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I,m down the ground at the moment, fair bit of water in the corners down the training area side of the pitch, training area completely submurged, waiting for the submarine to pop it,s head up at anytime!!!

Since ive been down here, the water is going albeit slowly it has to be said, lovely day today to help the pitch, but I guess it will solely depend on how much mother nature decides to throw down tomorrow.

Would be great if someone did come down and take a few pics so you can see how the pitch is.

I would say 50/50 at the moment

The road was flooded at Hardwater this morning. Billing was very wet yesterday so it depends how much comes down the river today.

TwinkleToesTomlin wrote:

burger monster wrote:Well i had to keep up with my favourite left back master Tomlin.........#nobody better...................................#shocking goal to give away in the semi-final......................................#won it on penalties tho!!!!

Well it wasnt hard keeping up with him ;)


I still stand by the fact Meitbaur and Captain Morgan should have been covering ;)

I do remember after you gave that goal away you looked straight over to me Alex, i was somewhat frustrated may be the best way of putting it to be honest mate :evil: :evil: :evil: , and I was talking to your dad (assistant manager) as to what the hell went wrong there, his words were very funny!!!!

Even the best make mistakes from time to time matey :lol: You played very well in the final though mate, Alfie scored the first and how did Ryan lovell miss that header from 2 yards out, even after watching the video I still can,t see how he managed to head it over the bar, #great day out tho

Latest forecast (posting midday friday) says no rain to speak of until kick-off:

http://www.metcheck.com/UK/today.asp?zipcode=nn8+2dp

AndyKirkup wrote:Latest forecast (posting midday friday) says no rain to speak of until kick-off:

http://www.metcheck.com/UK/today.asp?zipcode=nn8+2dp

According to that the heavy stuff is at around 9pm 5.5 mm, are the pumps running now??

9pm on Saturday night I think Ron, so shouldn't affect the game.

The problem you have at the moment is the flood plains are still rising which is causing the water from the training area to rise, which is going over the path now onto the pitch to put more water on the pitch.

It needs to stop asap and then the pump will take the water away asap hopefully, but it all depends on when the level of the flood plain stops rising.

Heres the current flood forcast for the ground

http://maps.environment-agency.gov.uk/w ... ,&scale=11

Just got back from the ground, as the burger monster has said if the water level drops overnight the pitch should clear pretty quickly, so I think it'll be a case of seeing what it's like in the morning.

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