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There is about 6 inches of snow covering all of the pitch. There is far too much for it to be cleared on Saturday morning.

The club staff will be working on clearing the snow during the day, and would like volunteers to come and help in the evening.
The club have suggested 2 or 3 hours, under floodlights, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, until about seven or eight o'clock in the evening. and do the remainder on Saturday morning. (I think it will probably be cleared before Friday.)
I think this is a good idea as it takes away the uncertainty of the game being on for Rotherham's visit. The car parks and roads have been cleared today.

It would be great if you could bring a shovel. Winter clothes, wellies or boots would be to your advantage.

Clearing the pitch of snow also minimises the risk of waterlogging. I as well as most of you are desperate to see The Stanley in action again, especially whilst we are in such good form.

So please come and help.

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plenty of people needed, 6 of us been here since half nine and hardlym touched it, wheel barrows desperately needed

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Can't do any digging but we have a wheelbarrow you can borrow

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Its not happening tonight but need plenty of people from 9am tomorrow, contact Mick Schultz on 07951 420498 if your available tomorrow evening.

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Cheers

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Can I be so bold as to ask who from the Club helped with the clearing?

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Hers a few pics to show you just what needs clearing, these were taken about 11am so a lot more has been cleared than what shows in the photos

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i was one of the helpers to day accy fans get down to ground or we will not have a game sat or tues ..... the 6 that did helped thanks

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Not to labour the point too much but who was helping clearing the snow from the Club employee wise?

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who cares i would be there but im 270 miles away i remember last time i helped with redash pulling the covers with a jcb ...:D

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why do u need to know red ??????

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:)I would imagin the usual suspects Google Page Ranking:) and hopefully i will pop down after work tomorrow for a bit:)

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yes just the same as the last call to help

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To put it simply no game=no customers=No Revenue:eek:

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Come on troops even if you can only manage an hour, 6 of us for 7hrs yesterday an we only got about 10% of the pitch done.The main problem is we need to get it out of the ground as it is piled up to the top of the wall down the main stand side.

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ok red . but we need more fans down game on

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The original request said club staff were clearing it during the day and volunteers were required in the evenings. No suprise then that few people turn up during the day.

What it really needs is 12-15 lads aged about 16/17 who could use the clearing as a fitness task. Wonder where they could find such a group of lads :rolleyes:

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Where are the players?
Do they not need some exercise?

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Press Release
Thursday 14th Jan 2010

Volunteers Required.

It’s all hands on deck at the Crown Ground as Accrington Stanley rely on all staff, volunteers and even players to shift the snow off the pitch in time for Saturday’s game against Rotherham.

The League 2 side haven’t played a home game since the 28th December 2009 due to the amount of snow and ice on the pitch. And with the amount of postponed games, including the FA Cup 3rd round tie versus Gillingham, only adding pressure to the latter half of the season, the club are determined to overcome the weather conditions.

A handful of volunteers began to help move the snow yesterday, and found the pitch to be in perfect playing condition, but under the snow. After their morning training session, the full squad will also be travelling to the ground to help the staff and volunteers clear the snow off the pitch and stands. The game versus Rotherham is only two days away, and with the ongoing cold climate not doing any favours, it is clear that the club needs as many bodies as possible to help shift the snow.

Chief Executive Rob Heys said “The club has had tremendous support from 6 or so volunteers throughout yesterday and this morning, but due to the sheer quantity of snow, we need as much help as we can get.”

“The pitch is in great condition, as long as we can move all of the snow in time, we will be working around the clock and will no doubt have the flood lights on in the evenings, so if anybody does have time to spare, your support will be much appreciated”

If anybody can offer assistance over the next few days please contact the club on 0871 434 1968 or come down to the Crown Ground.

