Ha this could end in tears
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With the forecasts showing the rain is now behind us and a few sunny days ahead, are we still looking boat races or potentially football? How are the grounds holding up now?
No football this weekend, all grades postponed.
No guess, it's an actual thing. Following is an email sent out that I received from Macquarie Football.
"HI All,
Due to the significant amount of rainfall recently, a decision has been made by the Joint Zone Competition Management, that ALL Interdistrict matches (Competition Age Groups, MiniRoos and Zone League) have been postponed this weekend. Information regarding the replaying of these games will be distributed in the near future when finalised."
I honestly have no complaints about them calling all games off. Sure, some teams might be able to get on, but some players and officials are stranded by floodwaters.
I highly doubt any of the grounds that were due to host this weekend will be playable on sunday.
Disappointing that speers point complex was made unavailable Friday night until Sunday for use with the Women's State Cup on there.
With the wet weather making training and games not an option, hiring a court would have been the next best thing.
But the women's State Cup has the whole complex. Surely football 5's courts could have been made available on Friday night at a minimum, especially given the fine weather on Friday and Saturday.
Football should have made a bigger play for Pasterfield sports complex at Cameron Park. I don't think the AFL have missed a game there this year, even playing yesterday. Great facilities, good pitch and enough room for 2 grounds. Football's loss is AFL's gain.
I spoke with retro yesterday and cookers ground was very playable.
Women’s State Cup is booked well in advance and has teams travelling decent distances to participate in the weekend. Lots of organisation goes into it, it deserves priority.
NNSWF need to make Speers Point more readily available during the week though instead of prioritising teams training there. Couple of games a night on each field would sort a lot of issues.
Is anyone generally concerned about these wet weather catch up games that need to be rescheduled. Some clubs have 3-4 to complete and I just can’t see it happening if it keeps raining consistently. What is everyone’s thoughts?
just keep trying to organise, not much we can do about it.
conversation about the weekends blanket call off, is powers called it all off, even though there were a couple of grounds that were playable supposedly?? it gives the option of calling the weekend out, draws for everyone in ZL