According to Neath Rugby (www.neathrugby.co.uk/news/2010/0 ... -game-off/) Quote A pitch inspection was carried out today at 4.45pm by the referee and unfortunatley he found the surface not fit to play on due to severe surface water'"

According to Neath Rugby (www.neathrugby.co.uk/news/2010/0 ... -game-off/) Quote A pitch inspection was carried out today at 4.45pm by the referee and unfortunatley he found the surface not fit to play on due to severe surface water'"

Yep, also on Sportinglife website now.

Good news in a way, let's hope Hull FC give KR a good bashing!!
Surely we'll beat em on Monday now.

Tough on our travellers though.



Very late announcement.

to be honest. I'm not suprised...in the last 24 hours we have had snow, sleet and very heavy rain around the neath area... shame really for 2 reasons.... twas hoping to catch up on some of my ol' pals from the smoke and also the game has been well pushed on the radio/media as it is also gareth thomas' first league game so the turnout could've been respectable

It is a shame for the brave travellers who have travelled across. Maybe the club could put a free bus on for the replay, as there will be a few who have lost out on travel and hotel costs. Still we should be fresh for Monday and I hope the coaching staff are taking notes on Humberside on Friday. Two points will be very welcome.

Have to agree



Me and drive set off from sunny Hertfordshire at 2pm, all good along the way. Reached Cardiff (it was chucking it down) and after checking the net to get postcode of venue, checked the BBC website for tittle tattle and found out game off ... at 5-30pm !!! At 6pm drive got a text from QRL saying game postponed by which time we were on our way home.

We should be fuming but to be honest we were just laughing at the travails of the typical Quins RL fan - no one else would have to put up with what we do

Fair play to that mate, I'd of hit the roof, not that would of solved much. Couldn't they of just played the game, the pitch at Haven Barrow wasn't good but got a game in.

I suspect the fact that it's a borrowed pitch used regularly by three other clubs who are all in season at the moment (Neath RFC, Neath AFC, South Wales Scorpions) might have had something to do with it. It was used for football last Saturday, RL last Sunday and union Tuesday, with the union team due at home again tomorrow.

I feel sorry for the hardy few who made a wasted journey and spent money on overnight accommodation. Freak weather can lead to a postponement in many circumstances, but had I travelled I'd be livid about using up a day's annual leave because the game was brought forward to a working day at short notice. My contact in Wrexham tells me it was Brian Noble who instigated this and Quins RL agreed to it! After the fiasco in Perpignan last year (as well as the unexpected Sky-jacking of Hull KR away for Friday night coverage) you'd think our club might take the travelling supporters into account whan agreeing to something like this. Assuming this is accurate I'm very disappointed the club didn't have the decency to tell Crusaders "sorry, you've left it too late, it's going to screw our travelling supporters to switch the date now". It probably suited our coach and players to bring it forward and have an extra day's rest before Hull KR at home, but without supporters who pay to watch it you don't have professional sport and players/coaches shouldn't be allowed to influence decisions like this at our expense.

There was a shot of the pitch on 'Wales Today' last night and it was under water - no way the game could have been played. It would also seem that the reason we were shifted to Thursday was that with the Ospreys playing the Scarlets at Swansea tonght the authorities weren't prepared to have two games with large attendances that close to each other on the same day.

Presumably the Ospreys v Llanelli match had been scheduled since the start of the current union season in September - if this was going to cause a problem you'd think someone would have noticed it earlier than a fortnight ago!

Please Please reschedule this game with plenty of notice and pick which part of Wales it will be played in good time.

No, it was down as either 2/3/4 April, depending on TV schedules.

I reckon it's another example of the RFL favouring clubs outside the traditional areas by giving them an easier Easter programme

I went up to the ground last night and believe me the pitch was totally unplayable. The weather driving into wales was totally freakish all day, snow on higher ground, bright sunshine followed by torrential rain.

There wasn't anything that could of been done.

well we all know how the crusaders dont like bad weather!!!

cx friendly because it was snowing
cx sl fixture because its raining!!

its getting to be a habit

FFS if there's any truth in this it's pathetic. The Ospreys game was a 7pm kick off. Had our game at Neath kicked off at 3pm there would be over two hours clearance between the two matches. Or it could have been 2pm, as Scorpions' Sunday games kick off at that time.

Or here's a really radical idea - perhaps they could have played it at f***ing Wrexham, as that's where the host club supposedly plays and Wrexham AFC had no game today.

Tomorrow Leyton Orient have a home match; their crowds are roughly what Crusaders might have expected against us as a best case scenario, and Arsenal are at home at the same time, which is roughly the same distance from Leyton as Swansea is from Neath. How will the local infrastructure and authorities possibly cope!

We had a quite a good night in Neath. Asked a local what to do on a wet Thursday night in Neath and the reply was "go to Swansea"!!! The few of us that were there went up to the Neath Rugby club bar and watched Leeds Bradford and interacted with the very friendly locals - so friendly they gave us some of their curry that they had ordered in. They were all gutted the game was postponed and ther didn't seem to be any animosity to "League" at all.

Bit ironic staying in the hotel where the Welsh Rugby Union was founded!

I felt more sorry for the Crusaders fans coming from Wrexham, 5 hours through rain and snow to get there, and presumably back. I took us three and a half hours.

It took us 4 hours there and nearly 6 hours back (and cost us about £150).

Still, being Quins fans we are used to adversity and as Paddock says, we did have a jolly night in Neath RC and the locals were a good bunch (could have done without the hangover during the awful drive home though!)

I bloody didn't. When this season's fixtures were released Crusaders were supposedly playing at Newport and nobody in Wrexham had heard of rugby league.

Who do I dislike more - Skolars or Crusaders? Hmm. Probably Crusaders, by a short head.

As stated on here earlier..at least the team should be fresh for HKR with no game last Thursday....unfortunately after a night on the lash in Neath I felt like cr@p for 2 solid days .But I have to say it was a good night despite no match and was still worth the trip ..Paddock and WQ please stop me after the first 8-10 pints as that Weatherspoons beer called Einstien strangely enough didnt improve my ability to think...oddly enough it made thought nigh on impossible...If there was any ghosts in our supposed haunted hotel they would never have managed to wake me up even if they had tipped the bed upside down....

shame it wasn't our home game....we could arrange another double header