Dover Postponed

[CamPie]

I tend to agree, but like I said earlier, don't absolve the officials and league of blame either. Apparently the referee arrived at 12.45pm, but why wasn't a pitch inspection conducted much earlier today, given the known weather situation and the distance away fans were travelling?
I can remember various instances of past games in the Football League where a local referee was dispatched to the ground either early in the morning or even the previous day to inspect the pitch and save everybody a wasted journey if it was that bad.

Yes of course it's possible that the pitch was genuinely playable at 8am and the heavy rain from 11.30am changed that, but I suspect Dover have winged it in their desperation to get the game on, and nobody from the National League visited the ground early enough to make their own judgement and protect the interests and pockets of travelling fans.

As a previous poster suggested - at best it's a bunch of bungling amateurs, at worst it's a deliberate disregard for travelling supporters.

I don’t know for sure but I don’t think the league has the responsibility to organise a local ref, I believe the clubs would usually do that. I also think that a responsibly run club would always call an early inspection if there was any doubt. We don’t know for sure what happened and whether the late rain, which was forecasted, did cause the postponement but whatever happened I would still not trust a word Parmenter says.

[gulf_coast_roamer]

I don’t know for sure but I don’t think the league has the responsibility to organise a local ref, I believe the clubs would usually do that. I also think that a responsibly run club would always call an early inspection if there was any doubt. We don’t know for sure what happened and whether the late rain, which was forecasted, did cause the postponement but whatever happened I would still not trust a word Parmenter says.

Hardly late rain . Weather apps were forecasting heavy rain in Dover when I checked on Thursday night . It should have been called off Friday afternoon to prevent fans & players traveling, at great expense to club & fans . It's negligence on part of Dover and National League hierarchy.
Only they know how their pitch behaves in heavy rain . Shocking in this day and age .