URGENT REQUEST



If anyone has spare time tomorrow can you help shovel snow from the pitch.



Please bring a snow shovel (spades are not allowed) and for those keen gardeners a wheelbarrow would speed things up.


Any questions contact the club on : 0208 410 6000

What?????
The pitch is covered (by proper covers as well as snow) and so it should remain until Saturday Morning at the earliest. What's the point of clearing it now, when there may be more on the way on Friday


This is not good!
Where has this request come from?

Must be a wind up.

The Stoop has just been on Sky sport news. Still covered in snow.

Pitch inspection Sat morning it says.

Heineken cup semi-final v Munster (expected gate 12,500)to be played Sunday 8th of Feb....= Pitch cleared and free of snow already (I would guess)
SL Round to be played v Bradford (expected gate 4,000) Sun Feb 8th or Feb.....= game off.....

Some "PARTNERSHIP"
FFS.....The pitch itself has been under covers since Saturday/Sunday. Why, when the ground staff had SFA to do over the last 3 days has nothing been done to clear the snow off the covers?
Second class citizens/tennants is what we are. Do they want £0 income from their stadium during the summer?
Pi55ed off would be putting it mildly

If this gets called off I will be furious.

Don't QRU/QRL employ a groundstaff?

Allegedly



. But if this is called of because no ones done their job then will think said allegded GS have only one side of the club at heart.

I was in the club this morning helping out and believe me there are plenty RU staff, ground workers and fans clearing snow. There is loads of it and to leave till last minute would mean neither game would go ahead. RU people are working their butts off and asking for help from RL. It's not a wind up just a genuine plea for help. If they left it all until Saturday then my guess is both games would have to be cancelled. They are covering the pitch as they clear the snow. Guess that means once it is cleared underneath the covers it should be relatively simple to remove further snow by pulling it off at the same time as you pull the covers off. But I am not a groundsman so maybe I am over simplifying things. But the club need help.

I have two hotel rooms booked for the weekend (non refundable). Is the general feeling that it is more likley to b off than on?

Nature might help with a deluge before Saturday.

Don't think so. I would be surprised if its called off unless the forecast drastically gets worse.

heavy rain is forecst.

The side roads around the stoop much better today.

I think it's very much in the balance.

The groundstaff who do a great job, had the pitch covered straightaway after the Northampton game on Saturday. However, there has been so much snow (here in SE London anyway), where the hell do you put all the snow that you've taken off the covers?

Obviously, I know bugga all about pitches but it seems to me that even if there's a thaw, there could be flooding (and there's the safety issue of the ground around the Stoop).

BTW Gutters, what's this about a Munster game this weekend? I think reason we're not playing on Sat is because there's the England/Italy game on at Twickers.

darth
as you have been down there, what is the college pitch looking like??

No no no....you misunderstood.
IF RU were playing this weekend in a televised Heineken Cup game, I have no doubt the game would be on.....
As it is, it's a nice steady drizzle outside at the moment with a ground temp of about 5 degrees.....so that should wash away the snow on the covers.
As it is, the forecast is pretty much rain between now and the game, with a cold night on Saturday (-2) and then 4 degrees on Sunday, so the game shouldn't be postponed on safety grounds, but only if the pitch would get buggered (which I can't see happening)....but fingers crossed

GF - I think you need to look at brialis post - they are working very hard and have asked for some extra help that is all. If there was a RU game they would probably asking for volunteers as well.

GF...Good to see that your rant was based on an entirely hypothetical situation

.......the ground staff look forward to your grovelling apology in due course

Its embarrassing when a professional sports club need volunteers to help prepare the pitch for match day. Plans should have been put in place for this eventuality. No excuses IMO.

PP and UtS....
I fully appreciate the work being done by the ground staff and the volunteers from both codes and humbly proffer my sincerest apologies for any upset I caused by implying that the Union club would do anything other than all they can to ensure our game goes ahead. I mean to say, where ever would I get such an idea from? =yellow[size=59(celtic crusaders anyone!)[/size

I mean, it's not like they DIDN'T clean the ground after their game on Dec 13th is it.................................................otherwise the RL volunteer group would have had to sweep the concourses, move 70 odd empty beer barrels and generally tidy the place up for the RL festive open day on the 14th.

Sceptic I may be, but there are a few other instances us and them (which I am prevented from mentioning in public) so sceptic I will stay until I see a major attitude shift.
Sorry if that upsets some people.

Yeah disgraceful........everyone from the RU/RL board down to the players and back room staff should be sacked immediately......and we should start both codes again from scratch.......no excuses, they should have known that the worst snowfall in many a year was going to hit and had snow ploughs standing by and undersoil heating installed........shows a complete lack of forward planning....tut, tut

Totally agree mate, well put.

Not Like it was a game was it!