Remember a lad at our cricket club phoning his Mrs at 8pm on a November Saturday evening and telling her that the cricket had gone to extra time and penalties and he would be a bit late!
You often hear the phrase "If only common sense was used rather that sticking to the letter of the law etc....."
Anyone with a modicom of common sense would have realised that the Chesterfield would be off. (In fact I told you all yesterday) If you bought a train ticket then unlucky, you won't get your money back. But to moan that you had left at 8am/8.30am/9am/9.30 etc is just pathetic.
Chesterfield went through a procedure, they would have been dammed if they did or dammed if they didin't. They had to give it chance today, just in case. But if you didn't realise yesterday that there was simply no chance of the match taking place, then you're a bit dim.
You often hear the phrase "If only common sense was used rather that sticking to the letter of the law etc....."
Anyone with a modicom of common sense would have realised that the Chesterfield would be off. (In fact I told you all yesterday) If you bought a train ticket then unlucky, you won't get your money back. But to moan that you had left at 8am/8.30am/9am/9.30 etc is just pathetic.
Chesterfield went through a procedure, they would have been dammed if they did or dammed if they didin't. They had to give it chance today, just in case. But if you didn't realise yesterday that there was simply no chance of the match taking place, then you're a bit dim.
We were on the 8.25 out of St Pancras, after leaving Maidstone at 7am. Heard it was off 20mins before we pulled in to Chesterfield - about 30 Charlton (that I knew) on that train and we were all booked on the 17.51 back.
So we just cracked on and had a cracking all-dayer.
Train was £60 and probably spent that again on food and booze.
Ended up meeting a spurs mate bak in London and eventualy got bak into Maidstone just after 1am.
You often hear the phrase "If only common sense was used rather that sticking to the letter of the law etc....."
Anyone with a modicom of common sense would have realised that the Chesterfield would be off. (In fact I told you all yesterday) If you bought a train ticket then unlucky, you won't get your money back. But to moan that you had left at 8am/8.30am/9am/9.30 etc is just pathetic.
Chesterfield went through a procedure, they would have been dammed if they did or dammed if they didin't. They had to give it chance today, just in case. But if you didn't realise yesterday that there was simply no chance of the match taking place, then you're a bit dim.
Chirpy, can you honestly say that you've never done something that seems a bit 'dim' or 'lacking in common sense' out of hope rather than anticipation. It's a human trait.
The inspection is at half ten isn't it? I'd have the youth team training on it right now to soften it up.
Was out of the house at 6.10 yesterday morning and was a tad cold. Going up on the train I spoke to a mate who was going by coach and he was not optimistic due to the plummeting temps overnight. Ring ring at 10.15 the game is off! By this time I was in Long Eaton so went down the ground and got a couple of progs(should be compulsory that people by a programme!) Went in to the Royal Oak and The Rutland, couple of nice boozers, looked round town which I found very pleasant. Got the 13.38 into Sheffield for the Wycombe game, spent a couple of hours in the boozer and got the 19.27 home, not a wasted day but WISH OUR GAME WAS ON!!!!
I take that view too Robert. Looking out of my window across Chesterfield it looks extremely frosty, more so than the last 3-4 mornings, but the club seem confident.
A no win situation, of course the club have to make an early inspection to stop as man people travelling as poss but then the weather was going to be colder. They could hardly have the inspection at 1pm when yes it was likely to be warmer, very difficult. My one criticism of Chesterfield was very poor communication on the website during the week
And certain people wonder why our away travel numbers are pathetic? :-0
I do not like criticising but Chesterfield but might just as well scrub their website for all the use they give it, from this weeks effort anyway. As for our away following, all in all this season it has been very good, with a couple of exceptions.
effing disgrace. a f*cking idiot couldve guessed that yesterday. Watched BBC Weather this morning and they said it was the coldest night of the winter. How on earth they thought the game could be on when last week was off at 9am. Disgraceful that they have left it so long to make the decision. Arseholes, build themselves a brand new ground without undersoil heating and then ponce about making decisions whether to cancel or not.
