Match Thread Blades vs Scunthorpe - MATCH POSTPONED

[LSF]

A game called off and all this whinge and debate.
FFS!

 

[themaninblack]

Just got back to the hotel after a day wandering the mean streets of Sheffield. All the shops were mobbed out and life was going on as usual. My son was gutted about the game being off so I said we would wander down to BDTBL to get him a new Blades rucksack for school; when we got there of course the 'superstore' was shut.

We will be driving back home tomorrow. Well played everyone at SUFC.

 

[WhiteHawk]

Just got back to the hotel after a day wandering the mean streets of Sheffield. All the shops were mobbed out and life was going on as usual. My son was gutted about the game being off so I said we would wander down to BDTBL to get him a new Blades rucksack for school; when we got there of course the 'superstore' was shut.

We will be driving back home tomorrow. Well played everyone at SUFC.

I'd send a tweet to Jim Phipps & Selahattin Baki. You never know, they might pay for you to come back for another game.

 

[1889]

I think the above pictures and the video need to be shown to the club and asked what attempts were made to clear the steps/access areas to the ground?

As I say for all criticism of Council for roads etc, the club has not touched any of their own ground. They had 36 hours to clear the Kop steps, car park, entrances and unless I am mistaken they have not laid one shovel to the ground from the shots above.

Nothing to suggest to me that they wanted the game on in any way.

When I was at school the caretaker used to clear the playground and paths with a shovel and a barrow of rock salt and he was in his sixties. Mind you they did want us to go to school, that was probably the difference

 

[mark hones]

I'd send a tweet to Jim Phipps & Selahattin Baki. You never know, they might pay for you to come back for another game.

LOL, who the fuck are Jim Phipps & Selahattin Baki? Oh aye, the Clubs bullshitters in chief. Been a bit quiet lately chaps, why's that, getting ready with the excuses for the usual January signings fiasco

 

[judge]

I havent read any of this thread

 

[Newbury Blade]

I think Utd should have done everything possible to get the game on as we really need a league win as soon as possible.

We've got a big squad so Clough needs to be clever enough to use it and we should still be able to beat most teams in this division:

E.g 3-5-2

- - - - - - - - - Howard
- - - McGahey McCarthy McEveley
Cuvelier Reed Doyle Murphy Harris
- - - - - O'Grady Murphy


Subs: Turner, Kennedy, Baxterl, Adams, McNulty, Higdon, JCR/Scougall

Good team: Murphy No 1 could get an assist for a goal scored by Murphy No 2. If the game had been played. Which it wasn't. I had four tickets and a drive from Berkshire for this one but if I can get over it, you can.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Sureoy we want to play to arrest this bad form? I think if it is called off it will be on Police advice and nothing to do with the club.

If we have reached the point where we are contriving conditions in order to delay facing the might of Scunthorpe at Bramall Lane then we need to all pack up shop and go home.

The problem these days is that Scunthorpe turning up at The Lane is a problem, as is any other third division outfit.

 

[metalblade]

LOL, who the fuck are Jim Phipps & Selahattin Baki? Oh aye, the Clubs bullshitters in chief. Been a bit quiet lately chaps, why's that, getting ready with the excuses for the usual January signings fiasco

Good old Jim is away on holiday according to his FB page LOL he might want to stay away until after the JTW.

 

[metalblade]

Eight pages of whining because the game was called off FFS............. just had a drive around the Handsworth / Woodhouse areas and the roads are still very dangerous we are into nearly 3 days after the predicted snowfall and we are still having to drive on packed snow and solid ice, only Retford road looks reasonably clear still got some ice though. Side streets are still a nightmare we havn't had a bus through our estate since Friday and cars are still parked up abandoned, I really think we should be pointing the finger more at Sheffield council and their contractors Amey who are being very frugal with the grit spreading but of course they will blame the Tory cuts we really are becoming a third world country.

 

[boo radley]

So the streets round the ground take around 200/500 people on non match days in the snow and some on here want to fetch 20,000 people down to struggle on them in the snow? Not to mention those 20,000 peoples journeys in to the city is self. Roads in North Anston were still narrow due to snow and still had melted and refrozen slush on them at 11 am yesterday. Yeah lets fetch people in and make them take the risk. But then in the next breath the same people would be putting these people in the Twats thread for travelling when advised it was hazardous to do so

 

[Bladesman]

I did not spot this video on the Blades YouTube yesterday.



Looks like they were trying to do something to get the game on but not much really.

 

[Jonboy60]

I did not spot this video on the Blades YouTube yesterday.



Looks like they were trying to do something to get the game on but not much really.

Pitch in the background look clear anyways.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Meadowhall, and the city centre shops for that matter, don't get a concentration of 20,000 people descending within an hour or so, or all leaving at the same time. In comparison a football ground is a relatively small area to Meadowhall or the city centre and those numbers in that confined space significantly increases the likelihood of accidents, I reckon.

Bollocks, I sound like a bloke called Keith wearing a high-viz jacket, carrying a clipboard.

Shouldn't the the clip board be dumped so both arms are available for balance purposes on the ice?

Your RAMS can always be on your windows phone that you can carry in your pocket.

 

[themaninblack]

So the streets round the ground take around 200/500 people on non match days in the snow and some on here want to fetch 20,000 people down to struggle on them in the snow? Not to mention those 20,000 peoples journeys in to the city is self. Roads in North Anston were still narrow due to snow and still had melted and refrozen slush on them at 11 am yesterday. Yeah lets fetch people in and make them take the risk. But then in the next breath the same people would be putting these people in the Twats thread for travelling when advised it was hazardous to do so

I drove from Brussels to BTDBL without problem and I have now driven back again. Sheffield city centre was full of shoppers on Sunday with no problems. The streets and pavement round BTDBL were perfectly passable; I know because I was there.

