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by arcadia » 26 Feb 2015, 19:30

The club officials can't keep anyone happy I thought it a great decision as it meant the pitch would be kept in good shape for the rest of the season. If you've seen the forecast for Saturdays game it could be off as well. This is the time of the year to look after your pitches. The referee made the right decision perhaps it could have been made earlier.
Perhaps the referee thought the pitch would recover and made a second pitch inspection as there was a doubt on the day.

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by nickbrod » 26 Feb 2015, 19:21

Tuesday's been and gone. As a long distance supporter from Berkshire I would hope that if there is any doubt about Saturday's match the club will be up front and let us know in good time.

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by kevgull » 26 Feb 2015, 19:03

Who would buy a ticket for a Tuesday game, were we expecting large numbers of supporters?
Great decision to cancel the game, executed with all the grace of a conference club.

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by taxilady » 26 Feb 2015, 18:40

the announcement went on the OS just after 14.20; according to a poster on another forum, tickets were being sold at midday with no mention of any potential problems. As Scott says, nobody would argue with the postponement itself.

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by wodger of awabia » 26 Feb 2015, 17:14

Can't really see what the problem is if the game is called off 8 hours before kick off

It's all very well for the Bristol clubs, as they are 100 miles further up the road than we are, People travelling to,or from Torquay, Plymouth & Exeter need a lot more than 8 hours notice of a postponed game. For Torquay's games at Grimsby, Lincoln, & Gateshead the best plan is to travel up on friday, & back on Sunday morning, so this involves hotel bookings. Eight hours is no good at all!

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by Scott Brehaut » 26 Feb 2015, 12:46

The problem was the way it was done FG.

There was, apparently (according to reports from people who live in the area) no rain on Tuesday that would have caused the club to schedule an emergency pitch inspection. Indeed, according to reports from Lincoln, they had been told that there were no issues.

There was NO announcement that there was to be a pitch inspection - just the postponement announcement out of the blue. It not only caught Torquay fans off guard, but the entire Lincoln travelling party.

It's the seemingly amateur way it was done that grates.

That, as well as the fact that, for a club that hasn't got a pot to piss in, we are going to have to compensate Lincoln one would imagine - so more money pissed up the wall.

Not good.
Not good at all.

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by friendlygas » 26 Feb 2015, 11:54

Can't really see what the problem is if the game is called off 8 hours before kick off. Its just one of those things. No doubt if you had called it off earlier there would be calls of not wanting to play the game because of the importance of the game Saturday. The club just cannot win .The main worry at the moment in this League seems to be getting games played on grounds like Halifax, Kidderminster and Dartford and not the likes of yourselves where there seems to be very few postponements.

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by Trojan 67 » 25 Feb 2015, 15:22

While Kelvin's away the incompetent hold sway.

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by nickbrod » 25 Feb 2015, 15:05

A topic like this for the FA will be well down the list as they grapple with a Christmas World Cup.

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by tomogull » 25 Feb 2015, 14:51

wodger of awabia wrote:There needs to be uniformity on when pitch inspections take place so everyone knows what the regulations are, & all clubs are "singing from the same songbook". I think that all inspections & decisions should be made 24 hours before kick off, if the pitch is unplayable then the game should be postponed. If the pitch is boarder line then it should be assumed that more rain/snow/frost is on its way, & the game postponed.
Early decisions will enable people / clubs to cancel
Travel arrangements
Matchday catering
Corporate entertainment
Stewards
Police
Hotel bookings
etc.etc.etc.

Of course sometimes the pitch at the kick off time will be playable but there will be no blame on the club as they will have complied with the regulations.
Fans will know that they need to look on the website 24 hours before, they will soon get used to doing this.
Yes, I know what you are thinking " what if the heavens open 3 hours before kick off" well there is nothing that can be done about this & nobody will be at fault, not even the Chief Rabbi.
Don't be silly, Wodger. That suggestion is MUCH too sensible for the F.A. to take on board. But yes - excellent idea in principal. :clap:

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by wodger of awabia » 25 Feb 2015, 13:02

There needs to be uniformity on when pitch inspections take place so everyone knows what the regulations are, & all clubs are "singing from the same songbook". I think that all inspections & decisions should be made 24 hours before kick off, if the pitch is unplayable then the game should be postponed. If the pitch is boarder line then it should be assumed that more rain/snow/frost is on its way, & the game postponed.
Early decisions will enable people / clubs to cancel
Travel arrangements
Matchday catering
Corporate entertainment
Stewards
Police
Hotel bookings
etc.etc.etc.

