Pitch Inspection planned for 1pm

That means the powers that be cannot control the situation?

I've heard a story from a Dutch Blades supporter. He just told me that Sheffield United were to travel by plane to Southampton yesterday. Flight cancelled so they arranged to travel by bus today. Also a long trip but it's mainly motorways.

Agree with Rob on that one. I'm not even sure who Aussie reckons the "one person" is.

If I had to give just one gold star it would be to Paul Bristow - but there is absolutely no way he could have achieved what has happened at Plainmoor on his own. Baker, Rowe, Boyce, Boyce, etc. have been integral to the turnaround.

If it's Colin Lee getting alll the credit, I disagree. He's doing the job he is paid for and I am not rabidly "pro" or "anti". He has played a part in our revival, but our revival is not down to him.

In todays Herald the boss of the coach company says:

"I was quite happy to take them down there.
But I wasn't too sure I would be able to get them back"

So why couldn't they have come down and stayed overnight in the Bay?

I know they are short of money but that's not our fault and no reason for a game to be called off!

I remember a few years back Middlesbrough pulled out of a game against Blackburn because of illness in the squad.

Thay were deducted points (which eventually sent them down!), surely there is a case for this here? And some form of financial compensation wouldn't go amiss either!

I will not pretend I know the history of Weymouth football club, but I do know somethings about it, I know that it is a small seaside town football club, not unlike TUFC, only we have been a league club for most of our history.

I know that over the years Weymouth has had many people who have given their free time to help keep the club running, much like at TUFC we have had so many who have done the same and given so much support for the club.

Weymouth has never been a bad club, never been some rotten apple and its fans are fans just like we are, only now at this time, they find that they are not so lucky as we are. Their problems have not come about because they really have done something so very bad, they have come about because of who has taken over the club in the last few years.

The one before a holiday camp owner may well have been a fan and one who really wanted to take the club forward. He payed out large wages to get the right players in, but it all hinged on the ground being sold to a supermarket giant. That fell through and he was not able to keep funding the large bills he had created and as we know all high earners were moved out of the club.

The current owner, is not a fan I fear and one who wanted the ground to sell for industrial units, he did promise the club would get a new ground in its place, but that has not happened and in very unlikely to happen now anyway. As Barton has posted it looks like a deal to get new owners has fallen through and once again the fans fear, the club they love, may soon be no more.

Reading the Herald Express, its clear that Weymouth were going to come and play the match, the coach company did not want to bring the team here as it feared it would not be safe to make the return journey. It seems Weymouth tried to find another coach company, but only got the same answer and that was a bit NO.

So some feel that Weymouth should have come down the day before? or stayed in some hotel after the game? sadly the players have been told that their is no money to pay the wages for January, so please can someone tell me, where the money for any hotel was going to come from. Weymouth Town need to keep hold of every penny it has just now, if those who do love the club, but do not have the money needed to take it over, can come up with some sort of rescue package, then it will be helped by no further increases in debt levels.

On the safely issue I have just this to say, how would anyone feel if just one person got killed traveling home from the game. I bet you if that had happened and the crowd had been less than 1500, as I expect it would have been, there would have been plenty of people then saying the game should not have gone ahead.

The game is on next Tuesday night as long as Weymouth are still alive as a club, nothing in real terms has been lost by not playing the game last night, lets all spare a thought for the Weymouth fans and those who have given so much to Weymouth Town and hope that some how the club can be saved, because two years ago, this really could have been us and not them.

Unlike Weymouth we had people who loved TUFC, but had the money to put in and turn things around, all I'm saying is please don't be hard on Weymouth the club, only those who had got control for all the wrong reasons.

I shall remind myself of these words before some other bugger does....

I will once again defend Weymouth and for one very good reason and this is that the traveling conditions were going to deteriorate as the night went on, while on Friday they were always going to improve. Barton Downs made it up north on Friday and also watch a game, Exeter also had to go in the end and to Grimsby and their game also went ahead.

I would expect that the Barrow pitch would have been playable on the Saturday afternoon and the fact is that the team could have left after lunchtime and got to Barrow with no real problems, after all Exeter went by coach.

The thing is Merse wants to congratulate the early decision made to call off the Barrow game and If Weymouth had done that the day before and not on the match day, then would that been OK then? At the end of the day if the coach company who take the Weymouth team to its games, had not told them they would not rick the drive back to Weymouth after the match, then they would have come and the game would have gone ahead.


Should they have been made to come on the Tuesday night? should they have been made to stay in a hotel, even when they can't afford it? well it the answer is yes, then you have to ask if TUFC should have been made to leave when Telegraph Hill was reopened after the lunch time on Friday.


You can get killed on the road outside your own home, how far you have to travel means nothing really, the road conditions do and the distance between Weymouth and Torquay do not really come into the equation.

You really need to get your facts correct merse, it will save you looking a fool. You said

Barrow's pitch was considered UNFIT on the Friday morning and the weather forecast gave no indication of it being able to recover, therefore the situation is totally different to (a) Plainmoor and (b) Grimsby where the pitches were (again I repeat myself) fit.

Yet it clearly states in the article that cripsygull put the link up for.


On top of that, the Grimsby pitch faced an early-morning inspection on Saturday due to a heavy frost and sub-zero temperatures. The initial one at around 8am on Saturday saw the pitch deemed unplayable, but the sterling efforts of the Grimsby groundstaff ensured it passed a second look at around 11.30am.


Bucks also made this statement


All day Friday, games were falling victim to the weather, and after his Torquay United side saw their match at Barrow called off, manager Paul Buckle hit the nail on the head by stating that player safety was paramount. Not to mention managers, coaches, directors, referees, linesmen and journalists, even! And, of course, the fans.


It was deemed unsafe to be on the roads here late on Tuesday night, can't you get it into your head that the safety of players,managers and fans need to be considered and believe me, their safety is more important than a game being delayed by just one week.