Snow Clearing - volunteers required

[K.S.H]

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

[widnes viking]

Certain Irony if its called off waterlogged

[K.S.H]

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

Head groundsman Martyn Cook has recently had a new arrival in his equipment store with the delivery of brand new Bowdry water removal machine. The machine comes from the world leaders in water removal from playing surfaces

[Bradshaw Boy]

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

[Mr T]

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.

[K.S.H]

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

[Redash]

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.

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by Redash

There'd have been no chance of tomorrows game going ahead, without 4 days of graft.

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.

[stanley convert]

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.

[Kiwi John]

Any chance of a picture of the 'Iceburg'?

[K.S.H]

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!

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by K.S.H

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!

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

[VALAIRIAN]

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????

[Outback Ozzy]

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!!

[VALAIRIAN]

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