Just had a text to say match postponed

Yes,its official I'm afraid.

Perhaps, as a company running a business,which, by definition, aims to make more money than it spends, greyhounds & speedway are more viable than any other usage of the square metres.
If you own land/property,you maximise your return from it.

I've attempted not to post about the postponements, as I had so much grief last over the last couple of seasons when I stated my honest opinion that the state of the pitch and ground were costing us any chance of progressing as a club and getting promotion.

The weather has been atrocious, but yet again all the other clubs apart from Hartley Witney have managed to get matches on more regularly this season, so shrugging the shoulders and blaming the weather isn't good enough, and Hartley Witney is a village club after all, so them even competing at this level is a miracle..

We assembled a great squad three years ago, but the postponements cost us any chance of promotion and in the end we were playing loads of matches at the end of the season. So many people did not seem to realise that footballers with tired legs cannot play well two or three times a week and expect to produce wins against other clubs who are playing with seven days rest between fixtures. The club then went backwards because of that in my opinion; the disappointment of missing out on promotion because of fixture congestion would leave any player demotivated, and the following season, we understandably went backwards.

Now here we are again - just because I've not been posting, doesn't mean I haven't been looking at all the posts on this forum, and I feel it has to be said that without a new ground, this club cannot progress.

The end of the season will be a write off now - way too many matches to play - luckily we already have enough points to have any chance of being relegated, but realistically March and April will now be fixture after fixture - 17 league games scheduled between March 3 and April 25 - that is a staggering 17 games in 54 days. That of course assumes that we will not get any more postponements, but I guess we probably will, and it could mean a really silly fixture list for April I guess.

How do you motivate players for a club that year in year out gets behind every other club in terms of fixture backlog, how do you get good players to sign for you in that situation.

We need a new ground - Poole will go backwards otherwise. Groundshare and put in money for an upgrade at Hamworthy is one option. Groundshare with Dorchester, Weymouth, Wimborne or use Bournemouth's training facilities or anywhere else is a short term option I suppose - the Dorset FA has been mentioned too - wherever we go, it has to be better than this. Obviously the ideal is a new ground of our own, but I hope that Chris Reeves and everyone else get us out of here and to somewhere new.

I know money is a big issue, as the club has progressed quicker on the field than off it. As someone with no money or spare cash at all, and who thinks of our club surrounded by all the millionaires at Sandbanks, it is disappointing really that no sugar daddy or sugar mummy has stepped in to take control of our club. We have a great potential to grow, if money were put in.

We have a big population and Tom has shown the management skills to take us up the non-league pyramid, but how he motivates himself with all the chaos of postponement after postponement I do not know.

Anyway something radical needs doing, otherwise we will muddle through this season and be in the same boat next year and the year after.

Between the Wars there was a banked cycle track and Football at the stadium. The cycle track was removed for the speedway I beleive, which started in 1948

Council officers might also tender the excuse that 20 years of government cuts to local authorities have left council finances in an extremely parlous state. You may have hit the nail on the head Scorpio.