Storm Eunice re Brighton match

[ClaretLoup]

Brighton is going to get battered tomorrow by Storm Eunice with winds up to 70 mph and again on Saturday when the winds are forecast to reach up to 50 mph during the match.

Expect massive disruption to rail travel especially, and maybe roads as well as there will be trees down all over the place.

I can see a possible postponement in the offing especially as this ground is very reliant on public transport for access.

[tarkys_ears]

They won't care about the fans. The games need to go ahead now. If it's playable, it will be.

Good luck to all travelling fans though!

[Paul Waine]

Brighton is going to get battered tomorrow by Storm Eunice with winds up to 70 mph and again on Saturday when the winds are forecast to reach up to 50 mph during the match.

Expect massive disruption to rail travel especially, and maybe roads as well as there will be trees down all over the place.

I can see a possible postponement in the offing especially as this ground is very reliant on public transport for access.

Rail travel won't be disrupted by Eunice. Rail from London to Brighton is being shut down, starting Saturday for a week of engineering works. Rail replacement buses to operate from Three Bridges all the way to Brighton, similarly, Lewes.

I'm driving. Looking forward to a windy game.

UTC

[HB Claret]

Last time there were heavy storms in the south when we were playing I think we won at Southampton with Vyds scoring a stunner …. maybe it’s an omen ?

[IanMcL]

Last time there were heavy storms in the south when we were playing I think we won at Southampton with Vyds scoring a stunner …. maybe it’s an omen ?

I think it is still classified as a storm.

[bfcjg]

If it is postponed for the weather Burnley will still get blamed for it. Dirty northerners bringing their crap weather down.

[Spijed]

Does anyone know the last time we had a game postponed due to high winds?

[duncandisorderly]

I remember being blown off the longside before a Wimbledon game once.

[Bosscat]

I remember being blown off the longside before a Wimbledon game once.

[karatekid]

I remember being blown off the longside before a Wimbledon game once.

What was his name?

[gawthorpe_view]

Link to webcam at Brighton Pier.

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webca ... -pier.html

[Hipper]

Rail travel won't be disrupted by Eunice. Rail from London to Brighton is being shut down, starting Saturday for a week of engineering works. Rail replacement buses to operate from Three Bridges all the way to Brighton, similarly, Lewes.

I'm driving. Looking forward to a windy game.

UTC

Double decker buses?

[dermotdermot]

In Bournemouth, it’s a little breezy and the sun is out. The papers were saying that the Bristol Channel would be ‘destroyed’ and that this will be the worst storm for thirty years. Okay, so there’s still forty minutes until the peak but I hardly think that this warrants all the schools being closed and people being told not to leave their homes.

[JohnMac]

Does anyone know the last time we had a game postponed due to high winds?

Wolves at Turf Moor in the Championship springs to mind. Crowd safety issue.

[Beagleheart]

The storm has definitely arrived just outside Salisbury. We're heading towards Brighton later today. Hopefully it'll calm down this afternoon.

[AlargeClaret]

The Met office site Brighton has winds of approx 30 mph tomorrow with “ chance of gusts to 40-42” . Quite where 70mph has come from is anyones guess . Let’s hope it’s more or less blown out by KO .

[AlargeClaret]

I also feel it’s obligatory to shoehorn a “ blown off in Brighton “ type gag into a post on the thread

[dsr]

Does the team fly down when it's a south coast match?

[duncandisorderly]

I also feel it’s obligatory to shoehorn a “ blown off in Brighton “ type gag into a post on the thread

Almost like it's a reflex?

[AlargeClaret]

Almost like it's a reflex?

very good !

[Paul Waine]

The Met office site Brighton has winds of approx 30 mph tomorrow with “ chance of gusts to 40-42” . Quite where 70mph has come from is anyones guess . Let’s hope it’s more or less blown out by KO .

I think it 70+ mph, red warning, between 10:00 and 15:00 today (Friday) in the South East.

[Goody1975]

The Met office site Brighton has winds of approx 30 mph tomorrow with “ chance of gusts to 40-42” . Quite where 70mph has come from is anyones guess . Let’s hope it’s more or less blown out by KO .

As has been said above, the worst of it is this afternoon and it calms down a lot overnight. Tomorrow it picks up again after lunch with gusts approaching 50mph at kick off.

[Mattster]

Does the team fly down when it's a south coast match?

