are we being too precious about our grounds?

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Originally Posted by gibsonmcqueen

This is good, definitely a start. Hopefully weather is drier by then.

Still pretty cheesed off that Macquarie is dragging their heels on getting other rounds replayed. Our Round 2 game at home could have been played last Sunday this Sunday, days during the week last week, this week, yet it still hasn't been reorganised yet. It'd be different if there were games being played on it and we just had to wait our turn to get on and play, but they're not rescheduling any games to go on it, they're just sitting empty.

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Our club requested to play Round 2 on the long weekend and were declined by Macquarie :soapbox:

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Originally Posted by The Hacker

Spot on you almost want one in that period

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It just doesn't make a lot of sense. There's still 10 rounds before that wet weather round. With most teams having a current game to make up, I don't see why they couldn't insert a wet weather weekend in for some time during June or early July to ease the burden and leave the one at the end of season up our sleeves. I realise there are some clubs with a number of games banked up, but there's still a lot of time in the season to fulfill those games. Back to back spare weekends is not the answer and clearly not thought about very logically from a playing point of view from the federations.

Hopefully the wind and sunshine forecast today and tomorrow will get some of the moisture out of the grounds for the weekend. Was over at our pitch this morning and despite the storm last night it was reasonably firm underfoot. No dew this morning either which is good.

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Originally Posted by boz-monaut

this is going to be released on social media at 4:30 this afternoon:

the following is scheduled for all competitions: ‐
MiniRoos to Adult
 8th,9th, 10th July – Round 1 games (previously published)
 12th, 13th, 14th August – Round 4 games
 19th, 20th, 21st August – Round 5 games
 Other games that need resetting from other rounds will be either midweek or Sundays for the
remainder of the season.

Zone Football League
 12th, 13th, 14th August – Wet Weather… 2022 fixtures
 19th, 20th, 21st August – additional Wet Weather
 26th, 27th, 28th August – Round 18

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Already had our round 4 match showing in GameDay for the 13th.

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Originally Posted by northern_swan

Our club requested to play Round 2 on the long weekend and were declined by Macquarie :soapbox:

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I can kinda understand that decision. No point rescheduling a washout when there's a high chance of forfeits with players away.

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Originally Posted by 2ndclasscitizen

I can kinda understand that decision. No point rescheduling a washout when there's a high chance of forfeits with players away.

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I look at it from two differnt perspectives:
MiniRoos/Youth Interdistrict - More likely to be away the middle weekend of the School Holidays where they have already scheduled a round
AA/O35 - More likely to go away on the long weekend.
Possibly stuffed either weekend, for different reasons.

What i'm saying is, why not allow the club to contact opponents to see if they are available? Put it back on the teams to do the legwork and approve it if both teams agree.

If both teams agree, let them play. If one team cant, reschedule at another time.

To say a blanket "no" to the possibility of playing isn't being proactive or accomodating in what is again a disrupted season.

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Originally Posted by northern_swan

I look at it from two differnt perspectives:
MiniRoos/Youth Interdistrict - More likely to be away the middle weekend of the School Holidays where they have already scheduled a round
AA/O35 - More likely to go away on the long weekend.
Possibly stuffed either weekend, for different reasons.

What i'm saying is, why not allow the club to contact opponents to see if they are available? Put it back on the teams to do the legwork and approve it if both teams agree.

If both teams agree, let them play. If one team cant, reschedule at another time.

To say a blanket "no" to the possibility of playing isn't being proactive or accomodating in what is again a disrupted season.

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Makes sense for the 2 teams to be able to liaise with eachother, when teams agree on a date, send to Macquarie for approval.
Or leave it, let Macquarie reschedule as suits them.

May be tricky to get refs out to the fixtures, but if you wanna play, I don’t see why they can’t give clubs back some kind of power/ability to reschedule.

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Originally Posted by Bremsstrahlung

Makes sense for the 2 teams to be able to liaise with eachother, when teams agree on a date, send to Macquarie for approval.
Or leave it, let Macquarie reschedule as suits them.

May be tricky to get refs out to the fixtures, but if you wanna play, I don’t see why they can’t give clubs back some kind of power/ability to reschedule.

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yeh tried that, wasn't to well received by the powers that be. Had two games lined up to play.

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Originally Posted by 2ndclasscitizen

I can kinda understand that decision. No point rescheduling a washout when there's a high chance of forfeits with players away.

