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[Costastag]

Anyone loooked out the window in the last 10 minutes?

Nope im outside in 23 degrees irrelevant i know ,but i feel better just letting you know

Yeh, and I bet the maintenance of pitches over where you are so much better that you don't get postponements due to a bit of rain.

Whats rain not had rain since april

[arsene wengers coat]

The likes of Clipstone and Shirebrook has nothing to do with Field Mill.

We are aware that there are different types of properties of ground in one place to another, aren't we?

Your back garden might be sandstone, whereas your mates might be clay. We do understand this don't we???

I mean, it’s still laughable/ludicrous that Clipstone played at home when we were off for the FGR game and today are playing when we’re off again.

I give up.

I was quite enjoying Geomorphology 101.

[robbingdog]

Anyway after all this tit for tat about grass and waterlogging, the results
went our way so let’s be positive and talk about a bit of footy

[Amber Andy]

Anyway after all this tit for tat about grass and waterlogging, the results
went our way so let’s be positive and talk about a bit of footy

Yes an amazing set of results. We now need to win the games in hand.

[Bradders]

I had to drive to Bawtry this morning at about 10am and the conditions on the roads was atrocious. I can’t think I have ever seen so much deep surface water on the roads. On my return back I said I can’t see the game being on. And it was still raining heavy. So the person earlier up on this post saying it was no more than drizzle was obviously not out in it.

I was out in the weather at 10.30-11 in Mansfield and can assure you that it was drizzle, no more, as forecast by the experts. By 12 even that had petered out and there were just a couple of showers later.

But no doubt the pitch was waterlogged.

The whole point of the debate is not whether the pitch was actually playable, but with average conditions for the time of year and the much-vaunted super drainage system, why it wasn't playable. Do Notts and Chesterfield have a special arrangement that it doesn't rain on their pitches? Does Mansfield have its own rain cloud permanently moored?

Perhaps there's a layer of clay under the ground, I don't know. But if the club paid a lot for extra security against having a waterlogged pitch, surely they would expect better than this, clay or not? We used to be proud of having the best-drained pitch outside the Premier League level and almost no postponements whatever the weather. Did this layer of clay only get placed last summer?
This season we always seem to be the first to call a match off.

[MOTG]

Where does the water from the pitch actually drain into once it has left the ground? Is it the Dam on quarry lane ,the river Maun or Sewer drainage system?
Could there be blockage further down the system outside the ground that isn’t allowing water to drain properly from the pitch ?
Certain areas of the town are prone to flooding with heavy rain like Both sides of Sutton Rd opposite King Mill Hospital and Bath Lane / St Peter’s Way junction.

[Spiritater]

Anyway we will have had over two weeks without a competitive game by the time we rock up to Creepy, will we have lost some match sharpness by then?

[Ralphy]

Anyway we will have had over two weeks without a competitive game by the time we rock up to Creepy, will we have lost some match sharpness by then?

Or could look at it as we have had a mid winter break, depends on players mindset

[Amber Andy]

Anyway we will have had over two weeks without a competitive game by the time we rock up to Creepy, will we have lost some match sharpness by then?

It won't be long before we find out.

[Colchester Stag]

Only 2 possible reasons why this game (and previous waterlogged home games) is off - either the club are not prepared to spend the money needed to lay a decent pitch or the people laying the pitch in the close season are not up to the job.

Just hope that the state of the pitch does not cost us our best chance of promotion in years.

Oh please.

[Colchester Stag]

Apparently the sprinkler pipes under the pitch are not perfect and leaks are very likely.

If they leak they haven't been installed correctly, have they?

[Colchester Stag]

The club knew at 8am this morning it was off, certain people knew but kept quiet

I didn't. Would have been handy to stop me setting off...

They lied to you!!

[victor A block]

Where does the water from the pitch actually drain into once it has left the ground? Is it the Dam on quarry lane ,the river Maun or Sewer drainage system?
Could there be blockage further down the system outside the ground that isn’t allowing water to drain properly from the pitch ?
Certain areas of the town are prone to flooding with heavy rain like Both sides of Sutton Rd opposite King Mill Hospital and Bath Lane / St Peter’s Way junction.

As I recall the club showed a photograph a few years back of a new drainage pipe taking away the excess on the Bishop Street side somewhere between the old stand and QLE ( near the gym) . Its quite a steep decline from there down towards the dam.

[Martin Shaw]

The club knew at 8am this morning it was off, certain people knew but kept quiet

I didn't. Would have been handy to stop me setting off...

They lied to you!!

They didn't. It wasn't off at 8am

[Captain Cunno]

Officially.......

[vicar_jeremiah]

Officially.......

It was officially called off at 9 24 am so nobody knew for sure until then,,,

[iansmith]

Officially.......

It was officially called off at 9 24 am so nobody knew for sure until then,,,

I should have taken more notice of your post at 4.30 on Friday afternoon stating there was a pitch inspection on sat morning,( rather than dismissing it as a wind up!). So in the absence of any info from the club, I was halfway down the M1 by 9.30. Like many others I don’t live round the corner and have a 200 mile+ round trip. So had the club confirmed your fri post I would obviously have delayed setting off. Shocking communication by mtfc. But a belated thanks for trying to warn me.