Postponements for Sunday 17th January 2010

Here we go again!!!

I have had confirmation from both Oadby & Wigston and Leicester City councils to say that all their venues are off for this weekend.

This means the following games are def off:
(none of them can be reversed because of several reasons, both teams play at council pitches, pitch shares etc. If anyone knows / feels any of these games can be reversed please speak to me urgently.)

BILLY WALTON CUP – ROUND 5
(extra time and penalties, as necessary)

Leicester Polska V Leicester Foxes OB
Wigston United V Guthlaxton OB

PREMIERSHIP

Niffy Rangers V Birstall Athletic

DIVISION 2

Sparta Parva V Beaumont Town 09
Webby’s Wanderers V FC Tumar

DIVISION 3 – (Sponsored by MDH Sports)

AFC Beaumont V West End United
Leicester Bharat Talbot V AC Wigston

DIVISION 4

Anstey Hounds V Little Bowden
Birstall Rangers V Humberstone Rangers

DIVISION 5 (Sponsored by Rothenberger)

FC Komrska V CSKA Carnaby’s
Hat & Beaver V Exeter Arms Reserves

How can they be called off already when there's loads of rain expected today, tomorrow and Sunday?!?!

Chucking it down in wigston already!

easier to call games off now than spend money repairing damage done to pitches if played on

MT Sec wrote:

How can they be called off already when there's loads of rain expected today, tomorrow and Sunday?!?!

Both Councils called their games off on Wednesday and we have been trying to make the point that it was too early.

The City Council called their games off early following pressure from at least one other League.

Bear in mind that pitches have not been marked out since well before Christmas - maybe more than 4 weeks ago.

Man in black also has a good point in that pitches are often used when they are not fit and they are then ruined and unfit for several weeks following.

man in black wrote:

easier to call games off now than spend money repairing damage done to pitches if played on

They are going to get damaged regardless, with the amount of games that need to be crammed in now!

but you will cramming games in when the pitches are not so soft and will not cut up so much, so less time is needed to repair them between games,
i do also take on board the fact that pitches have not been and will not be marked,,however a lot of pitches have dead grass where pitch has been marked anyway for a lot of the time

What a joke snow will be gone by Sunday do they want us to play this season or not

It's snow joke I'm affraid!!!

No seriously I'm as annoyed as you guys. Makes my time spent changing everything pretty much wasted, but all the arguing and stressing on here won't change the fact that the councils have made a decision and that's final!!

As Dennis said I spoke to both councils and urged them to delay and let referees make individual decisions on pitches, but other people pretty much forced them make an early decision. To be fair there is a hell of a lot of rain forecast over the next 48 hours and with the snow melting it's going to be waterlogging that's going to cause the next problems!!!

At least there seems to be an end to the tunnel on the horizon!!!

is our game still on then? were playing willows away in foster cup

May as well give up

yeh should be gaz but if it rains anymore it prob will get cancelled i remember in div 5 pitch was boggy as.....fink we won 5-1 with a famous rutter hat trick

When is the last Sunday of the season scheduled for?

Wigston v Gutho to be played at Gutho (assume on the secondary pitch as Hurricanes at home)

MT Sec wrote:

When is the last Sunday of the season scheduled for?

25th April

Is our game (Sparta Moshdock v Horse in the County Cup) now to be played away at Horse?

Thanks

would have thought willows play on park covered by leicester coucil and horse is a school pitch so unless school say its off might need an inspection sometime i am only a couple of mile away from horse if inspection needed

spartamoshdock wrote:

Is our game (Sparta Moshdock v Horse in the County Cup) now to be played away at Horse?

Thanks

Liaise with Horse. If their pitch is available, then County instructions say yes. I suggest the 2 club secs make contact.

Any queries on County games should go to Holmes Park

Hood Park v EFC should be able to be reversed, no-one else uses our pitch in Desford apart from us. We havent played EFC at home this season either.

Fixture Sec, can you call our Secretary Richard Callaghan to sort?

