Hon Sec wrote: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.