Are there any photos of this waterlogged pitch??? Can anyone remember a game away at Burnley about 5 years or so ago when it was torrential and we just carried on playing with huge puddles all over the pitch? To me today looked ok from the small clip that got shown and it seems to me it could have gone ahead with 3 hours till kick off and a bit of time to clear any surface water.
The referee called the game off not Forest.Looking at the forecast it had rained heavy all night and was due to rain all day as well.
Burton just up the road have managed to play.... I'm sure these pitches are quite good at draining excess water away these days and from the clip I saw with 3 hours to go before kick off they could have got it playable especially with it staying dry this afternoon.
Forest look safe on 46 points, but they don't want to take any chances. From what my ex- colleagues who live in the Midlands and support Forest are telling me, they don't think the amount of rain they have had their way was sufficient to prompt cancellation. In Daryl Murphy, Kieran Dowell and David Vaughan they had three key men out injured. They have an extremely efficient sprinkler system at the County Ground ,so my mates are hinting that who knows if the Groundstaff have been encouraged to give the grass an extra drink, prompting the Ref to deem it unplayable when he inspected it.?
Ref called it not Forest. No pitch so close to, and at the level of, the river Trent would drain well. There's standing water on fields at the top of Bank end.
Not as bad as the pre-season game we had against Hibernian back in 2011. Called off a couple house before kick off due to a waterlogged pitch. Load of ***** - Managed to blag a stadium tour and the pitch was perfect. Team ended up playing on a training pitch somewhere behind closed doors. Had train and hotel cost to suck up. Still had a decent day / night out. Day after we watched the Hearts v Royal Antwerp friendly.
The reason it wasn't called off is that we were losing at the time 2-1 I believe. Now then, if we were winning.....who knows!
Only want to say that’s it’s a bit naive to say that the ref called it off. Clubs can easily influence the ref. Looking at today’s postponement it was clear from the video that only one small area of the pitch was unplayable at midday. Staff can either say to ref that it’s only going to get worse given the forecast or have a team working on that area and say it will be fine for the match. I’m not saying it should’ve been played - just that it’s not really purely a referee’s decision.
Add to that the fact that the referee won't have even seen the pitch until midday yet forest had called him and asked him to come in for an inspection at 11am which says to me that it was they, not him, who were wanting a postponement originally.
They could have easily put up some posts and cordoned off that section of the pitch with tape. It is undoubtedly a conspiracy against us.
