Saturdays weather

[TheJasperCo]

BBC Weather : BN1

Proper proper nasty.

But nothing like the projection for this weekend, biblical rain and 20mph winds.

Whoa, hold on to your brollies folks!!

 

[Stat Brother]

Whoa, hold on to your brollies folks!!

First goal scorer:-

Adam Bogdan, assuming we attack the south in the first half.

 

[chucky1973]

didnt it rain against Palace? Remeber getting wet when walking back to the car?

 

[Stat Brother]

didnt it rain against Palace? Remeber getting wet when walking back to the car?

tears?

 

[Ding Dong !]

MMmmmmmm, taking my 6 year old and for the first time my 4 year old ( big mistake I reckon with 4 YO ) and sitting close to pitch 3 rows back in East Stand. I'm hoping for an Easterly wind !!!!!! which will hopefully keep any rain off us otherwise could be a nightmare ( not for me though ) Will we be under cover enough that close to the pitch

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

I got soaked in the east stand for the Sussex senior cup final when OGH scored the first competitive goal at the Amex.

Taking my daughter tomorrow mate, so will wave at you from our dry seats about ten rows behind you

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Nice one! Has your daughter been to a match before?

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

MMmmmmmm, taking my 6 year old and for the first time my 4 year old ( big mistake I reckon with 4 YO ) and sitting close to pitch 3 rows back in East Stand. I'm hoping for an Easterly wind !!!!!! which will hopefully keep any rain off us otherwise could be a nightmare ( not for me though ) Will we be under cover enough that close to the pitch

No. You will get wet. To my shame I can't remember how many rows back I am but I think I'm about 19 or 20 and if the wind is strong then I get wet. A few times the row in front has been pretty wet but curiously we've managed to remain dry. The roof design of modern stadia is such that rain gets in for most of the front of a stand.

 

[Goring-by-Seagull]

I'm north stand front row but am lucky to have not been pissed on yet this season (for the Ipswich game I was in WSU luckily!)

 

[Birdie Boy]

ESU = dry

Only if they have fixed that leak! Dripping bang on me and my kid in front last time!

 

[Birdie Boy]

South East wind direction, so it should be the West that gets this one.

Oh no they won't! South easterly means it will be coming straight over the North Stand and into the faces of us in the East! Your forgetting the ground is angled/named all wrong, presumably!

 

[LamieRobertson]

Oh no they won't! South easterly means it will be coming straight over the North Stand and into the faces of us in the East! Your forgetting the ground is angled/named all wrong, presumably!

Lol ..wind is gonna swirl around ..anybody near the from if each stand is at risk from those little rain drops

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

Not too bothered, now Ive got my new Winter Coat

 

[bluenitsuj]

You will all get wet after the game anyway while waiting fro your train/coach etc ( including me ). I may have to hang around for another pint or two after until the queue has gone

 

[Stat Brother]

Oh no they won't! South easterly means it will be coming straight over the North Stand and into the faces of us in the East! Your forgetting the ground is angled/named all wrong, presumably!

Horse plops.
Obviously ideally the weather would be coming in over the away fans.
I can accept the ground isn't true north, but it's not so far off south east is north.;
Because if it were I wouldn't have the sun in my eyes as it sets over the west stand!

Lol ..wind is gonna swirl around ..anybody near the from if each stand is at risk from those little rain drops

Swirling?
How much swirling do you do in 20 mph winds!

 

[Ernest]

Not too bothered, now Ive got my new Winter Coat

 

[BlockDpete]

Well don't forget we had that "drought" for most of last season.

Can't remember any games where we couldn't stand outside The Swan to be honest.

Look like tomorrow might be different.

 

[Rugrat]

how far back in the lower tiers do people still get rainied on then ?

Row 8 in WSL - soaked

 

[Mellotron]

didnt it rain against Palace? Remeber getting wet when walking back to the car?

It could've been a tsunami, I wouldn't have noticed when walking back into town after that game. I was numb.

 

[Easy 10]

Ahhh, this brings it all back. I remember fretting over the weather forcast in the Withdean years. Looking at the BBC online forcast to see if any blue blobs were sitting over the south-east for Saturday 3pm. Checking the poncho was in the boot. Asking the missus to put a change of clothes on the radiator for when I get in. Reluctantly wearing a baseball cap just to keep the rain off my glasses.

Those were the days.