Oxford City Saturday

[macfleetwood1]

I will be very surprised if this match goes ahead.  No change to the  weather is forecast.

[Mallard]

The side overshadowed by the main stand must be a concern

[Blue_and_Gold]

According to Greg Plummer on the Chinese (we'll steal all your personal Data) Social Media platfrom, the pitch is like Concrete this morning.

 

[Mallard]

Are the covers not in use ? 

[Blue_and_Gold]

Apparently the game is still on tomorrow.

 

[Mallard]

Think we have been here before. 

[Quinn Upstone]

Are the covers not in use ?

Under the old club I remember helping to clear snow off the pitch which was piled up on top of the covers. It wasn't an easy job and required a lot of manpower and a sense of humour helped.

In the notorious "dead" area in front of the stand there was a big sigh when the covers were taken off and we saw lumps of ice all across that side of the pitch.

So the next job was trying to dig pieces out of it without doing too much damage to the grass. The groundskeeper, as you can imagine, was not a happy bunny to say the least and kept running to different "diggers" to tell them that they were wrong and to stop while he explained how they should be doing it.

I found a large piece of ice as big as a (small) football which would not play nicely. I had an idea... and don't try this at home children... I filled the kettle and boiled the water and whilst the groundskeeper was looking the other way... I poured it onto the big ice lump...

Unfortunately I'd been spotted and the poor bloke came charging over and yelling at me for "killing" his grass.

For some reason he had a complete meltdown (pardon the pun). When he stopped for breath I confronted him and asked him if he'd rather have a small patch of dead grass and explain to the management why we couldn't play..or we could just play the ******* match.

I won the argument and, somehow, we were able to play that day. Ah, them were't days.

A rather long winded way of illustrating that even if we had covers, it wouldn't necessarily stop ice forming in front of the stand.

Anyone seen the kettle...

[Mallard]

I remember years back when Clubs trying to get an FA cup tie on they would place oil drums all over the pitch fill them with rubbish and set them a light.     Usually a lower League  Club playing one of the big boys. 

[Blue_and_Gold]

I remember years back when Clubs trying to get an FA cup tie on they would place oil drums all over the pitch fill them with rubbish and set them a light.     Usually a lower League  Club playing one of the big boys.

Come on Joe, get the under soil heating installed asap!

 

[Blue_and_Gold]

AL has just  said on Radio Norfolk that it's highly unlikely the game will go ahead tomorrow.

If the Manager can publicly say that, why can't the Club make a decision and get it announced to the Supporters and the Opposition?   

[Mallard]

Only 4 games left on in the NLN.  All other games already called off in the North League.  For now.   Makes sense to get an early call to stop opposition team s and fans from travelling. 

[northwootton]

According to Oxford city, game has already been called off!

[Blue_and_Gold]

According to Oxford city, game has already been called off!

Thanks for the info.

[Blue_and_Gold]

Lynn have now announced the game is off.

[Quinn Upstone]

Rather frustrating to have the information from Oxford before we could get our xxxx together 😾

As much as I appreciate the improvement of some news, rather than none, it still makes us look pretty amateurish. Buck stops with Cleeve or whoever the latest puppet master is, to get the news to the media guy/gal.

With social media being "instant" these days, the back of house needs to get with it.

Many clubs at this level or below seem to have things sorted for match days and get entertainment revenue from social events to bolster the funds.

What the management doesn't seem to get is that they can't keep coming to supporters for more money for this or that. They need to grab some cash from outside the club as well. But I won't hold my breath on that one...🙄