daftasfxxx wrote:What happened to the no matches to be played at rp 48 hours before ours

Coincidentally, i mentioned that to someone earlier today. I don't know either.

reebok0165 wrote:

daftasfxxx wrote:What happened to the no matches to be played at rp 48 hours before ours

Coincidentally, i mentioned that to someone earlier today. I don't know either.

Also what’s happened to the rain covers that County purchased at great cost a few seasons back?

excessbee wrote:Percy, while you're at it, can you please write a script for Ritchie Wellens' post match comments.

It's a horrible place to come,awful pitch.We knew what to expect,long balls,set plays,their 4 should have had six yellows at least.Nasty partisan crowd who influenced the refs decisions,never a penalty for the first goal.They closed us down and stopped us playing our normal game and to cap it all,the winner going in off the refs arse.I hope I never see this place again.

Percy plunkett wrote:

excessbee wrote:Percy, while you're at it, can you please write a script for Ritchie Wellens' post match comments.

It's a horrible place to come,awful pitch.We knew what to expect,long balls,set plays,their 4 should have had six yellows at least.Nasty partisan crowd who influenced the refs decisions,never a penalty for the first goal.They closed us down and stopped us playing our normal game and to cap it all,the winner going in off the refs arse.I hope I never see this place again.

Flynny getting his excuses in early

Percy plunkett wrote:

excessbee wrote:Percy, while you're at it, can you please write a script for Ritchie Wellens' post match comments.

It's a horrible place to come,awful pitch.We knew what to expect,long balls,set plays,their 4 should have had six yellows at least.Nasty partisan crowd who influenced the refs decisions,never a penalty for the first goal.They closed us down and stopped us playing our normal game and to cap it all,the winner going in off the refs arse.I hope I never see this place again.

Great predictive journalism there Percy, except for a couple of small points. Richie Wellard (yes, the EastEnders dog posing as the Swinetown manager) would never refer to Newport being an horrible place to come, it's like Paradise compared to his little town. Our "nasty partisan crowd" are, at least not all related to each other like their lot are. We may shout and sing a lot but their fans will drown us out through their clapping (having 6 fingers on each hand makes an audible difference).

I don't know about a muddy Rodney Parade but looking at the pictures on S4C it looks like a sandy Rodney Parade, or sawdust, I'm not sure which.

Blackandamber wrote:I don't know about a muddy Rodney Parade but looking at the pictures on S4C it looks like a sandy Rodney Parade, or sawdust, I'm not sure which.

Wasn’t it the use of sand that buggered up the drainage last time?

Pitch is WRECKED !!! And from what I saw , the Drag-ons crowd must’ve been about 2,400 ???
Bisley half empty .... Hazell Seats (or whatever their called these days !) empty .... and no one on the terrace !!
And this was a massive game for them , apparently ?

What happened to the 24hr clause? Are we not invoking it to try and keep relations good?

Blackandamber wrote:I don't know about a muddy Rodney Parade but looking at the pictures on S4C it looks like a sandy Rodney Parade, or sawdust, I'm not sure which.

Yes, from TV only but it did look more like sawdust. Maybe that can be hoovered up in a way sand can't? How have the goalmouths got in that state? Us or the rugby?

Match postponed today.......




For me, as a referee in the local Newport and District leagues, so looking to get to RP today. Take care on your journies folks, icy out there today.

On their message board they are getting paranoid about the state of the pitch and how it will favour our style of play. They seem to forget we comfortably beat them on their bowling green surface in September.

Minus 2 currently 100 miles to the east...

Taunton Iron Cider wrote:

reebok0165 wrote:

daftasfxxx wrote:What happened to the no matches to be played at rp 48 hours before ours

Coincidentally, i mentioned that to someone earlier today. I don't know either.

Also what’s happened to the rain covers that County purchased at great cost a few seasons back?

George Street-Bridge wrote:

Blackandamber wrote:I don't know about a muddy Rodney Parade but looking at the pictures on S4C it looks like a sandy Rodney Parade, or sawdust, I'm not sure which.

Yes, from TV only but it did look more like sawdust. Maybe that can be hoovered up in a way sand can't? How have the goalmouths got in that state? Us or the rugby?

Await with interest to see how the pitch looks this afternoon. Certainly from the TV pictures it looked like a very fine powdery absorbent layer of something had been applied to the more grass bare patches. Clearly the pitch was covered overnight because of frost, and hopeful some of the material is dry enough to be hoovered (other vacuuming appliances are available) blown or brushed off. At least the game itself didn't appear to degrade the pitch dramatically.