Folkestone Invicta vs Concord Rangers 24/2/2024 (GAME ON)

[dusty]

According to the Isthmian fixture list there is a 10 30am pitch inspection.

[stumpy]

We passed one of those for the Potter's Bar game

Fingers crossed.

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Looking at the weather I reckon it’s highly doubtful it will be on

[kentjambo]

Feb 23, 2024 12:46:52 GMT stumpy said:

We passed one of those for the Potter's Bar game

Fingers crossed.

If its off you can blame Neil Cugley...😉 standard Stumpy response 🤣🤣

[gazza41]

Feb 23, 2024 15:34:03 GMT kentjambo said:

Feb 23, 2024 12:46:52 GMT stumpy said:

We passed one of those for the Potter's Bar game

Fingers crossed.

If its off you can blame Neil Cugley...😉 standard Stumpy response 🤣🤣

You can blame whoever was in charge in 2012 when the topic of 3G was brought up . 😉 still we live in hope for a break in the weather.

[stumpy]

Feb 23, 2024 17:25:43 GMT gazza41 said:

You can blame whoever was in charge in 2012 when the topic of 3G was brought up .

Thanks, Garry - since you're blaming Neil Cugley, I don't have to

Joking aside, I don't think we can blame Neil for anything any more.

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Weathers definitely looking promising this morning , fingers crossed 🤞

[fang]

Match on.

[stumpy]

Good - last game at Cheriton Road seems ages ago. Hoping to see my third win of the season - this is one I think we need to win.

[stumpy]

Raining very hard now - a bit worrying...

[stumpy]

Latest is that the match referee is going to do another pitch inspection - could be the Potter's Bar scenario all over again

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Game off …

[stumpy]

It is the Potter's Bar scenario again - game OFF. Spoilt my day.

[tigger]

This is fast becoming a standing joke . Is it on , is it off . Something needs sorting out . This is costing fans money .

[stumpy]

I blame Neil Cugley

[finbarr_in_z]

Feb 24, 2024 14:08:02 GMT tigger said:

This is fast becoming a standing joke . Is it on , is it off . Something needs sorting out . This is costing fans money .

Used to be a Dover speciality. Unfortunately it's happening to us now. Costing the club also. Clearly we can't control the weather.

[finbarr_in_z]

Meanwhile those clubs around us or below all drawing or losing.

At the top all 4 teams in playoff places are playing each other.

Fascinating league at the moment.

[tigger]

Feb 24, 2024 15:42:01 GMT finbarr_in_z said:

Meanwhile those clubs around us or below all drawing or losing.

At the top all 4 teams in playoff places are playing each other.

Fascinating league at the moment.

Surely inspecting the pitch at 10.30 and with the forecast of rain that was coming a decision to cancel should have been made then ?

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It was blue skys and sunshine at 10.30…

[tigger]

The pitch was already sodden at 10.30 so anymore rain would have made it unplayable. That is why there are weather forecasts

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The pitch definitely wasn’t sodden at 10.30 I saw it myself

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Why make things up ?

[damo]

Feb 24, 2024 17:49:37 GMT Ads said:

Why make things up ?

The Pitch must of been really wet this morning at 10:30am might of been sunny but the last 24hrs we have had torrential rain and was forecast heavy rain today, They should of called the game off then instead of hour before kick off.

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Damo you’ve quoted me as if I’m. Not telling the truth , iv been at the club most of the day , I was genuinely excited that the game would go ahead , you must have looked out the window and seen how the rain came down about 1pm ?

[gerryhan]

Why no comments on the cancellation from the official site?

At least a comment or a consideration of the fans who went to the ground for the second time in a few weeks having been told the game was ON.

just a word from our media team would be appreciated.

[damo]

Feb 24, 2024 18:37:23 GMT Ads said:

Were you there ? I was it looked ok

Not saying your not telling the truth but was just saying how much rain we had last 24hrs that's all did you walk on the pitch.

[tom]

It is hardly rocket science - significant rainfall in Folkestone this week, particularly in recent days, on a badly maintained pitch. The weather this morning is largely irrelevant. The Met Office forecast was available to all to view this morning and showed heavy rain this afternoon. That’s exactly what happened. Another late postponement was completely avoidable.

[stumpy]

I've got some sympathy with the club here because (a) you always want to play if at all possible, nobody wants a fixture pile up towards the end of the season, and (b) it's not the club's call. If the local ref comes at 10:30 and the pitch is playable, even if only just, then he's not going to call the game off; if the weather then turns crappy between then and kick off then it's game off and everyone is pissed off - on the other hand, if it doesn't, then everyone is pissed off because the game has been called off unnecessarily, so you can't win. As it happens, if it hadn't rained like it did at lunch time and we'd kicked off, we wouldn't have got to the end because of the rain that came down between 3 and 5.

