When do your grounds get closed?

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More ground closures this weekend in Sydney due to wet weather (so 2 out of 5 weekends so far this season have only had a small handful of games).

I can't recall grounds being shut often due to rain as a kid - but maybe that is because they were not as busy as now, and also because there was less concern around risk....

www.smh.com.au

Weekend sport cancelled as sports grounds waterlogged

Local councils are a “bit quick on the trigger” when deciding to close sports grounds because of bad weather.
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My experience is that community rugby clubs that play on land owned by a council tend to have more games cancelled because of the cost involved in bringing them back to standard after being badly cut up during a game and more adverse weather the following week would make it even worse. It also depends whether there sufficient pitches to allow for some rotation.
 
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I’m “fortunate” in that many of the HS and college games play on multi-use turf pitches which helps early in the season. Did a tourney a few weeks back and it was non-stop rain the day before and on the day and a grass pitch would have been closed. That said, it is more of an issue for the U14, U16, and adult matches that do tend to use grass community pitches/cow pastures. Although we had a drier than average year about 3 years back, recently it’s been wetter and we’ve had 27” of rain since Jan 1st (which is nearly 12” above what is expected).

Although it’s hard to say definitively that this is climate related, the whole weather vs long term trend and all that, the models do say my area is going to have warmer and wetter weather.
 
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Balones said:
My experience is that community rugby clubs that play on land owned by a council tend to have more games cancelled because of the cost involved in bringing them back to standard after being badly cut up during a game and more adverse weather the following week would make it even worse. It also depends whether there sufficient pitches to allow for some rotation.
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Council owned pitches have multiple users, their priority is keeping the grass good enough for everyone all the time
Rugby clubs exist to play , they are more likely to put up with the damage, after all it the 1xv pitch probably will have two weeks to recover before the next game
 
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Our club is in Somerset, we have a permanently installed pumping system to remove flood water from the pitch.
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