GAMES OFF

The pitch wasn’t playable. Some parts were waterlogged and the ball wouldn’t even roll. All the main routes to the ground and parts of the car park near the Douglas were flooded too.

What about the poor bar stewards in Wigan without a habitable home rain or no rain. Everyone knows where the flood plane is in Wigan, it just happens to contain the ambulance station, the fire station and the police station. Do I feel sorry for Asda, well nope, sort that roundabout out it just needs a couple of drains at the lower level.

The thing that as done me is if we were still in the prem our pitch WOULD have been playable and the game would have gone ahead.[/quote]

The pitch was waterlogged anyway but even had we been in the prem the game would have been cancelled in certain of it.
Three access points to the stadium were flooded they did the right thing.
I remember a game against villa being cancelled after a major snowstorm in December 2010 due to access problems caused by snow.
Plenty of people affected in wigan by these dreadful floods a football match in the third division means nothing in my opinion .

What about the poor bar stewards in Wigan without a habitable home rain or no rain. Everyone knows where the flood plane is in Wigan, it just happens to contain the ambulance station, the fire station and the police station. Do I feel sorry for Asda, well nope, sort that roundabout out it just needs a couple of drains at the lower level.

The thing that as done me is if we were still in the prem our pitch WOULD have been playable and the game would have gone ahead.[/quote]

The pitch was waterlogged anyway but even had we been in the prem the game would have been cancelled in certain of it.
Three access points to the stadium were flooded they did the right thing.
I remember a game against villa being cancelled after a major snowstorm in December 2010 due to access problems caused by snow.
Plenty of people affected in wigan by these dreadful floods a football match in the third division means nothing in my opinion .[/quote]

I totally agree with you, although calling a game off due to snow storm is irrelevant in this thread. We all know that games have been called off due to treacherous conditions under foot around stadiums it has happened to us.

I’ve traveled to most grounds in England and Wales and some have just one road in and one way out. They cope all right it just takes more time to get away, some times best part of an hour, I’ve bin there, done that and got the T-shirt, like many others.
Sheff Utd fans I would imagine would come down the 62 then on to the 61 and off at the Macron. Aspull, Whelley, Swinley, Beech Hill all accessible, they may have had to sort the road out at the bridge near the car sales garages.
The car parks side of the soccer dome all fine and plenty of space for all the away fans and perhaps some home fans.

As for the home fans, how many do you see going over the canal bridge after the game to areas around Woodhouse lane and onward, probably thousands. All fine in that direction apart from probably the bridge, off Woodhouse lane, remember a few years ago this being under water to just below the knees and people carrying other folk across.

The rest of the roads in the Wigan Area fine, so those who are coming via the Ashton side of the borough could have gone down towards Goose Green up towards Pem and down either Kitt Green Road or Montrose Avenue.

All those from the other side of the borough could have gone via Swinley and the Cheery gardens route, or via the back roads that by pass the Cherry Gardens route.

Now I’ve worked that out in 5 mins, an official Wigan Emergency Planning Team, that I know exists and I’ve been part of in my time, could have sat down and made the necessary arrangements with diversion signs and a little help from the Highways department.

The pitch would have needed sections covering, the areas they know hold water.

I will stick with what I said, if we had been playing man utd in a premier league game, the above would have happened, probably with financial help from the FA and the game would have gone ahead.

It didn’t because it would have cost a bit of money and there was no pressure from the football world to make it happen.
This country is the worst in the world for planning for emergencies and I’m not talking hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, volcano eruptions etc., I’m talking a heavy downpour or 30 cm of snow, even when the Met Office have told us what is going to happen several days in advance.

This bleedin Fleetwood game better go ahead, although I would imagine having played yesterday and we didn’t, the club may not make one effort to prepare the pitch, if the weather turns again later today and overnight.

piggin hell its lashing down!!! :woohoo:

Didn’t go near the stadium, but did see a tweet from Greg Farrimond (WEP) about 1 pm, said that cars were turning round on Scott Lane as it was flooded near the stadium. Asda roundabout was flooded which meant only one of the 2 roads near the stadium was accessible safely.

Can’t agree with the point about it going ahead if it was a PL game….if that was the case, why didn’t the Villa or Bolton game (2009) get played. Think the council would have been too busy sorting blocked/flooded roads and making sure people were safe than worrying about a football match which can be played anytime in the next 5 months.

I suggest then that you send your findings to the club, GMP, Wigan Council, The FA and the visting club as you could be on to something.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit you tit. :P[/quote]

It’s also the highest form of intelligence ;)