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Post by PippaD on Feb 25, 2020 14:02:06 GMT
[ RE=POSTING AS MYSELF NOT MY TEST USER. Problems with trying to make sure website, forum, twitter, facebook, instagram and uncle tom cobbly are all updated on time so there aren't cries of 'why didn't we know before them' sometimes causes it's own problems :-) ] [ STA* - subject to Approval - I couldn't fit that in the heading but don't want people to think the new date is approved / confirmed ] Match postponed. We have some covers very kindly donated for temporary relief they will be deployed today to help prevent further water ingress between now and Saturday. The match has been PROVISIONALLY rearranged for Tuesday 3rd March. If this is changed we will announce but please put this in your diaries. There are other dates also NOT YET CONFIRMED by the league - but as Salisbury have already posted - we are anticipating playing them on 31st March, Hendon on 7th April and Truro on 21st April. ALL the rearranged dates are NOT CONFIRMED but if you want to pencil them in - please feel free. Once they are confirmed you will be able to see them on our website and on the BetVictor Southern League website. www.betvictorsouthern.co.uk/
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Post by grandad on Feb 25, 2020 14:43:51 GMT
Now I am confused...For weeks supporters have been muting the idea on here, that the club should be putting covers on the pitch to protect it from the rain. This was poo whood, by "those supposedly in the know", claiming that the volume of rain falling on top of the pitch wasn't the main problem, and covering the pitch wouldn't do any good. They claimed the state of the ground was down to the pitch being on a par with the water table, i.e. the cause was rising water from below ground rather than falling from the skys. All of a sudden, after many match postponements, covers are seen as a solution. If this is the case, the club should be held, by supporters and the league management, to have been very negligent for not doing it sooner. If covers weren't and aren't the answer, why bother to do it now.
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Post by Choirboy Dave on Feb 25, 2020 15:03:16 GMT
Great. Thanks to whoever donated the covers. But I thought part of the problem was because Tatnam Farm is low lying (some think below sea level) & has to streams on at the back of the Fleetwood end & another one flowing underground at the Pavilion end, sometimes the water comes from below. Hopefully the pump(s?) will be able to cope with this problem. Good to see the club doing what they can to try & get us a few home matches at last.
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Post by grandad on Feb 25, 2020 15:46:46 GMT
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Post by Choirboy Dave on Feb 25, 2020 18:23:47 GMT
Never look a gift horse, no how late in the day it turns up. Perhaps the person who has now donated them to us need the covers for their own needs & only now, now they no longer need them can the offer them to us. Hopefully if the same thing happens next winter, we might have been able to either purchase or have a benefactor donate covers to use when ever we need too. Once again thank you to whoever it is. Also will the club need help on Saturday morning to remove them before the match? If the match does go ahead, will this now become the pay what you want fixture?
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Post by grandad on Feb 25, 2020 18:51:19 GMT
Supposedly the covers have been loaned by Satadia U.K. (aka Poole Stadium) Were the covers needed for the speedway track or the greyhound track? I very much doubt it and they certainly weren't needed for that bit of grass in the middle (after all that is now a defunct football pitch thaIt Poole Town F.C. used to play on). Like those few remaining Dolphin fans, who can remember a club to be proud of, that were rightly called the Pride of Dorset, I fear for the future of the club. There's only so long you can be kept in the dark, and drip fed promises that rarely come to fruition, before you become disillusioned at the frustrating way things are being handled.
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Post by peptalk on Feb 26, 2020 7:04:40 GMT
On the premise that the dates listed by Pippa become confirmed dates it means that the schedule now is 17 matches to play in 59 days. The longest gap between games is 5 days (between the home tie against Dorchester on Easter Monday and the following Saturday trip to Taunton) but just prior to that we have 3 games in six days!
That Taunton trip is the last of the four away matches for the Dolphins.
Based on current league standings (Poole 10th) we meet teams positioned above us on 7 occasions (including current leaders and two sides in play-off positions)and have 10 of our matches against clubs below us (Met Police just a point less we still have to play twice, and the bottom three clubs we still have to host).
As we all know it is going to be a tough run-in and whilst I would ordinarily say something about "when the going gets tough..." I dont think that is appropriate given our current predicatement with playing surfaces!
But it is evident that the players are going to need as much encouragement (and stamina) as possible so lets hope we can all get behind them and give them the best support that we can muster.
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