Robinson waited until they left before removing them...
A shame we still don't have that inflatable hot air cover we had back in the PL days. Didn't the supplier of that go broke, so we couldn't get any spare parts?
Scunthorpe have lost 3 and drew 1 of their last 4 away games so don't buy this 'good time to get it postponed.'
So being without our 2 centre halves Bauer & Tex, our left back Page, Holmes not fully fit, Watt not fully fit and Magennis out, is a good time to play ?
It may not be ideal but I don't care. I live in Norfolk and I don't get down very often.
I had arranged to take my son. I bought train tickets and we were on our way to the station.
Of course the manager wanted the game called off but it should be on regardless. Undersoil heating not being plumbed in doesn't help but it's entirely possible to have protected the pitch and got the game on in my view, this is not Turf Moor, this the Valley right next to the River Thames in the middle of London ffs.
See if the tickets are refundable or transferable to another date.
Done us a favour tbh. Get a few more players back fit/out of suspension? Fuck it, let us 'play the system' for once. At least I won't have the hump at 5 o/c this afternoon as well!!
Sounds like we may have done ourselves a favour if we weren't taking appropriate precautions with the pitch. Shabby situation if we're manipulating events to avoid having to play the mighty Scunthorpe United.
Not sure how much not playing today helps us, we already have three Tuesday matches in Feb including the rearranged one with Rochdale. Playing twice a week every week is going to lead to injuries I would think.
Absolutely scandalous and highly embarrassing.......how is this possible. No one saw this coming I'm sure. I'm both gob smacked and outraged! Who ever is responsible should be utterly ashamed!
Seriously?
There's a lot more in this world to be outraged at than us potentially not trying our hardest to get a game on when we have half our first XI missing.
It's really not the end of the world and no one will give a shit if in the rescheduled game we have Bauer, Page, Holmes, Watt and Magennis all fit to start and beat them.
Done us a favour tbh. Get a few more players back fit/out of suspension? Fuck it, let us 'play the system' for once. At least I won't have the hump at 5 o/c this afternoon as well!!
Sounds like we may have done ourselves a favour if we weren't taking appropriate precautions with the pitch. Shabby situation if we're manipulating events to avoid having to play the mighty Scunthorpe United.
What's all this I hear about you @se9addick and Billericay Dickie gonna get it on in Macros car park? At least this postponement will give you more time to get in shape Rocky
You don't have to remove them all - just a few where the pitch gets most frozen. 'The wind must have blown them off'. Read about Cloughie doctoring Forest's pitch before a European game by going to the ground in the early hours, still in his pyjamas, and leaving the hose on in the goamouths. Hope KR did something similar - although I'm sure he didn't! Doesn't bother me - I will get better value for my tickets if we can play a strong team!
Robinson waited until they left before removing them...
A shame we still don't have that inflatable hot air cover we had back in the PL days. Didn't the supplier of that go broke, so we couldn't get any spare parts?
The weather conditions were hardly unforeseeable, given the forecast and the recent very cold weather. I know we have an injury crisis but this is a rather extreme way of ensuring that Roger Johnson doesn't have to tread the boards.
Yet another example of Duchatelet spoiling the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar. I suppose his response will be that this wouldn't happen if we had a 3G or 4G pitch like Sutton United, huh.
There was never any suggestion when the pitch was relaid that the installation of a boiler was contingent upon reaching the Premier League. That is illogical anyway, as these postponements always cost clubs money (leaving aside the inconvenience and disappointment suffered by home and away supporters).
Absolutely scandalous and highly embarrassing.......how is this possible. No one saw this coming I'm sure. I'm both gob smacked and outraged! Who ever is responsible should be utterly ashamed!
Seriously?
There's a lot more in this world to be outraged at than us potentially not trying our hardest to get a game on when we have half our first XI missing.
It's really not the end of the world and no one will give a shit if in the rescheduled game we have Bauer, Page, Holmes, Watt and Magennis all fit to start and beat them.
Yes....... seriously! You have to think of fans who have bought transportation tickets etc and those who have already set off.....I've been a victim of having set off for matches over the years, on a couple of occasions, actually arriving at venues only to find the games were off. And anyway, a club of our stature should have undersoil heating or at least the means to keep the pitch covered in some fashion, it's disgraceful.
