Ebbsfleet Game OFF

[K_BFC]

Disappointed but not surprised it is off.

Tried to go up the coast late yesterday afternoon but turned back at Kirby. After managing to get past 3 snow drifts. A digger was digging a lorry out on the approach to Askam and I had to drive through Askam and use the rail crossing to go round it. It was single file traffic through some of the drifts, which were a couple of feet deep. On the way back to Barrow it had stopped snowing but the road was being covered again with snow blown off the fields.

No trouble for Ebbsfleet getting here on main roads as they are clear, the focus does seem to be on the pitch. Is it a case of too few volunteers to clear snow? I don't have a snow shovel and there was no chance of me getting there this morning anyway.

The club does put too much faith in very poor weather reports, where do they get there terrible weather predictions from? "unpredicted overnight snow", rubbish there has been snow warnings out since Thursday.

EDIT: We are still getting the occasional snow now.

[Messy]

Yep, game off.



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Great pic that.The club should use it as a Christmas card this year.

[saltcellar]

But they play Tamworth that night. Ouch!

I am predicting it will be 3rd april.

Ebbsfleet play Margate in the quarter final of the Kent Senior cup on the 3rd April.

[Ninja Pirate]

When I were a lad they'd just replace the matchball with an orange one and get on with the game.

Grumble, grumble. Nurse! Where's me medication?

[Three Lie Ins]

A load of shite being posted on here. Yesterday there was a light covering of snow and ground not frozen. Forecast was for light showers over night. It was not unreasonable to expect the match to be on. However forecast was not accurate and a load of snow fell. To blame club officials is ridiculous and to claim they should have called the match of yesterday when there was a reasonable prospect of playing even more ridiculous.

[Holkerbird]

Do you think we should tell Macclesfield now? You know they need plenty of warning.

[K_BFC]

Do you think we should tell Macclesfield now? You know they need plenty of warning.

No where near enough time. Still hasn't sunk in that the ref called the cup game off. They are already having a few digs at us.

Forecast was for light showers over night.

Forecast was light snow, even the highly dubious TV weather was saying the same thing.

[Reg]

When I were a lad they'd just replace the matchball with an orange one and get on with the game.

Grumble, grumble. Nurse! Where's me medication?

I said the same thing!

Not sure if/why the rules changed on that.

[barrowfan]

When I were a lad they'd just replace the matchball with an orange one and get on with the game.

Grumble, grumble. Nurse! Where's me medication?

I said the same thing!

Not sure if/why the rules changed on that.

Be elf and safety no doubt!

[Steelworks End]

A load of [SwearFilter] being posted on here. Yesterday there was a light covering of snow and ground not frozen. Forecast was for light showers over night. It was not unreasonable to expect the match to be on. However forecast was not accurate and a load of snow fell. To blame club officials is ridiculous and to claim they should have called the match of yesterday when there was a reasonable prospect of playing even more ridiculous.

And a bit of common sense.

For one thing, it is the referee (either the match official, or a local referee in consultation with the match official) who calls the game off, not the club. If Barrow had called the game off themselves, they would almost certainly be hauled before the authorities and charged with failing to fulfill a fixture.

I doubt that either Barrow or Ebbsfleet wanted the game called off, as both clubs are facing fixture congestion,and costs of staging - and travelling to - the match will have been incurred needlessly, but these things happen.

From what I have seen & heard, it looks like it was a case of the Met Office forecast not predicting the amount of snow to fall, and not just in Barrow (it was snowing quite heavily in SW London this morning, something that wasn't expected). It looked like the pitch was playable on Friday, by Saturday it wasn't. Nowt we can do about it.

[HenneysKnee]

Does this mean 3 games in a week at some point?

[Richard Ingham]

Yes. Possibly the last week of the season.

[Van Der Nipper]

Ebbsfleet are off to Luton on the 18th April,leaving the 11th as the likely date for our game with them.

[DaveP]

3 or 4 April available?

[Van Der Nipper]

3 or 4 April available?

Ebbsfleet are away to Margate in the Kent Senior Cup