Willows is not City council. As far as I know it's parish.

Hood Park Rangers have a pitch share with an LSL team. If it can be reversed I am happy with this. Richard needs to let me know if this can happen??

OK he will contact you shortly.

Willows isn't city council. But there pitch is in worse shape than Kerry Katona

MT Sec wrote:
When is the last Sunday of the season scheduled for?

25th April

Thanks Dennis. How likely is it that teams will be playing on the Sunday after (May 2nd) to complete their fixtures?

MT Sec wrote:

MT Sec wrote:
When is the last Sunday of the season scheduled for?

25th April

Thanks Dennis. How likely is it that teams will be playing on the Sunday after (May 2nd) to complete their fixtures?

Certainly the Wednesday/Friday following is probable for some teams, but cannot say more than that at this stage.

With the weather forecast looking good I expect our game against Fleckney to go ahead as normal.

the main prblem we will have is w aint gunna be able to play midweek as i have to many players either working away or doing nights so wont be able to put out a team, so where does that leave us????????

There is going to be a similar problem with alot of clubs out there inc ourselves, Got to watch out for ringers in mid week games - I hate them

Division 1

Welford Victoria v Trinity OB - Postponed

Sunday Intermediate Cup

SPARTA MOSHDOCK v Horse - POSTPONED

Neither pitch playable.

If I go and check our pitch, would there be a possibility of reversing the fixture even though we have played them at our ground?

Gaz Great Wigston Manager wrote:

the main prblem we will have is w aint gunna be able to play midweek as i have to many players either working away or doing nights so wont be able to put out a team, so where does that leave us????????

That leaves you with a serious problem - you know the rules about causing postponements.

Now is the time for all clubs to be increasing squad size to cope with the expected rash of midweek games.

This is the time I think the league need to realise that this league is labelled SUNDAY MORNING FOOTBALL, now we all expect the odd game to be played midweek but you can't seriously expect clubs to play half their league games midweek because of a backlog as this puts those teams at a severe disadvantage for either being successful in their cup runs or forced postponements by councils/schools

And who's gonna sign for a team when the manager says ''by the way we might only need you if we get midweek games at the end of the season, cheers'', and by the time it comes round you can't predict which players will be working away in the week, so is he gotta try and sign cover for his whole team,

Personnally feel the league are just passing the buck on this and making no exceptions to the fact we've lost a whole month worth of fixtures, unless all their worried about is the fact they've booked Lutterworth Town for presentation day already and don't want to put it back an extra week

Another thing why are clubs forced to play Wed/Fri and Sunday running up to the end of the season, when midweek games could start from mid March

I ask this simply because some peoples week could be football Tues/Wed/Thur/Fri/Sat/Sun, that would leave you 1 day to recover, and the chances of causing more injuries at a time of the year when pitches are hard, not to mention the missus gettng p!ss!d off, not that I'm to bothered about that!

The clocks don't change until the last weekend in March so it would be too dark before then!

Gaz Great Wigston Manager wrote:

is our game still on then? were playing willows away in foster cup

I have not long spoke to Phil from Willows and the game is obviously in doubt,but we are gonna wait untill as late as possible before making a decision to give the game every chance of going ahead,i will get there early to inspect the pitch on Sunday.

Sunday Premier Cup

Quorn Royals v Advance Couriers - OFF

Great, another week without football

3 Nuns v Sunbury - Off pending FA enquiry

glenfield town v trinderbox - OFF

County Cup Trophy QF
Exeter Arms v Countesthorpe Royals OB reversed subject to Oakfield Park pitch inspection Saturday morning. Countesthorpe say playable so fingers crossed

Division 5

Red Arrow v Sparta Parva Reserves - Postponed

dee_aitcho wrote:

If I go and check our pitch, would there be a possibility of reversing the fixture even though we have played them at our ground?

Yes - you have choice of ground.

Amended - I thought you were the home team. If the two teams can find an acceptable pitch, then it would be ok with us.