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Post by stumpy on Jan 30, 2024 13:49:15 GMT
Hythe's game tonight against East Grinstead has already been called off because of a waterlogged pitch. They played on it last Tuesday and it's hardly rained since then. Odd. Did somebody leave a tap running in the dressing rooms?
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Post by number5 on Jan 30, 2024 15:02:00 GMT
Posted yesterday on FB Club Statement... Pitch update It has not gone unnoticed within the Football world and especially here in Kent, that this season we have struggled with postponements and that coupled with our extended FA Trophy run leaves us with football on Tuesday & Saturday way into March; not something we had planned for nor in honesty do we want. However, we currently find ourselves with 5 or even 6 games in hand of the clubs around us in the Isthmian League – South-East Division. Despite the very best of endeavours of our loyal and hardworking ground staff, with limited machinery, and for whom it must be sole destroying dedicating many hours of work on the pitch only for the fixtures to be postponed; the Club recognised and appointed professional ground contractors with all the machinery in early December supported by our Ground staff to undertake the much overdue and necessary groundwork. It was a failure of the Club that in previous seasons there has been a significant lack of Investment in the playing surface and Ground Infrastructure; something we plan to change going forward. We are pleased to have appointed a leading Sports Ground Contractors, Jordans Sports Ground Solutions Ltd to work with us and lead the necessary works; yet despite appointing them in December the weather has been so inclement that even they have been unable to undertake all that they wished to do. The ground so soft, that the necessary machinery cannot get onto the playing surface on as regular basis as planned. On a positive note, in mid-January with the ground reasonably hard, they did manage to Verti drain the entire surface. After all the rain of this winter season, and last Tuesday’s Kent Senior Cup fixture, the pitch resembles a mud bath! The water table remains high, the atmospheric and current humidity levels mean the pitch is not repairing nor indeed are we able to currently undertake any of the immediate works required. All of this impacts the Club, Manager & Players not to mention the inconvenience created to you the supporter. Please let me make this clear to any opposition, we want our games on, we, like your Club need the match day revenue and we like playing competitive football every week! As a result, we have organised a Pitch Inspection tomorrow afternoon and will of course keep you all informed just as soon as the Inspection has been completed.
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Post by outsider on Jan 30, 2024 22:55:14 GMT
Hythe's game tonight against East Grinstead has already been called off because of a waterlogged pitch. They played on it last Tuesday and it's hardly rained since then. Odd. Did somebody leave a tap running in the dressing rooms? Not East Grinstead but Herne Bay.. It was last Tuesday that wrecked it and the groundworks firm have been down twice since but were unable to get onto it. Frankly it's a bit lazy for it to be described as waterlogged as if that were true the water would have drained away long ago, Fact is that there is now a quite thick layer of unstable mud which you can't do much about until it dries out. That is the sort of scenario that causes player injuries. Our big mistake could be using (as Invicta do) a professional company rather than taking advice from the assorted intellectuals of the Thanet area who have all the answers and are apparently massive. .
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Post by finbarr_in_z on Mar 1, 2024 23:15:48 GMT
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Post by kentjambo on Mar 11, 2024 15:29:50 GMT
Need some duvets and blankets like the old days
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