Ipswich fan in peace - Saturday questions re: pitch
Hello folks. Town fan here attending on Saturday, with a lengthy day of fun in Buckinghamshire planned. What's the outlook in terms of weather/snow/ice locally? Am concerned about the pitch (although a google search suggests partially artificial/undersoil heating) and also the area around the ground for accessibility etc.
I'm assuming a postponement is a long shot, but thought I'd ask anyhow. We've had a couple of postponements in recent memory at PR.
Cheers!
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At the very least a postponement would be a surprise. If it is, then it will be more likely that it is the access roads/pavements than the ground. 🤷♂️
There is under soil heating at AP , although unsure whether it still works. Famously forgot to turn it on and the pitch froze , just prior to a game against Fleetwood. Game was called off 20 minutes before kickoff. Fleetwood fans were not best pleased.
To be fair that was 15 years ago and I think the club denied they had forgotten to turn it on.
It’s never 15 years ago…… is it? I thought it was no more than 5 years ago !
Didn’t they only turn it on on the Saturday morning of the game?
Testing my memory but I think the excuse was they hadn’t turned on the heating because the cold was only forecast at the last minute.
They didn't forget as such, just no-one had been in over Christmas to do it.
There was a similar game in similar circumstances Vs Southend which was somehow played even though the pitch looked very icy indeed
Remember the Coventry home game in 2018 (0-1 through a late pen conceded by El-Abd)? I'm sure it was colder than -5 and that got played fine. If this snow has (been) cleared by Saturday, no issues getting the game on.
I’ve looked it up and Dec 2013 so 9 years ago.
https://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/news/19639/Wycombe-Wanderers--regret--inconvenience.html
What sort of things are involved in your 'lengthy day of fun in Buckinghamshire?'
Climbing Coombe Hill, visiting the Chair museum and complaining about Milton Keynes presumably feature pretty prominently.
Picking up my brother from the airport, checking into a hotel, enjoying hospitality at the ground, going to a curry house, stumbling around the local pubs, retiring to bed.
Thanks all.
Sounds like a good day, enjoy the trip, don't complain too much if we win 👍🏻
Literally thought he just meant the game itself. The guaranteed extra time makes it pretty lengthy.
Was going to say, 15 years ago seemed a hell of a long time ago.
Fleetwood was madness. Their poor fans apparently cheering in the Vere Suite when the game was declared on pretty late, maybe 1.30/2pm ish?
Enough confirmation for the likes of me to get going from 4miles away, only to get to the normal parking spot and it was suddenly off. Cheesing locals off, let alone those with their mad drive!
Pretty sure Bombay Palace on Crendon St in the town center is meant to be one of the best ones in town atm
Assuming you mean Heathrow not Booker, check that the M4 doesn't have any roadworks this weekend which will impact your timings if that's your route.
Personally I'd go M25/M40 from Heathrow to Wycombe.
A Tuesday mid-weeker during "The beast from the east". The coldest I've ever been at a football match by a long way. And we bloody lost.
... a late penalty too - their only shot on target. The ultimate in painful defeats.
That was the coldest for me. Some people say the night we lost in the FA Cup at Basingstoke was colder, but I wasn’t there for that one.
That Coventry is the only game ever where I've decided not to go because of how cold it was outside
If ever I made the correct decision it was that night
Swindon away on boxing Day during Alan Smith's tenure is probably the coldest I've ever been at a game
0-0? Open stand? Makes me cold just thinking about it.
Shout out for Chesterfield away on the open terrace at Saltergate in February 2002. I dragged some uni friends along from Sheffield and I'm not sure they ever really forgave me.
The 2016 (?) replay at Villa was extremely cold by my recollection
@YorkExile I remember that one, did a solo drive there and back while still suffering from the effects of a works do the previous evening. More lack of sleep than alcohol though.
Wouldn't have normally done that trip midweek, but we were on the fringe of the League 1 playoffs and it was fairly exciting times. Sean Devine scored IIRC. All came crashing down a few weeks later though, think it was Blackpool who brought us down to earth.
That was freezing! Made even funnier by a mate I'd dragged along who'd just stepped off a plane from 3 months in Australia!
Coldest I think I've ever been was Oldham away, 2-2 draw on a Tuesday night.
That Tranmere FA Cup replay a few seasons ago was pretty chilly
Can't even remember which game it was, but up in the FA, which is always on the colder side of things, it was so freezing cold that the game cast absolutely no memory.
I'd made the genius decision to bring some cross country running trainers, thinking the studded grip would be great in the snow, but forgetting they are made of paper thin felt. Hence almost losing feeling in my feet over the 90mins.
All made worse by my mate's dad changing the plan of dropping me in the centre of Wycombe near the multi storey for an easy walk home, and instead dropping me near Green Street on a near ice rink, and having to hold fences and inch a long cm at a time.
Might have been the game Matt Harrold was sub and said his feet were like blocks of ice when he came on, or maybe not.
York away for me in 3rd FA cup. Open terrace and like Siberia. I remember it snowed most of the way home. Swindon away on Boxing Day was also very cold. Leeds away in January was bitterly cold as well.
Had tickets for Leeds but couldn't get the car out of the road where we lived because of the snow and treacherous ice. Had to abandon the trip. Was gutted to say the least. Never actually expected that game to be on.
Shrewsbury away a few Christmases ago was the coldest for me.
Snow and ice everywhere. We had to scrape the ice off of our seats with credit cards and kept buying hot drinks we didn’t want to try and keep our hands from freezing solid.