Well yeah, but they will have better drainage and the undersoil heating would remove any snow they may have had 
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Thereās no chance our pitch is severely waterlogged though. I canāt believe that.
Thatās disappointing.
Iāve never understood why we play football in the winter months. Games get postponed clogging up the fixture list, not to mention fans have to sit for a couple hours in freezing temperatures.
To me, it would make more sense to start the season in March and end it before Christmas. Call the players back to training early February ready to go mid March.
A lot seem to be sceptical about this and think itās been used as a smokescreen dunno what to think we will see I suppose
We are normally really good at getting the game onā¦ very very rare we get a game called off, only team in the division to get game called off smells fishy to me
Albion look really poor donāt they mate if your watching that is.Big Sam said he told them a few home truths last game but it hasnāt made one jot of a difference.
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Anyone got a drone ?
Only game off in league 2 today
Thereās a few on here 
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But none of the others were being played at our place. As has already been said, it would be the ref that called it off not the club - and they couldnāt have planned it to be waterlogged as even Dr Evil Bonser canāt control the weather, nor is there any possible reason for them to do so (what do we gain by it?)
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Just played the game on FIFA. Walsall won. The pitch was in great condition the lying barstewards!
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No thanks.
Just walked across my local Council pitch , guess what ā¦ itās playable 
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Absence of evidence isnāt evidence of absence
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After seeing that Sri Lanka had a cover for the whole of the cricket field for the test match last week (similar to the old Brumbrella at Edgbaston) you would think it canāt be beyond someone somewhere to come up with even a low-cost low-tech solution to protect a football pitch from waterlogging??
Newport, Morecambe and Salford all in top 7 lost. Think Cheltenham-Forest Green was 0-0 so couldnāt ask for better results. Gap to 7th is 5 points still.
Sand based pitch with the aeration equipment, no way is it gonna be unplayable, the above as come off a good friend of mine who lives local and does this for a living at a top local club.
I suspect the sprinklers have been left on intentionally, no game means no awkward questions to answer, imagine couple of the lads missing we know the deals are done, what will happen now is we will announce Monday theyāre sold and we havenāt had time to bring in adequate replacements.
Read this lot like a book.
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Why would they be missing unless already sold? And if sold, how come neither have been announced by the team buying them?
Seems a bit too conspiratorial to be anything other than (in the refās view) a soggy pitch.
If someone has come in with a realistic and fair bid obviously a medical would have to take place and you wouldnāt risk them by picking them to play, get the game called off against an inform Mansfield team and no awkward questions to answer end of game.
Icy conditions, snow making it unsafe for supporters, yes puts game in jeopardy but weāve all seen it hammer down all week and the drainage as held up, hands up who woke up this morning thinking game would be called off for waterlogged pitch, not many if any would have thought it, for a lower league club we have an excellent record of getting games played at home.
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I donāt think thereās some big conspiracy, I just donāt think theyāve tried that hard to keep it on.
It would have been on if theyād sold 5K tickets
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When itās been very wet before, they have said " it has been land drained " or somthing similar. Added to the other reasons for not playing , you could watch Baggies v Fulham on the box for free.