Two to Tango

Today's latest, late postponement does not reflect well on the Poppies.  Our pitch, although draining better now than in previous seasons, is still a millstone around our club's neck.  It is a truly horrible surface to look at, to play on and to drain.  God knows how another game called off will hit the club's coffers.

We know all this.  We also know it's all we've got at the moment.

Today's game against Hereford was always going to be touch and go.  If played, it wouldn't have been a game for either purists, or the faint-hearted.  It would still be better than Hereford United's pitch during their famous FA Cup win in the 1970's.  But these days pitches not like billiard tables are heavily frowned upon.

The pitch is shit.  Fact.  However, if the stories already coming out of Latimer Park are to believed, the postponement seems to be as much about the Hereford management not wanting to play as the pitch not being playable.

If this is true, it is shocking.  And enormously cowardly.  It would only benefit Hereford if they could wriggle out of playing this afternoon.  They must have been dreading today.  We are on a roll and they are in free-fall.  A win today would have put us above them in the League.  I just hope that, as soon as everyone turns on the Poppies for this late postponement, the full story of who said what and when comes out.  Few teams fear Hereford anymore.  If it is shown that they bleated to the referee for today's game to be called off, even fewer teams will fear them.  Or respect them.

Ronnie would have played today....