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Okay, here you go, I hope this puts an end to this nonsense. All the other teams playing at home in the Championship, apart from Blackpool, have undersoil heating. Can you now get it in your thick heads please. Maybe Sadler needs to look at this as a priority if we stay up. he clubs at home in league 1 whose games are on also the majority have undersoil heating but matches are being called off as the day progresses. There are 11 postponements due to frost so far with more likely.

So, it basically all boils down to the vermin who should have done it but were too interested stashing it away for themselves.
 
hertfordseasider said:
Okay, here you go, I hope this puts an end to this nonsense. All the other teams playing at home in the Championship, apart from Blackpool, have undersoil heating. Can you now get it in your thick heads please. Maybe Sadler needs to look at this as a priority if we stay up. he clubs at home in league 1 whose games are on also the majority have undersoil heating but matches are being called off as the day progresses. There are 11 postponements due to frost so far with more likely.

So, it basically all boils down to the vermin who should have done it but were too interested stashing it away for themselves.
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You talk about other clubs who have it….

Do you actually KNOW which ones have it through the top four divisions?
 
Once Mick McCarthy was named as manager I was convinced we'd beat Huddersfield, but now think we'll score an extra goal against them.
🧡UTMP🧡
 
It got to minus 8 in the night was always a chance this could happen. Works in our favour granted
 
Ginge said:
It's the hangover of the Oystain years. I've no idea what undersoil heating costs to install, maintain and run but Simon Saddler has already spent millions of his own money and made great strides in straightening out club out from decades of abject neglect.
Give him a bit of slack for fcuks sake.
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Some of the 90 million should have been spent on things like under soil heating but we know where it went shameful 😟
 
What an effing embarrassment up there with the mighty Morecambe. Lots of swearwords and the wee donkey!
 
seasideone said:
You talk about other clubs who have it….

Do you actually KNOW which ones have it through the top four divisions?
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All the Prem clubs, all the clubs in the championship who are at home today apart from us and some of the clubs in league 1.

I had to put each club in individually to search so haven't done league 2 or the clubs who are away from home in the Championship today. We are in the minority and we have the vermin to thank for that as well as many other things.
 
embarrassing from the club, we’re the only ground in the championship off and it’s much colder elsewhere. It was -3 in Wigan last night and they’re still on.

If it was intentional to give mick more time that’s also a mistake. Ground would have been bouncing today.
 
JJpool said:
We've had worse pitches...

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I remember & I’d seen better allotments. 😡
 
pinkseats said:
embarrassing from the club, we’re the only ground in the championship off and it’s much colder elsewhere. It was -3 in Wigan last night and they’re still on.

If it was intentional to give mick more time that’s also a mistake. Ground would have been bouncing today.
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Wigan's benefactor made sure that undersoil heating was installed at birth whereas our benefactor was a thief.....
 
Phil_bfc deux said:
Having a Championship game called off for a cold pitch
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I posted in another thread, but this one seems most apt!! The whole infrastructure needs change. I phoned up at 10:15 this morning and bought a ticket and asked if there was any doubt as I was travelling 2 hours to get there, to which the guy in the ticket office said “nah it’s fine here…” with a laugh. Half hour later I hear it’s called off. ** joke. The ground staff also posting pics of the covers on last night to give hope.
Something in me thinks it’s a bit tactical to give McCarthy more time with the players, but I think the atmosphere and buzz generated for today would have meant more than that
 
pinkseats said:
embarrassing from the club, we’re the only ground in the championship off and it’s much colder elsewhere. It was -3 in Wigan last night and they’re still on.

If it was intentional to give mick more time that’s also a mistake. Ground would have been bouncing today.
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Wigan have undersoil heating
 
hertfordseasider said:
All the Prem clubs, all the clubs in the championship who are at home today apart from us and some of the clubs in league 1.

I had to put each club in individually to search so haven't done league 2 or the clubs who are away from home in the Championship today. We are in the minority and we have the vermin to thank for that as well as many other things.
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Reality is without doing the away sides it’s not a fair comparison.

That said - how many games have we lost in the last 10 years to a frozen pitch?

Ps I don’t know the answer!
 
rease4 said:
Spent a couple of hours travelling over but actually don’t mind…..too much. Will give Mick a couple of weeks to get to know players before next league match. Also see how they fare in the FA cup.
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That's the first thing I thought when I heard the game was called off.
 
I think this postponement is genuine myself. Granted MM had time only for a motivational team talk & a few other suggestions. But just the fact a change had been made & probably a more realistic team selection. It wouldn’t benefit us to have it called off. “What’s the point of under soil heating that only gets used every few years” yeah we all know what wanker said that. The FFING moneys there if we need it 😡😡😡😡😡
 
seasideone said:
Reality is without doing the away sides it’s not a fair comparison.

That said - how many games have we lost in the last 10 years to a frozen pitch?

Ps I don’t know the answer!
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I'm just making a point as to why the game is off. All the other clubs playing at home have undersoil heating in the Championship today, I am fed up of people saying it is a farce the game is off, it's because of several nights hard frost and low daytime temperatures. If we had undersoil heating it would be the only way the game could have been played and the Oyston's should have had it installed in 2010. Sadler has paid plenty ut already but it could be something on the agenda, I don't know, it's certainly not a stick to beat him with today.
 
JJpool said:
We've had worse pitches...

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Despite seeing that many times, it still never fails to shock.

However, (just as a wider point and not aimed at your post particularly) in terms of judging how well run we are, at some stage we're going to have to stop comparing our club to how it was under the previous owners, and start comparing it to other clubs in the same division in which we're trying to compete.
 
hertfordseasider said:
This is why, stop ** moaning, it makes total sense if you understand why.

You have to understand that the majority of the ground is covered from the sun at this time of year by the stands, it's not just last night's frost, it is a cumulative effect over several nights, once the frost is in the soil and temperatures stay belo freezing or just above for some of the time then the ground will get harder and harder, deeper and deeper. It is no surprise to me the game is off, temperatures on the pitch will probably not been above zero for however long the frost has been there, if it was down here it is 6 days now and the ground, even in the sun is absolutely rock hard.

I know a lot are upset because of the new manager syndrome but ou would all be moaning like fuck if we lost 3 players to injury because of it. It is the right decision and MM can now really get stuck in with the training and go and have a free hit next week before our next league game. The euphoria of his first home match ill just have to wait.
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Wow.

Common Sense ... on here?!

Blimey.
 
There has not been several nights of frost in Blackpool this week only one other night I can remember as I’m out in the car at 8 am and last night was minus 1 not minus 8 as someone has said .This is a shambles and I really hope it doesn’t cost us later on !
 
Razzledazzle53 said:
Apologies. You clearly know better than the professionals with your googling prowess.
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Gas powered heaters have been used on construction sites across the UK for 30,40 years or more so I’m not sure how a few square meters in each corner can’t be attended to.

Heartford obviously knows more than google as he says the heaters are only for growing grass 😂
 
Seasider3610 said:
Gas powered heaters have been used on construction sites across the UK for 30,40 years or more so I’m not sure how a few square meters in each corner can’t be attended to.

Heartford obviously knows more than google as he says the heaters are only for growing grass 😂
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The heaters we have at the club are you numpty. The majority of teams in the EFL who don't have undersoil heating their games are off today. Is that too difficult for your minuscule brain to understand?
 
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