kellys_discopants

Alot of people were quick to moan about the "lack of effort" to get the game on against Brentford. Well why dont people get down there Saturday morning and help the lads out, might even learn a thing or two whilst down there! OAFC

Version i heard is slightly different. I heard that a fight broke out in the concourse at the ground between Blackburn fans, with bottles initially being thrown and then for some reason someone decided to throw a large metal bin, which struck the unfortunate man and he later died as a result. A blackburn fan i know said that this season the "hooligan" following as increased, especially at away matches as people attend to get tickets for the Burnley match late on in March.

You never know, the club may well run a park and ride/bus service from BP or something along those lines. Who knows.

It`d be a right nightmare if the weather turns out as forecasted, were already playing Sat/Tues everyweek (near enough) now until the end of the season.

I`m sure that`ll bother em!

It`s hardly far though is it. A move like MK Dons was far, not this!

Again! He was awful against Port Vale to.

Tbh it was`t just DP that was delighted with a point down there, i`d say 99.9% of us were aswell!

Last season for the Hartlepool game the club put covers on, the hired out 6 industrial heaters and staff stayed over-night to ensure the game was on. The game was still called off. However, that`s all well and good. What people are clearly over-looking (and once again i`ll put in in bold) is the fact that the forecast forecasted a temperature of minus 2, which would have been fine. What came was a temperature of minus 5, how could anyone possibly see that coming? Why would anyone at the club feel the need to hire any equipment out with temperatures that the covers could handle. Please dont give us the whole "i checked on my car and it said minus 2" rubbish, as it`s been said it gives a totally different temperature to the pitch temperature.

Erm, the covers weren`t actually on when we had all that snow. What was it you were saying about running along ......

Exactly!!

They ofcourse know better.

May be an idea.

Do you? So you were stood on the pitch .. taking the temperature last night? If you went out and checked the temperature on your car for example, all the car shows is the air temperature .. not the ground temperature which will be colder! The ground frost will go down deeper than just the cold air thats around, and retain the cold. If they say the temperature went down to -5 then whay do they gain for lying? There losing out not to have a game on! Also, yes weve one new head groundsmen, but the other 2/3 groundsman have been here for a while now, well before the change of head groundsman so they know how the put the covers on. Oh, and the different between my argument and yours is the fact i know what i`m talking about, i mean to start off with you ranted about the full pitch not being covered, when, infact it was Forgive me if i`m wrong, just off the top of my head the last time the covers were on was Hartlepool last season wasn`t it? And the game was called off. Ofcourse weve played in worse, in years gone by football still went ahead with snow piled up around the terraces, and fans threw snowballs at the players (especially goalkeepers! !) but football has sadly moved on, and for the worse. Why is it that the club is at fault? Maybe they thought the pitch was playable yet the ref was alittle on the soft side and didnt fancy it?!

I see you keep on persisting with this silly little claim they werent on early enough, or they weren`t on properly. Do tell me, what difference would it have made if they`d gone on Wednesday (like you suggested before). As i said in a previous post they were on by yesterday lunch-time, when the pitch wasn`t frozen. The temperatures last night froze the pitch, had the pitch froze prior to the covers going on i could understand, but the pitch was fine when the covers went on! The covers were on properly, they`ve been put on many times before, theres not much you can do wrong when putting them on. Why do people have to find someone to blame at the club. Why do people always have to suggest people can`t do there jobs within the club, i mean people have gone from slagging the players off to the groundsmen now! Ive put afew things in bold for you to make it alittle easier to understand.

If they were put on yesterday, or on Wednesday it wouldnt have made any difference what-so-ever. The pitch wasn`t frozen when the covers went on, last nights cold weather froze the pitch over-night, not wednesdays.

Could well be .. but last night the whole pitch was covered.

*sigh* The covers were on before dinner-time yesterday, so they were on early enough. The covers also cover the whole pitch, the picture is an old one or taken this morning as the covers were removed. Also, the covers were put on properly .. they`ve done it enough times and theres not much you can vary and go wrong with.

How would that work, for simple things like throw-ins for e.g.

Unless your garden is on BP`s pitch then its hardly the same really is it!?

Please, please, please dont put Ritchie or Gregan in charge (if all this is true!).

Agree with you there.

Somepeople need to grow up, move on and support your club, rather than two jumped up yank girls ..... who people seem to drool over and then lose all sense of perspective or reasoning, because, at the end of the day thats the only reason that anyone has even bothered with them, and the only reason why people have moaned so much about there "awful treatment by the club". I do wonder if people would have been so upset had they not been two "good-looking" girls. If they were male i`m sure no-one would have even battered an eye-lid!

Why do people still care what these two have to say?