Postponed…. again
Welcome to the pleasure dome Ms Meire. Monday should be an interesting day at the office.
I’ll be the first to have a go at the previous regime and their lack of investment, but the statement currently sat on the Official Site beggars belief. Blaming the ground staff and confirming that tickets will still be valid for the rearranged game is pitiful. Oh, and Barnsley fans, don’t call us, sort it out between yourselves.
I actually normally enjoy Saturdays when we are not playing, it means the day is devoid of anxiety and I can enjoy the other football going on around the country and thus I switched on to Radio 5 Live’s 606 this afternoon (my time) to get a flavour of today’s games, and there Charlton were centre of attention and a laughing stock. Requests for a Charlton official to come on and explain themselves were met with silence. Even I was twitching on the sofa uncomfortably.
The judgement call to take the ‘dome’ off yesterday and consider the surface playable without asking a local referee for a second opinion was lamentable. By all accounts when Danny Wilson, CP and the referee Iain Williamson looked at the pitch for the first time it was obvious that the game couldn’t be played.
Barnsley Chief Executive Ben Mansford is spitting feathers, and who can blame him? We’ll have to see what the Football League say now, and this problem is not going to disappear like a rain shower.
It’s not just today, the Oxford game or the Doncaster debacle, but the Leeds game kicked off late and Wednesday’s Stuart Gray was hardly complimentary and what are the chances of Tuesday going ahead? I see the club have said that Monday there will be a pitch inspection.
You have to feel for the Barnsley supporters and many, many Addicks would have travelled a long way at great expense. That poor Valley pitch, it was once a bowling green and spare a thought for Paddy Powell. Well and truly thrown under the bus.
The staff are obviously strong advocates of a winter break……and have decided to impose one. Let’s hope we return stronger for it.
We had 2 very disappointed youngsters again – they can’t go to Tuesday games on a school night as its too late for them. So frustrating as the sun was shining and it was a perfect afternoon. I thought the tone of the statement was that it was the Ref’s fault for being a wooz, but if you say both managers didn’t think it was playable then obviously it wasn’t. If I were the League or the FA I think I might insist we play at a different venue unless we can sort it out. Let me think – who could we ground-share with? Or do you think we are entitled to millions of pounds of taxpayers money to sort our drainage and do our stadium up like our neighbours in east London?
Welling were always willing and able Pat….