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I guess it's my naivety; I actually always thought that the Queens birthday weekend was an early season wet weather weekend. Kind of assumed the districts were hedging bets. If there's no major wash outs everyone gets a week off on a holiday weekend; if there is a round washed out they've got a scheduled break they can replay it in.

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Originally Posted by gibsonmcqueen

I guess it's my naivety; I actually always thought that the Queens birthday weekend was an early season wet weather weekend. Kind of assumed the districts were hedging bets. If there's no major wash outs everyone gets a week off on a holiday weekend; if there is a round washed out they've got a scheduled break they can replay it in.

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The big problem is this:

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Originally Posted by Jardelsimage

yeh tried that, wasn't to well received by the powers that be. Had two games lined up to play.

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The association don't like individual teams rescheduling indivdual games, they want all games for a particular washed out field all rescheduled together.

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Originally Posted by 2ndclasscitizen

The big problem is this:



The association don't like individual teams rescheduling individual games, they want all games for a particular washed out field all rescheduled together.

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I am talking 1 or 2 games from last Friday night and the same on a Saturday that were both washed out.
We got one on with help from one association, as it was the weekends game and it had not been even noted as a washout at that stage, were meant to play last night but the weather pegged us again.

The other association wasn't happy as that's there job and told us to not to get involved basically.

They did say they understood why i was trying to do it, but don't please.

I think they should promote this if it gets done the correct way, emails etc, anything would help at the moment.

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Originally Posted by Jardelsimage

I am talking 1 or 2 games from last Friday night and the same on a Saturday that were both washed out.
We got one on with help from one association, as it was the weekends game and it had not been even noted as a washout at that stage, were meant to play last night but the weather pegged us again.

The other association wasn't happy as that's there job and told us to not to get involved basically.

They did say they understood why i was trying to do it, but don't please.

I think they should promote this if it gets done the correct way, emails etc, anything would help at the moment.

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This is my major gripe with the association(s). The chain of commiunication is far too long to organise something in quick time.
Club A > Association X > Association Y > Club B and back again.

Nothing wrong with Club A & B getting together, organising the logistics and going to the Associations for approval. Except in the eyes of the powers that be.

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Originally Posted by northern_swan

This is my major gripe with the association(s). The chain of commiunication is far too long to organise something in quick time.
Club A > Association X > Association Y > Club B and back again.

Nothing wrong with Club A & B getting together, organising the logistics and going to the Associations for approval. Except in the eyes of the powers that be.

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Maybe because without this involvement....... their relevancy would be questioned.

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Originally Posted by Aegon

Maybe because without this involvement....... their relevancy would be questioned.

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Might be time to take the board to court like the C&S cricket. We need to doers not overlords

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Originally Posted by Jardelsimage

I am talking 1 or 2 games from last Friday night and the same on a Saturday that were both washed out.
We got one on with help from one association, as it was the weekends game and it had not been even noted as a washout at that stage, were meant to play last night but the weather pegged us again.

The other association wasn't happy as that's there job and told us to not to get involved basically.

They did say they understood why i was trying to do it, but don't please.

I think they should promote this if it gets done the correct way, emails etc, anything would help at the moment.

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Had the exact same situation. Both sides working together late on a Friday night to get a Saturday fixture away only to be shot down because we were only doing one of the washed out games, not all of them.

Another week, another wash out half hour before the match after all the other games on Friday night and Saturday got on.

Good weather for the next few weeks and I bet Macquarie doesn't attempt to reschedule any of the games.

Cooks hill must have left the sprinklers on last night

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Originally Posted by BS detecor

Cooks hill must have left the sprinklers on last night

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Which grounds washed out

Athfield called off by the refs

too early in my opinion

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Originally Posted by boz-monaut

Athfield called off by the refs

too early in my opinion

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I think some grounds that play today will get chewed up. It did piss down over night

no rain since the refs called it off, now the sun has come out

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Originally Posted by boz-monaut

no rain since the refs called it off, now the sun has come out

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you know the best one about this is tomorrow's ZPL fixture has already been called off.....

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Originally Posted by Jardelsimage

you know the best one about this is tomorrow's ZPL fixture has already been called off.....

