Hope it’s worth our while letting the villa ladies play on it all season ! ( despite the wonderful signed shirt that we received).
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Glad it’s off, pointless game!
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My guess is that although the surface water would soon disperse they would not to risk damaging a newly laid pitch. It cost a lot to do it according to the Chairman in one of his videos and the rain was torrential for at least an hour before 6pm. Makes sense to me long term good coming out of a short term loss.
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Didn’t know The Banks’s’s was surrounded by fields. In other news freak downpour overwhelms drainage and temporary rise in water table causes localised flooding to lead to football match being called off. Unfortunate, but that’s the whole story.
I never said it was but fields in the local area yew tree etc ,what I drove thru there was no water there including the common in Pelsall ,I’ve never seen the bonks pitch like that before what ever the weather
Had the cowboys in same as the deep clean looking at that pitch the last time I saw it like that was in 97 when i played on it in a cup final the ref gave us 30 minutes each way or nothing lol
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To be fair we have an extremely good record of getting games on, we don’t lose many to the weather. I don’t live in Walsall so didn’t see the rain. We didn’t get the rain in Cannock so is it possible Pelsall didn’t get it as bad? From the things I have read it sounded like the rain was pretty extreme so it is probably just one of those things. I guess we will see as the season goes on if there is a problem.
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It belted it down here m8 to be honest ,It don’t matter now , i just hope the pitch holds up during the winter months if we are going for it or we could end up with a back log of fixtures in the winter.maybe it was one game to soon anyway or the heavy pitch could of lead to a few injuries.
I’m not convinced our pre-season schedule is the best preparation for the season ahead. Regardless of the Albion game being waterlogged the only truely competitive game is Cheltenham. I think we could have done with more games against teams of a similar standard.
Palace, Villa and WBA were about money and fitness. Kidderminster was good because we dominated but still think we are 1 good competitive short.
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Exactly this 
Great point. From a teams perspective pre-season is about Fitness, for players to gain a better understanding of what the manager wants and to build a better chemistry. Even more important when you have a complete new set up with lots of new players, and then finally if possible some confidence.
The money spinners v our local rivals may earn some £££ but they only really offer the fitness part of the things I mentioned above.
We should maybe have the villa game as is now the normal. But we should really have a few games at home for the home crowd to see some attacking football against teams in league 1 or 2 and build a bit of confidence going into the season instead of draining confidence when being well beaten by a much superior clubs. This obviously does the team no good whatsoever in the build up.
Or if we are to play these games for the cash play 1or 2 as soon as pre season starts then play competitive games.
Had they been watering the pitch before the downpour? Should have carried on and tossed for choice of attacking the deep or shallow end!
At least it wasn’t a totally wasted journey for me - picked up my Cheltenham ticket and my new home shirt from the reopened shop.
It hammered down in Pelsall mark from 4-15 onwards I called into hussy arms for pint and it was relentless till about 6-45.
Well it must have been a VERY localised downpour,because I live round the corner and when we have a real downpour my fishpond fills right up but it didn’t yesterday.
It rained relentlessley on a journey from Bewdley to Walsall and the motorway was like a river at the sides. Lots of local roads were like a river. I don’t buy all this ‘we should have better drainage’ crap becuase the sheer amount of rain that fell was ridiculous.
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I was at a reserve match, late 90s or early noughties, and it rained so heavily (at half-time, or maybe during the game, I can’t remember) that the pitch flooded and had standing water in a lot of places. The teams went off and Roy said they’d try again in 20 minutes or half an hour. The groundstaff went around pricking away with their forks, and the puddles went away, and the game resumed and was completed.
It wasn’t anywhere near as bad as the pictures posted above, though.
Im glad we didn’t play on the newly relayed pitch, which probably cost a tonne of cash itself, and cut it up and damaged it before the season already began.
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I was taken there a few times as a nipper. Former Test cricketer Roly Jenkins played then, he’d have been in his 50s.