by Dave » 09 Feb 2014, 13:55
Tell me about it Shane, Matt is trying to convince us that the rain only fell on 5% of the pitch and some how magically voided the other 95% clearly proving we don't have drainage problem on one side of the pitch, was Matt provoking debate, having a wind up, or just making himself look well you know
you are right Shane found some statistics that show Devon in terms of rainfall is by no means the worst hit area.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releas ... uary-Stats
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25944823
Yet the worst offenders are Newport closely followed by us, now I can say as matter fact other clubs have been victims of worse rainfall then us and got games on. Why? Simple, some can and will shrug their shoulders, and say it's worse rainfall ever, what do you want us to do, it's happened through dawns of time, others will get up, jump around, be proactive, and do something about it.
Torquay United clearly can not fix the drainage problem that does exist by the clubs own admission, but what the club can do, 9 am Monday morning with out fail, is pick up the phone and order a set of waterproof full pitch covers. Yes they cost money, as said Chris Hargreaves has said the pay back is in 3 games, Northampton used their set last week for the first time and kept their game on, Yeovil's pitch covers not only saved their sell out game with Leeds, it was also a T.V match, made a profit of their covers, how many other clubs with in the section on that map hit by worse rain than us have pitch covers and kept games on.
what's it to be, inactive or proactive, save games and money, or continue to suffer postponements and lose money.
B,T,W Dave. Rob please don't spoil our fun..
Tell me about it Shane, Matt is trying to convince us that the rain only fell on 5% of the pitch and some how magically voided the other 95% clearly proving we don't have drainage problem on one side of the pitch, was Matt provoking debate, having a wind up, or just making himself look well you know :) you are right Shane found some statistics that show Devon in terms of rainfall is by no means the worst hit area.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2014/Early-January-Stats
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25944823
Yet the worst offenders are Newport closely followed by us, now I can say as matter fact other clubs have been victims of worse rainfall then us and got games on. Why? Simple, some can and will shrug their shoulders, and say it's worse rainfall ever, what do you want us to do, it's happened through dawns of time, others will get up, jump around, be proactive, and do something about it.
Torquay United clearly can not fix the drainage problem that does exist by the clubs own admission, but what the club can do, 9 am Monday morning with out fail, is pick up the phone and order a set of waterproof full pitch covers. Yes they cost money, as said Chris Hargreaves has said the pay back is in 3 games, Northampton used their set last week for the first time and kept their game on, Yeovil's pitch covers not only saved their sell out game with Leeds, it was also a T.V match, made a profit of their covers, how many other clubs with in the section on that map hit by worse rain than us have pitch covers and kept games on.
what's it to be, inactive or proactive, save games and money, or continue to suffer postponements and lose money.
B,T,W Dave. Rob please don't spoil our fun.. :)