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at the great harwood golf club last season we got some of the people who were on community service to paint and tidy around the golf club why dont the club contact the powers that be and get them down communityu service is what its about and make them have some hard labour instead of standing around Burnley road causing a embarrassment to all whilst waiting for the office to open

these people could have gritted the town cetre also as far as i am concerned come on Rob get a brain ring them and get their labour to help it there its free and they are supervised

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:confused: Has the club number changed??? & cost more than local rate ??:confused:

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that looks like a premium line where the club will make money every time someone calls them

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I think 0871 are charged at national rate which is daft for a local club. I personally hate non geographic phone numbers. many of us get free local and national calls included with our phone plans but will have to pay extra to call 0871 numbers.

Is 01254 356950 the real phone number?

It is according to this site http://www.saynoto0870.com

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that is n idea that should investigated big time.:)

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its there and i am sure if someone from the club requested their assistance they would accomodate what else are they doing they are not planting flowers etc this weather so matbe rob or someone at the club should act urgently

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Should community service people be used to help private businesses?

It was reported on the radio the other day that they have been clearing snow and ice recently.

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i know that some of these people have worked in "Parks" even "Charity Shops" so cannot see any good reason why the request would be denied.:confused:

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maybee its me but i thought the club was a community club what are they doing they help the community and businesses where necassary i am sure they would be aggreeable if it aides accrington conitnue to move forward and that includes the football club as the council own the ground it would seem logical that these people could help with the snow clearing lets face it a bit of hard labour might make them think before committing more crimes and possibly alot of these people may not have evn been to the crown ground they might turn over a new leaf and become fans

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just back from accy to burnley help is need laods to move any help . ill be going back after dentis if any one from burnley want a lift ill pick them up pm me ill pop back home and look on web at 3

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Geat to see everybody at the Club now getting invoved it should make no difference whether your suited or track suited.

Team Bonding and no doubt morale boosting for everyone involved particulary the superb volunteers who have turned up:)

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why not? all the acess roads etc around the crown are the "Community" even if ya don't think the club is.

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Just to confirm that 01254 356950 is the 'normal' club number, but not clearly shown on the club site. :eek:

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Has it all gone now :)

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Lets hope the club change it on the web site and stop using the "expensive" one

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Not a chance mate I left at about 4 and I reckon we have done about half of it.

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Mmmmmm pizza :)

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still loads to do friday stands need snow off away end still loads to get off pitch last barrow off was 8.15 pm .. i would like to say thanks to all that help to nite and day hope we have a footy game on

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Really hoping match will be on as me and a few friends are going to go up this weekend, would like to go more often but most weekends im workin, credit to everyone who has helped clearing the snow,hopefully we will have a game.Just watching sky sports news now it amazes me what qpr are up to ive never known a club go through so many managers in such a short space of time.

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Me too, Stanley haven't played this year yet:confused:
Should be a good gate with Burnley away and Blackburn playing on Sunday.

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Now it is raining - I think? - how are things down at The Crown?

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Light rain here Val, Heavy rain forecast tomoz, if correct n it dont freeze, could be on a winner wi the match.:)Stockport-Tranmere matches are off.

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You can tell that HE has gone if the club are dishing out pizza to the workers!!!! Must have had a word with Mancini ! Any red wine with that pizza??? :D :)

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What are the chances of tomorrows game going ahead?

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just back from ground .. looking good but still loads to do i left at 1pm .. still snow on pitch and in sum stands

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Snow off all the pitch now. Some standing water, but should be OK if no huge downpour before KO time.

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Good effort, lets pray the heavy rain thats forecast stays away then

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Certain Irony if its called off waterlogged

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Didn't they get a machine not long since for removing water off the pitch? or was it just hired

EDIT - Yeah they did, Nov 24th

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certain irritation more like especially as the shop's fully stocked according to the the official site

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FANtastic effort by ALL involved!!!:)

Apologises for my lack of involvement, but my "proper job" takes priority in the week.

Yes there a water remover at the ground, but it only works on puddles!!

The main problem is that the ground "thaws" from top to bottom, so whilst the top few inches is soft, the underneath is still frozen and any great volume of water has "nowhere" to go!!. Hence the need to clear the snow!!

Next time your at the Crown look at the "mountain" on the Coppice carpark. Last night it was massive, what it will be like tomorrow???
Shame we can't sell it!!!

