Aldershot Town v Hartlepool United - Saturday 22nd February 2025 (Match Day Thread)

[Aldershot]

A pitch inspection will take place this evening upon the availability of a local qualified official.

With recent postponements in mind, and with rain forecast from this afternoon, the club have spoken with the match official and Hartlepool United and organised a local referee to inspect the pitch at the earliest possible opportunity. This is in order to provide an indication on the condition of the pitch ahead of the day of the match, and provides extra time should any action be required.

The outcome of the pitch inspection will be communicated as quickly as possible.

[lowerbourneshot]

A pitch inspection will take place this evening upon the availability of a local qualified official.

With recent postponements in mind, and with rain forecast from this afternoon, the club have spoken with the match official and Hartlepool United and organised a local referee to inspect the pitch at the earliest possible opportunity. This is in order to provide an indication on the condition of the pitch ahead of the day of the match, and provides extra time should any action be required.

The outcome of the pitch inspection will be communicated as quickly as possible.

Best be careful In the dark inspecting the pitch

[Peter macdonald]

Absolutely pathetic beyond belief, hardly any rain in the last fortnight, what an embarrassment of a club we really are

[Gone West]

A pitch inspection will take place this evening upon the availability of a local qualified official.

With recent postponements in mind, and with rain forecast from this afternoon, the club have spoken with the match official and Hartlepool United and organised a local referee to inspect the pitch at the earliest possible opportunity. This is in order to provide an indication on the condition of the pitch ahead of the day of the match, and provides extra time should any action be required.

The outcome of the pitch inspection will be communicated as quickly as possible.

So a local referee is going to have a look to “provide an indication on the condition of the pitch”? Do we really have nobody, within the club or contractor, with some modicum of expertise who can advise on the condition? Is everyone sitting up in corporate just looking out of the window? Surely the Fylde referee told the club exactly why he deemed the pitch unplayable so it must be quite simple to see whether it’s better/same/worse. This will be another pass the buck/blame the referee situation if it gets called off.

[Peter macdonald]

At this rate we’ll be playing someone’s kids at 3 o’clock on a Tuesday afternoon in that end cup followed by a rearranged league game about 3 hours later in the same evening

[paul4shots]

Just so i can understand who decicides there needs to be an inspection is it the league or the host club

[Mytshot]

Just so i can understand who decicides there needs to be an inspection is it the league or the host club

Host club

[Aldershot]

Last night a local referee inspected the pitch and deemed the pitch unplayable as things stand. There will now be a further pitch inspection at 10:30am.