Oxford Game OFF. 7th December.

[Daz]

Emergency phone alarms have just gone off in house because of the warnings. Very sensible decision by all involved. Well done to the SAG.

 

[FourMarkGreen]

Unlike yourself, I find it ludicrous to cancel a match on the strength (or really the weakness) of a weather forecast.
You have to wait until the morning of the event to make a decision, if it’s purely about the weather.
Seems to me it’s a financial decision more than anything else, because the weather forecast will have made so many change their mind about coming, therefore they call the match off.
We are becoming a society that allows itself to be too easily scared about almost anything and everything, and it’s not healthy.

Sigh... where to start?

 

[up the line]

Local advice - don't travel unless absolutely necessary. Since when has a football game been absolutely necessary?

Exactly.
It's just now these people find outrage in absolutely anything. Anything can now be a sign of some sort of decay in society.
Football club makes fairly sensible decision to postpone a match on the basis that an amber warning exists (flying debris and falling trees could result in a danger to life/damage to buildings and homes is possible, with roofs blown off and power lines brought down/roads, bridges and railway lines may close, with delays and cancellations to bus, train, ferry services and flights): "OH MY GOD ITS THE END OF SOCIETY, ITS SODOM AND GOMORRAH, WE'VE LOST OUR WAY, OUTRAGE OUTRAGE OUTRAGE".
So triggered by the postponement of a football game. Odd. Probably more that people are in a p1zzy because the football is off and they have to think of something else to do. Very babyish reaction.
Probably the same people who would kick up merry hell if they went out in the snow and broke down and it took a while to rescue them: "WHy WuzzUn oi warned not to go out in fufteen fut oV SNoooow. Summon sHud oV warned Uzz innum".

 

[Adam]

Emergency phone alarms have just gone off in house because of the warnings. Very sensible decision by all involved. Well done to the SAG.

Yeah, definitely sensible.

Just a reminder , if you've got any USB Power Banks get them charged now.

 

[Steve Evans]

i hope our manager is on his way to the luton match tomorrow for a first hand appraisal of our opponents on tuesday.

 

[April 1971]

Why is everyone so embarrassed by practically anything and everything these days. A game of football is called off and you are embarrassed? Really? Seemingly every thread someone is embarrassed by something, be it the kit, the pasties, the Janner song, the list is endless. Since when did everyone's embarrassment threshold drop so low. I could think of many words to think of to describe the decision; sensible, overcautious, annoying, inconvenient, disappointing, expected etc, certainty not embarrassing. Rant Over.

Top post, fake outrage is everywhere

 

[Zac N]

Well, the FA have the ability to find a club and allocate the theee points for a game postponed without their permission.

Just for clarity , the EFL ( as the competition organisers) are the ones who agree to the postponement in these circumstances , having taken the advice of the local Safety Advisory Group.

 

[IJN]

Glad it was called off, it's already devastated these two stadiums!!

Oxford


Exeter

 

[The Doctor]

Whilst I suspect it may be breaking an unwritten Pasoti rule to post on things you actually are an expert on , I am waiting for the latest update from The Doctor and what he thinks is happening. No pressure Doctor.

Sorry - been busy today and only just seen this. I reckon it'll be windy and the game won't happen

 

[boletus edulis]

Sorry - been busy today and only just seen this. I reckon it'll be windy and the game won't happen

Nostradarmus lives

 

[Martyn]

Saves another embarrassing ‘day at the office’, /defeat

 

[Deacster]

i hope our manager is on his way to the luton match tomorrow for a first hand appraisal of our opponents on tuesday.

Yes, great weather for travelling

 

[greengodwin]

The only reason I’d have like this game m

this was very much my thoughts too.
I saw the Oxford game as the most winnable. We could conceivably lose the next 3 now , where would that leave Rooney ?

Potentially out of a job if defeats are heavy...?

 

[Steve Evans]

Yes, great weather for travelling

it's easy driving in this weather and i have done so on countless occasions and so have countless other people.this is a positive he can take by seeing our next opponents play and delivering his insight to our players when he has a tactical meeting.

 

[Andy B.]

Our society is a wreck. People bed wetting over a prudent decision. If those winds hit home park 70mph gusts there's a chance things could be blown off the roof of the stands - if not the roof itself.