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Sorry about this but hows the pitch and what,s the weather like for this weekends game,,,many thanks

According to met office cold all week below freezing every day including -4 on Friday evening, the pitch is under cover and has been all week so hopefully will go the distance and the game will be on.

Many thanks and we hope the game will go ahead, up here in Sheffield it is snowing alot but coming down on the train so should be ok,UP THE OWLS.

Wrap up extra warm if you are on the Bank.

According to the groundsman the pitch covers are good to -4/-5C but then problems occur. We have had the pitch covered all week but apparently already had a -7 night (not on my thermometer we didn't) and so the frost may already have penetrated (ooo er..).

The upshot is the club are looking at other methods of defrosting the pitch. Presumably some kind of dragon or a lot of 99p Morrisons car de-icer.

SO I guess watch the Official Sites for more details. I guess if its off they'll call it as early as possible.

 Don't think it would be too much of a surprise is Saturday is off....we don't usually get weather like this in November....frost covers as opposed to undersoil heating can only do so much.

PS, when we get our redevelopment, some sort of USH would be mega ace.

It would be nce, but when you consider that they actually called off our game against Stockport due to the pavements being icy due to H&S concerns, USH is not going to melt them.

True....it's probably just a dream. Was it Leicester a couple of seasons back, when folk shovelled snow off the pitch, but it was still postponed.  That sort of effort could be put into the surrounds if it was known the pitch would be fine.

It's not always just about the pavements though, there's the state of the roads to consider as well.

No it was Southend. The roads and pavements are mostly fine around West Swindon at the moment. I doubt there is too much difference around the MR area. I think if we avoid snow for the rest of the week this should be on. Providing we do get -10 nights of course.

I hops it's off cos I can't go.

did you find your season ticket?

Same, just realised I've doubled booked myself. Come on snow!

y arnt u goin nemo? x

Gatwick airport is closed, not looking good on either counts of
me being able to fly, or the game being on.

I would be very surprised if the game is called off.
The weather is supposedly getting warmer as the week goes on and by Saturday it will be a balmy 4°C !

I'll be going in my mankini then!

Ooh, I might too!  :poofs:

If it does go ahead I wouldb't expect a huge away turnout.

There's a good 18 inches of snow on the road outside here in arctic South Yorkshire, drifting up to 3 ft in places. All the buses are suspended, loads of train services cancelled, including all the trans-pennine services, and a load of the cross country ones. Even main roads are blocked, only 4x4's are getting about, it's still snowing heavily and predicted to continue doing that until Friday, then start again on Saturday.

It's like something out of The Day after Tomorrow up here. I can't see many thinking a visit to the CG is a priority.

Glad I got out of East Yorkshire on Sunday then. God forbid getting stranded there.

That's cos you're a lightweight :)

Met office say 4C. Met Check say 1C after a -3C night.

Bloody weathermen. They make it up.

Its -6 here today with tempretures peaking at -4 on Friday. Can't wait to feel the heat in England this weekend!

Hello again I think the game will be definitely be off because all routes out of yorkshire are closed and having had two feet of snow already up here even the team will not get to swindon .

automatic forfeit, 3-0 win. pop bang lovely

fucking gay northern pussy monkeys.

Your English is improving I see.

Sheffield folk are dirty southerners from my viewpoint ;)

Surely they will have to make an announcement by friday lunchtime due to the fact the Sheffield Wednesday team will travel down on friday afternoon ?

And people complain about the snow - see, there's some good comes of it! :)

:D