I know they shut all the schools in Wales last week because of a weather forecast that didn't materialise, and everybody (rightly I would say) moaned about it. It's not like that in football and sometimes you're just unlucky. We happen to have been unlucky twice in a row. It's worse for the away fans who make the trip.

Having said what I have, I remember a New Year's Day game at Crawley long time ago when their pitch was frozen solid at 11am, but because the sun was out the decision was game on. When we got there (in the supporters club coach) at 1:30 the pitch was still frozen solid and the game was off. More recently, I drove to Eastbourne for a Sittingbourne game on a beautiful sunny day; once we got past Hastings things started to look a bit wet; there'd been a sudden torrential downpour in Sussex. When we got to the ground, game was off.

I know today was a bit different because it was never going to take much rain to put the game in severe jeopardy and it was forecast, but, like I said above, games don't get called off on the basis of forecasts and sh*t happens.

[gazza41]

Feb 24, 2024 21:11:48 GMT stumpy said:

I've got some sympathy with the club here because (a) you always want to play if at all possible, nobody wants a fixture pile up towards the end of the season, and (b) it's not the club's call. If the local ref comes at 10:30 and the pitch is playable, even if only just, then he's not going to call the game off; if the weather then turns crappy between then and kick off then it's game off and everyone is pissed off - on the other hand, if it doesn't, then everyone is pissed off because the game has been called off unnecessarily, so you can't win. As it happens, if it hadn't rained like it did at lunch time and we'd kicked off, we wouldn't have got to the end because of the rain that came down between 3 and 5.

I know they shut all the schools in Wales last week because of a weather forecast that didn't materialise, and everybody (rightly I would say) moaned about it. It's not like that in football and sometimes you're just unlucky. We happen to have been unlucky twice in a row. It's worse for the away fans who make the trip.

Having said what I have, I remember a New Year's Day game at Crawley long time ago when their pitch was frozen solid at 11am, but because the sun was out the decision was game on. When we got there (in the supporters club coach) at 1:30 the pitch was still frozen solid and the game was off. More recently, I drove to Eastbourne for a Sittingbourne game on a beautiful sunny day; once we got past Hastings things started to look a bit wet; there'd been a sudden torrential downpour in Sussex. When we got to the ground, game was off.

I know today was a bit different because it was never going to take much rain to put the game in severe jeopardy and it was forecast, but, like I said above, games don't get called off on the basis of forecasts and sh*t happens.

Recently decisions have been made on forecasts especially the West Country with teams that have been travelling down to play .
Today I would have said it was one of those occasions we should have called it off at 10-30 with the forecast. You could possibly already call Tuesday off with the weather over the next couple of days not improving.

[kentjambo]

Feb 24, 2024 21:30:26 GMT gazza41 said:

Feb 24, 2024 21:11:48 GMT stumpy said:

I've got some sympathy with the club here because (a) you always want to play if at all possible, nobody wants a fixture pile up towards the end of the season, and (b) it's not the club's call. If the local ref comes at 10:30 and the pitch is playable, even if only just, then he's not going to call the game off; if the weather then turns crappy between then and kick off then it's game off and everyone is pissed off - on the other hand, if it doesn't, then everyone is pissed off because the game has been called off unnecessarily, so you can't win. As it happens, if it hadn't rained like it did at lunch time and we'd kicked off, we wouldn't have got to the end because of the rain that came down between 3 and 5.

I know they shut all the schools in Wales last week because of a weather forecast that didn't materialise, and everybody (rightly I would say) moaned about it. It's not like that in football and sometimes you're just unlucky. We happen to have been unlucky twice in a row. It's worse for the away fans who make the trip.

Having said what I have, I remember a New Year's Day game at Crawley long time ago when their pitch was frozen solid at 11am, but because the sun was out the decision was game on. When we got there (in the supporters club coach) at 1:30 the pitch was still frozen solid and the game was off. More recently, I drove to Eastbourne for a Sittingbourne game on a beautiful sunny day; once we got past Hastings things started to look a bit wet; there'd been a sudden torrential downpour in Sussex. When we got to the ground, game was off.

I know today was a bit different because it was never going to take much rain to put the game in severe jeopardy and it was forecast, but, like I said above, games don't get called off on the basis of forecasts and sh*t happens.

Recently decisions have been made on forecasts especially the West Country with teams that have been travelling down to play .
Today I would have said it was one of those occasions we should have called it off at 10-30 with the forecast. You could possibly already call Tuesday off with the weather over the next couple of days not improving.

You quote 'we should have called it off'.  Its not the clubs decision, it's down to the local ref who inspected it at 10.30.