it was chucking it down pretty bad for a couple of hours roundabout 3am this morning ... i know i was awake .....
Southend Thread
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The game against Morecambe shouldn't have been played either, really; on account of the meteor landing site in the middle of the pitch.
...and despite all your well documented problems your fans are a credit to your club.
Out of adversity....
Out of adversity....
Overheard from a woman walking up Livingstone Road.
"The first one I came to was called off because the pitch was frozen, the second one because the pitch is waterlogged. Back the Boys? I won't be coming back here for a long time." Frozen pitch fair enough, but today was a farce. We are now a laughing stock both within Accrington and outside it.
Do one...just do one, O'Neill and Whalley.
"The first one I came to was called off because the pitch was frozen, the second one because the pitch is waterlogged. Back the Boys? I won't be coming back here for a long time." Frozen pitch fair enough, but today was a farce. We are now a laughing stock both within Accrington and outside it.
Do one...just do one, O'Neill and Whalley.
perhaps management (?!) should hire Billy Smarts big-top to cover the pitch on non-match days. And it does sound like cash-flow led to gambling on a lenient ref - no doubt Southend will require the League to question Stanley's competance to feature as a professional club. Wouldn't be surprised if we were ordered to play our 'home' games on opponents grounds for the rest of the season. Time for an Egypt style protest to encourage an end to the incredibly inept ownership situation ? We really are mickey mouse backstage at Stanley. Rant over - for now.
Makes you wonder if there were loads of volunteers forking the pitch more often it might help the problem. How many people do you see on other league grounds tending the pitch before and at half time in a match ?
The trouble is all the volunteers have been driven away
The trouble is all the volunteers have been driven away
The handling of today's shambles all goes back to Rob Heys, surely he should have got in touch with the match referee earlier to sort out an inspection at a reasonable hour. The referee is not to blame for the state of the pitch, he just made a decision which he felt was made to protect the players from injury. I feel sorry for the Southend fans that had a wasted journey and this just adds to our cashflow problems with yet another cancelled match. Is it too much to ask to get a game on at 3pm on a Saturday? If this continues then the Football League will be forced to act and sort out some sort of punishment. I agree with an earlier comment that the club tried to force the referee to play the game due to the lack of time given for the inspection before the game and this just shows why we are the laughing stock of the league.
Loads of Southend fans ended up at the Peel Park, ironically enough watching a game on the old pitch whilst enjoying some Northern hospitality! They were all in good humour thankfully and had some good banter with them before they headed off back to the train station for the 6pm train, they said they'd be home at around 10:30 ! Maybe the Club should relocate to it's former home , no drainage problems there!
that would be a dream come true linds fer us older gets.Loads of Southend fans ended up at the Peel Park, ironically enough watching a game on the old pitch whilst enjoying some Northern hospitality! They were all in good humour thankfully and had some good banter with them before they headed off back to the train station for the 6pm train, they said they'd be home at around 10:30 ! Maybe the Club should relocate to it's former home , no drainage problems there!
Loads of Southend fans ended up at the Peel Park, ironically enough watching a game on the old pitch whilst enjoying some Northern hospitality! They were all in good humour thankfully and had some good banter with them before they headed off back to the train station for the 6pm train, they said they'd be home at around 10:30 ! Maybe the Club should relocate to it's former home , no drainage problems there!
That would be heaven would love Stanley to be back 'home'
Maybe the Club should relocate to it's former home , no drainage problems there!
If only...if only...Stanley's true home for me, but can't see it ever happening.
It is obvious that Stanley is not being run by competent or profesional people at the moment. It seems that the cardboard millionaire is trying to get blood out of a stone, Heys seems to be unable to cope, it all seems to be falling apart at the top. But lets look on the bright side, England won the Ashes!
Whilst I can sympathise and empathise with most of the comments on this thread, what i cannot understand is how will the Football League or FA for that matter get involved. Let's face it, the weather around Lancashire has been terrible and as has been pointed out, the ground is at the foot of a hill. Blame the contractors who put in the drainage which obviously isn't working. Hell I came up from Wigan yesterday, with my lad and sat in the pub waiting for the kick off whatching the Manchester derby, yes i was disappointed, but lets get a grip of reality. It is all very well blaming all and sundry, but no one on here blames Ilyas (I don't either) yet he was the one who paid for the pitch! We have come through a pretty poor winter and the only thing that will stop the freezing or drowning of the pitch is a cover for the whole ground (and that aint gonna happen). I missed my football yesterday, but if a referee says its unfit then its unfit. Earlier inspections would not have made a ha'penth of difference. I went to Wigan v Blackburn last week and how that match was played I do not know, it was a swimming pool on the pitch. Different referees, different standards.
My only fear is that we are backing up games now and will be forced to play 2 a week for the foreseeable future.
Had we been a non-league team then the game would have been on probably, but we are a professional side now with so called professional referees upholding the health and safety and wellbeing of both teams.
My only fear is that we are backing up games now and will be forced to play 2 a week for the foreseeable future.
Had we been a non-league team then the game would have been on probably, but we are a professional side now with so called professional referees upholding the health and safety and wellbeing of both teams.
Of course it would. The Southend fans wouldn't have had to travel all that way.
The point isn't that the game was called off (what's new?), it's the appalling actions from our club in failing to schedule an earlier pitch inspection; letting the opposition team and fans travel for no reason, hereby making a further mockery of our name.
Calling the game off was a mere formality with the state it's in.
I went up to Peel Park to watch my lad play. The Southend fans were great and weren't going to let their day be spoilt. They really got behind Peel Park, singing, heckling the opposing "fan", questioning the liners decisions. At the end they bought a beer for all Peel Park players. A credit to Southend and football, true gents. Will they be back for a mid-week evening match? Somehow I don't think so.