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[CRT Butty]

Dreadful. Gutted for all who travelled.

[robininstockport]

Sorry I don't understand this as it is in stark contrast to what we have done with home games.
Why do we (Altrincham FC) have pitch inspections at times like 9am for a Saturday and call games off up to 5-6 hours before kick off, and this happens at away games about 1 hour before?

Do the team/club have to pay for away travel for situations like this?

Think  the club will get compensated for coach hire, but individuals not.

Poor assurance from spennymoor when it's not their call

[distancetraveller]

It’s a poor show  from Spennymoor, and the Ref, if he had any nous about him he would have got his arse up there earlier and assessed the situation in time to stop unnecessary travel. Officialdom in this league isn’t that great is it. I feel for those who travelled..

[Sarf London Alty]

Sorry I don't understand this as it is in stark contrast to what we have done with home games.
Why do we (Altrincham FC) have pitch inspections at times like 9am for a Saturday and call games off up to 5-6 hours before kick off, and this happens at away games about 1 hour before?

Do the team/club have to pay for away travel for situations like this?

Think  the club will get compensated for coach hire, but individuals not.

Poor assurance from spennymoor when it's not their call

Yes. I think they do have to cover our official team coach expenses but the half days leave everyone will have had to take off work to get up there and will now have to take again. It’s a really poor do. A lot of the lads will have young families too and it’s not very fair on them to be getting home in the early hours of the morning again. Spennymoor, of course, have done a very similar thing to Boston in the recent past and had that segregation fence that collapsed on some Darlo fans at their Christmas derby game. Off the pitch they have never given the impression of being a well run club, even though they do appear to have quite a lot of cash.

[Sale Holmfield]

 Spennymoor have issued a statement about the postponement. Basically, they are very apologetic, but blame the referee. Their chief executive says he will pay for the coach for the rearranged game!

 https://spennymoortownfc.co.uk/2020/01/14/club-statement-altrincham-postponement/

[CRT Butty]

Spennymoor have issued a statement about the postponement. Basically, they are very apologetic, but blame the referee. Their chief executive says he will pay for the coach for the rearranged game!

 https://spennymoortownfc.co.uk/2020/01/14/club-statement-altrincham-postponement/

Impressive response from their chair.

[Hale Alty]

Won't Spennymoor also have to pay for the team travel as the game was called off so late?

[Brian Flynn]

Won't Spennymoor also have to pay for the team travel as the game was called off so late?

Yes, they will.

[Alty Dave]

They blame the referee, because its his decision. If there was to be any doubt the inspection should have been earlier as others said. There only needs to be 1 small area he deems unplayable for him to postpone the match.

[Hale Alty]

Photo on John Laidlar's site shows one of the goal areas waterlogged. That would be enough these days.

[Silent but Ledley]

What a total shambles. Sunday league fixtures are better organised! Never mind the referee the club are at fault in my opinion. They must have known the condition of the pitch and the length of journey the away team had to travel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY COULD HAVE CALLED AN EARLY INSPECTION FROM A LOCAL REFEREE ............Absolutely disgusting and shows absolute total disregard. They seemed to have done this before?
Putting aside the inconvenience of everyone that travelled what about the carbon footprint?
We all hear about emissions/global warming etc etc etc Well Spennymoor shame on you.
I hope one day we can repay!!!!!!!!!!  SBL