Birmingham v Newcastle Pre-Match Thread - rearranged for Tuesday 15th February

[womblemaster]

in my experience brummie lasses are kinda loose/easy

 

`To make the day better when waiting for return train a bird dropped one on me Smile `

 

one assumes thats what you are refering to ?

[Superior Acuña]

Home from the match. Right pissed off, getting to few away games this season. I didn't even consider it a significant possibility, not much snow any of the way down.

[JH]

If the two teams are there and the pitch is playable, the game should always go ahead like.

[Stu]

If the two teams are there and the pitch is playable, the game should always go ahead like.

 

True, unfortunately:

 

http://www.liverpoolfsc.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/HillsboroughMemorial.jpg

 

 

[Guest prestonj1989]

in my experience brummie lasses are kinda loose/easy

 

`To make the day better when waiting for return train a bird dropped one on me Smile `

 

one assumes thats what you are refering to ?

 

Maybe I should have phrased it better. I meant:

http://i679.photobucket.com/albums/vv157/prestonj1989/bird.jpg

[Superior Acuña]

Driving is a relatively dangerous activity, now I'm going to have to do it again thanks to them calling it off for safety 'total rubbish'. I've never found it unsafe getting across a city in the snow, and newcastle fans were already there. Total rubbish.

[JH]

If the two teams are there and the pitch is playable, the game should always go ahead like.

 

True, unfortunately:

 

http://www.liverpoolfsc.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/HillsboroughMemorial.jpg

 

 

 

What?!

[UV]

Just ice for the 96

[midds]

Just ice for the 96

 

[johnnypd]

Just ice for the 96

 

[Mick]

Just ice for the 96

 

[Interpolic]

Just got home.

 

For fuck's sake man.

[Cooper]

2 mile from the stadium, brummies are puffs end of.

[Interpolic]

2 mile from the stadium, brummies are puffs end of.

 

Howay man, the snow was mental up there today.

[joeyt]

Just ice for the 96

 

Brilliant

[midds]

2 mile from the stadium, brummies are puffs end of.

 

Howay man, the snow was mental up there today.

 

Begs the question as to why, if it was that bad and the forecast was for worse to follow, it still was going ahead at 9.00 this morning? 

[broonalegeordie]

Just ice for the 96

 

Brilliant

 

funny as, that like!

[Interpolic]

2 mile from the stadium, brummies are puffs end of.

 

Howay man, the snow was mental up there today.

 

Begs the question as to why, if it was that bad and the forecast was for worse to follow, it still was going ahead at 9.00 this morning? 

 

Well yeah, definitely.  We were half an hour from Birmingham when we heard at 12 o'clock or whatever it was.

[midds]

2 mile from the stadium, brummies are puffs end of.

 

Howay man, the snow was mental up there today.

 

Begs the question as to why, if it was that bad and the forecast was for worse to follow, it still was going ahead at 9.00 this morning? 

 

Well yeah, definitely.  We were half an hour from Birmingham when we heard at 12 o'clock or whatever it was.

 

That's my only gripe with calling it off tbh. Obviously the weather is shite down there and everyone has been expecting it for a few days so it's not a surprise that it's called off.

 

The shitter is the fact they had an inspection at 9.00 this morning, just as wor fans were leaving, and called the game on. To then change their minds totally 3 hours later as the expected snow hit Birmingham leaving wor fans stranded is bang out of order. If the match is off - fine. But at least make the decision early enough to let the travelling fans know before they're too far into their journey. That's the pisser.

[Guest Heneage]

More proof that really the league gives little thought and consideration to it's domestic fans.

[broonalegeordie]

yep if the match had been called off at 9, we would have been at scotch corner, and could have been back to toon on the bus by 10....

 

but noooo..... wait til we are in derbyshire.

 

worste thing is, the only snow i actually saw was the frosty covering at durham services!!

[Incognito]

Fucking joke how any game in the top league is called off when the Championship has games going ahead.

 

Not really, match wasn't called off because a Premier League team's pitch was unplayable, but given the deluge of snow that fell in such a short space of time and it being a stadium right in the middle of England's "second city" (with a very popular city centre shopping complex, the weekend before Xmas) - it was called off for safety reasons.

 

Was always going to be called off when the volume of snow was so great  this morning. The Chelsea situation is very different and Coventry's stadium is in a shithole and out of town, serviced by major (gritted) roads.

 

Not strictly correct that.

[Interpolic]

Fucking joke how any game in the top league is called off when the Championship has games going ahead.

 

Not really, match wasn't called off because a Premier League team's pitch was unplayable, but given the deluge of snow that fell in such a short space of time and it being a stadium right in the middle of England's "second city" (with a very popular city centre shopping complex, the weekend before Xmas) - it was called off for safety reasons.

 

Was always going to be called off when the volume of snow was so great  this morning. The Chelsea situation is very different and Coventry's stadium is in a shithole and out of town, serviced by major (gritted) roads.

 

Not strictly correct that.

 

Nowt he says is.

[PCW1983]

2 mile from the stadium, brummies are puffs end of.

 

Howay man, the snow was mental up there today.

 

Begs the question as to why, if it was that bad and the forecast was for worse to follow, it still was going ahead at 9.00 this morning? 

 

Well yeah, definitely.  We were half an hour from Birmingham when we heard at 12 o'clock or whatever it was.

 

That's my only gripe with calling it off tbh. Obviously the weather is shite down there and everyone has been expecting it for a few days so it's not a surprise that it's called off.

 

The shitter is the fact they had an inspection at 9.00 this morning, just as wor fans were leaving, and called the game on. To then change their minds totally 3 hours later as the expected snow hit Birmingham leaving wor fans stranded is bang out of order. If the match is off - fine. But at least make the decision early enough to let the travelling fans know before they're too far into their journey. That's the pisser.

 

The snow wasn't that bad TBH, i went out and about in the car and yeah it was snowing but wasn't life threatening FFS, BCFC knew that snow was coming but chose to do nothing about it, did they grit the concourse around the ground last night before it started, did they fuck, typical Britain, reactive rather then proactive. 

[Robster]

That's my only gripe with calling it off tbh. Obviously the weather is shite down there and everyone has been expecting it for a few days so it's not a surprise that it's called off.

The shitter is the fact they had an inspection at 9.00 this morning, just as wor fans were leaving, and called the game on. To then change their minds totally 3 hours later as the expected snow hit Birmingham leaving wor fans stranded is bang out of order. If the match is off - fine. But at least make the decision early enough to let the travelling fans know before they're too far into their journey. That's the pisser.

Its very tricky. At 9 this morning, there was no where near enough snow to even consider calling it off. So what do they do? Take the forecast as read and call it off? Weather forecasters are notorious for not getting things right. If they made the decision at 9 to call it off and the snow never appeared, they would probably get as much flak for being too hasty. I guess leaving it until later give the match as much chance as possible to happen.

It is a pisser for the away fans mind - totally agree with that.