If you knew it was going to be off yesterday why get in such a stew about it now?
Well cos if the game is not officially off and youve paid for your match and train tickets then youve still got to waste your time starting to travel haven't you? Pretty bloody stupid question if you ask me ME14. Hundreds of our fans are halfway up there already.
From your comment you appear to have decided yesterday that that match was off, so you wouldn't be affected by setting off and you would be able to claim a refund. After yesterday's pitch inspection there was obviously a chance that the match would go ahead. If so, why would Chesterfield want it called off? If it had been called off and the weather wasn't as severe as it turned out, they would have looked pretty silly. I believe they were correct in giving every possible chance of the game going ahead.
It was always likely to be off given the forecast but when the pitch was inspected on Friday it was playable so they had to give it the green light. It could not be called of on a forecast for the following day, a no win situation for all
WHO said it is the 28th. Nothing on OS and Chesterfield site says to be rearranged. Don't post spurious rumours as gospel please as some of us take it as fact.
I am led to believe that nowadays the first available date is used to rearrange games. Do not know about Chesterfield but ours is the 28th so it would make sense on our part
Surely our fixture pile up is the same as most other teams.Sheff Utd play there game in hand today. Sheff Wed depending if they play will have played 2 more if there game goes ahead.
If Sheff Wed win today then they will only be 4 points away from us and we have a very difficult fixture on Tuesday. I know we will have 2 games in hand but there the team whose fixtures aren't being affected by the weather.
Exeter 2 Wednesday 1, panic over. Next tuesday Huddersfield v United, suits us a draw methinks
still like to know where bourneaddick got the new date of 28th from. A hit and run posting. Not impressed.
My understanding is that fixtures are rearranged for the next available midweek, he may well be right. Do not know what Chesterfield's fixture situation is though
I hope it's not the 28th. That is ( I think) the date scheduled for Kent Senior up game v Dartford. I know the players will be different but I wont be able to get to chesterfield and will probably go to dartford. Be a very strange feeling watching Charlton but trying to keep track of the real score 200 miles away!
Chirpy you come across as a right arrogant know it all. Not just this post but quite a few of late.
I don't know about his previous comments but this was pretty valid.
I left home at 6.30, was 15 minutes from Chesterfield when heard game off. Thought sod it but it is one of those things. Went to the ground and got a programme, mooched round Chesterfield then went to Sheff Utd v Wycombe and come home.
Nobody at Charlton expected this game to be on. If we had cancelled the coaches on Friday there would have been no cost to CAFC. Now we have to pay for them and refund the fares. Chesterfield are not liable for that.
Now I don't blame Chesterfield for not postponing Friday, but taking Chirpy Red's "common sense" approach we'd have cancelled them then. How would that have gone down with those who were leaving at various times up to 9.15am.
Common sense doesn't come into it. You have to assume the game is on until it is called off, even though this has cost our club a four figure sum!
I was talking about individuals AB. The club was beholden to Chesterfield. As I said, they had to try their best to get it on. They were in a lose/lose situation. CAFC couldn't start making their own decisions, except not taking the team bus up there on Friday, although I don't know if this was the case or not.
It's indviduals that needed to use some common sense. It's bad luck to lose your train fare but no one should moan that they had a wasted journey.
Chesterfield are a tin pot outfit who thought everybody was only coming from round the corner. The ref that looked on Friday should have been there at 9am and made a decision - or deferred to a 2nd inspection later.
We were the only match on the newswires with "morning inspection" instead of an approximate time.
I didn't travel, because 10:30 was my leave home time - but I know plenty who were on the 9:55 who could have waited at St Pancras and got the 10:55 if the match had passed a 10am inspection.
Seeing as nobody knew when the inspection was planned for, people had to make a decision to set off at their planned time and hope for the best.
