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Charlton v Barnsley - GAME OFF!! - ABSOLUTE JOKE

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  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,466
    Is this all not playing into the hands of those that want a move away from the Valley?

    FYI my boys u8 side managed to get a game in today on a pitch that's a pudding in August!
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,733
    not really, when the problem is fixed in the summer, the Valley surface will be excellent again, I am sure.
  • DRF
    DRF Posts: 2,455
    carly burn said:

    Is this all not playing into the hands of those that want a move away from the Valley?

    FYI my boys u8 side managed to get a game in today on a pitch that's a pudding in August!

    It's a fairly extreme way to get a move.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,648
    Brilliant!
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,355
    Must be a nightmare marking that pitch out!
  • CrayAddick
    CrayAddick Posts: 3,913
    When's the Barnsley game now? We having the game in Qatar?
  • redsek
    redsek Posts: 656
    Millwall would still beat us on Stig's pitch.
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    Restricted view seats in the lower North.............................all of em!
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,740
    eaststandmike said:

    Restricted view seats in the lower North.............................all of em!

    Glug glug !

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  • Dorset Addick
    Dorset Addick Posts: 48
    Someone needs to get properly stuck into our football club and spend considerable time, resource and planning to get us organised again.

    Matches get called off, it happens, but what happened yesterday and the way it was handled makes me feel, more than anything else, sad.

    A once model football club with enviable values and a structure to be proud of reached a new low yesterday. Fans slating the club, fans continuing to bicker continuously about the next negative chapter in our beloved club. This gloom has to end. Months of neglect and poor judgement/management has come home to roost.

    Hope you realise what you've got yourself into Mr D.
  • GreenWithEnvy
    GreenWithEnvy Posts: 1,844
    eaststandmike said:

    Restricted view seats in the lower North.............................all of em!

    well I won't be re-newing there then!
  • Pelham123
    Pelham123 Posts: 379
    Maybe given the massive area of the cover and the vast amount of rain water run off into already defective drains, the water is just collecting under the playing surface. I hope they get Tuesday's game on and the Oxford 11 turn up rather than the 8.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,875
    JessieAddick said:

    The Doncaster game last August was abandoned because of extremely heavy rain.Am I right in thinking that (in retrostpect) it was not all the weather's fault that day?Perhaps the drainage problem was already starting to show its signs even then?

    Last season there was a massive monsoon against Hull, but the pitch played reasonably well in the circumstances, I presume the problem must have started later in the season?
  • AddickFC81
    AddickFC81 Posts: 4,053
    I think the drainage probllems had started last season because the pitch in the second of the season had never been that bad before. To be fair to Paddy he had got it looking really good in the summer. I feel sorry for him.
  • northstandsteve
    northstandsteve Posts: 14,329
    the pitch went really shit after the fans helped clear it of snow for the Blackpool game, we never really had a explanation what went wrong that day.
  • Granpa
    Granpa Posts: 2,995
    I was on the coach having just paid the £8.50, but now I am more worried about how we manage to play the rest of our home matches. We've been told that the drainage system has collapsed, and obviously it can't be fixed untin the end of the season. Are we talking West Ham again ?
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Given the Cup postponement this one could have been handled differently and saved a lot of people a lot of aggro and expense. if Mr Bradshaw wants to shrug, say 'shit happens' or 'what can you do'? then he should leave. It is not right to have left things until after 1pm last Saturday. I suspect Mr Bradshaw doesn't really care and feels irritated and exasperated by those who feel put out, and reckons the paying supporters are basically plebs.
  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041
    http://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/football/barnsley/fuming-mansford-seeks-compensation-for-fans-1-6368159
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,234
    seth plum said:

    Given the Cup postponement this one could have been handled differently and saved a lot of people a lot of aggro and expense. if Mr Bradshaw wants to shrug, say 'shit happens' or 'what can you do'? then he should leave. It is not right to have left things until after 1pm last Saturday. I suspect Mr Bradshaw doesn't really care and feels irritated and exasperated by those who feel put out, and reckons the paying supporters are basically plebs.

    While I do think that the buck stops with Steve Bradshaw the rest of your post is way way way over the top.

