Further pitch inspection tomorrow

[cooperblade]

According to James Shield on twitter - not confirmed yet


James Shield ‏@JamesShield1
No official confirmation yet but I understand Notts County will now hold a further pitch inspection at 9.30am tomorrow. #sufc#twitterblades

 

[ThatJa]

They've just shown the pitch on Sky Sports News, and in no way will the game go ahead tomorrow, they were using a plough, which just pressed the snow into the ground, then people with shovels following the plough trying to get the snow up.......... clueless.

 

[DazBlade88]

It's just a waste of everybody's time. I've already made plans to watch Soccer Saturday instead with the girlfriend at work all afternoon

 

[frechyblade]

County boards seem to be saying that the pitch is playable and the game will be on. I certainly hope so, got the clan booked on Shred's tours.

UTB

 

[Greenwich Blade]

I'm on the 11:15 from St Pancras so they might just get a postponement in before I leave. If they delay it any further and then call it off, I may have to see if I can get off in Market Harborough and sneak back into London.

And just to embarrass myself, PNE away last season, so out of touch was I that I was blissfully unaware that the game had been postponed due to North End having a load of Antartican international call-ups or something. I realised all was not as it should be when sitting on the Megabus approaching Luton, reading my Daily Mirror - scanning the fixtures I noticed that our match wasn't listed. As my stomach lurched downwards, I decided it might not be a bad idea to check that email United sent me earlier in the week. The next stop was Manchester...

I got off in Manchester, helpfully told the driver that when he counted up the passengers to make sure there were no stowaways he'd be one short because "I don't want to go to Preston now" and then legged it before he could ask me any embarrassing questions. I'd booked a return Megabus later that evening but couldn't be arsed to wait for it so got the train to Knutsford, walked to the services on the M6 and hitched south. I ended up getting a lift all the way from there to Richmond which is four stops away on the train from my home in Ashford. Not bad really, especially as it turned out the guy was a Cardiacs fan. This fact, added to the fact that I was the only person on eBay selling a Cardiacs book, made it much easier for him to track me down when I left my Blades woolly hat in his car.

Fever Hitch 2 anyone?

 

[dublin 10 blade]

They've just shown the pitch on Sky Sports News, and in no way will the game go ahead tomorrow, they were using a plough, which just pressed the snow into the ground, then people with shovels following the plough trying to get the snow up.......... clueless.

They've just shown the pitch on Sky Sports News, and in no way will the game go ahead tomorrow, they were using a plough, which just pressed the snow into the ground, then people with shovels following the plough trying to get the snow up.......... clueless.

That reminds me of the time at the lane, when we were supposed to be playing west ham [ i think ] at mecca, and snow laid fairly deep on the pitch, and the club asked for volunteers to come and clear the pitch, so me and about 50 others turned up, and tried to clear the pitch , to no avail game was still called off. Got a couple of comp tickets off the club, think later on we beat west ham 3-0 in a night game with trouble on john st terrace. Or should this be threaded under coldest game ?

 

[Staffs_Blade]

It's not like the old days - orange ball, just the lines and penalty spots cleared. None of this outfield players wearing gloves rubbish nowadays, back then players would walk to the ground for the game after doing a nightshift in the steelworks for thruppence halfpenny. Happy days.

 

[Bladesway]

That reminds me of the time at the lane, when we were supposed to be playing west ham [ i think ] at mecca,

HOUSE!

 

[BladeFisher]

That reminds me of the time at the lane, when we were supposed to be playing west ham [ i think ] at mecca, and snow laid fairly deep on the pitch, and the club asked for volunteers to come and clear the pitch, so me and about 50 others turned up, and tried to clear the pitch , to no avail game was still called off. Got a couple of comp tickets off the club, think later on we beat west ham 3-0 in a night game with trouble on john st terrace. Or should this be threaded under coldest game ?

