• Welcome to the ShrimperZone forums.
    You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which only gives you limited access.

    Existing Users:.
    Please log-in using your existing username and password. If you have any problems, please see below.

    New Users:
    Join our free community now and gain access to post topics, communicate privately with other members, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and free. Click here to join.

    Fans from other clubs
    We welcome and appreciate supporters from other clubs who wish to engage in sensible discussion. Please feel free to join as above but understand that this is a moderated site and those who cannot play nicely will be quickly removed.

    Assistance Required
    For help with the registration process or accessing your account, please send a note using the Contact us link in the footer, please include your account name. We can then provide you with a new password and verification to get you on the site.

Pre-Match Thread Southend United v FC Halifax Town. POSTPONED

Forums New posts

Starting XI and Result

  • Total voters
    79
I’d be surprised if they are heaters. Surely a raised cover with a some hot air blowers would be more efficient. Maybe they are some funky infra red jobs. Or they drape a cover over that bar attached to them… ?
 
To be fair to the Club and specifically ground staff, from my vantage point it would seem that realistically, they have done all they could have done to get the match on. 'There's been a bright golden haze rising above Roots Hall' (Rogers & Hammerstein should be worried!) for a good few weeks now suggesting that heaters (more than one) have been employed in an attempt to keep the pitch from freezing. Also the floodlights have been on the last few nights, so it would suggest more work being carried out on the pitch into the evening, possibly the covers being replaced after the lamps have been switched off?

As an aside Highbury was the first ground in the country to have under pitch 'heating' and Filbert Street used cover the pitch (not whilst a match was being played!) with a 'bubble', inflated with warm air in an attempt to defy the weather.

Sometimes though, Mother Nature wins...
 
NZamba Legend said:
Sticking my neck out and saying we will either

Win 1-0 and be criticised on SZ for being dull and boring

Draw 0-0, same as above but greater frequency of 'crab footballs' and 'Maher outs'

Win 4-0 but only because Halifax are the worst team to play Southend since 1906.

Lose by a narrow margin leading to full on hysterical attack on Bonne, Husin, COSU, Maher, John Still, Stan Collymore, new burger bars and the white board plus intensified calls to 'recall Wood' and to 'give Waldron a chance'.
Click to expand...
In the last scenario you forgot the 'we'd be storming the league if we had kept Fonguck and Powell' brigades.
 
Personally, disappointed. Think we would have won and carried on, up the table.
Not even mentioning, that it's 2 weeks in a row, without my beloved SUFC on the DAZN!
Will have to try and get some sun, I suppose 🤔.
 
Crowstone Crevette said:
To be fair to the Club and specifically ground staff, from my vantage point it would seem that realistically, they have done all they could have done to get the match on. 'There's been a bright golden haze rising above Roots Hall' (Rogers & Hammerstein should be worried!) for a good few weeks now suggesting that heaters (more than one) have been employed in an attempt to keep the pitch from freezing. Also the floodlights have been on the last few nights, so it would suggest more work being carried out on the pitch into the evening, possibly the covers being replaced after the lamps have been switched off?

As an aside Highbury was the first ground in the country to have under pitch 'heating' and Filbert Street used cover the pitch (not whilst a match was being played!) with a 'bubble', inflated with warm air in an attempt to defy the weather.

Sometimes though, Mother Nature wins...
Click to expand...


UPDATE...

There's still a bright glow rising above the West Stand. So the heaters are still on!!!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

.



Club News
Fixtures and Results
League Table
SUFC Ticket Stats
Shrimpers Trust
SoccerBase
SUEPA (Ex Players)
Shrimperzone on Facebook
Shrimperzone on Twitter
Shrimperzone on Instagram


ShrimperZone Sponsors

FFM MSPFX Foreign Exchange Services
Estuary MFF2
Zone Advertisers Zone Advertisers

ShrimperZone - SUFC Player Sponsorship

Southend United Away Travel


All At Sea Fanzine


Back
Top