Post by WelshDolphin on Feb 20, 2020 12:50:46 GMT
It's all well and good people pointing fingers of blame for matches not going ahead, referees, club officials, Claridge or whoever it doesn't matter, plain and simple it's down to the weather and that has been - and will seemingly continue to be - unrelenting. There is forecasted rain on all but one of the next 16 days (see here).
During that time we have 2 scheduled home games and then 3 in the 10 days following that. That then stretches to 7 games before the end of March, not including the games that now need to be re-arranged, one of which could go in the first week in March. So potentially 8 games to be played at home in a little over 5 weeks.
If it does rain on even half of those forecasted days the chances of getting many of those games on will be extremely slim.
There are only 3 available midweeks left to us currently before we have to start playing on (probably) Thursdays as well as Tuesdays. This doesn't even take into account losing any away games to the weather which is also not impossible. We are simply going to run out of time. If we start asking the players to play 3 times a week they'll be shattered, injured and we could well fall away.
The solution simply has to be to play home games somewhere else for (at least) the next few weeks, else we are going to lose too many games to get through the season. Where though? There is a perfectly good ground in the Borough at Hamworthy that I would imagine the Southern League would let us use (not 100% sure if it meets current ground grading for this step but usually you get grace before it has to be at that level) as hopefully it would only be short-term. If not there then Wimborne? Dorchester even?
I appreciate that moving games to any of those places would mean a hit to finances but there isn't really anything else I think the club can do given this logic.
It's time to stop lashing out and look for solutions, fans just want to see football. Someone from the club do the right thing, get on the blower to the Dorset FA and ask them if we can used the County Ground for the forseeable, go on, give us a chink of light!
During that time we have 2 scheduled home games and then 3 in the 10 days following that. That then stretches to 7 games before the end of March, not including the games that now need to be re-arranged, one of which could go in the first week in March. So potentially 8 games to be played at home in a little over 5 weeks.
If it does rain on even half of those forecasted days the chances of getting many of those games on will be extremely slim.
There are only 3 available midweeks left to us currently before we have to start playing on (probably) Thursdays as well as Tuesdays. This doesn't even take into account losing any away games to the weather which is also not impossible. We are simply going to run out of time. If we start asking the players to play 3 times a week they'll be shattered, injured and we could well fall away.
The solution simply has to be to play home games somewhere else for (at least) the next few weeks, else we are going to lose too many games to get through the season. Where though? There is a perfectly good ground in the Borough at Hamworthy that I would imagine the Southern League would let us use (not 100% sure if it meets current ground grading for this step but usually you get grace before it has to be at that level) as hopefully it would only be short-term. If not there then Wimborne? Dorchester even?
I appreciate that moving games to any of those places would mean a hit to finances but there isn't really anything else I think the club can do given this logic.
It's time to stop lashing out and look for solutions, fans just want to see football. Someone from the club do the right thing, get on the blower to the Dorset FA and ask them if we can used the County Ground for the forseeable, go on, give us a chink of light!
I dont know if you,ve tried a pump either inside or outside the ground as I understand it the trouble is in the opposite end to the changing rooms? dig a trench somewhere for the water to collect and then put pump in to send the water away from the ground..