This is the sort of piss poor organisation that you get in L1, so thank goodness we look like leaving it in the dark ages where it belongs. I know what happened at Ipswich v Boro - but an abandonment is different to a postponement. matches get abandoned through player injury and stadium safety issues, so they can happen anytime without obvious warning.
Someone said early in this thread "leave them alone, they are doing their best to get the match on"
When in fact, nobody from the vast Chesterfield Communications Dept was even out of bed at 9:30.
Chesterfield are a tin pot outfit who thought everybody was only coming from round the corner. The ref that looked on Friday should have been there at 9am and made a decision - or deferred to a 2nd inspection later.
We were the only match on the newswires with "morning inspection" instead of an approximate time.
I didn't travel, because 10:30 was my leave home time - but I know plenty who were on the 9:55 who could have waited at St Pancras and got the 10:55 if the match had passed a 10am inspection.
Seeing as nobody knew when the inspection was planned for, people had to make a decision to set off at their planned time and hope for the best.
This is the sort of piss poor organisation that you get in L1, so thank goodness we look like leaving it in the dark ages where it belongs. I know what happened at Ipswich v Boro - but an abandonment is different to a postponement. matches get abandoned through player injury and stadium safety issues, so they can happen anytime without obvious warning.
Someone said early in this thread "leave them alone, they are doing their best to get the match on"
When in fact, nobody from the vast Chesterfield Communications Dept was even out of bed at 9:30.
I think you're bang out of order to all the league one teams who worked their hardest to get every game on, same as CAFC do week in week out. We're no different to them. We've finished in a lower position for 7 seasons consecutively.
Yes, it does look like Chesterfield Communications Dept could have communicated a bit better, but enough of the 'tin pot league'
I look forward to the Championship then when games get abandoned after 38 minutes. You can't tell me that you wouldn't be any less annoyed?
Chesterfield are a tin pot outfit who thought everybody was only coming from round the corner. The ref that looked on Friday should have been there at 9am and made a decision - or deferred to a 2nd inspection later.
We were the only match on the newswires with "morning inspection" instead of an approximate time.
I didn't travel, because 10:30 was my leave home time - but I know plenty who were on the 9:55 who could have waited at St Pancras and got the 10:55 if the match had passed a 10am inspection.
Seeing as nobody knew when the inspection was planned for, people had to make a decision to set off at their planned time and hope for the best.
This is the sort of piss poor organisation that you get in L1, so thank goodness we look like leaving it in the dark ages where it belongs. I know what happened at Ipswich v Boro - but an abandonment is different to a postponement. matches get abandoned through player injury and stadium safety issues, so they can happen anytime without obvious warning.
Someone said early in this thread "leave them alone, they are doing their best to get the match on"
When in fact, nobody from the vast Chesterfield Communications Dept was even out of bed at 9:30.
what are your thoughts on us postponing the rochdale match after 9 oclock when their coaches left at 8?
I was talking about individuals AB. The club was beholden to Chesterfield. As I said, they had to try their best to get it on. They were in a lose/lose situation. CAFC couldn't start making their own decisions, except not taking the team bus up there on Friday, although I don't know if this was the case or not.
It's indviduals that needed to use some common sense. It's bad luck to lose your train fare but no one should moan that they had a wasted journey.
I paid £29 return, I know someone that paid £60 a few days beforehand, so in one sense I have 'saved' £31 towards spending money.
This is the chance you take with advance purchase tickets, yesterday in my instance, was a rare time when I came unstuck. I have advance purchase for the remaining away games, bar Oldham, and have saved a fortune.
Chesterfield are a tin pot outfit who thought everybody was only coming from round the corner. The ref that looked on Friday should have been there at 9am and made a decision - or deferred to a 2nd inspection later.
We were the only match on the newswires with "morning inspection" instead of an approximate time.
I didn't travel, because 10:30 was my leave home time - but I know plenty who were on the 9:55 who could have waited at St Pancras and got the 10:55 if the match had passed a 10am inspection.
