Sawkye Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 Wish the club would make a decision. My liver needs to know if its Bar 72 or carry out tonight 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bring Back Paddy Flannery Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 By the sounds of things the groundsman/club is trying absolutely everything, I’d assume they wont be postponing this until later this afternoon at the earliest as they quite clearly think they can get it on. I’m not sure the methods being used sound like a wise idea tbh, I just hope this doesn’t lead to another late call off and doesn’t damage the pitch any further. For me the sensible option would be to call it at lunch and let the pitch recover. It sounds almost like we are trying a bit too hard to get this on to try and make up for the last two postponements. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Vojáček Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 1 minute ago, Bring Back Paddy Flannery said: By the sounds of things the groundsman/club is trying absolutely everything, I’d assume they wont be postponing this until later this afternoon at the earliest as they quite clearly think they can get it on. I’m not sure the methods being used sound like a wise idea tbh, I just hope this doesn’t lead to another late call off and doesn’t damage the pitch any further. For me the sensible option would be to call it at lunch and let the pitch recover. It sounds almost like we are trying a bit too hard to get this on to try and make up for the last two postponements. 100%. I had the same fear when the Binos game in January was called off. The pitch was in good shape, just with a bit of water sitting on it after not being verti-drained for a while. Accept that the game will be called off and no harm done. Instead it got sanded to within an inch of its life in an attempt to make it playable, and it's been an absolute disgrace ever since. Someone needs to start thinking of the longer term consequences here, because this is the third season in a row where we've had a pitch that's impossible to play football on. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumbarton Rock Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 Surface water shouldn't be a problem if he gets the whole park vertidrained, but that's only one of his numerous problems. I just cleared my green of snow now it's covered in hailstones and just turned to snow. Can't see Greenock so plenty more coming up the water. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Quitely Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 2 minutes ago, Bring Back Paddy Flannery said: By the sounds of things the groundsman/club is trying absolutely everything, I’d assume they wont be postponing this until later this afternoon at the earliest as they quite clearly think they can get it on. I’m not sure the methods being used sound like a wise idea tbh, I just hope this doesn’t lead to another late call off and doesn’t damage the pitch any further. For me the sensible option would be to call it at lunch and let the pitch recover. It sounds almost like we are trying a bit too hard to get this on to try and make up for the last two postponements. Which would be mad as the Stirling guys won't travel in numbers as they rightly won't trust any of it and the game would be a muddy shitfest with a park in a terrible state for Saturday and thereafter. It smells very much like a money issue to me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCismyhero Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 Pitch inspection 3.30pm. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Quitely Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 4 minutes ago, DCismyhero said: Pitch inspection 3.30pm. Cheers pal, did that come from Stirling Albion FC ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoddyisabino Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 6 minutes ago, Dumbarton Rock said: Surface water shouldn't be a problem if he gets the whole park vertidrained, but that's only one of his numerous problems. I just cleared my green of snow now it's covered in hailstones and just turned to snow. Can't see Greenock so plenty more coming up the water. I live in Greenock and can see the rock so I’ve been on Rock watch all morning. Snow is coming down in sheets. I’d say if this keeps up for any length of time we’re humped. 15 minutes ago, Bring Back Paddy Flannery said: By the sounds of things the groundsman/club is trying absolutely everything, I’d assume they wont be postponing this until later this afternoon at the earliest as they quite clearly think they can get it on. I’m not sure the methods being used sound like a wise idea tbh, I just hope this doesn’t lead to another late call off and doesn’t damage the pitch any further. For me the sensible option would be to call it at lunch and let the pitch recover. It sounds almost like we are trying a bit too hard to get this on to try and make up for the last two postponements. To be fair I’d have exactly the same opinion as you if this was Forthbank. But if the pitch is playable the pitch is playable. Doubt many Stirling fans could care less about preserving it for your game on Saturday 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quentin Taranbino Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 Stirling have announced a pitch inspection at 3.30 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCismyhero Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 5 minutes ago, Frank Quitely said: Cheers pal, did that come from Stirling Albion FC ? Yeah it’s on our official Facebook. Club also posted in our supporters page letting us know. Nothing from Dumbarton themselves yet… 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Quitely Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 6 minutes ago, DCismyhero said: Yeah it’s on our official Facebook. Club also posted in our supporters page letting us know. Nothing from Dumbarton themselves yet… Thanks -it only went on our site 5 mins ago. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FifeSons Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 (edited) At least we’ll get to see another tantrum from the homophobic Stirling neds when it’s called off. Edited March 14, 2023 by FifeSons 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumbarton Rock Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 Only half of it has been vertidrained so far. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedandWhiteBinos Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 game on! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_binos Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 56 minutes ago, FifeSons said: At least we’ll get to see another tantrum from the homophobic Stirling neds when it’s called off. That must mean all the very decent Dumbarton fans on here are also homophobic neds. What a helmet 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FifeSons Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 2 minutes ago, dave_binos said: That must mean all the very decent Dumbarton fans on here are also homophobic neds. What a helmet Well, considering all the Dumbarton fans on here didn’t post homophobic slurs on our Twitter, I’m not sure I follow the logic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
headthebaw Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 Is Boghead still available? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_binos Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 1 minute ago, FifeSons said: Well, considering all the Dumbarton fans on here didn’t post homophobic slurs on our Twitter, I’m not sure I follow the logic. How many comments were made? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sons Fan Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 56 minutes ago, Dumbarton Rock said: Only half of it has been vertidrained so far. For the uneducated, what’s vertidraining? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedandWhiteBinos Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 can dumbarton not just close the roof? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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