THE EDMONTON ROVERS FORUM
We are Away to AC Enfield in our next match this coming Sunday, but at Grundy Park instead of their normal Home pitch at Wormley Playing Fields...according this on Full-Time.
I won't find out whether that is a mistake or not until the AC Enfield Secretary confirms the match though...and most Club Secretaries do that on a Tuesday night.
Daniel Daley is the only player unavailable for Sunday's match as he starts another three-match London FA suspension for 'misconduct'. He would have been able to play if our matches had not been postponed this morning and last Sunday, so he is really unlucky as he has ended up being penalised more than he should be simply because of the weather !
Under the previous suspension rules, he would have been banned for two consecutive 35-day periods and his suspension would have been over by Christmas...with him only missing four matches instead of eight. (We banned him ourselves for two games before his London FA suspension started so that it got his second suspension reduced).
AC Enfield have played for the last two weeks when we haven't, so they will have a massive advantage in fitness and match practice...if the game goes ahead.
The weather forecast at the moment is for frost and sub-zero temperatures for the rest of this week from tomorrow onwards but with no snow (here at least). If that is correct, it will mean another scenario like we had against Turnford Geese where we will have to turn up for the Referee's pitch inspection at 10.00.a.m. otherwise our opponents will claim the points if they are there and we are not.
Another problem is that AC Enfield wear black shorts, so with this new League 'rule' that has just been brought in, as the Away team we are going to have to borrow the spare blue shorts from the Church Team that some of our players are playing for on Saturdays. I don't know whether they have 16 pairs of a size that fits all our players though. 
Regarding our squad for this match, that will be announced after training this coming Wednesday night.
I have just spoken to Trev and he says attendance at training will have a bearing on who he picks for certain positions in his starting line-up for the AC Enfield match.
Barney is not coming training due to social commitments, so we need somebody else supervising the warm-up & fitness session at 8.30.p.m.
The temperature is going to be -3C on Wednesday evening, so we are not going to be able to stand around !!
No frost on Saturday night though and mild on Sunday morning.We are playing on a Broxbourne Council pitch and they do not do pitch inspections after mid-day on Fridays, so there is a possibility it may not be waterlogged enough to call all matches off at that stage. It will then be left up to the Referees. Although they are dreadful pitches at Grundy Park, they actually drain well and there have been loads of occasions in recent seasons where only two matches have gone ahead (on pitches 1 & 2 at Grundy Park) when every other match in the League has been called off. We might be lucky this week !
