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Mex asked me to post saying its snowing near Walsall, maybe check before you head off

Thanks Bushey, very grateful.

Hope you have had a nice day, pass me the scissors please

Easily replaced son, watch the cheek

He's having a viscectomy already?

my sister who lives in brum just sent me a pic of her back garden and it looks pretty deep and its still snowing

I want snow :(

i fucking warned you all

game called off

That's incredible... What a bunch of morons Walsall are.

Bloke I know, about Bushey's age, got engaged early this year. They've postponed any wedding plans because she is now expecting.

Best start thinking things through Bushey.

my sister says its fucking atrocious conditions there and been snowing since 2 this afternoon.

So why have Walsall left it until an hour before kick-off? The mind doth boggle.

If the match is called off after the away team have left then they get their travel expenses back!

It's snow joke, but I have a feeling the players will think it's all white.

Erm, Nev, help

Boo - what am I going to do tonight now? I stopped on the way home from work and bought beer and everything :grrr:

Histon v Durham...

Damn right... That's what I'm listening to this evening.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wear/content/articles/2008/10/27/histon_durham_commentary_feature.shtml

Im assuming someone would have let those travelling know by now?

according to bennett, who arrived at the ground a few minutes ago, there is no snow at all

i fucking warned dean and yeovil via bushey 5 hours ago, they just told us to fuck off and laughed said we were winding them up, they are now in a pub outside the ground very pissed off. :)

That'll learn 'em.

Good to see it was called off in plenty of time. Blimey, I bet there's some jolly happy fans on their way back  >:(

???? Are his pants on fire? Or maybe the pitch has frozen anyway

[smug cunt]Glad I decided not to go.[/smug cunt]

 Bizarre never known a game go so early in the season because of snow.

Better than the Luton game abandoned after 8 mins!

I went, left late though so was only at Junction 8 of the M5, when i found out. Coolbananas.

I prefer the word Coolbananas too ;)

You are all cunts, hope the living room is warm, we are round some birds in brum called kate

Got to Bromsgrove.

Have to admit it didnt look calling off weather.

But I know that area is pretty high, was shocked at how much there was when I went to see West Brom v Southampton after our game at Rochdale was called off a few years ago.

End of the day theres not a lot you can do if they call the game off 40 minutes before KO.

Oh yeah, and thats £30 worth of fuel and my electric window is broken so I got snowed on in my car on the way home.

Fucking Walsall.

Just got back - how's the Histon game going?

1-0 to the Histon.

1-1 now

Cheers Rich. Oh, and Spence, if it helps, although my window works fine, I had it wound down while I was having a fag, didn't notice the gritting lorry ahead and got a face full of grit. Well, right-hand side of my face anyway.

And I bet I can't make the rearranged game - had to move all sorts to get to this one, including doing a conference call on the M5 on the way up. Bastard Walsall.

You'll all get another football!

Is it snowing in Swindon now?

The team coach broke down on the way home.  :chuckle:

maybe, but I fucking won't.

im laughing at dean as on top of this he has to come in early now,ha ha.spence didnt know u were going,pretty shit it was so close lads

I am fucking fuming.....got there at 7 and the young lad on the gate told me it had just been cancelled.....What cunts!

He told me the ref did not believe the ball was bouncing/running right.....his words so not official!.

There was no snow in the entire area - it looked as if there had been some rain as all the tarmac and cars were wet and damp.

I drove up from Calne (leaving at 4-10 ish) it didnt snow at all but did rain a bit.

Why did the Wolves game go ahead???? only about 6 miles away.....

I have now checked the official Walsall site and they state that after several inspections the match was called off at 6-45pm. What sort of time is that to call a fucking match off??

There was no driving snow, fog, rain.....and the temp was about 4c so no chance of the pitch freezing...

I understand that other matches were abandoned but the weather was drifting down on them.

At 6pm i could of gone to see Wolves v Taffy Bastards!! and rescued the evening somewhat...

So my conclusion is thus:

EITHER:

1. The Referee is a complete knob end and pissed about instead of cancelling early.

2. Walsall did not clear the pitch - from what i saw there was a light dusting which could of been cleared piss easy with 5 guys and 5 brooms...I know this can be done as i have done this myself at my local village pitch some years ago. Having said that the pictures looked like it would of cleared itself in ten minutes of football.

It isnt good enough and i will be contacting the Town for their slant on it tomorrow. :guns2:

Once again the loyal faithful that are football fans are shit on again (Walsall fans were pissed off too). :badmood:

Haha, saddo.

