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Post by Amber Aleman on Jan 19, 2013 14:01:35 GMT
Thanks to the combination of a little run in the Trophy and Mother Nature's ground assaults, we're now seven matches behind the original league schedule. We've only played six league games since October, which works out at one per fortnight. Not good.  At least only one of those seven is away (Maidenhead). If we can rediscover some home form then the glut of games to come at GGL gives us an opportunity to move up the table. (And we could really do with moving up at least two places!) The downside, of course, is that the club tends to make less money from evening matches than those that fall on Saturdays. Losing the Truro game today was another blow. If the Weston game goes ahead on Tuesday - when it will still be very cold - I'd expect our lowest league attendance of the season so far. Still, there's always someone worse off. Chelmsford and Dorchester are even further behind than us with their league games.  |
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Post by johnnie1 on Jan 19, 2013 14:51:53 GMT
Is there any danger we won't finish our league programme this season?
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Post by Andy K on Jan 19, 2013 15:05:02 GMT
Is there any danger we won't finish our league programme this season? None whatsoever - even if it means playing 3 games a week nearer the end of the season (as had happened before). The only time it happened in recent years was in 2000-01 season - the heavy rains in November - Feb caused a backlog of games and it was when further rain postponed the matches in April that the league had to accept that the season could be completed without extending the season. We played 41 out of 42 games, with the missing game which I believe was Hendon meant they only played 40 out of 42 www.nonleaguefooty.co.uk/archive/isthmian01.html. Hendon lost playing Harrow, and I think Aldershot didn't play Billericay. We're a LONG way from that situation. |
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Post by Del on Jan 19, 2013 15:07:52 GMT
Unlikely.We just play on Tuesdays & Thursdays if neccessary.
How many we get through the gate on a Tuesday depends upon the weather ,our league position,how we are playing and what football is on the telly.
Personally i like Tuesday evening games when there seems to be more atmosphere.
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Post by ambercommonsense on Jan 20, 2013 9:29:28 GMT
I dont hold out much hope look at the long range weather forecast
SNOW SNOW SNOW
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Post by sallycat on Jan 20, 2013 16:59:42 GMT
Having been there twice this season, I keep forgetting that we have to go to Maidenhead again  |
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Post by Andy K on Jan 22, 2013 12:19:56 GMT
Presuming that the next round of the SSC is played on 6th Feb, we now have a midweek games every Tuesday until 19th March - which at the moment is the first available date for a re-arranged Weston game. Thats a run of 7 games. The first of which is away. Then a run of 6 midweeks games at home. Add to this the Weston game, and potentially a Billericay away game (if the snow doesn't disperse by saturday) and a possible Surrey Senior Semi (if we beat Molesey or Colliers Wood), then we are pretty much into April with midweek games.
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Post by Stewart on Jan 22, 2013 14:32:44 GMT
Maybe the SSC games should be played on Thursdays to free up Tuesday nights for league games.
The SSC games could then include squad players putting less pressure on our first team.
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Post by sallycat on Jan 23, 2013 13:34:50 GMT
That's a brilliant piece of logical reasoning and the Surrey FA will therefore have none of it  |
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Post by cheshire on Jan 23, 2013 16:16:24 GMT
I always thought that there should be plenty of midweek games in Aug Sept and October. and that clubs should try and get as many of their league games completed before winter starts to mess everything up. After all wouldn't pitches be in better condition that time of the year?If a team has a run in one of the cups (plus their county cup commitments of course!), they are not looking at such a back log in Feb March and April... If the winter isn't so harsh, well what have you lost? At least if there is spare Saturday in the Spring, the wife can't make you go Xmas Shopping can she? ;D
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Post by Andy K on Jan 23, 2013 17:25:48 GMT
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Post by Amber Aleman on Jan 23, 2013 22:20:05 GMT
I always thought that there should be plenty of midweek games in Aug Sept and October. and that clubs should try and get as many of their league games completed before winter starts to mess everything up. After all wouldn't pitches be in better condition that time of the year?If a team has a run in one of the cups (plus their county cup commitments of course!), they are not looking at such a back log in Feb March and April... If the winter isn't so harsh, well what have you lost? At least if there is spare Saturday in the Spring, the wife can't make you go Xmas Shopping can she? ;D The problem with doing that is that clubs prefer to play matches on Saturdays when attendances and takings tend to be higher. If you played more midweek matches early in the season then you'd risk having players and spectators twiddling their thumbs on some winter Saturdays when pitches are perfectly playable. It's impossible to predict when bad weather will hit - last season Sutton were able to play on every Saturday in January. |
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Post by tonyd on Jan 23, 2013 22:46:46 GMT
Plus major domestic renegotiation would need to take place if I wanted to switch football nights from Tues/Weds to Tues/Thurs! How would her indoors get to zumba?
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Post by Andy K on Jan 24, 2013 0:11:30 GMT
I can't remember exactly which season it was, but it was quite recently (I think it may have been 06/07) where the only game we lost to the weather was a pre season friendly at Dulwich. AA is spot on when he says that it's impossible to predict the weather. How many of us would have predicted that October game at Borehamwood would have been lost to snow 4 years back!
It does make a mockery of those who suggest that there should be any sort of winter break. Because in recent years we've had snow in months varying from October to March it would be a pointless exercise. The only way realistically one can plan to not have issue with the weather is to have an all-weather surface. And you see why the club is talking so much sense in pushing that agenda forward.
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Post by sallycat on Jan 24, 2013 13:03:06 GMT
With British weather systems being what they are, it strikes me as rather daft to have any sort of fixed winter break. I remember one year quite recently (2008?) when it snowed throughout the first half of April and the second half was a heatwave.
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