DUCHY LEAGUE - 15 April 2023

[Dave Deacon]

PREMIER DIVISION

Dobwalls Reserves     0-2            Gorran

Lanivet Inn         4-3            St Merryn

Lifton    5-0            St Breward

Lostwithiel         2-5            Polzeath

Saltash Utd 3rds    7-0   St Dominick Res

 

DIVISION 1

Boscastle Res     1-5     St Mawgan Res

Gunnislake Res  H/W  Holywell And Cubert

North Petherwin Res   0-1      Calstock

St Cleer      2-3    Foxhole Stars  Res

 

DIVISION 2

Week St Mary    P-P     Lostwithiel Res

[bighairydave]

Week St Mary v Lostwithiel Reserves P-P

[Xavier1]

9 hours ago, bighairydave said:

Week St Mary v Lostwithiel Reserves P-P

Called it off at 7am this morning due to it being “waterlogged” must be the only pitch in Cornwall that couldn’t take a game today. They tried calling off last night apparently too.

Maybe they didn’t have enough players who knows, you can only guess. 

losty 1sts 2 polzeth 5 

a good performance at times but no game for our first team seems to be any easier than the other. Key players being out never helps any side but it’s especially tough for losty at the moment.

Polzeth played some good stuff at times took their chances when they appeared. Johnny Harris got both of our goals works his backside off for the team and took his goals well 

 

 

[Ferraro_roche]

Sounds like it’s unlucky for you Polzeath didn’t call it off , clubs don’t call games off at a whim to ruin people’s Saturday javier x 

[Left Peg]

On 15/04/2023 at 19:43, Xavier1 said:

Called it off at 7am this morning due to it being “waterlogged” must be the only pitch in Cornwall that couldn’t take a game today. They tried calling off last night apparently too.

Maybe they didn’t have enough players who knows, you can only guess. 

losty 1sts 2 polzeth 5 

a good performance at times but no game for our first team seems to be any easier than the other. Key players being out never helps any side but it’s especially tough for losty at the moment.

Polzeth played some good stuff at times took their chances when they appeared. Johnny Harris got both of our goals works his backside off for the team and took his goals well 

 

 

No conspiracy theory Xavier, we’ve had plenty of players available all year and are looking forward to completing our season, hoping for a point to secure 4th, which would be a great achievement for us. 
 

Most Duchy teams know that our pitch is probably one of (if not) the wettest around (minimal topsoil cover with a heavy clay subsoil). Since we did the cut and fill the clay underneath has now compacted which makes it very slow draining. If we get rain at the end of the week we’re generally panicking that the surface water won’t have gone through in time. Unfortunately, with a lot of damage from last Saturday and biblical rain Weds and Thurs, this Saturday came a day too soon. Ordinarily we’d have just moved it up onto our old pitch which was perfectly playable, but our Parish Council have taken one of the goal posts out as they think they’ll be imprisoned if a child gets hit by a ball on the play park!
 

But hey, if you’re all up for wasting your time and fuel, you should have driven up and taken a look for yourself. I guess we can’t all have a Home Park quality surface like Lostwithiel and acknowledge you must have the highest standard of facilities from which to criticise others 😬

[Saturday_Social]

4 hours ago, Left Peg said:

No conspiracy theory Xavier, plenty of players all year and looking forward to completing our season, hoping for a point to secure 4th, which would be a great season for us. 
 

Most Duchy teams know that our pitch is probably one of (if not) the wettest around (minimal topsoil cover with a heavy clay subsoil), since we did the cut and fill the clay underneath has now compacted which makes it very slow draining. If we get rain at the end of the week we’re generally panicking that the surface water won’t have gone through in time. Unfortunately, with a lot of damage from last Saturday and biblical rain Weds and Thurs, this Saturday was a day too soon. Ordinarily we’d have just moved it up onto our old pitch which was perfectly playable, but our Parish Council have taken one goal post out as they think they’ll be imprisoned if a child gets hit by a ball on the play park!
 

But hey, if you’re all up for wasting your time and fuel, you should have driven up and taken a look for yourself. I guess we can’t all have a Home Park quality surface like Lostwithiel and acknowledge you have the highest standard of facilities from which to criticise others 😬

Top class response to an uneducated and dimwitted post. Well played sir.