Match Thread Bradford City V Salford - Tue 23 January 2024 7.45pm

Evening all, just logged on to read back on the response to todays postponement, me and lad travelled over from Cliviger and got to M606 roundabout area before getting the games off confirmation, we'd battled through Todmorden and Hebden Bridge on way to grab a couple of mates on route from Bierley, was absolutely gutted at first obviously but nothing you can do about it, we did an about turn and headed up to Forresters my old stomping ground as a kid for a rough and ready burger, pint, watch bit of Liverpool and couple games of pool with lad. Some good results for us elsewhere today so not all bad, I've also seen a few comments of disappointment regarding missing out of playing Salford while they have injury issues which I get, but lets be honest here if we're relying on the 20th placed team in L2 to have injury problems to enable us to beat them then we may aswell just give up.
Roll on next Saturday which looks a tough game but games we should be relishing.

 

I wasn't impressed hence me turning on the Manchester United game.

 

At least young can play for the rearranged game!

 

And Lagavulin

 

He would need some service on that showing BL.

 

So while everyone is upset over a bit of rain, I’m at my granddaughter’s Christmas dance recital in Clarksville and we’ve all been evacuated to the basement due to tornadoes! Nowt like Fagley this America.

 

Did you get the Last Train to Clarksville? I’ll get my coat………

 

Don’t be a Monkee.!

 

Well, this is going off topic but we are in total darkness, the school science dept is filling in blanks and this scary, the nearest supermarket has partially collapsed with people inside, a fast food place and a oil change center, all within 1 mile of my house, apparently wiped out.

 

Pardon?

 

Hope everyone is safe. puts a postponed game into perspective.

 

Hope you are all okay. Saw it all on the news this morning, awful.

 

Just read the news here this morning…..Bit of a rough night then?
You and yours stay safe my friend.

 

Giggle.

 

And here's me bitching last night about it being windy in Bradford last night. Weather can be crazy over in some states in the US.

 

We are lucky in this country as extreme weather events are still rare. I hope @Tennesseebantam and his family are ok, 6 ppl have died and 24 ppl injured. Not to mention hundreds of homes flattened.

 

Wonder how many of those moaning about the game been called off, were the same folk who said they weren’t attending another game because of ownership/CEO/results/performances etc etc??

 

Not far from my great victory at Fort Donelson

 

Just read this so late to the party but got to correct some points, however, I note that there are no answers to Silverbantam #189 under this thread to which I would add "..postponed or abandoned since the drainage installation of summer 2018", any takers?
Now to correct Loyal, the pitch is seeded with the same product used widely through sports grounds so no question of 'on the cheap'. Next, soil in the common understanding is not used. The common material throughout football is Fibre sand, usually sourced from the Mansfield area but there are other sources, again, not cheap but acknowledged as best product for the job, including such as Desso / hybrid surfaces through the PL.
As to the drainage installed in the summer of 2018, this was not one man and a shovel as Alan Gilliver in his time. The work was designed and carried out under the supervision of a former STRC boffin, based in Otley but with a reputation from his days at St. Ives that he supervised the preparation, installation and maintenance regimes for every pitch used in the World Cup in Russia in 2018.
In my humble opinion, after the initial bedding in of season 2018/19, the pitch has continually improved from a drainage aspect and the treatment it gets annually. This treatment comprises Korrowing the top surface to remove existing grass and roots, then laying new fibre sand, up to 180 tonnes or so then re-seeding the pitch which has been reformed to levels and the like.
Sorry Loyal, not cheap at all.