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Marinerz93
February 1, 2015, 11:45pm

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For once nature triumphed. I'm not sure how we would have mobilised the army required to get water off the pitch (presumably all equipped with drinking straws). All those people walking on the pitch would have done more harm than good. A stupid amount of water one way or another came down on Saturday morning. Sweeping snow off is a different proposition entirely to getting rid of water. I remember some years ago going to Chester in August where the game was called off for waterlogging


Garden forks would suffice Barra and a soft bristled yard brush, and we wouldn't have needed as many people who were willing to turn up and shovel snow off the pitch over the decades.

If you look at the pictures the pitch is several inches above where the sidelines drop off. The reason it got called off is that the grounds keeper couldn't do it on his own.


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Got senf this by Telford fan Daniel Jones:

"Just to let you know that there was thirty plus Telford fans on the way to your ground and we got the news at Woodall services that the game was off and also our radio guys were two miles away before hearing the news that the game was off "


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Water table was extremely high to start with , the standing water  wasn't going anywhere fast with more predicted it was a sensible decision.  It doesn't  have to rain here for our ground to be wet due to the underground chalk beds flowing underground .  Unfortunate for travelling and players.   We did it once in the 70's  away , got to Colchester on a Tuesday night for it to be called off due to fog .  Glad the pitch wasn't churned up .
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Whilst it is unfortunate that Telford's fans got to Woodhall (Mind you it is only a couple of hours-if that from Telford) these things happen. I've lost count over the last few years of the games Town have had postponed pretty late in the day. A "game" at Darlington where it was called off as our bus reached Scotch Corner and one where we turned back from a postponed game at Barnet at Stevenage.


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Ones that spring to mind that we have arrived at the ground and it was called off, Blackburn some years ago, more recently Chester, Darlington and Wrexham, there will be more but these things happen.

As it is every home game is an away one for me and I heard it was off when went got to Cleethorpes.
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Quoted from GrimRob
Got senf this by Telford fan Daniel Jones:

"Just to let you know that there was thirty plus Telford fans on the way to your ground and we got the news at Woodall services that the game was off and also our radio guys were two miles away before hearing the news that the game was off "


What do they want, a Blue Peter badge?

One of the downsides of being a travelling footy fan. Happened to us all at some time.
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What do they want, a Blue Peter badge?

One of the downsides of being a travelling footy fan. Happened to us all at some time.


I have said this before,

One year going to Huddlesfield we were told the game was off while we were nearly there,

We decided to go to see Sheff Wed only foe that to be off just as we arrived,

Ended up at Rotherham v Stoke,

It was packed 13,000+ gate because Stanley Mathews was playing,

He did not play as the pitch was a mud bath,

The 2nd half started and 6,000 fans went home.


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I went down to both Millwall away in the Cup (where we won the re-arranged tie 6-1) and Bristol City in the league about the same sort of time (81?? ) where both games were called off last minute yet local to the professional football clubs' grounds, everyone else managed a game when ours were off

You do sometimes wonder what the criteria are for games being allowed to proceed and others being called off but we have to deal with it...the adjudicators decision is final and all that  

Sometimes it happens...I think with us on Saturday it was just the frustration of not being able to play the game when we are on a bit of a roll and there was some long overdue positivity starting to develop
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think it was last year we got all the way to the Wrexham ground to be told by the steward it has just been called off,

The problem was on Sat we had what could only be described as a  very heavy blizzard 5 mins before the ref did the pitch inspection, The club had no chance to even start getting rid of the water that caused before he called it off.
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it's better than half way through a match and the floodlights failing...unless it's foggy and you're losing
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