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Re: Fri 18th – Wed 23rd FEB 2022
DIR By: TheThingFromLewes
Date: February 18, 2022, 9:54 am
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> AFCB v Nottingham Forest now officially called off.
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The correct decision, however probably could’ve been done a lot
earlier.
The transport network is in disarray this afternoon and probably
tomorrow too.
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Re: Fri 18th – Wed 23rd FEB 2022
DIR By: bmb
Date: February 18, 2022, 9:58 am
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> It’s blowing a real gale in Eastbourne this afternoon.. trees
a plenty have fallen.
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> As for the sea defences.. they’ve failed at Seaford. 😳
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It's been fun. I'd not long tweeted how calm it was in Poole
after 2/3 hours of very high winds when there was a tweet
showing the RNLI building being absolutely battered and a
windspeed of 120mph - I live 500m from said building! [emoji23]
The sea has breached in several places here, lots of roads
closed, trees and power lines down. Same as everywhere really -
thankfully it doesn't appear anyone has been injured or worse.
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Re: Fri 18th – Wed 23rd FEB 2022
DIR By: bmb
Date: February 18, 2022, 10:02 am
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> [quote author=bmb link=topic=3371.msg44254#msg44254
date=1645199526]
> AFCB v Nottingham Forest now officially called off.
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The correct decision, however probably could’ve been done a lot
earlier.
The transport network is in disarray this afternoon and probably
tomorrow too.
[/quote]
Our trains and buses were called off hours ago and still not up
and running yet. I feel bad for the Forest fans who will have
been well into their journeys. I gather 2 sticking points were
sky wanted the game to go on regardless and Nottingham Forest
wanted it played tomorrow morning (They & AFCB wanted it off
tonight for the obvious reasons).
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Re: Fri 18th – Wed 23rd FEB 2022
DIR By: bmb
Date: February 18, 2022, 10:30 am
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As an update it has now been confirmed that the Safety Advisory
Group (whoever they are) declared Dean Court unsafe for
spectators following damage to the stands & roof caused by the
storm. Decision on game had to wait for inspections to be
completed. No time to make safe. With the continued weather
warnings of high wind over the weekend repairs unlikely to start
until next week at the earliest.
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Re: Fri 18th – Wed 23rd FEB 2022
DIR By: SuffolkRef
Date: February 18, 2022, 10:43 am
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> As an update it has now been confirmed that the Safety
Advisory Group (whoever they are) declared Dean Court unsafe for
spectators following damage to the stands & roof caused by the
storm. Decision on game had to wait for inspections to be
completed. No time to make safe. With the continued weather
warnings of high wind over the weekend repairs unlikely to start
until next week at the earliest.
>
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The EFL have put out a statement to say that they are "extremley
disappointed" at the late postponement. They don't seem to be
happy with Bournemouth.
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Re: Fri 18th – Wed 23rd FEB 2022
DIR By: rustyref
Date: February 18, 2022, 11:10 am
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They could have made the decision themselves. It is extremely
rare for there to be red weather warnings, and with the advice
being to stay at home they could have just called it off. It
isn't like a normal pitch issue where the referee or a local
referee needs to do an inspection, if things are falling off of
the stands and there is a safety issue that is nothing to do
with the referee.
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Re: Fri 18th – Wed 23rd FEB 2022
DIR By: bmb
Date: February 18, 2022, 11:20 am
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> [quote author=bmb link=topic=3371.msg44258#msg44258
date=1645201809]
> As an update it has now been confirmed that the Safety
Advisory Group (whoever they are) declared Dean Court unsafe for
spectators following damage to the stands & roof caused by the
storm. Decision on game had to wait for inspections to be
completed. No time to make safe. With the continued weather
warnings of high wind over the weekend repairs unlikely to start
until next week at the earliest.
>
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The EFL have put out a statement to say that they are "extremley
disappointed" at the late postponement. They don't seem to be
happy with Bournemouth.
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Yet at 2.20pm they had not signed off on the game being
postponed!
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Re: Fri 18th – Wed 23rd FEB 2022
DIR By: ajb95
Date: February 18, 2022, 12:20 pm
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--- Quote from: bmb link ---
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> As an update it has now been confirmed that the Safety
Advisory Group (whoever they are) declared Dean Court unsafe for
spectators following damage to the stands & roof caused by the
storm. Decision on game had to wait for inspections to be
completed. No time to make safe. With the continued weather
warnings of high wind over the weekend repairs unlikely to start
until next week at the earliest.
>
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My mate was at Reading - not happy!!
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Re: Fri 18th – Wed 23rd FEB 2022
DIR By: jacksback
Date: February 18, 2022, 2:03 pm
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An absolute disgrace that it took until mid-afternoon today. Yet
another decision taken so late without any consideration for
those travelling. Everyone knew what was coming - we had enough
warning of such a rare event bringing extreme weather,
especially to the South West.
#Post#: 44272--------------------------------------------------
Re: Fri 18th – Wed 23rd FEB 2022
DIR By: bmb
Date: February 18, 2022, 2:16 pm
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> [quote author=bmb link=topic=3371.msg44258#msg44258
date=1645201809]
> As an update it has now been confirmed that the Safety
Advisory Group (whoever they are) declared Dean Court unsafe for
spectators following damage to the stands & roof caused by the
storm. Decision on game had to wait for inspections to be
completed. No time to make safe. With the continued weather
warnings of high wind over the weekend repairs unlikely to start
until next week at the earliest.
>
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My mate was at Reading - not happy!!
[/quote]
Don't blame them. I'm less bothered by the decision to call it
off, it's the lack of communication from Sky, the EPL and both
clubs, which has been appalling at best that I'm annoyed about.
Someone should have been updating the local press in Nottingham
as well as Bournemouth. I think we all know if it hadn't have
been on Sky it would have been called off yesterday as soon as
the red weather warning was issued. Obvious to us locally it was
not going to happen by how dangerous the roads were, well those
still open! The police were literally begging everyone to stay
home. They knew there was damage to the stadium, why not put out
a statement saying it needed to be assessed? It would have given
people, especially the away fans more information as to whether
they were going to risk travelling on dangerous roads.
Our local solent reporter does a little summary here:
HTML https://twitter.com/kristemple/status/1494748354185682952
Very reliable is Kris.
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