Knowing the incompetence and the lies of our club custodians, I don't believe they actually put any proper pipes down. I bet if anyone was to dig under the sacred Valley turf looking for pipes, they'd find nothing more than an old briar and half an ounce of rough shag.
We are fast becoming the laughing stock of English football. Utter f###ing shambles of a club
Straw poll - I've messaged a number of my pals who support other clubs and they still have a high regard for CAFC as there are plenty of other clubs with 'unusual' owners.
You appear to enjoy CAFC bad news stories.
However, the fans of those other clubs seem not to agree with you, they rather see it as a reason to get together and support each other's battles with their owners (see page 2 of the leaflet)
I'm not fussed nice afternoon in by the fire watch a bit of Wrestling on World of Sport.................oh hang on a minute we've moved on 50 odd years, or have we?
I think there was a suggestion that it was a requirement of the Premier League so was fitted to avoid the need to fit in future! They could have put a chair by them and got Katrien to talk down the pipes - all of that hot air would have warmed the pitch! Scunthorpe are one of the harder teams to beat in this league, so it makes sense to duck this one with the players missing. I can't see the problem - as long as we didn't doctor the pitch - which I'm sure we didn't!
Two good videos on YouTube now explaining the decision and all the precautions taken. The groundsman explaining why the undersoil pipes are there but no bolier (as not a requiremnent outside the premier league). The referee explaining how the pitch is solid in parts and unplayable. The conspiracy lovers will still find a reason to doubt.
Two good videos on YouTube now explaining the decision and all the precautions taken. The groundsman explaining why the undersoil pipes are there but no bolier (as not a requiremnent outside the premier league). The referee explaining how the pitch is solid in parts and unplayable. The conspiracy lovers will still find a reason to doubt.
Because Roland won't pay for a boiler, that's why. Not like he made over ten million from us last week or anything.
Typical. At least I didn't reach Waterloo or The Valley this time.
Cold weather happens, fair enough but I'm not understanding the view that this is a good thing at all tbh. Don't we, as supporters, customers or whatever you want to think of us, get a second thought in these decisions?
Hopefully Scunny fans haven't got too far into their journeys either but if this is a footballing decision to play the system frankly it's wrong and if it's due our clubs ineptitude or lack of adequate investment it's wrong. Either way we fully deserve any criticism coming the club's way.
So in the YouTube video groundsman Nathan Chapman reveals that the pipes were put in as 'a stipulation' for Premier League football. But then he says: "It's very very expensive to run and we haven't got the boilers."
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A shame we still don't have that inflatable hot air cover we had back in the PL days. Didn't the supplier of that go broke, so we couldn't get any spare parts?
With our squad today we were likely to have been mullered - and not in the drunken sense.
Strong squad for the rearranged and we're in with a shout.
There's a lot more in this world to be outraged at than us potentially not trying our hardest to get a game on when we have half our first XI missing.
It's really not the end of the world and no one will give a shit if in the rescheduled game we have Bauer, Page, Holmes, Watt and Magennis all fit to start and beat them.
My daughter is home and would have come so disappointing that we miss a game together.
On the other hand Johnson won't have to play.
As far as I know the East Thurrock and Dagenham and Redbridge matches are still on as is Ebbsfleet...
Yet another example of Duchatelet spoiling the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar. I suppose his response will be that this wouldn't happen if we had a 3G or 4G pitch like Sutton United, huh.
There was never any suggestion when the pitch was relaid that the installation of a boiler was contingent upon reaching the Premier League. That is illogical anyway, as these postponements always cost clubs money (leaving aside the inconvenience and disappointment suffered by home and away supporters).
You have to think of fans who have bought transportation tickets etc and those who have already set off.....I've been a victim of having set off for matches over the years, on a couple of occasions, actually arriving at venues only to find the games were off.
And anyway, a club of our stature should have undersoil heating or at least the means to keep the pitch covered in some fashion, it's disgraceful.
Just been out for a paper, sunny, + temperatures and doesn't even feel that cold
Cold weather happens, fair enough but I'm not understanding the view that this is a good thing at all tbh. Don't we, as supporters, customers or whatever you want to think of us, get a second thought in these decisions?
Hopefully Scunny fans haven't got too far into their journeys either but if this is a footballing decision to play the system frankly it's wrong and if it's due our clubs ineptitude or lack of adequate investment it's wrong. Either way we fully deserve any criticism coming the club's way.
But then he says: "It's very very expensive to run and we haven't got the boilers."
So too expensive.