Post by legas on Mar 15, 2021 19:54:26 GMT
The Swindon postponement has got me thinking (plus on leave this week so time on my hands) - did the weather/ref/opposition (delete as applicable) rob us of a great chance of victory? Did we escape a defeat and will be in better shape when we do play them?
I then started wondering about postponements in general. Are there ever ‘good’ ones? Which ones have benefited us? Which have I enjoyed? Which ones have been bad for us? Or been most disappointing? So for me:
Best postponements:
City at home Feb. 1990 - no 2nd May without it (plus they had been in form at the time, but by May were stuttering and I think had lost Bob Taylor to injury)
Oxford away (think about 10 years ago?) - arrived to find pitch frozen but led to a great p*ss up in Oxford (and some trouble with Swindon on the way back I seem to remember)
Orient (or was it Luton?) away. As above but a few years earlier (and without the trouble)
Stockport at home before the JPT city game (for obvious reasons)
Worst postponements:
City away (early 90s) - so disappointed as been looking forward to it for ages. Pitch playable but ice on terraces and around the ground apparently. Think they beat us in the rearranged fixture.
Swindon away - the half-time abandonment and wettest I’ve ever been (to make it worse I got there 20 minutes late).
Loads more in both categories I’m sure.
I then started wondering about postponements in general. Are there ever ‘good’ ones? Which ones have benefited us? Which have I enjoyed? Which ones have been bad for us? Or been most disappointing? So for me:
Best postponements:
City at home Feb. 1990 - no 2nd May without it (plus they had been in form at the time, but by May were stuttering and I think had lost Bob Taylor to injury)
Oxford away (think about 10 years ago?) - arrived to find pitch frozen but led to a great p*ss up in Oxford (and some trouble with Swindon on the way back I seem to remember)
Orient (or was it Luton?) away. As above but a few years earlier (and without the trouble)
Stockport at home before the JPT city game (for obvious reasons)
Worst postponements:
City away (early 90s) - so disappointed as been looking forward to it for ages. Pitch playable but ice on terraces and around the ground apparently. Think they beat us in the rearranged fixture.
Swindon away - the half-time abandonment and wettest I’ve ever been (to make it worse I got there 20 minutes late).
Loads more in both categories I’m sure.
