All a bit daft this.
I don't think people need to take it so personally when a game is called off and fans question it.
Respectfully, some of the grounds team are seasoned fans who have been watching Altrincham for a long time. Having been involved with the club's media on-off for a good few years I fully understand what it's like to have your work (paid and unpaid) under the microscope but bluntly, you've signed up for it. Football clubs are scrutinised, and their pitches fall under that. As does their communication and planning, and ours does seem short of the mark on this occasion.
Our pitch is good. Much, much improved on what we had. But it was never going to handle that much rain in a short space of time after the consistent showers all week.
I was amazed there wasn't an earlier inspection. I was sent pictures from a fan at a JFC event in the Sports Hall and there was standing water at 9:30 am. No problem with giving our grounds team every chance to work on those issues but the club need to tell us that's what's happening**, rather than leaving it until midday and dropping a 12:30 pm inspection bombshell on everyone. It makes it seem like we've sat around having a brew and then realised it's been raining - which is where poor comms does the grounds team a disservice.
Sure we'll learn from it.
**EDIT: I should add that from a comms perspective the club are in a bit of a catch-22 situation with this, because they'll want to avoid sowing the seed of doubt across floating fans who were considering the game as an option for their Saturday afternoon.