Coventry OFF

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Coventry are due to play at home again on Wednesday against Bristol City in the league Cup. What baffles me is Mark Robins left it so late to ask for a local ref to inspect the pitch who deemed it too dangerous to play on. They then wait until 6pm the following day for an EFL ref to inspect the pitch. The groundsman should have been working on that pitch constantly not waiting until yesterday morning to try and get it passed fit to play on at 6pm the same day.
Conspiracy theorists would suggest Robins knew 2 of his best players are out and he doesn't have the quality to replace them which is why the pitch inspection was requested in the first place.

Now that wouldn't have been a very nice thing for him to do would it?

[gru]

Next available date to rearrange fixture week commencing 5th September.

[millertop]

Next available date to rearrange fixture week commencing 5th September.

There’s another round of carabao cup end August so that date might not be available

[gru]

There’s another round of carabao cup end August so that date might not be available

Checked carabao cup 2nd round is week before that. Both sides have no mid-week fixtures week commencing September 5th

[Townerslovechild]

Looks a right bloody mess, I'm not a lawn expert but Looks like will take some time to put right.
Plus,we are on for some more scorchio weather this week ,I can this playing surface not being right all season.
All in all someone has f*cked up here.

[clarkey1974]

Checked carabao cup 2nd round is week before that. Both sides have no mid-week fixtures week commencing September 5th

They clearly have got to do some ptich work I don’t think they will be in a particular rush to get any extra games on quickly….and also it won’t just be as easy rearranging the fixture with the landlords by sounds of it..

[Scum-Triumphant]

I was really looking forward to a lager soaked away day in the sun.
Now it’s soccer Sunday on sky and the wife complaining.
This morning I hate.
Coventry
Rugby 7s
Commonwealth games
John Sillet
Lady Godiva
The Specials

[millertop]

Atm I hate every ****er and I haven’t had a drink yet

[MagyarMiller]

I was really looking forward to a lager soaked away day in the sun.
Now it’s soccer Sunday on sky and the wife complaining.
This morning I hate.
Coventry
Rugby 7s
Commonwealth games
John Sillet
Lady Godiva
The Specials

From the Cov perspective you really ought to add Wasps ru to that list they really are despised in these parts.

I'm having the lager soaked away day in the sunshine but without the big black cloud of a bad result to spoil everything 😆
It's been quite pleasant so far

[Ericsladkilnhurst]

My last job before I retired was supplying top dressings & dressings for golf courses, racecourses , football stadiums, & wicket dressing (clay). A proper mix of soil & washed sand is used for football pitches, golf fairways, & bottom dressing on the greens. Dry screened sand (unwashed) still has silt in it. We supplied golf courses from Isle of Wight to Fort William, Huddersfield Town, & at one time Wembley Stadium, plus other football grounds all top racecourses, York, Doncaster, Newcastle, Newmarket, Haydock, Market Rasen, Ripon etc.A good drainage system needs the use of a washed sand, 70% washed sand 30% good soil, which was the normal mix, mixed & screened. We supplied Headingley & Scarborough, Yorkshire County cricket grounds with wicket dressing which was clay, used to take over 4 hours to screen a 30 tonne load, terrible to screen.