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Finnegan played for quite a few clubs himself

but they don't get all that many public holidays compared to many countries.No national day, not many religious days,so you can't really complain if their bank holidays don't get docked for week-ends.

Told you what 11 is 1764=Forty Two Squared

But if the bad weather continues some clubs will soon start getting behind with their re-arranged fixtures as well. If you take Oldham for example,they're already 5 games behind (counting tomorrow) plus the fixture correspondent to the FA Cup 3rd round game with us.We're only in December as yet and most of the fixtures lost in previous seasons have been in January and February.All these holiday season games being postponed must be playing havoc with cash-flow as well.Staff still have to be paid whether you sell any beer or pies or not.

If you mean that shops,businesses and administrative concerns were closed then yes it was.

yes it is a holiday. Christmas Day and Boxing day lead to extra holiday days when they fall on Saturday or Sunday, this year it's a bumper 4 day bonanza.

Read the report of the Huddersfield-Hartlepool game. Seems that they were stifled by a young on loan keeper from Blackburn, on form keepers do seem to be making it hard for everyone in this league.We'd have beaten Brentford easily if it wasn't for Lee.

we can't afford a cup run.

[quote=gaz;918746k You can't win. True, but with modern bladed boots having the ability to snap tendons and ligaments in dry, fine weather, its very risky to put people's careers on the line for one questionable match. Now if I remember correctly we wore the type of boot that are made for stabilised pitches (you know sort of compacted red sand/ash sort of stuff) of frosty pitch days.Football used to be played on hard grounds and no doubt still is elsewhere.Only in wimpy soft England do matches get called off because there's a frozen patch around the tea bar and the hot dog stand.

I don't know why I bother sometimes. Huddersfield will probably win today that's all. Our fans always tend to underestimate the enormity of the tasks that face us. Why last season the number that believed that we would win our last 15 or so games on the trot to make the play-offs was incredible. The fixture backlog that's building up for us won't help us and our squad isn't all that strong,look at the Brentford game we had 7 subs but the manager didn't see fit to use any of them until the 80th minute even though we were 2-0 down and had little left to lose.

to most of our fans all games are equal. Obviously they aren't .Now if Huddersfield goes ahead today and they win,they'll just need to come here for a draw on tuesday and they'll have a 4 point Xmas which will suit them.As they know how to defend and we're not so hot on breaking down that sort of side they'll probably get the point they'd be aiming for.As it now stands we have 28 games in 130 days,of these 15 are away games and at least 4 are now midweek.I've seen plenty of sides in with championship and promotion prospects simply implode under the weight of fixture backlogs.

Charlton's MD is now saying he thought the game was playable.See he says we could have put a sheet on it and used the blower under it, why didn't they do that before then, like 9 o clock this morning just as I said they should.sounds like a right balls up all round, especially as the ref who looked on Friday wasn't today's ref.

would probably dislocate something whilst carrying his signing on cheque long before he actually put on his boots.

Charlton must have known there was an icy band under the covers though.I mean it's the sort of thing groundsmen know isn't it.Surely a bit of hot air blown under the covers at that part of the pitch this morning would have done the trick. I'm sure Saints have resorted to that tactic in the past to keep games on.Charlton probably didn't fancy it,no matter what they bleat in public.

just another reason as to why we desperately need to move back up the leagues,not many games in the NPC called off so far. Our league: 1 game(maybe none at all) on for about the 3rd week running.Those with points already on the board will be advantaged during the ensuing fixture chaos.

but the groundsmen have to work on 1 specific area of the ground.Don't know in what way though. Hot air blowers perhaps.

Frost under the covers, looking decidedly dodgy.

Probably,another lost game day. Still if it's off I won't lose my ticket money.Couldn't travel, snowed in,no flights anyway.

since when has D'Urso been the ref for this game?? Thought it was another name. Crossley?? http://www.cafctv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10267~2251573,00.html

11....1764 Forty Two squared.

What do you expect even Man U got relegated that year. I seem to recall Osgood scoring for us though that season,could be wrong

won't be that bad.....I've seen them and they are that bad. Still they're triers all right and they may do a Bahrain in offering nationality to "nearly men" from african nations.

tbh Phil it's probably no more strange than FIFA giving a 220kmx50km,1.6 million inhabitant gulf country a world cup in the middle of summer is it. Administrators make mistakes whatever their level. To me it's laughable that Qatar as host nation will be qualified, it'll be a Turkey shoot.When I was coaching at a provincial town 70 km south of St Etienne we had their national side there for a friendly. Our collection of town hall workers,washer uppers and what have you beat them 2-0, nice lads though.

Barney and Punch look fit....but I don't know how old this article is. http://www.myprotein.com/uk/pages/our_athlete?tab=amb6 click on football.

I think the point is that he was supposed to be in perfect shape before the pre-season training started.He's supposed to have worked really hard all by himself and then AP (and I guess Wally Downes) are supposed to have ruined all that with their training regime. I guess that's what DD was pointing at.