Southend on Friday night

Can only hope common sense prevails.

If it’s off… Lets call it off early.

If it’s on (failing absolute freak events)… Lets announce it early.

Hoping for a nice evening in Southend but think it’s starting to look more and more unlikely.

The threat to travel looks to be the biggest risk. With stuff blowing all over.

Quoted from GYinScuntland

If.

Quoted from Grantham_Mariner

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Moving it to Saturday really is the sensible option here if you ask me. What's the point in keeping it on Friday if the trains are cancelled and the driving conditions all morning and afternoon are verging on dangerous. If the clubs speak to each other tomorrow and agree to shift it back a day it gives everyone enough time to rearrange their plans if they want to attend (and if you've got a hotel booked in Southend for Friday night and can actually make it there in the storm, simply hang around there on Saturday after checking out?)

Morning Grimsby fans, Southend fan here. The biggest issue will be if there is damage to Roots Hall during the game. The weather forecast is still for heavy winds of 40mph+ in the evening up until 8pm and then down to 20mph. Both the main East stand and the West Stand of the Hall are rickety at the best of times and with forecast winds of 70/80 mph during the day who knows if we will have any roofs on the stands at the end of this blow? So moving the game to Saturday would be an option but only provided there is no stand damage. If this game goes ahead please be wary if you travel, better to be safe probably..

From  football perspective this could be a cracking game with both sides playing well.

Is moving forward to a Saturday as easy as it sounds? Lots of people to accommodate such as match officials, club employees and players, all of whom might have made other arrangements.

Don’t bank on trains being running on Saturday if the match is moved back anyway. It only takes one overhead wire to be blown down and the whole line is blocked. I suppose there are 2 different railway lines into Southend from London though.

Quoted from GrimRob

Is moving forward to a Saturday as easy as it sounds? Lots of people to accommodate such as match officials, club employees and players, all of whom might have made other arrangements.

“Moving forward” to Saturday is physically impossible.

The sensible option would be to make a decision today.. if in doubt call it off/move it back.

Quoted from Poojah

We have, but I think that’s the point. Whatever the psychology behind it, having human names makes people pay more attention to it. The fact we’re even having this conversation is evidence of this on itself.

I've also read an article on how giving storms human names was under review because it makes people (stupid people) underestimate the storms.

So they're like, 'It's only Storm Barbara - nice, friendly Barbara - I'll just nip down to the sea front and take in some fresh air' and then they get swept away because it's a fúcking storm.