Seeing as nobody knew when the inspection was planned for, people had to make a decision to set off at their planned time and hope for the best.
This is the sort of piss poor organisation that you get in L1, so thank goodness we look like leaving it in the dark ages where it belongs. I know what happened at Ipswich v Boro - but an abandonment is different to a postponement. matches get abandoned through player injury and stadium safety issues, so they can happen anytime without obvious warning.
Someone said early in this thread "leave them alone, they are doing their best to get the match on"
When in fact, nobody from the vast Chesterfield Communications Dept was even out of bed at 9:30.
Communication was sadly lacking agreed. My question is this, when clubs build new grounds why is not compulsory to have undersoil heating installed?
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Anyone with a modicom of common sense would have realised that the Chesterfield would be off. (In fact I told you all yesterday)
If you bought a train ticket then unlucky, you won't get your money back. But to moan that you had left at 8am/8.30am/9am/9.30 etc is just pathetic.
Chesterfield went through a procedure, they would have been dammed if they did or dammed if they didin't. They had to give it chance today, just in case. But if you didn't realise yesterday that there was simply no chance of the match taking place, then you're a bit dim.
Heard it was off 20mins before we pulled in to Chesterfield - about 30 Charlton (that I knew) on that train and we were all booked on the 17.51 back.
So we just cracked on and had a cracking all-dayer.
Train was £60 and probably spent that again on food and booze.
Ended up meeting a spurs mate bak in London and eventualy got bak into Maidstone just after 1am.
Great day
Went in to the Royal Oak and The Rutland, couple of nice boozers, looked round town which I found very pleasant.
Got the 13.38 into Sheffield for the Wycombe game, spent a couple of hours in the boozer and got the 19.27 home, not a wasted day but WISH OUR GAME WAS ON!!!!
As for our away following, all in all this season it has been very good, with a couple of exceptions.
I left home at 6.30, was 15 minutes from Chesterfield when heard game off. Thought sod it but it is one of those things. Went to the ground and got a programme, mooched round Chesterfield then went to Sheff Utd v Wycombe and come home.
Disappointing but had to make the most of it
Now I don't blame Chesterfield for not postponing Friday, but taking Chirpy Red's "common sense" approach we'd have cancelled them then. How would that have gone down with those who were leaving at various times up to 9.15am.
Common sense doesn't come into it. You have to assume the game is on until it is called off, even though this has cost our club a four figure sum!
It's indviduals that needed to use some common sense. It's bad luck to lose your train fare but no one should moan that they had a wasted journey.
Chesterfield are a tin pot outfit who thought everybody was only coming from round the corner. The ref that looked on Friday should have been there at 9am and made a decision - or deferred to a 2nd inspection later.
We were the only match on the newswires with "morning inspection" instead of an approximate time.
I didn't travel, because 10:30 was my leave home time - but I know plenty who were on the 9:55 who could have waited at St Pancras and got the 10:55 if the match had passed a 10am inspection.
Seeing as nobody knew when the inspection was planned for, people had to make a decision to set off at their planned time and hope for the best.
This is the sort of piss poor organisation that you get in L1, so thank goodness we look like leaving it in the dark ages where it belongs. I know what happened at Ipswich v Boro - but an abandonment is different to a postponement. matches get abandoned through player injury and stadium safety issues, so they can happen anytime without obvious warning.
Someone said early in this thread "leave them alone, they are doing their best to get the match on"
When in fact, nobody from the vast Chesterfield Communications Dept was even out of bed at 9:30.
Yes, it does look like Chesterfield Communications Dept could have communicated a bit better, but enough of the 'tin pot league'
I look forward to the Championship then when games get abandoned after 38 minutes. You can't tell me that you wouldn't be any less annoyed?
lucky you aren't an irish rugby fan!
This is the chance you take with advance purchase tickets, yesterday in my instance, was a rare time when I came unstuck. I have advance purchase for the remaining away games, bar Oldham, and have saved a fortune.