Waterlogged pitch

Can understand it's been bleak so far this week

Absolute joke!

Four questions:-

A couple of seasons ago the Club bought rain covers, why aren’t they ever used?

On the weekend it was said that there was a lack of ground staff due to Covid issues, but plenty of sand! Therefore has the pitch not been properly attended to in readiness for tonight’s game?

Had Cardiff Blues or Dragons been playing tonight would the match have still gone ahead?

Is RP to become the graveyard of any ambitions we may have of achieving promotion?

[quote="Taunton Iron Cider"]Four questions:-



Had Cardiff Blues or Dragons been playing tonight would the match have still gone ahead?


Can't answer the other questions but a football league ref has to inspect the pitch it's his call not ground staff etc

Rugby can go ahead on a swamp basically there was a game about 2 years back where the pitch was totally under water but they still carried on because basically rugby the ball is mostly played in hand where football is played mostly on the surface

UPTHEPORT wrote:

Taunton Iron Cider wrote:Four questions:-



Had Cardiff Blues or Dragons been playing tonight would the match have still gone ahead?


Can't answer the other questions but a football league ref has to inspect the pitch it's his call not ground staff etc

Rugby can go ahead on a swamp basically there was a game about 2 years back where the pitch was totally under water but they still carried on because basically rugby the ball is mostly played in hand where football is played mostly on the surface

I remember that rugby game. They played the game even though there was a danger of drowning because there was so much water on the pitch, especially at the north terrace end. I think there was another game when they tried to pump the water off the pitch but failed.

rgk147 wrote:Absolute joke!

In what way. Have you made a recent assessment of the state of the pitch? What did you think it was like? How did you manage to get within the ground security cordon.

Player safety is paramount in the Ref's decision

It's whether the ball will bounce on any part of the pitch when waterlogging is the problem I think.

Mansfield v Salford off as well. Snow.

According to the Argus both Flynn and Taylor, the Exeter manager agree with the decision.

G Guest wrote:According to the Argus both Flynn and Taylor, the Exeter manager agree with the decision.

But more to the point what say you rgk147 of St Albans?

This will also give Nick Townsend more of a chance to recover from his injury.

G Guest wrote:Mansfield v Salford off as well. Snow.

I was surprised to see it called off
i work about 5 mins from their ground and snow was all gone by 3pm
Stopped snowing about midday as forecast had suggested and a bit of rain before drying out

Talk of a 2/3 week break due to the recent rise in Covid within the game and the massive spikes outside it.