St Albans away 1 February 2025

[Tony]

Games are called off by the officials not by the clubs. Remember our home game v Dorking. Not much you can do if the ref decides the pitch is unplayable even if everyone else thinks it's fine.

[Shepperton Supporter]

What Tony said is true, it is the referee that decides if the pitch is playable.
Over the years there has been instances where clubs both the home and away teams have through various tactics have tried to influence these decisions!

[Tony]

After today’s matches we stay in 9th with Tuesday’s visitors, Dorking, going top on goal difference. Four sides on 55 points but Worthing have two games in hand.

[GRTourist]

Games are called off by the officials not by the clubs. Remember our home game v Dorking. Not much you can do if the ref decides the pitch is unplayable even if everyone else thinks it's fine.

This is very true, but getting a referee to view the pitch at 10am, with no more rain forecast, isn't really making much of an effort to give the game a chance. Particularly given how good the drainage is at Clarence Park. There were no other postponements in the division that I could see.

[JimS]

Games are called off by the officials not by the clubs. Remember our home game v Dorking. Not much you can do if the ref decides the pitch is unplayable even if everyone else thinks it's fine.

This is very true, but getting a referee to view the pitch at 10am, with no more rain forecast, isn't really making much of an effort to give the game a chance. Particularly given how good the drainage is at Clarence Park. There were no other postponements in the division that I could see.

I'm sure if the referee thought the situation would improve he would have ordered a later inspection. Seeking to blame the home club for the postponement is bang out of order in my opinion.