Of course sometimes the pitch at the kick off time will be playable but there will be no blame on the club as they will have complied with the regulations.
Fans will know that they need to look on the website 24 hours before, they will soon get used to doing this.
Yes, I know what you are thinking " what if the heavens open 3 hours before kick off" well there is nothing that can be done about this & nobody will be at fault, not even the Chief Rabbi.

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by tomogull » 24 Feb 2015, 23:52

Burnhamgull wrote:Thoroughly hacked off with tonights postponement, I left the midlands at lunchtime today in brilliant sunshine, I drove down to Newton Abbot wearing shades to see the family then headed over to Plainmoor on dry roads. Only when I got to the crossroads by the Fortune of War did I notice the floodlights off and started to wonder what was going on.

The game was called off early afternoon but from what I understand there has been no rain all afternoon so how big a rainfall was there in Torbay during the previous 48 hours?

There are now three midweek games to attend which means more time off work to travel and I'm not even sure I can be bothered. They've got my ST money for this season so it doesn't matter if I attend or not. As for Saturday, I'll see how I feel when I get up Saturday morning.

What a shambles.
Can fully understand why you are hacked off. We had continuous rain from about midday on Sunday and several very heavy showers during Monday and more rain overnight. I was not surprised the game was off. However, as you say, we had no rain this morning and if the pitch wasn't playable when the inspection was made (1 pm ?) it certainly wasn't playable at, say, 8am so why wasn't the inspection made much earlier to save fans like you travelling hundreds of miles ? I reckon you'll be there on Saturday even though you have to pay ! You wouldn't be able to live with yourself if we won 5 -0 and you'd missed it !! BUT ..... rain is forecast for the rest of the week especially Thursday I think so best to check the chances of the game being on before you set out.

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by PlainmoorRoar » 24 Feb 2015, 23:51

Burnhamgull wrote:Thoroughly hacked off with tonights postponement, I left the midlands at lunchtime today in brilliant sunshine, I drove down to Newton Abbot wearing shades to see the family then headed over to Plainmoor on dry roads. Only when I got to the crossroads by the Fortune of War did I notice the floodlights off and started to wonder what was going on.

The game was called off early afternoon but from what I understand there has been no rain all afternoon so how big a rainfall was there in Torbay during the previous 48 hours?

There are now three midweek games to attend which means more time off work to travel and I'm not even sure I can be bothered. They've got my ST money for this season so it doesn't matter if I attend or not. As for Saturday, I'll see how I feel when I get up Saturday morning.

What a shambles.

:@ :@ :@
Sunday - it rained onto already wet ground, certainly not dry.
sunday night - it rained a lot
monday - it rained in heavy bursts
monday night - it rained

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by Burnhamgull » 24 Feb 2015, 22:53

Thoroughly hacked off with tonights postponement, I left the midlands at lunchtime today in brilliant sunshine, I drove down to Newton Abbot wearing shades to see the family then headed over to Plainmoor on dry roads. Only when I got to the crossroads by the Fortune of War did I notice the floodlights off and started to wonder what was going on.

The game was called off early afternoon but from what I understand there has been no rain all afternoon so how big a rainfall was there in Torbay during the previous 48 hours?

There are now three midweek games to attend which means more time off work to travel and I'm not even sure I can be bothered. They've got my ST money for this season so it doesn't matter if I attend or not. As for Saturday, I'll see how I feel when I get up Saturday morning.

What a shambles.

:@ :@ :@

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by Scott Brehaut » 24 Feb 2015, 22:47

tomogull wrote: So why wasn't the pitch inspection arranged sooner when it must have obvious at 8am that the pitch was in a poor state? After all the rain we had on Sunday and the very heavy showers yesterday, I thought the game would be off. But why wait so long to arrange a pitch inspection? I can understand why the Lincoln manager and players are angry and I'm sure it could and should have been better organised. We are becoming a poorly run amateurish club. Some say we've been like it for a couple of years.
And all the above aside, I'm sure it's cost us a ton of money in compensation - money we can ill afford to piss away.

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