    It really doesn't help the debate in the same way your personal vilification of Steve Waggott ("he smiles a lot") didn't help.

    It is ironic that you use the term "plebs" which it turned out was made up by a vindictive group of police officers trying to bring a minister down.

    Criticise Bradshaw, Slater, Jimenez, Murray, Powell (Chris or Colin), Duchetlet or whoever for their actions but not for imagined "feelings" or statements you have put in their mouths.
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  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    edited January 2014
    Richard Cawley ‏@RichCawleySLP
    #cafc know they are not blameless in Valley pitch problems but Barnsley spinning tales that are not true.

    Richard Cawley ‏@RichCawleySLP
    Claims that pitch was uncovered on Friday night is not true. #cafc

    Richard Cawley ‏@RichCawleySLP
    #cafc tweeted that pitch inspection as soon as they were made aware of it. Pitch in better condition than it was for Brighton or Sheff W.

    Richard Cawley ‏@RichCawleySLP
    Issue is largely down to drainage system collapsing. That can't be addressed until the end of the season. #cafc
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,484
    Miserableoldgit said:

    Richard Cawley ‏@RichCawleySLP
    #cafc know they are not blameless in Valley pitch problems but Barnsley spinning tales that are not true.

    Richard Cawley ‏@RichCawleySLP
    Claims that pitch was uncovered on Friday night is not true. #cafc

    Richard Cawley ‏@RichCawleySLP
    #cafc tweeted that pitch inspection as soon as they were made aware of it. Pitch in better condition than it was for Brighton or Sheff W.

    Richard Cawley ‏@RichCawleySLP
    Issue is largely down to drainage system collapsing. That can't be addressed until the end of the season. #cafc

    I just saw that on Twitter, he is much maligned but Cawley is ok.

  • Pico
    Pico Posts: 1,030
    northstandsteve said:

    the pitch went really shit after the fans helped clear it of snow for the Blackpool game, we never really had a explanation what went wrong that day.


    I was there on that day. They didn't let us near the pitch. We were only clearing the steps, walkways and entrances.



  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,987
    Never liked Danny Wilson the little dick
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    Charlton Athletic FC ‏@CAFCofficial 1m
    It has been confirmed that this afternoon's pitch inspection will take place at 1.30pm. We'll provide an update when we have one. #cafc
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,423
    I've long said that any team reaching the premiership should have an amount of the money that brings, ringfenced to be used for installation and maintenance of drainage and irrigation systems and under soil heating. About half of the 92 league clubs would now have a legacy of sorts from their time in the top flight if this were introduced.
  • Greenster
    Greenster Posts: 190
    I didn't know there was going to be a pich inspection and the club kindly allowed me to give them £26 at 12.55 only to return in half an hour later !
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,733
    The problem is of course - we had a drainage system that was working fine when we were in the Premiership - a drain has collapesed relatively recently. Had it not - the pitch would probably be in good nick, as it has been in previous seasons.
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,742
    MuttleyCAFC said:

    The problem is of course - we had a drainage system that was working fine when we were in the Premiership - a drain has collapesed relatively recently. Had it not - the pitch would probably be in good nick, as it has been in previous seasons.

    Proposals were put to the board in the Premier League - around 2003 - to install undersoil heating and upgrade the drainage. They were rejected on cost grounds.

    However, that is so long ago it comes under ifs and buts, in my opinion.
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    cfgs said:

    Miserableoldgit said:

    Richard Cawley ‏@RichCawleySLP
    #cafc know they are not blameless in Valley pitch problems but Barnsley spinning tales that are not true.

    Richard Cawley ‏@RichCawleySLP
    Claims that pitch was uncovered on Friday night is not true. #cafc

    Richard Cawley ‏@RichCawleySLP
    #cafc tweeted that pitch inspection as soon as they were made aware of it. Pitch in better condition than it was for Brighton or Sheff W.

    Richard Cawley ‏@RichCawleySLP
    Issue is largely down to drainage system collapsing. That can't be addressed until the end of the season. #cafc

    I just saw that on Twitter, he is much maligned but Cawley is ok.

    But god forbid the club may be telling the truth and that things have been over played by fans and media

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