Match Thread Away V Scunthorpe - Tuesday 23 March@ 7pm

Did i say that?

 

wasn’t our decision. Some clubs do have a very lazy attitude towards games not going ahead when it suits them.

in a season where some teams have 4 games in hand something needs to change.
Are you aware that Grimsby did get fined for postponing their game?

 

Grimsby were fined due to breaking Covid restrictions which resulted in postponements, even then I believe it was a suspended fine.

 

Grimsby's postponement against us was nothing to do with the weather though

 

Are you aware that Grimsby did get fined for postponing their game?[/QUOTE]


No they got fined for breaching the Covid protocols. If they had followed them only 2 players would have had to isolate. They didnt follow the protocols and all the team has to isolate resulting in 3 games having to postponed.

 

So if a team do nothing to prevent a game going ahead, thats all good is it?

 

Ah right then so when one club doesn't do what they are supposed to do fine them. But don't fine Scunthorpe for not putting the covers on or clearing the pitch. Cool.

 

I actually do think there's some merit in clubs having to face 'punishment' if they don't make reasonable efforts to get games on. some situations are clearly extraordinary, but the original game is a good example. Forecast overnight temperatures of -2 degrees should be no reason to call a game off. If pitch covers had been deployed, there wouldn't have been a problem. It appears to have been a convenient opportunity to postpone a game whilst they were in the midst of an injury crisis. That sort of situation, I think, should have consequences.

 

If the pitch isn't playable today then its not gonna be playable tomorrow.
Don't know what they are holding back for in postponing this game.

 

Probably because no one can go, and it's not that far for the team to travel.

But yeah.

Some time today, lads, we haven't got all year.

 

No doubt they will have had conversations privately

 

According to their forum they say they have 2 of their better players out injured and would not make tomorrow’s game. However would probably make it in time for next Saturdays game. Not a lot of incentive to get pitch ok for tomorrow!!

 

Exactly what I was getting at!

 

When did i say anything about a waterlogged pitch?

 

There is about a zero % chance of this going ahead. Waterlogged on Saturday lunchtime, didnt stop raining till sunday am and been sub zero temps ever since, freezing the waterlogging. Put your beer back in the fridge and watch Hoby City instead.

 

Leicester had this back in the 70’s. Blown up with hot air. Kept rain off and protected from snow and frost.