Suck it up and get on with it, it's happened to virtually everyone on here at some point. Not much they can do now is there sunbeam?

You badass  ;D

Typical , roll over and die!

Not me.......a letter will make me feel better!!.....The club have to represent the fans and i will share the 'nothing to do with us' return letter with you all.

PS - It happened to me years ago on the way to Brum and it was called off at 6pm with the rain pissing down...no complaint...i turned around at Worcester and went home..

Tonight was taking the piss!

Look on the bright side guys, we did get free chip sarnies at The King George.

One thing we all thought last night was, 'where's the snow?' Laughable decision.

Sorry Batch,  I'm adrift on this one.

Dont know about the state at Walsall, but seeing the Wolves highlights the pitch did look borderline at best, they should have at least started it though and see how it went, that way everyone would have ticket stubs etc and prove that they went for any recompense, seems like common sense hasn't prevailed where fans are concerned again!

Pitch could of been cleared.....Walsall sat on their hands, thinking the game would go ahead.

I went last night and got there at 7pm found the game was off and went to watch Wolves V Swansea. Got in there just in time for kick off, didn't seem to bad to me. (not sure if Wolves got under soil heating?)

It didn't rain or snow for the rest of the evening there. The game could've been played.

oh, I sat/stood in the Wolves singing section, they have more fickle fans than us and seem very quiet when they score.

Given the reports here that there was no snow, I'd make the assumption from this picture that the Walsall groundstaff did fuck all to help the pitch...

[url width=900 height=870]http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/resources/images/709209[/url]

mmm, certainly looks ominous

5 men - 5 brooms - 1 hour - game on............

That could've been cleared. No point on dwelling on it now though as annoying as it was for those who went (Mex warned y'all!)

True..weather is weather....but in this instance they took the piss...

Yet another example of what a soft game this really is these days, there's barely a centimetre of snow on that pitch.  Come on whatever happened to "it's a man's game".

Jan - you are right..........Players safety??  Fuck off!

If we all got together we would reinact the 'Four Yorkshire Men' sketch.

" In my day we played in two foot of snow, only had shorts and went 'skins' and if we were'nt three up be alf time, the coach would beat us t'death we'd Tea tray! Back on Sharrar after match for 6 hour trek back to County Ground."

"Shorts??  Shorts?  What I'd given for shorts.  One day we played a match on Saturday morning (before we woke up) a match at lunchtime, away at Doncaster, then home match at 3 o clock all in 10 foot high snow drifts, and if we didn't win them all, by 6 goals per match, the manager would send us all to a Stalinist death camp in Siberia, bloody shorts?"

And when we got back, Lou Macari would beat us to sleep with a broken bottle!

The walsall fans said in the pub that part of the reason was safety for the fans slipping off the seats, and them getting home after the game.

What the seats?

Why would people slip off the seats? If people want to stand on slippy seats (which is against the rules anyway) and fall off then surely that is their own stupid fault? I am assuming people wouldn't slip off the seats sitting down.

No snow on anything apart from the pitch...... ::)

bet they hired in a snow machine to cover up their food poisoning crisis.

I think you may have bumped into their notorious firm, the Walsall Windowlickers. Never heard anything so ludicrous in my life, apart from possibly the idea that it wasn't possible to clear that pitch with an hour to go. Or that more than a cursory effort at ground maintenance during the afternoon wouldn't have rendered it completely playable. I'm with the conspiracy theorists on this one.

That would have been playable in the 60's with an orange ball

That's what I said last night.

Fucking pansies.............

In fairness it would have been played in the 90's... and I will suspect that games will be played this season in those conditions.

The ground staff made little effort
Walsall had major injuries
Floating fans were going to Wolves instead

We move on...

Its a disgrace though. Football can be played on snow. The pitch underneath was not frozen.

Football is gay now.

Ice is in the eyes.  ::)

If it had been in the nineties, the snow would have melted.

Who was the informer for all this snow?

a licky boom boom down.

good work

Now re-arranged for FA Cuo 2nd round day Saturday 29th of November

You sure?

Yeppers

As long as there's a clear blue sky and all the Wallsall players have remembered their vests and none of them have got notes from their mums....

See this picture has infuriated me!!!

http://www.swindontownfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/AwayTickets/0,,10341~1415987,00.html

fuck me it was almost an avalanche !

You need to chill mate


(see what I did there ?)

That picture makes it worse for me!

What cunts!

The reply is on the weekend i have my daughter...so even more pissed off!

Its Snow joke though.

i wonder if we'll get a frosty reception there?

Lets hope there defence is abit Flakey when we play them again.

McNamee will drift in and out the game!