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[uknsaunders]

ours wasn't cancelled. Both our teams played away from home and got a game in.

[tushar sehgal]

...do we have a 'post a pic of your ground' thread?

If not then we should now

[Howzat]

ours wasn't cancelled. Both our teams played away from home and got a game in.

Damn wrong person haha... whos the guy whos groundsman at Marlow CC on here?

[charlie15]

Playing away at Whyteleafe on Saturday so I'll be interested to hear how their ground is, our nets has been cancelled tonite so I'm guessing our home groundis a little on the the soggy side.  God know what the council pitches are like at the moment, Serco are supposed to be looking after them, but knowing them they probably won't go near them due to health and safety!

[tim2000s]

Playing away at Whyteleafe on Saturday so I'll be interested to hear how their ground is, our nets has been cancelled tonite so I'm guessing our home groundis a little on the the soggy side.  God know what the council pitches are like at the moment, Serco are supposed to be looking after them, but knowing them they probably won't go near them due to health and safety!

Who do you play for? I know a couple of Whyteleafe players.

[charlie15]

Who do you play for? I know a couple of Whyteleafe players.

Woking & Horsell, be great to know how their place is!

[uknsaunders]

Damn wrong person haha... whos the guy whos groundsman at Marlow CC on here?

That's my father lol

He gave up on Weds last week. Not too hopeful about this week either. Marlow doesn't drain well because it's 200 yards from the Thames in a flood plain.

[tim2000s]

That's my father lol

He gave up on Weds last week. Not too hopeful about this week either. Marlow doesn't drain well because it's 200 yards from in the Thames in a flood plain this week.

[uknsaunders]

  - wouldn't be surprised.

[Manormanic]

There was a photo in the Metro this morning of a flooded ground in Zummerzet...

[Liam-SCCC]

If its the same picture as the one in the mirror then that was the county ground that was flooded.

[Red Ink Cricket]

tewkesbury cc is heavily waterlogged and from a pic on twitter new road, worcs isnt looking too good either.

i may be really stupid but when the drought first happened they mentioned about pumping water out of rivers to fill the reservoirs? surely it would be cheaper to do that from places like the severn river where its overflowing everywhere than pay all the insurance claims out for flood damage?

our training is still on atm, although we have had a huge amount of rain this morning so doubt we will get much done. probably end up doing some fitness work or fixing our new electronic scoreboard to the scorehut for the weekend. 

[charlie15]

i may be really stupid but when the drought first happened they mentioned about pumping water out of rivers to fill the reservoirs? surely it would be cheaper to do that from places like the severn river where its overflowing everywhere than pay all the insurance claims out for flood damage?

Nah you're not being stupid, it's just that it's far cheaper for them to impose a hosepipe ban so they can line their pockets!  Anyway we're getting the wrong type of rain!!!

[Tumo]

Nah you're not being stupid, it's just that it's far cheaper for them to impose a hosepipe ban so they can line their pockets!  Anyway we're getting the wrong type of rain!!!

Yeah, it's that dry rain again, everybody knows we need the really wet stuff...

[ajmw89]

Our main pitch dries fairly quickly, as we have a railway running behind our sightscreen (one of the longest in the country) and our second mitch is on a massive slope, so that dries reasonably quickly, although the bottom of the slope then becomes a bit of a swamp!

Our outfields are usually lightening quick, but because of all the rain are so slow.  Shots that would normally zip away for 4 just pull up a yard or so short of the rope, meaning I have to  continually run 2's and 3's!  Anything aerial seems to just plug too...