[MATCH OFF] Erm... has anyone seen the weather for Sheffield on Satdi?

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All re-arranged games have to be agreed with the other cub and ultimately the FL. It is not our decision alone
 



To be fair, the club tweeted before we did and have put their efforts into doing everything they can to get the match on.

People have been working last night and from the early hours this morning clearing and preparing, with staff walking in from across the city.

The guy tweeting, will have also been prepping a story for the site/getting word around along with any other match day duties.
 
Foxy said:
To be fair, the club tweeted before we did and have put their efforts into doing everything they can to get the match on.

People have been working last night and from the early hours this morning clearing and preparing, with staff walking in from across the city.

The guy tweeting, will have also been prepping a story for the site/getting word around.
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Not good enough, frankly. I blame Kevin McCabe. If he wasn't too busy buying building plots on Mars then he'd be able to see what was going wrong with the speed of internet weather updates and act accordingly. And it's people like you backing him up in his plans to be Overlord of Mars that are destroying my beloved club, and shit pies are only the tip of a very, very, very big iceberg. Or should that be pieberg?

It started with Beattie having a cold, then it was the internet geek at the club being too slow, and now it's you personally defending his plans to be Emperor of the galaxy, and you're going to be the Blades equivalent of Darth Vader, and you're backing him up in this and helping him to carry out his evil plans. He'll be building a massive hotel complex on Jupiter and paying for it with season ticket money, then selling it to himself for just three Galactic Credits, and you're his evil henchman in all of this. In space, no-one can hear you constantly defend McCabe, after all.

Well, when some young farm boy turns up to defeat you, don't come running to us when you find out it's your long lost son.
 
Greenwich Blade said:
The news off the postponement came through a minute after the train pulled out of St Pancras.
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Them's the breaks pal :( a real pain in the derrière for you. Thankfully I couldn't get a taxi here to the coach station (thus missing our coach to Sheff) - very Providential in that 15mins later the game is called off. Saved us a wasted journey but lost the coach fare all the same :rolleyes: Don't ya just love Spring????

Safe journey back home mate...

UTB!
 
Caveblade said:
Bad Luck Greenwich, pint in the Sheffield tap, see your folks and head home again?
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Nope; the Train Manager realised there were a number of disappointed football fans onboard (lots of Brentford you see), so when he saw my shirt he asked if I wanted to get off at Kettering, the first stop, and head back to London. This seemed the sensible option as I was dashing back after the match to get to a gig in Brighton tonight anyway. The Train Manager just scribbled on the back of my reservation saying I was allowed on the 9:27 from Kettering. Just got to negotiate a Brighton arrangement for this evening, then I can go home and get a bit of kip as I was up most of the night with the cricket.
 
Bradford Blade said:
Them's the breaks pal :( a real pain in the derrière for you. Thankfully I couldn't get a taxi here to the coach station (thus missing our coach to Sheff) - very Providential in that 15mins later the game is called off. Saved us a wasted journey but lost the coach fare all the same :rolleyes: Don't ya just love Spring????

Safe journey back home mate...

UTB!
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Yep, my train fare has disappeared, but then some would say it serves me right for bunking trains back from Coventry away once and Cheltenham after a pre-season friendly.

I haven't hitched to a game all season, so if I'm free for the rearranged fixture, I suppose I'd better get the yellow shirt out and dust off the thumb.
 
Greenwich Blade said:
Nope; the Train Manager realised there were a number of disappointed football fans onboard (lots of Brentford you see), so when he saw my shirt he asked if I wanted to get off at Kettering, the first stop, and head back to London. This seemed the sensible option as I was dashing back after the match to get to a gig in Brighton tonight anyway. The Train Manager just scribbled on the back of my reservation saying I was allowed on the 9:27 from Kettering. Just got to negotiate a Brighton arrangement for this evening, then I can go home and get a bit of kip as I was up most of the night with the cricket.
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Good effort by the train manager, enjoy the gig.
 
BusheyBlade said:
why did we plan the Crawley game so late in the season? We could have had it several times over by now thus giving us an extra free date.
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Crawley v Crewe off today which must make the whole fixture list tricky. Maybe they will extend the season after all?
 
Greenwich Blade said:
...if we could rearrange it for June I'd have a nice hitch in the sun. Or the rain. But hopefully not the snow...
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Given we're having the worst snow this year in Spring, I wouldn't rule out a few flurries in June ;)

Ah well, just hoping my other teams (Park Ave) game next Sat & the Carlisle game isn't affected...

UTB!
 
Looking at the pitch, would we want to? Devil v Deep blue and all that, but our worst performances have tended to be on the worst surfaces.
 



raul said:
Looking at the pitch, would we want to? Devil v Deep blue and all that, but our worst performances have tended to be on the worst surfaces.
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It's either that or 3 games in 5 days at some point isn't it?
 
Foxy and the men of our street are doing a sterling job with the snow shovels and grit to at least get our patch clear. Community spirit and all that.

I'm sure I speak for the rest of the wives and daughters when I say it's tiring just watching them :D
 
cooperblade said:
It's either that or 3 games in 5 days at some point isn't it?
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There's no good solution, just the least worst. I think we'd be better suited to it with Poleon and Forte on hard surfaces and there's less chance of tears and strains when it's not like the Somme.

