Game should go ahead - pitch covering effective down to minus five or six degrees I think (Airman will correct, if I am wrong). I'm more concerned about my flight to the US out of Gatwick on Sunday morning, as they seem to be forecasting a big dump across southern England on Sat night.
4-0 . No Charlton striker has netted since December 26, and they're bound to start scoring again soon. Not sure which one it will be but I rather fancy Haynes to break the drought and BWP and the rest then to pitch in with a flood of goals between now and the 100 point heaven which awaits us in May.
A lot will depend on what the club does to keep it on - I presume the frost covers are on. If the game goes ahead I feel a big win - possibly 3 or 4 nil.
My statistics say: bar the heavyweights, teams winning derbies 3-0 always lose the the following game. No disrespect , Rochdale are not heavyweights. Charlton to win.
back to winning ways despite Rochdale's recent 3-0 win over Bury under new manager John Coleman of AKKKKrington Stanley fame .... 2-0: Hamer, Solly, Morrison, Taylor, Wiggins, Pritchard, Hollands, Stephens, Jackson, Haynes, Wright-Phillips ... drop of newish blood with Kermorgant and Green 'rested' .
Psychic (correct spellling at last....Doh!) RM here and after the last two weeks of being without them I'm glad to say my balls are back and working very well (according to Mrs RM)...........so I sit here this freezing cold morning carressing and rubbing them to warm them up and they have quite quickly come to life.......so not wishing to make them work too 'hard' after their break......I have worked on them faster than normal and they are telling me that 'should the game go ahead and they are not 100% that it will...then this will be a 2-0 win to the addicks with a goal in each half'.............and after that little spurt I'm putting them away...........getting dressed and off to work.
Match Thread tomorrow from 2 pm (Lancs Lad will be starting it as I'm out in the morning and may not be back until just before ko)
Psychic (correct spellling at last....Doh!) Cheers
That is not how you spell physic. Does Mrs RM no longer find you wholesome? Next you'll be spelling it psycho because people will say you're crazy to do this. Don't do it, stay with the traditional word and ignore those who think they know better.
Ps love your matchday thread, keep up the good work. For those of us at the game, could you have it put on the scoreboard?
A straightforward two nil win to the reds with goals in either half from the mysterious BWP , is overshadowed when a Rochdale supporter bursts naked out of the Jimmy Seed stand. He is immediately tackled by Charlton custodian Ben Hamer, but manages to slip out of his grasp. He makes a bee-line for Chris Powell and steals his cap before donning it and performing a provocative dance in front of the startled boss. Our manager later describes the display as "sickening" and looks visibly shaken in the press conference. The whole business is brought to an end when Charlton gallic target man Yan Kermogant crashes into the dancing northerner, sending him sprawling to the ground where a quick thinking Alex Dyer throws a tartan travel rug, over him. He is lead away by stewards, loudly and drunkenly proclaiming his innocence. Shortly after the match he launches a no-win-no-fee damages claim against Powell which is, literally, laughed out of court.
A straightforward two nil win to the reds with goals in either half from the mysterious BWP , is overshadowed when a Rochdale supporter bursts naked out of the Jimmy Seed stand. He is immediately tackled by Charlton custodian Ben Hamer, but manages to slip out of his grasp. He makes a bee-line for Chris Powell and steals his cap before donning it and performing a provocative dance in front of the startled boss. Our manager later describes the display as "sickening" and looks visibly shaken in the press conference. The whole business is brought to an end when Charlton gallic target man Yan Kermogant crashes into the dancing northerner, sending him sprawling to the ground where a quick thinking Alex Dyer throws a tartan travel rug, over him. He is lead away by stewards, loudly and drunkenly proclaiming his innocence. Shortly after the match he launches a no-win-no-fee damages claim against Powell which is, literally, laughed out of court.
With league games going down it'll be a matter of taking every precaution and hoping the pitch thaws sufficiently although if it does freeze the temperatures suggest it won't. I have a Kent League game at Sevenoaks which I am not very confident will go ahead.
I think we just throw frost covers over the pitch, but the general condition of the pitch must have a bearing - the more grass the better I would have thought. Our pitch looks in decent nick so if you were having a bet, I think the odds would favour the game being on.
The game will be off. No doubt at all. I, along with a few others, called it on Weds. It has been obvious that the pitch will be frozen for days going on the weather forecast.
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4-0 . No Charlton striker has netted since December 26, and they're bound to start scoring again soon. Not sure which one it will be but I rather fancy Haynes to break the drought and BWP and the rest then to pitch in with a flood of goals between now and the 100 point heaven which awaits us in May.
No disrespect , Rochdale are not heavyweights.
Charlton to win.
As for the game, 3-1, we score late on to settle the nerves.
Match Thread tomorrow from 2 pm (Lancs Lad will be starting it as I'm out in the morning and may not be back until just before ko)
Cheers
Ps love your matchday thread, keep up the good work. For those of us at the game, could you have it put on the scoreboard?
Hamer, Solly, Morrison, Taylor, Wiggins,
Waggy, Pritchard, Stephens, Jackson,
Haynes, Wright-Phillips ...
Another rotation proving the strength in depth
Another hard fought 2-0 win, with BWP rediscovering his touch with a couple
COYR
We will score 1 because it's in the players' contracts. Rochdale will manage nil.
Not sure if BWP should be recalled, I'd go with him on the bench instead of Hayes
This just in from the bint on Sky Sports News