Southend on Friday night

This is fu(king ridiculous.

As soon as the weather was reported as being a red weather warning, they should’ve just bit the bullet and cancelled it. Apparently All trains are cancelled so how they expect people to make plans when that’s how they were due to travel is beyond me.

Should just call it off  It's getting there that's the dilemma  I'm only  mins by Train out of Liverpool street already Trains delayed and being cancelled. Storm due between 10-30 and 3-30pm so It may still go ahead

Southend will want this on and the weather looks like it’ll be fine by the time it kicks off. Not morally right allowing fans to travel but they’ll prioritise getting in a few extra West Ham fans.

Makes the decision to play Friday even more frustrating now given the fact it looks fine tomorrow

Red weather warning means risk of life; yet still thinking of playing a game of football?
This is ridiculous! (obviously if Southend were playing badly I'd probably say differently)

Can't believe it's not been called off yet. Asking us to travel through a red weather warning zone where the advice is do not travel is insane. Doesn't matter what the weather will be like at 7pm, at the time the buses are travelling it is not safe to do so.

Travelling to watch a game of football is hardly essential. Should something terrible happen to a supporter, player, official or anyone travelling to and from the game, they've got to live with the fact that a simple common sense postponement would have prevented it.

There will be people hanging on and if no announcement is made, they will decide to head down there in a hurry. I know the people travelling need to take some responsibility of the risks but postponing the game would eliminate that.

Pitch inspection at 4pm when the ref arrives.  Presumably they expect people to travel during a red alert in the hope it might be on. Stupid really.

Quoted from smokey111

Tranmere often played on a Friday night (Liverpool and Everton)

I seem to recall Mick Lyons when he was in charge of us wanted to play games on a Friday, can't remember which game it was but put yhe idea forward in the matchday programme

I’ll cut the clubs a bit of slack on this one. From Southend’s perspective, they’ll want the game on. It costs money to postpone games - both in reduced ticket sales for any rearranged, midweek game and for any food etc that has been purchased which won’t keep until their next home game.

In theory at least, conditions come kick-off time should be playable. Call it off now and the wind dies down by late afternoon and Southend get pelters. Leave it on and an advertising hoarding blows off at 6:30pm, and gets called off then, Southend get pelters.

Like our home game with Boreham Wood in December, which was to be played in not dissimilar conditions, I think the decision will ultimately come down to whether the stadium can withstand the elements (and of course, Town making it to the ground, something we’ve got form for).

Personally I think the game will be on unless Roots Hall is damaged, but that could well mean a late call.

The clubs are acting like the problem is the pitch getting waterlogged or frozen, and not that there's a forecast danger to life for travelling fans from wind throughout the day. It's rubbish from both clubs and their statement doesn't at all address the travel safety issue.