Figures crossed for a dry night and morning.

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I take it there is a pitch inspection planned??????

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Pitch inspection at 10am. (just to confirm all is in good order) The Iceberg on the carpark is twice the size it was last night, and it will still be there in March.

A massive thanks to all the people who helped out this week. There'd have been no chance of tomorrows game going ahead, without 4 days of graft.

There may be a little bit more work to do in the morning, but on the whole, the ground looks good.

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I was quite suprised to see a clear pitch this afternoon having seen it yesterday morning. Good job done, hope the forecast heavy rain isn't too heavy.

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Well done to everybody for their efforts this week not gonna name names but they know who they are,I must admit that when I left at 4 yesterday I was far from optomistic that we would see any footie this weekend but the job has been done. Some jobs still need to be done tomorrow, ie all the water needs to go back on to the toilets around the ground so some facilities may be limited tomorrow depending on what we find, but up to press we have managed to sort all the leaks in the club house and the changing rooms are now defrosted, water tight and the heating is back up and running once again lads and lasses bloody well done.

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Any chance of a picture of the 'Iceburg'?

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well its just after 4am and its just started raining, been mild up to now so hopefully pitch should be looking good, hope this rain doesn't get too heavy!

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Very heavy rain now. A few hours of this will not be good.

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Stanley v Rotherham
Saturday 16th Jan 2010

Pitch inspection 10am.

There will be a pitch inspection ahead of this afternoon's match against Rotherham United.

The heavy rainfall this morning has caused some problems with the playing surface this morning and the match referee will be at the ground to assess the situation at 10am this morning.


Not sounding good????

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Well the irony! Well done to all of you that have been at the Crown clearing the pitch, but once again the British weather beats us. Lets hope the game on Tuesday will go ahead!!

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I would have thought that Tuesdays game came in to it, OO !!!!

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I don't think all the efforts to clear the snow were wasted, Tuesdays game will almost definitely be on.
Here are a couple of photos of the iceberg as of this morning, it's a bit smaller, but it was about 12 feet high last night.

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definately not wasted efforts mate, if that lot i saw last 2 days had remained on pitch, would not be any chance of a game in next 7/10 days IMHO. just a shame there was no reward fer the efforts. THANK YOU BRITISH WEATHER.:rolleyes:

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It is sometimes the little things that make the difference!!


Stanley v Rotherham
Saturday 16th Jan 2010

Match off - waterlogged pitch.

This afternoon's match against Rotherham has been postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.

The decision by the match referee was made due to large areas of standing water in all areas of the pitch. Speaking about the decision chief executive Rob Heys said "We would like to thank everyone who came down and helped us to remove the snow from the pitch over the last few days, it really summed up what Accrington Stanley is all about. We had everyone on the pitch at one time or another, from supporters and players, management and staff, the youth team, community lads, even passing dog walkers!

"Without really wanting to single anyone out we should mention Mick from Redash with his JCB which was a fantastic help, our own Bill Holden, and supporters like Paul, Russell and Dale who all spent hours over the last few days scooping up snow and taking it out in barrows. Everyone really got stuck in to get the job done and it is such a shame that we have been caught out by heavy rainfall overnight.

"That said removing the snow helps to ensure that we can get Tuesday night's FA Cup match against Gillingham on, if the snow had thawed on the pitch there would be even more water on the playing surface which again would have caused problems."

A date for the rearranged fixture will be announced shortly.


Nice that the club have put this "Thank you" on for the fans!!!

:) :) :)

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what a rubbish attempt at a snowman :D

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The players made the best snowman on Thursday :)

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Ta for the pics REDASH...abit of snow alright...:eek:

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Here is a video from Granada Reports last Thursday.

Snowshifting
14.6Mb 42 seconds long

Featuring Kempo, Rob and the Snowman

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Couldn't get it to work??

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Works for me

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Cheers Redash, got it to work after a few attempts!! :confused: :) :)

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Anyone read this ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletc...mm.html#186708


i know it starts off about aldershot but halfway through its about accy.