 

[Highbury_Blade]

I drove from Brussels to BTDBL without problem and I have now driven back again. Sheffield city centre was full of shoppers on Sunday with no problems. The streets and pavement round BTDBL were perfectly passable; I know because I was there.

I think it's a bit of a stretch to say they were perfectly passable. The main roads were but the side streets were all pack-ice.

 

[Silent Blade]

I drove from Brussels to BTDBL without problem and I have now driven back again. Sheffield city centre was full of shoppers on Sunday with no problems. The streets and pavement round BTDBL were perfectly passable; I know because I was there.

Have you tried walking on the pavements of the side streets? Yesterday I was looking out of window in the bus I was travelling home from work and the pavements on Woodhead Road and Alderson Road look dangerous to walk on. The postponement was the correct decision

 

[Highbury_Blade]

Have you tried walking on the pavements of the side streets? Yesterday I was looking out of window in the bus I was travelling home from work and the pavements on Woodhead Road and Alderson Road look dangerous to walk on. The postponement was the correct decision

For reference i was walking on those same streets whilst completely arseholed on the 27th and 28th and didn't fall down once. I was in trainers too.

It's not the clubs responsibility to make sure people don't fall on the side streets. That's up to the individual. If you think that you're the type of person that might have a problem with walking on those streets, then don't go to the game.

If the police want to make the call that it's not safe to run the game then fine, but that's not what happened here.

What it looks like is that the club only started preparing the ground on the morning of the match. What were they doing on the 27th?

 

[themaninblack]

I think it's a bit of a stretch to say they were perfectly passable. The main roads were but the side streets were all pack-ice.

I can only say that we didn't have any problems. We walked round to that GO camping place (open and doing plenty of business) apparently somebody ram-raided the front door at midnight on Saturday, so life in S2 was clearly going on as usual. I'm not normally one for conspiracies but perhaps the departure of O'Grady was the catalyst for the club deciding not to bother?

 

[Highbury_Blade]

I can only say that we didn't have any problems. We walked round to that GO camping place (open and doing plenty of business) apparently somebody ram-raided the front door at midnight on Saturday, so life in S2 was clearly going on as usual. I'm not normally one for conspiracies but perhaps the departure of O'Grady was the catalyst for the club deciding not to bother?

Don't get me wrong i think if the club had cleared the bits that they were responsible for, then the game should have gone ahead. I'm just saying that people would have had to exercise a lot of caution in deciding whether they should make the trip, and what sort of footwear they should wear for it, as 20,000 people walking on those streets could have been an issue.

The problem is it looks like the club only started clearing the ground on the morning of the 28th, which just isn't enough time. If there had been a heavy forecast of snow for the evening of the 27th then i could understand that, but there wasn't.

 

[boo radley]

I drove from Brussels to BTDBL without problem and I have now driven back again. Sheffield city centre was full of shoppers on Sunday with no problems. The streets and pavement round BTDBL were perfectly passable; I know because I was there.

Flippin eck, I thought the worst snow was around here. Did not know it extended to affecting cross channel ferries? Next time try driving in and out of the local villages. Some of us don't have the privilege of having a job that allows us to live abroad. Tell me, how was Kev on the journey, not travel sick I hope?

 

[metalblade]

Woo hoo ................ the first grit wagon in 4 days has just drove onto our estate

btw The Dingles had a day more than us to get their shit together and they postponed last night what utter wankers.

 

[Silent Blade]

If you think that you're the type of person that might have a problem with walking on those streets, then don't go to the game.

I wasnt talking about me. There are so many Blades fans who dont have the same balance as me or you and they would want to go to the match if it was called on not realising that roads near BDTBL are treacherous and the H & S would have been concerned about that so they made the right decision

 

[boo radley]

I can only say that we didn't have any problems. We walked round to that GO camping place (open and doing plenty of business) apparently somebody ram-raided the front door at midnight on Saturday, so life in S2 was clearly going on as usual. I'm not normally one for conspiracies but perhaps the departure of O'Grady was the catalyst for the club deciding not to bother?

It was not a ram raid, a 4x4 skidded on the ice and into the door.

 

[Foxy]

It was not a ram raid, a 4x4 skidded on the ice and into the door.

Did it have winter tyres?

 

[grafikhaus]

Years ago (probably about 25 or 30) there was some game at the Lane where the pitch was covered with snow and they appealed on radio for fans to come down and help clear the pitch in return for a free ticket.

They dished out brushes, shovels etc. Fuck me! The pitch looked like the Somme afterwards and the game still didn't go ahead.

 

[boo radley]

Did it have winter tyres?

Not sure if it was beightonblade in his BMW

 

[shorehamview]

It's not the clubs responsibility to make sure people don't fall on the side streets. That's up to the individual. If you think that you're the type of person that might have a problem with walking on those streets, then don't go to the game.

If the game had gone ahead and people had fallen over while walking to and from the ground there would have been a few poor buggers enjoying a festive trip to A&E with broken limbs. Can you imagine the slating the club would have taken?

 

[Kenilworth]

It's yet more evidence as to how the Council is against us

 

[Highbury_Blade]

If the game had gone ahead and people had fallen over while walking to and from the ground there would have been a few poor buggers enjoying a festive trip to A&E with broken limbs. Can you imagine the slating the club would have taken?

I can imagine the slating the council would have taken?

I can't really see how it's the clubs fault if people fall over because they're wearing incorrect footwear for the weather, too pissed, or have some mobility issues that means they shouldn't be out in the snow?