[Stanleymad]

Blimey what a commotion over sods law!!! ASFC cant control the darn weather, our manager/chairman/directors/groundsmen DO not have the final say the REF in charge does, so how we can be blamed i dont know. The ref in charge made the final desicion, ASFC did their best to their knowledge, the got a local ref to look at the pitch whom said to them it was fine & they went off that advice till the ref turned up, the rain held off & weather was fine, what else could be done ??? If ASFC called it off on suspect it may not pass the refs inspection to later find the ref would of passed it fit to play on - people would of moaned then!!! Chicken & egg situ! Unfortunately inconsistancy between FL ref's means also these things happen before matches too, personally i think Wigans was bad as ours in places but went ahead, as did Peterboroughs match we had last week was a swimming pool & was still lashing down - but thats the way the cookie crumbles im afraid.

Personally i think its a cheek to complain when a fair few of your [Brentfords] fans made a right big rowdy performance outside the ASFC office & a ref scared witless probably, but you dont think of the Police bill that you cost us in that process of that behaviour, understandably annoyed but there was the other Brentford fans that maintained their control of temper & behaved appropiately with our management team by taking offers of a trip to Blackburn or in the clubhouse/crown.

As much as its cost you its cost us as a club too financially & it seems that our chairman is in formal process of sorting out a comprimising solution for the abandoned game as best he can, so find the comments made a bit unfair IMHO.