https://www.hartlepoolunited.co.uk/fixt ... ge-sutton/

Delayed FFS! Good or bad? Gives us more time to bring in players etc, but they should be fined.

Considering the known time it took Harrogate to replace their plastic, this is indeed a situation that could have been avoided by the schedulers or playing at a neutral ground.

I'll go for it being good news though since it gives us a bit more time to get some much needed players settled in. Plus it means I can justify travelling up for the home match on August 21st too.

Glass is half full.

They should be forced to play their home fixtures "away" until their pitch is ready and playable, thus forfeiting home advantage and the gate money.
Dave Brown would have had their new pitch seeded and growing before we went to Bristol. Adverse weather my arse. Water and heat are the best grass growing conditions and we have had both in abundance.
Load of bollocks.
We should claim the win and the points.
That'll teach them their responsibilities and the standards expected in the EFL.

You can’t work on waterlogged ground. And that’s the reason for the delay.

I believe Harrogate played their first home games at Doncaster.

Maybe another reason for the delay is the fact that you lot had a plastic pitch in the first place, with the sole intention of having an advantage, as did Harrogate before you.
Since your last home game of last season you have had ample time to rip up the plastic pitch and relay it with either seed or turf.
Our groundsman relays our pitch every close season and has done so for years. This close season he has done it again, in less time than you had.
Once again we have an immaculate pitch in peak condition. Probably down to the fact that he knows what he is doing.
Maybe your groundsman might like to have a word with him.
Take a trip to the wilderness of the frozen North and you'll see what I'm getting at.
Enjoy your first sojourn into the big league, if you ever get started that is.

That's probably a good reason for Sutton (ably advised by the EFL) to have been prepared for any contingency.
They obviously aren't.

Good news as it gives DC more time to bring some decent loan players in for when we do play them.

Sadly you don’t appreciate the amount of work that needed to be done to prepare the ground!

We know exactly what's needed obviously your club doesn't, welcome to the real football world.

In that case please let us know what was done to our pitch?

Surely this works in our advantage anyway? Why is anyone bothered?

I do find it bizarre that the EFL would not grant Sutton the chance to play elsewhere only for this to happen though. Harrogate were allowed as they went though the playoffs.

Sadly, it seems you failed to have contingency plans in place.
Has it rained in Sutton since the end of the season?

We've had the best summer for donkeys years. Waterlogged my arse

Halifax, Sutton, Barnet, truly places of extreme weather. Heaven knows how humans have managed to colonize lands so inhospitable.

Soil, Grass seeds, water ( hose or sprinklers if you do it right! )

Rearrange science....rocket.... it....ain't.

in the past teams who are having ground improvements that will not finish to after the season starts have played their early games all away. surely it would have been easier just to reverse the sutton game and play it as our home game and the away one when it should have been at the vic. even the micky mouse sunday leagues do that sort of thing.

Careful Mr Accy, that requires common sense.

Add a touch of Bluestreak bullsh*t as fertiliser?

(I hate those amber tw*ts and look forward to their dismantling in the proper league)

I resemble that comment:)

That's exactly what they have done with their game against Salford.

From the Sutton website:

"Our matches against Salford have been switched so the game on Saturday 14 August will now be held at the Peninsula Stadium and the reverse fixture will be played at Gander Green Lane on Tuesday 8 February. Our home match against Hartlepool will now take place on Tuesday 14 September."

It all sounds very biblical to me, was Noah cruising past the ground?