seeing a pitch renovation the last close season, probably just reseeded. Now before that the pitch was kept immaculate or as immaculate as could be, not any postponed games because of rain. Yes it was in a dire state quite a few seasons ago but then the drainage was sorted. What's going on, penny pinching or just lack of knowledge about pitch maintenance from whoever now? |
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Post by Fred Andrews on Feb 13, 2024 21:36:19 GMT
Ever since Simon Marshall left the pitch has slowly but surely got worse & worse and is reminiscent of the first few seasons at the Pirelli. He was at the club from 2008-2020.
Even when it's been dry it's been bobbly and kicking up everywhere.
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Post by insideleft on Feb 13, 2024 22:09:55 GMT
In defence of the groundsman. It has been the wettest few months on record and I sense the pitch gets too much use.
It’s still disappointing. Games played and points on the board is far better than games in hand.
We’ve lost two games that we could have got points from and put pressure on other teams, as it is the pressure is on us.
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Post by fergo on Feb 13, 2024 22:38:08 GMT
I agree that this is not a good look especially having allowed Leicester Ladies to play on it on Saturday lunchtime. There is no benefit to us as a club to not try and get this game on especially having had a good win on Saturday and they're bottom of the league having not won for goodness knows how long. A bit like last week, play it if you can, get three points and pull away from the bottom. That said, and I know this will be an unpopular opinion, but as somebody who lives 10 minutes from the ground the last two Tuesdays have been remarkable in the fact that we have had really heavy rain from 3 o'clock onwards on both days and it's continued more or less up to kick off. Those saying it should have been called off earlier, think of the travelling fans, the point is that when both Cheltenham and Carlisle set off it wasn't raining as it has been now and unless i've missed something you can't call a match off until the ref deems the pitch unplayable. Sorry lads, stay at home as it might rain later and the pitch might be unplayable. Weather can actually deviate from the forecast. I get that there is the wider issue of the pitch itself and how it stands up to these spells of heavy rain and its ability to withstand these sort of conditions. I would imagine that it's just outside the budget to do something about it, like lots of other things. To be fair i've never thought that we are a club who regularly has games called off so think we have just struck unlucky on the last two Tuesday's. Also, we're not the only ones calling games off at short notice. Peterborough and Grimsby have called games off today as did Walsall last week. Be interesting to see when this is rearranged for. Surely not towards the end of April in between the last two games! Correct me if I'm wrong, our head groundsman left the club last season or before that. I don't recall seeing a pitch renovation the last close season, probably just reseeded. Now before that the pitch was kept immaculate or as immaculate as could be, not any postponed games because of rain. Yes it was in a dire state quite a few seasons ago but then the drainage was sorted. What's going on, penny pinching or just lack of knowledge about pitch maintenance from whoever now? The pitch was completely re-layed before the start of last season? I'm no expert but I guess that cannot change much regards to the drainage etc. |
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