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Can’t even blame it being trashed today for calling it off

we've had 10 millimetres of rain int he hour leading up to what would have been kick off

maybe the refs knew something we didn't

still seems a little too hasty to call tomorrow off

Lambton v Charlestown res
Called off about 32 minute mark, score was 1v1
I can’t see games being played tomorrow

Adamstown v Maitland res
Called off at half time 0v2

I think the answer to the forums topic is a resounding yes

Edit: back in the last century games were never called off once they had started and we would get excited about playing in the mud

Both games that were called off were in 1st grade and both at around the 30 minute mark.
Jaffas Azzurri 1 - 1
Adamstown Maitland 0 - 2
Will these games be re started from the 30th minute with scores as they are , or will both games start again at 0 - 0 ?

Judging by BarTV both grounds are now rooted

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Originally Posted by Hurricane

Both games that were called off were in 1st grade and both at around the 30 minute mark.
Jaffas Azzurri 1 - 1
Adamstown Maitland 0 - 2
Will these games be re started from the 30th minute with scores as they are , or will both games start again at 0 - 0 ?

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Yep Hurricane Both games were 1st my mistake I’ve got the flu and drugged up to the eyeballs.

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Originally Posted by BS detecor

I think the answer to the forums topic is a resounding yes

Edit: back in the last century games were never called off once they had started and we would get excited about playing in the mud

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Ya kidding right?

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Originally Posted by boz-monaut

we've had 10 millimetres of rain int he hour leading up to what would have been kick off

maybe the refs knew something we didn't

still seems a little too hasty to call tomorrow off

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Just got out of a hit shower after 80min in pissing rain at no.6. Got called with a few min to go because the goal mouths were under water. No.4 completely under water. Not surprised Athtrack was called, there's been rain here in Cooks Hill consistently since this morning. Weird weather, our ref was surprised when be punted up, said he'd been playing golf in Belmont this morning.

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Originally Posted by 2ndclasscitizen

Just got out of a hit shower after 80min in pissing rain at no.6. Got called with a few min to go because the goal mouths were under water. No.4 completely under water. Not surprised Athtrack was called, there's been rain here in Cooks Hill consistently since this morning. Weird weather, our ref was surprised when be punted up, said he'd been playing golf in Belmont this morning.

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That's the first big rain we've had since playing on the new No.6.
I'll get down tomorrow sometime and walk that too.

Just drove past Myer Park on the way home from in town, both pitches looked like lakes.

Lot more rain has fallen in Newcastle than the northern end of the Lake.

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Originally Posted by The Hacker

Judging by BarTV both grounds are now rooted

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Yep both grounds are basically scratched up chook pens. I seen various pics and what was on offer on BarTv. Devastating for the grounds teams who put in the hard yards to make a decent playing pitch.

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Originally Posted by sammydog

Lot more rain has fallen in Newcastle than the northern end of the Lake.

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31mm in the 12 hours since 6 a.m at my place, which is close to Athletics Field and Olympic's ground

so yeah, a fair bit all things considered - no surprises that games get called off halfway through

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Originally Posted by magician

Ya kidding right?

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No deadly serious

https://amp.smh.com.au/sport/why-are...16-p5au9z.html

If you are wondering if/when the State government will step in to address the football grounds issue, please don’t hold your breath. If you are a wealthy NRL club however………….

so with with Bureau of Meteorology giving a 70% chance of the current La Nina cycle continuing into next year, are any clubs planning on fixing drainage at their grounds over the summer?

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Originally Posted by boz-monaut

so with with Bureau of Meteorology giving a 70% chance of the current La Nina cycle continuing into next year, are any clubs planning on fixing drainage at their grounds over the summer?

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Who can afford to? Maybe if clubs change their name to include Rugby League or Rugby Union that could help

https://www.bunnings.com.au/draincoi...-pipe_p0165695

a few of those, a working bee and you're all sorted

maybe a top dressing of sand if you've got a bit more cash, usually goes for about $50/cube delivered

what else are clubs spending money on?

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Originally Posted by boz-monaut

so with with Bureau of Meteorology giving a 70% chance of the current La Nina cycle continuing into next year, are any clubs planning on fixing drainage at their grounds over the summer?

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Both ours were booked in for February this year. One ground for a drainage clean out on the 8 year old drainage, the other for a complete new system. Contractor couldn't get the materials so no works happened.

Booked in now for September before the cricket starts, main ground should be good for the drainage clean out, but the top pitch is too wet to get anywhere near. Lighting contractors got bogged yesterday trying to put trenching in and they were on the firm sections. Way it's going out lights wont be done for 2023 either if the wet continues.

So, if the rain doesn't stop for a decent period, our works despite being booked in likely wont happen and we will be down to one pitch again for 2023.

Hoping thats not the case.