Orient postpone game as fans arrive in Leyton.

Just an hour and forty-five minutes before today’s League One game against Bristol Rovers, the match ref Kevin Wright decided to call the game off.

A decision was made on Friday evening to hold a pitch inspection at 10am, which was passed but the situation was to be monitored.

After the freezing conditions of the last two weeks as well as rain in East London over the last week the pitch was deemed unplayable at 1.45pm just as Bristolians were pouring into Leyton via coaches or trains.

I’m no groundsman but the pictures I have seen are pretty bad and I would’ve agreed with postponing the fixture but at a reasonable time so that the travelling Rovers fans wouldn’t of lost there money on a wasted trip.

The referee Wright has told the official site that ‘I was here at 9 o’clock this morning and the pitch was playable at 9, 10, 11 and 12 o’clock.’

I have no problems with his statement but my opinion on the situation is look at a weather forecast. I looked on Friday evening on the news at the weather for the weekend before descending on the town on another crazy booze fuelled student party and thenit said that there would be rain forecast for Saturday. If I could access the news then surely so could Mr Wright? It’s not very often that a weather report is far wrong so why couldn’t Wright make the right decision earlier?

The main affected area was in front of the dugouts which is along the West Stand. I have a problem with this, not to do with Mr Wright but with Mr H£arn and the people in charge of building that stand. I used to sit in the East Stand when we had the old West Stand opposite us and on sunny days the sun would blind us and we’d struggle to see what was happening on the pitch. So my question is why build a stand that is so big that the sun will be blocked out meaning any adverse conditions will affect our fixture list?

We now sit in the relegation zone after today’s results after those around us picked up wins, which means our hefty fixture list is becoming even more important game by game.

I’d like to take this oppourtunity to apologise to the Bristol Rovers fans who were at Brisbane Road and who were on the way to the game, and thank you for being in such good spirit after the postponement. I have been told on good authority that the rearranged fixture will be Tuesday 2nd February 2010.

UP THE O’s!