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brucie wrote:The main fault with this shambles is the league rules which apparently decree that Bury have to travel half the length of the country and we have to foot the bill.
No doubt some Bury fans will make the journey tomorrow, when we all know full well that there won't be a game to watch. That is a disgrace.

Spot on, something I touched on in my reply early yesterday back on page 4 . (steady on Andy, Gloster )

I don't understand this Football League 'rule' which apparently says games can't be called off on a Friday. Tomorrow's Stevenage v Wolves fixture has been postponed today due to a waterlogged pitch.

I don't think the rule says a club can not postpone a match on a Friday/day before game etc, I think the club would have to go to the F.A and present a reason with evidence to get the game postponed , if a suitably qualified referee was to inspect the pitch today, coupled with no guarantee when or how the next band of weather is going to hit/be, I should imagine it would be difficult to get the game postponed, I don't how bad the pitch is right now, or whether the club has already sought permission to call it off, got to be soon, Bury surely will be on the road by now.

They can be called off on the Friday, or even before then, if there is absolutely no chance of the game going ahead. However, the Football League appear to want to give games every possible chance of going ahead, which is reasonable in itself, but will cause a lot of hassle and frustration for travelling fans.

Our game tomorrow would presumably be on if there is no further rain, so we can't call it off yet, even though the chances of the rain staying away until 5pm tomorrow are pretty small. The best we can hope for is a 10am or 11am call off tomorrow.

The water polo game is on..

... and so it will come to pass many many years from now when climate change sees the Province of Britannia and North Gaul in Eurasia bathing in year round temperatures of 45C and skiing being discussed in much the same terms as the gladiatorial games are at present, that a young child will ask his Great Great Grandfather, "What did you do in the Great Storm Brucie?".

The wisened and weather beaten face of the old man smiled as he recalled those halcyon days when he could go and watch his favourite football team, well before football had been banned on health and safety grounds due to the extreme heat (at 45C Britannia and North Gaul was still the coldest place on the planet).

"Whinge my child. Whinge!" came the reply.

And a perfect sunny day has in the last 10mins turned into rain and grey skies

PlainmoorRoar wrote:And a perfect sunny day has in the last 10mins turned into rain and grey skies

.... and that took you by surprise?

The Torquay Athletic Rugby Ground, where we were planning to move to a few years ago, was under 4 feet of water yesterday. I seem to remember a selling point for the move was the easy access by train! What trains? Let's stay up on the hill and enjoy our mid-season breaks!

Pitch deemed to be okay this PM.
9-00am pitch inspection tomorrow according to O/S

stefano wrote: .... and that took you by surprise?

The Torquay Athletic Rugby Ground, where we were planning to move to a few years ago, was under 4 feet of water yesterday. I seem to remember a selling point for the move was the easy access by train! What trains? Let's stay up on the hill and enjoy our mid-season breaks!

Definitely not by surprise stef, it was predicted rain at 3, hopefully we escape the worse of it later

edit;

check out
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weat ... &lat=50.46

looks like 9pm - 11pm is bad, could we have a dry morning think it will be close call, hopefully the covers are now on and forking from early tomorrow

link to pitch update as said by behind-the-gulls for those who haven't seen it.....http://www.torquayunited.com/news/artic ... 46016.aspx

You may well be picking up Bury's expenses, but as nobody will be covering mine, I'm not risking it.

Shopping brownie points and Jeff and the crew on T.V. for me.

Deep joy! I can hardly wait!

Thank God for the Calcutta Cup at 5 o'clock.

Oh well at least Plainmoor isn't as bad (yet) as Newport's Rodney Parade ground as tonight's postponement means Newport have had FIVE of their last six home games called off.

The Torquay weather forecast has improved. There will be light showers from midnight onwards, during the night and during the day tomorrow (Saturday), and the wind will be 25-35 mph, which will have a pronounced drying effect.

The game will be on..

I can utterly understand the club's position but you sense it is going to be called off. Better the game cancelled unnecessarily than supporters of Bury travel for hours to Gond the game is off.