No under the new thread "Buy one sport get another free - SUFC offers complimentary bare knuckle fighting with every West Ham ticket" Given what happened a few years ago, one day they'll probably be a re-match!

 

[cahill]

I'm on the 11:15 from St Pancras so they might just get a postponement in before I leave. If they delay it any further and then call it off, I may have to see if I can get off in Market Harborough and sneak back into London.

And just to embarrass myself, PNE away last season, so out of touch was I that I was blissfully unaware that the game had been postponed due to North End having a load of Antartican international call-ups or something. I realised all was not as it should be when sitting on the Megabus approaching Luton, reading my Daily Mirror - scanning the fixtures I noticed that our match wasn't listed. As my stomach lurched downwards, I decided it might not be a bad idea to check that email United sent me earlier in the week. The next stop was Manchester...

I got off in Manchester, helpfully told the driver that when he counted up the passengers to make sure there were no stowaways he'd be one short because "I don't want to go to Preston now" and then legged it before he could ask me any embarrassing questions. I'd booked a return Megabus later that evening but couldn't be arsed to wait for it so got the train to Knutsford, walked to the services on the M6 and hitched south. I ended up getting a lift all the way from there to Richmond which is four stops away on the train from my home in Ashford. Not bad really, especially as it turned out the guy was a Cardiacs fan. This fact, added to the fact that I was the only person on eBay selling a Cardiacs book, made it much easier for him to track me down when I left my Blades woolly hat in his car.

Fever Hitch 2 anyone?

I hitched to Crystal Palace 1972 for a saturday game, called off at 2-50pm. Hope its not called off at that time tomorrow. I hitched everywhere I went between ages 17 and 32. Great times

 

[Greenwich Blade]

I hitched to Crystal Palace 1972 for a saturday game, called off at 2-50pm. Hope its not called off at that time tomorrow. I hitched everywhere I went between ages 17 and 32. Great times

Aged 18 to 45 for me. At one point I was hitching to and from work every day.

 

[BladeFisher]

I hitched to Crystal Palace 1972 for a saturday game, called off at 2-50pm. Hope its not called off at that time tomorrow. I hitched everywhere I went between ages 17 and 32. Great times

Heh yeah I was at that one! Started my hatred of Screaming Alice. Their fans were awful. I was only 14. I came up from Reading.

Remember afterwards standing by the players entrance and there was a group 20-30 somethings wanting to see the "Messiah and Jesus" as they chanted as such. Not JC but TC.

 

[Kenilworth]

Night matches on snow covered pitches with the orange ball, eh? Great stuff them games - absolutely loved em.

In my minds eye I can still picture John Matthews scoring a belter at BDTBL on such a night (or gloomy afternoon with the floodies on) - can't remember when or against whom. Cue the oracle that is Darren to correct me and unfuddle my befuddled mind.

 

[Darren]

Night matches on snow covered pitches with the orange ball, eh? Great stuff them games - absolutely loved em.

In my minds eye I can still picture John Matthews scoring a belter at BDTBL on such a night (or gloomy afternoon with the floodies on) - can't remember when or against whom. Cue the oracle that is Darren to correct me and unfuddle my befuddled mind.

And right on cue....

I reckon that's probably Matthews' last minute equaliser against Cambridge (the only time we ever playyed them at the Lane) on 30/12/78. That was a Saturday game, but the pitch indeed was snow covered. We had gone 2-0 up via 2 Varadi goals when we got a pen. The crwod wanted Varadi to take it, but regular taker Gary Hamson took it and missed. True to form, Cambridge then went 3-2 up before Matthews rescued a point

 

[Kenilworth]

And right on cue....

I reckon that's probably Matthews' last minute equaliser against Cambridge (the only time we ever playyed them at the Lane) on 30/12/78. That was a Saturday game, but the pitch indeed was snow covered. We had gone 2-0 up via 2 Varadi goals when we got a pen. The crwod wanted Varadi to take it, but regular taker Gary Hamson took it and missed. True to form, Cambridge then went 3-2 up before Matthews rescued a point

Ta Dazzler
I know I was there but even after your excellently detailed description I am still struggling to recall it all.
Just see the ball leaving JM's foot and traveling like an arrow into the net (low off the ground?)

