On Friday the club appealed for volunteers to help clear the Snow from the Griffin Park Pitch in the hope that we could get the rescheduled Doncaster FA Cup tie on after two consecutive postponements due to the recent cold weather.

However, the club have now realised that even if the pitch is in perfect condition, it’s the Surrounding Areas that will cause the most problems, as frozen pavements and roads mean people could fall over which means matches get postponed, as is alluded to in the following:

However over the past twenty four hours the pitch and Surrounding areas have shown no improvement whatsoever and with the worsening conditions and the forecast of more snow and sub zero temperatures, it has been decided that it would all be to no avail and the snow clearance will not now take place. Braemar Road and the other side roads surrounding Griffin Park are also very hazardous and have yet to be gritted.

There’s still going to be a pitch inspection tomorrow morning but seeing as the pitch is still going to be covered in snow as no-one’s going to be clearing it, I can’t see how the match could possibly be given the go-ahead, save for a dramatic rise in temperature in the next few hours (and given that it’s snowing here in south-east London as I type this, I think that’s somewhat unlikely). As such, it looks like we’ll lose our third match in a row due to the weather, with the next scheduled match at home to Carlisle on Saturday 16th. The prospects for that match look a bit more promising as the forecast has sweltering temperatures of up to 4°C in the week ahead, so that should theoretically see off all the ice and snow on both the pitch and the surrounding areas. Fingers crossed anyhow!