But then again, it's not me who'll have to sit near Mic three times in five days...
 
LSF said:
Must have been your lonely tyre tracks I saw on out road first thing Brownie :-) like t'Antarctic up here on t'Charnock! Just a formality surely for match off verdict?
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It took me 20 minutes to get up to High Lane before I rang up to say I wasn't getting in and turning back
 
Tough one GB- You must be there now- Have one for me as I sit in north Manchester wondering what all the fuss is about- and what to do today in the absence of any meaningful sport.
 
Foxy said:
To be fair, the club tweeted before we did and have put their efforts into doing everything they can to get the match on.

People have been working last night and from the early hours this morning clearing and preparing, with staff walking in from across the city.

The guy tweeting, will have also been prepping a story for the site/getting word around along with any other match day duties.
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Not the clubs fault they did everything that they could, it is the city's services it is their responsibility to keep roads and walkways clear and safe.
What is it that you call grit is that a mixture of sand and salt?
 
Linz said:
Foxy and the men of our street are doing a sterling job with the snow shovels and grit to at least get our patch clear. Community spirit and all that.

I'm sure I speak for the rest of the wives and daughters when I say it's tiring just watching them :D
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A group of 5 farmers armed with tractors and ploughs cleared our entire village in ten minutes.

I did my bit by shovelling 3sqft of pathway.
 
TC10 said:
Tough one GB- You must be there now- Have one for me as I sit in north Manchester wondering what all the fuss is about- and what to do today in the absence of any meaningful sport.
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I'm back home in Ashford (Middx) now in the nice warm, looking at the snow flurries out of the window. Had a nice chat to some Brentford fans on the train going via Feltham - they're resigned to missing the rearranged fixture, although for most of them it won't have cost them too much as the club had laid on free coaches.
 
cooperblade said:
Crawley v Crewe off today which must make the whole fixture list tricky. Maybe they will extend the season after all?
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If the mentality of the powers-that-be in the Football League is on a par with their Conference counterparts, don't bank on it. Ridiculous stuff.


Conference boss firm on fixtures – no extension to season

7:20am Friday 22nd March 2013 in Sport By Michael Pearlman

FOOTBALL Conference general manager Dennis Strudwick maintains that there is no possibility of extending the season, despite mounting criticism over the fixture chaos.

Newport County AFC manager Justin Edinburgh is the latest to blast the authority after the Exiles’ scheduled clash with Gateshead was postponed for a fourth time.

County feel their promotion prospects are being severely damaged by a gruelling programme that will see them play 11 games in 29 days.

It’s even worse for part-time mid-table outfit Braintree Town who must now cram a quarter of their season into March and April.

However, the Conference are still intent on honouring their date at Wembley for the play-off final on Sunday, May 5, and were quick to point out that County’s fixture backlog isn’t just a result of the Gateshead travails.

And terrifyingly for Newport fans, Strudwick isn’t ruling out the possibility of games being played with just 24 hours in between if the rotten weather persists.

“At the moment our priority is what it always has been,” Strudwick said, “to get the games all scheduled in the best way possible.

“We are probably all ruing weeks past where there were no midweek fixtures and we know it’s going to be a very busy end to the campaign and that’s unfortunate.”

However, he is as firm as ever on the Wembley issue despite calls from many to forego the play-off final date in order to extend the season.

“All the arrangements are in place,” said Strudwick.

“I’ve seen plenty of quotes about not using Wembley and going somewhere else, but those are obviously observations made by people not in football administration.”

On the prospect of football games being played virtually every 24 hours, he commented: “I don’t have a crystal ball, we don’t know what the weather will do.

“But we can’t rule out games nearly every day, I did it as a player.

“At the moment though our focus is on making the schedule as fair as possible.”

Strudwick also pointed out that Newport’s situation is not just ‘Gateshead’s fault’.

When put to him that this wasn’t Newport’s fault, he commented: “It’s not Newport’s fault about the Gateshead game, but there is too much finger pointing going on.

“Newport have had their problems and postponements as well, like last weekend when they were the only game off in the division.

“Instead of concentrating on conspiracy theories we should be communicating about solutions.”

County’s director of football Tim Harris reacted with weary acceptance when told of the Conference stance.

“What can I say that hasn’t been said already?” he said.

“The cost to the club, to our supporters, time and again for this fixture, non-refundable hotels, travel costs, it’s all mounted for us and more importantly for our fans,” he said.

“We feel strongly that the schedule we have makes an absolute mockery of this division, but it appears those views aren’t going to make a difference.

“But we had to speak up. We owed it to our supporters.”
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Greenwich Blade said:
I'm back home in Ashford (Middx) now in the nice warm, looking at the snow flurries out of the window. Had a nice chat to some Brentford fans on the train going via Feltham - they're resigned to missing the rearranged fixture, although for most of them it won't have cost them too much as the club had laid on free coaches.
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P!ss off to Brighton!

;)
 
Think they will need to juggle the fixtures a bit but shouldn't take too much doing if they move quick:

9th/10th April
Utd v Brendford
Swindon v Crewe

16th April
Crewe v Brentford
Utd v Crawley

23rd April
MK Dons v Swindon
Crewe v Utd

Sorted!
 



Guernsey are the Blackburn/Chelski/man City of the CCL, don't feel too sorry for them
 
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