Balls Churning Elephantitis 'n all that

This rain sure ain't playing ball.. why on Saturday through the night into Sunday morning..? WHY !?

I rang the Groundsman at 8h45am : conversation was very simple..

- "pitches are playable..?" (ok, so this was wishful thinking)

- "waterlogged pitches"

- "no way games can be played?"

- "no way"

- "sure?"

- "sure"

Result as all of you know is that our games were cancelled.. again. Putting pressure on the fixture list.. and so Double Headers are required. Rather than have to graft some more comments, thought i would copy email sent to all managers..

Extract from my email to managers

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So, more waterlogged pitches and more cancelled games.. which is a bummer to put it mildly.

I have looked at the fixtures and the following will explain.

Groovers v Barnes

this is now to be played as a DH on 25th March / League and Cup game

Cosmopolitan v Madras

this is now to be played as a DH on 15th April / League and Cup game

Hendrix v WKK

this is now to be played on SUNDAY 6th May/ League - no DH possible

Celtic v Loko

this is now to be played as a DH on 4th March/ League and Cup game

Uncle Bob v Auckland Rangers

this is now to be played on SATURDAY 5th May/ League - no DH possible

Barn Elms is no longer available after end April, so need to play games at Barnes Common - can only play 2 games a day - already have 2 programmed hence to play this one on Saturday. Obviously, depending on Cup results and who goes through to semi's /finals, these can be amended.

We can discuss all the above at Managers Meeting which I will re-schedule for 11th March (next League games). F'n rain..

Reminder : DOUBLE HEADERS = full 90 mns = 2 resultsI know these are not ideal, but they are a necessary evil for catching up on cancelled games.

So, next week, we have 2 DH's:

Cosmo v WKK

Celtic v Loko

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With last weekends results (18th Feb), Celtic are clear at the top of the League, with Uncle Bob 3 points behind.. and they have 1 game in hand (worth more if it was in a bush..) mmm.... (....) ... ermm.. ok. WKK are 4 points behind Bob, but have also 1 game in hand (....) (...) (ok..) erm.... Loko are close behind WKK.. look, check out the website for the league standings, I am sure you can make up your own dialogue.. f'n rain.. I'm not bitter.

Here's a lovely pic.

Don't you think..?