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Touch and snow!
           

  TOWN officials were locked in a series of meetings yesterday afternoon to try and determine whether Saturday’s League One clash against Gillingham would be given the go ahead.

           

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/headlines/4849623.Touch_and_snow_/?ref=rss
           

i'm surprised the club hasn't asked for fans to help clear the snow.tempratures are rising and there is no reason this game shouldn't go ahead.

Read somewhere they have got some snow removal equipment rented out hence why no one has been asked to help i'd imagine. Would be surprised if the game was off.

read the article gazza.

sometimes i love the adver comments...

"Why dont you get the reserves and youth team out there with some shovels and clear the snow. Thats what happened in my day. Its good fitness for them as well. Why waste money paying a contractor to do this, when the idle youngsters can do it instead of playing video games and going to the arcades all day."

ahhh, nostalgia

Surely though although temps are rising the pitch will be frozen underneath the snow, and temps have not risen for long enough yet to thaw it out, remember how cold it has been before the snow and the frosts and they can't use the pitch covers as it would ruin the grass due to not getting any light - I'd be surprised if it thawed for sat unless we hire some specialised heaters

cant we move the fixture down here? all our snow has finally gone and the grass is dead soft.

WHAT! OMG is that someone being serious?!!!

I can see his point.

(I am grumpy middle-aged man though)

I did a scientific test of sticking a fork into my back grass under the snow and I couldn't. On this basis, I conclude the game will be off - certainly my back lawn will not be playable by Saturday

I am also shocked, in fact i have had to sit down and have a brandy. Imagine, i mean just imagine having to ask a footballer to pick up a shovel and do some graft, OMG im faint.

no effort has been made to clear the pitch and surrounding areas so they've left it too late now i reckon.
had they have cleared it today it would have been game on.2 days of rising tempratures would have had the pitch fine by saturday afternoon

Possibly another tuesday night fixture then. I dont mind as i can put it on the radio and listen to the game at work, which will piss all the poxford fans off that i work with  :)

I meant the arcades bit! we dont live by the seaside or anything!

 ;D

Actually, if the snow's been left on since the first lot came down then it would've insulated the pitch and stopped it from freezing.

This lot has been around a while now, so it's difficult to have kept track on what the pitch might be like...I don't really mind if its off, as long as the 250 pikeys get to the ground before finding out.

Provided they don't decide to pitch up around the ground until the game is on. (There sounds like there's a good pun in their somewhere.)

I don't care when we play them as long as we absolutely trounce them. 5-0 or better please town. :)