Match Thread: Featherstone Rovers v Halifax. Sunday 9th February 2020

[marklaspalmas]

3 minutes ago, Robin Evans said:

Behave!!

Mine's an Izadi, Reserva 2015 from Rioja. Yourself?

It's raining here too btw. Well, spitting.

[Robin Evans]

Just now, marklaspalmas said:

Mine's an Izadi, Reserva 2015 from Rioja. Yourself?

It's raining here too btw. Well, spitting.

A very good 2015 chateauneuf du pape we bought from the estate we visited last summer.... and a medal winning Bordeaux bought from a merchant in blois last spring.

No rugby.... my attentions are transferred to one of my other passions

[graham fisher]

4 hours ago, The Phantom Horseman said:

Will be interesting to see if he can resist the urge to tinker with his team come play-off time.

Apparently still money left in the budget to bring in more players come the play offs.

[Robin Evans]

Typical mind.... wind dropped and full sunshine now

[haskey]

Yep Robin  same here

[jamescolin]

Match still off. ??????

[RobLambert]

45 minutes ago, Robin Evans said:

Typical mind.... wind dropped and full sunshine now

Quite mild out too.  I've watched them play in worse.

[plug]

37 minutes ago, haskey said:

Yep Robin  same here

Like a summers day now in fev 

[jamescolin]

Just as forecast. Cancelle3d too soon?

[Robin Evans]

There's mayhem out there colin. Floods.... trees down

[Squidward]

10° plus.

Breezy at worst.

Bright and dry.

Worst of the predicted 'storm' passed.

Just come in from 40 mile drive around York area. All roads passable. One fallen branch at a roadside and some big puddles only.

Nanny state?

Can't help but think we really didn't want a match at 6 15 streamed live impacting on the attendance and wouldn't have strongly resisted a proposed cancellation.

[Robin Evans]

I must admit.... at noon i wasn't sorry the game had been pulled. There's all sorts of mayhem in the don and dearne valleys. 

But now.... its lovely out. 

[Gareth hock]

5 minutes ago, Squidward said:

10° plus.

Breezy at worst.

Bright and dry.

Worst of the predicted 'storm' passed.

Just come in from 40 mile drive around York area. All roads passable. One fallen branch at a roadside and some big puddles only.

Nanny state?

Can't help but think we really didn't want a match at 6 15 streamed live impacting on the attendance and wouldn't have strongly resisted a proposed cancellation.

Maybe they didn’t want the pitch completely ruining impacting on further home fixtures .

[The Phantom Horseman]

There was standing water on the pitch at midday and there are more heavy showers forecast over the next few hours. We had posts in this thread asking for an early decision. One of those damned if you do, damned if you dont situations I'd say.

[Squidward]

11 minutes ago, Gareth hock said:

Maybe they didn’t want the pitch completely ruining impacting on further home fixtures .

Maybe so.

But with still almost 3 hrs to kick off in good drying conditions with a forecast of less than 50% light rain if any im a bit surprised. I haven't seen the pitch but the official reason given is that of safety of the supporters. 

Guess I'm a bit grumpy at having planned my day around the game it's been called off.

[Maureen T-k]

The pitch was like a swimming pool and there’s still more showers to come, so whether the sun is shining or not now it doesn’t make any difference. 

[Squidward]

6 minutes ago, The Phantom Horseman said:

There was standing water on the pitch at midday and there are more heavy showers forecast over the next few hours. We had posts in this thread asking for an early decision. One of those damned if you do, damned if you dont situations I'd say.

Objective and sensible reflections as always TPH.

With it being the safety of supporters as the reason though I just think some wind and rain isn't reasonably likely to be harmful. 

[MADREDNIGE]

50 minutes ago, jamescolin said:

Just as forecast. Cancelle3d too soon?

Too soon? Have you been outside today? I certainly didn't fancy going in that weather, they have to make a decision and stick to it - and they have. Nearly all matches postponed. 

[Squidward]

We're all doomed.

[RobLambert]

14 minutes ago, Squidward said:

With it being the safety of supporters as the reason though I just think some wind and rain isn't reasonably likely to be harmful. 

Maybe the hard-to-believe waterlogged pitch news was only released to Rovers TV subscribers

[The Phantom Horseman]

1 minute ago, RobLambert said:

Maybe the hard-to-believe waterlogged pitch news was only released to Rovers TV subscribers

Hard to believe unless you have seen the photo of the pitch on the official Fev website, the official Fev Facebook page or the official Fev Twitter feed...

[elppaxr2i]

Hammering it down in fev again for those not local

[jamescolin]

28 minutes ago, MADREDNIGE said:

Too soon? Have you been outside today? I certainly didn't fancy going in that weather, they have to make a decision and stick to it - and they have. Nearly all matches postponed. 

Mild and sunny when I went out but reading the other reports sounds like a sound decision. With regard to Chisholm I think they will put a match in on a Friday night say before the cup tie so his suspension isn't extended to a fourth listed match. 

[elppaxr2i]

Power cuts now happening in fev

[Squidward]

We're doomed and doomed.