Yeah, the team's flight from Manchester this afternoon has been cancelled due to the storm so the club is having to make alternative arrangements.

[Foshiznik]

I’m in Bristol and still have a roof. I’m a survivor

[SkiptonClaret]

I live a couple of miles from the AMEX. It's a strong wind ! Forecast is that it will lessen by tonight / overnight. No issues forecasted tomorrow that I'm aware of.

[Dark Cloud]

Wolves at Turf Moor in the Championship springs to mind. Crowd safety issue.

Wimbledon at home circa 2003? Without checking I'm sure wind caused a late postponement.

[dermotdermot]

It has been quite gusty in Bournemouth over the last hour or so, I must admit, but it’s dying down now. I still think that that the closure of schools, etc. was ridiculous.

[ecc]

Hi Dark Cloud,

It was Wimbledon but I think it might have been 2004. We ended up winning the rearranged match 2-0. It was when I first started using CM (18 years ago, oh dear).

[ecc]

110 mph off the Needles.

My sister was due to travel by train from Southampton to Stafford this afternoon but they've cancelled it.

[BleedingClaret]

It’s getting serious this… I’m seriously considering a coat for tomorrows trip… to the English Riviera!
Feel a bit sorry for those that are making a weekend of it

[FCBurnley]

Owt over 20 mph int South and the whole world grinds to a halt

[BleedingClaret]

Owt over 20 mph int South and the whole world grinds to a halt

Boris will be planning a Storm Eunice party lock in

[wilks_bfc]

Yeah, the team's flight from Manchester this afternoon has been cancelled due to the storm so the club is having to make alternative arrangements.

I’d assume the usual team coach isn’t an option as when the team are flying/catching the train the team coach travels down with all the kit and to collect them on their arrival to take to the team hotel so that would have already set off

[wilks_bfc]

Seven comments from BHA fans that we should have travelled down yesterday and this could be a ploy by us to get the game postponed

[BleedingClaret]

Snowing in Nelson

[Hipper]

Potters Bar Town FC Terracing:

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[GodIsADeeJay81]

https://youtu.be/vPQh1FrbOc0

This is live feed and commentary from Heathrow and it's oddly fascinating watching the planes landing, or trying to land.

[dsr]

The day Burnley had a match postponed for wind (a steward was almost blown off the Longside Upper onto the Longside lower) was the day Colne played Sudbury in the FA Vase semi final. The game at Holt House was interesting, to say the least, especially with the wind blowing down the hill. One keeper caught his own goal kick (he was allowed to take it again).

[Sutton-Claret]

Link to webcam at Brighton Pier.

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webca ... -pier.html

Those umbrellas are doing well to stay up....

[appleton]

In Newhaven now and the waves are towering over the lighthouse on the harbour bar. I'd post a picture but Mrs Appleton says I'll have my phone whipped out of my hands.

[Beagle]

Anyone know if the stands at the Amex make any attempt to protect fans from the rain? Or were they built in the same style as the Jimmy Mac and new Longside?

[The Enclosure]

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[IanMcL]

Double decker buses?

It is the coast- open top!

[ClaretTony]

I’d assume the usual team coach isn’t an option as when the team are flying/catching the train the team coach travels down with all the kit and to collect them on their arrival to take to the team hotel so that would have already set off

It is an option and that’s how they’ve travelled

[ClaretTony]

The day Burnley had a match postponed for wind (a steward was almost blown off the Longside Upper onto the Longside lower) was the day Colne played Sudbury in the FA Vase semi final. The game at Holt House was interesting, to say the least, especially with the wind blowing down the hill. One keeper caught his own goal kick (he was allowed to take it again).

Never heard a story of a steward on the Longside Upper but I had to walk down the touchline at around 2 pm that afternoon and you could hardly stand up.

[randomclaret2]

Seven comments from BHA fans that we should have travelled down yesterday and this could be a ploy by us to get the game postponed

Best not to argue with them...

[ClaretLoup]

Things are revving up down in Brighton and the BBC have sent the very well spoken Lucinda Adam down there to tell us how windy it is.

[thelaughingclaret]

Bournemouth’s game tonight is still on at the moment. If that goes ahead but ours gets called off when things aren't meant to be as bad tomorrow then that would be very annoying.

[Spijed]

Exeter v Barrow off in league two.

[Bosscat]

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