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  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    KentishFootball ‏@KentishFootie 10m
    Ebbsfleet United's home game against Bromley is ON after match referee's pitch inspection. All other Kent non-league games are POSTPONED!
  • Ross
    Ross Posts: 4,412
    Pitch inspection going on at Selhurst Park right now as seen on SSN.
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,236
    Watching Swansea v Man Citeh Not stopped raining since the game started and the pitch looks immaculate. How does that work?
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,823
    Sillybilly said:

    Watching Swansea v Man Citeh Not stopped raining since the game started and the pitch looks immaculate. How does that work?

    Looks like a carpet!!
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,741
    Sillybilly said:

    Watching Swansea v Man Citeh Not stopped raining since the game started and the pitch looks immaculate. How does that work?

    Money.

  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    Sillybilly said:

    Watching Swansea v Man Citeh Not stopped raining since the game started and the pitch looks immaculate. How does that work?

    Drainage.
  • Dansk_Red
    Dansk_Red Posts: 5,728
    Looks like the Oxford game will be further postponed.


    http://www.cafc.co.uk/news/article/20130103-plans-to-address-valley-playing-surface-1273864.aspx
  • newyorkaddick
    newyorkaddick Posts: 3,052
    Roland's only been in charge for a few hours and communication has already improved several fold!
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,813
    And the openness begins
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,232
    Wow. This has cheered me up. Go on Roland!!

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  • Dansk_Red
    Dansk_Red Posts: 5,728
    edited January 2014
    I wonder who is paying for the Dome, perhaps it was a fairwell gift.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,632
    Bing bong. New owners start to address fundamental problems on day one.
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,886
    Very early doors but what's not to like so far?
  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,838
    Blimey, I thought we were going to the Dome, not the other way round!

    Roland don't hang about, does he?! Well done Chief!
  • charltonaddickedmatt
    charltonaddickedmatt Posts: 1,257
    That's better
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,738
    To be fair - it is easier to communicate the message that we are sorting it out rather than we are doing absolutely nothing because we can't afford to.
  • DRF
    DRF Posts: 2,455
    Could the new owners really have made these changes? I can't see how it would have been logistically possible in th time frame.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,019
    DRF said:

    Could the new owners really have made these changes? I can't see how it would have been logistically possible in th time frame.

    What's difficult about telling Chris Powell or Paddy Powell to hire a dome. They only need to make a phone call.
  • MSE7
    MSE7 Posts: 1,345
    Those days in the premiership our pitch was like a carpet of green. Now it's like hackney marsh
  • Viewfinder
    Viewfinder Posts: 4,912
    MSE7 said:

    Those days in the premiership our pitch was like a carpet of green. Now it's like hackney marsh

    One of the sensual pleasures of watching football is ascending the concrete steps from the concourse bunker at five-to-three and looking out over the emerald sward. Last Sunday it looked like a Flanders field. We are better at a passing game than trench warfare.


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  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,738
    We know the cause- a collapsed drain. Sort that out as we will do in the summer and the Valley will be green again.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,794
    edited January 2014


    Another tinpot club can't get it's games on, they should be docked points or a 3-0 win awarded to the away side................. :-)
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    edited January 2014
    Yeah, or be forced to play all of their games away from home for the rest of the season, as some tw*t from Barnsley suggested last week.
  • DRF
    DRF Posts: 2,455
    Could the new owners really have made these changes? I can't see how it would have been logistically possible in th time frame.
    MuttleyCAFC said:

    We know the cause- a collapsed drain. Sort that out as we will do in the summer and the Valley will be green again.

    I still don't understand how a drain collapses and nothing falls into it.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,242
    DRF said:

    Could the new owners really have made these changes? .

    I know you don't like to think ill of Tony and Michael but really : - ) The week before the takeover Paddy wanted to spend a few hundred pounds on some plastic covers to protect the pitch but there was no one around willing to sign off the expenditure. That is what it was like.

    I think the reality is the that ground staff have known what is needed and been asking for things like the dome for months. So when the takeover happened all that had to happen was a phone call to the supplier

  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 51,004
    According to some on here, we are going to spend about £600,000 on pitch improvements in the summer including undersoil heating. This would obviously answer the question on whether we are moving or not.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,242
    All academy games off due to flooding.

    It never rains but it pours : - )
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,038
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  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,892
    Henry Irving said:

    All academy games off due to flooding.

    It never rains but it pours : - )

    Embarrassing. Give the points to the opposition. Withdraw from the competition. Pay everyone's expenses. Call the police.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,893
    DRF said:

    Could the new owners really have made these changes? I can't see how it would have been logistically possible in th time frame.

    MuttleyCAFC said:

    We know the cause- a collapsed drain. Sort that out as we will do in the summer and the Valley will be green again.

    I still don't understand how a drain collapses and nothing falls into it.
    So THAT's where Chris Solly's gone!

    Incidentally, I went to the rugby this afternoon to watch Saracens, and their 4G pitch played very well, and the players seemed happy enough diving and sliding on it

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