He could hit 'em though, John Matthews, couldn't he? (forgetting those from 12 yards against the people that are famous for making saddles)

 

[Greenwich Blade]

And right on cue....

I reckon that's probably Matthews' last minute equaliser against Cambridge (the only time we ever playyed them at the Lane) on 30/12/78. That was a Saturday game, but the pitch indeed was snow covered. We had gone 2-0 up via 2 Varadi goals when we got a pen. The crwod wanted Varadi to take it, but regular taker Gary Hamson took it and missed. True to form, Cambridge then went 3-2 up before Matthews rescued a point

My dad had an assist for that goal! I used to go in the EDS Enclosure (for under 14s, between John Street and the Kop) and my dad used to stand on the John Street Terrace behind the dug-out. If we were doing badly (most weeks) he'd wander along to the EDS Pen towards the end and beckon me over in order to say, "What a load of rubbish, eh?" (Now ill health dictates that he can only phone me up from his retirement flat and ask the usual "Are we rubbish?" He was so angry last Saturday that he phoned me a good 20 minutes before the final whistle.)

Anyway, on this occasion he was just having a good old moan when the ball was hoofed into touch and bobbled around on the terrace steps, my dad scrambling across to pick it up and hurl it over the fence to the waiting Paul Garner. Garner in turn chucked it to John Matthews who advanced a few yards before leathering it into the back of the net. And yes, it was an orange ball.

 

[Darren]

My dad had an assist for that goal! I used to go in the EDS Enclosure (for under 14s, between John Street and the Kop) and my dad used to stand on the John Street Terrace behind the dug-out. If we were doing badly (most weeks) he'd wander along to the EDS Pen towards the end and beckon me over in order to say, "What a load of rubbish, eh?" (Now ill health dictates that he can only phone me up from his retirement flat and ask the usual "Are we rubbish?" He was so angry last Saturday that he phoned me a good 20 minutes before the final whistle.)

Anyway, on this occasion he was just having a good old moan when the ball was hoofed into touch and bobbled around on the terrace steps, my dad scrambling across to pick it up and hurl it over the fence to the waiting Paul Garner. Garner in turn chucked it to John Matthews who advanced a few yards before leathering it into the back of the net. And yes, it was an orange ball.

Thats pretty impressive and, in fact, the cue for a whole new thread....

 

[sitwell]

It's just a waste of everybody's time. I've already made plans to watch Soccer Saturday instead with the girlfriend at work all afternoon

I reckon Soccer saturday could be postponed at this rate , Zulu or Great Escape it is

 

[boo radley]

I reckon Soccer saturday could be postponed at this rate , Zulu or Great Escape it is

Men of Harlech stand ye steady have you got your snow ploughs ready

 

[KenMcnaughtsNuts]

i was going tonight. ive cancelled the hotel booking. i cant for the life of me imagine how it can be on. im not even thinking of travelling now, probably wont even look for the scores til about 4pm. tempting fate i know but seriously...no chance of it being on. i'll feel such a tit if i put the tellybox on and were actually playing!

it has happened at the lane once. cant remember the game, but i was so sure it would be off i didnt even look til after 3pm. i ended up getting a taxi to watch the 2nd half! obviously away games, that aint gonna be happening. but i cant be arsed fannying about then i find out its called off at 2pm or sumat. gonna get some diy done and presume its off.

 

[Silent Blade]

I hitched to Crystal Palace 1972 for a saturday game, called off at 2-50pm. Hope its not called off at that time tomorrow. I hitched everywhere I went between ages 17 and 32. Great times

That would have been Dec 2nd 1972. We won the re-arranged game later that season with a goal by Dearden