Concorde boys tourney - any chance we play?

lol... I would say yes. At least the first two games anyway. 

Crossing fingers and toes.

They have to give FULL refunds if they don't get two games in. So they'll play. They may be 5 minute halves or straight to shootout but you know they'll get those two in Saturday to avoid losing money.

Fields will stay wet all day today. Too cold to dry up.

ashford dunwoody fields
GSA lilburn
Metro North
Georgia Soccer park
rabbit hill

Two of those five venues are in poor shape year around anyway so playing on them this weekend won't make them worse. We played last weekend and Concorde canceled all the Sunday games. I assume they will try to get in at least two games this weekend as well.

That is a very wide geographic area - I'm betting they're scrambling for fields right now.  Again - why don't these tournaments ever use the new turf fields in Roswell or does the city not allow it?  There are two turf fields at Waller Park, two at East Roswell Park and at least 1 at Roswell Area park - although parking at East Rosell and Roswell area would be a pain.

So many high school games need to be rescheduled I doubt they can get a high school field either and since none of the Cobb fields (Mud Creek, Tramore (swamp) or Noonday) were listed, I doubt they are even available.  And I seriously doubt NASA will allow Metro North to be used - they used to close those in a heartbeat for games/practices when we were there.  Those back fields there won't drain for days - even if the sun did come out in full force tomorrow.

My backyard is a wet mess right now - I can only imagine what some of those fields look like. 

Thats too late for out of towners. They have to cancel 24 hours in advance to avoid paying for a room they don't need.

They need to take into consideration the people who have to travel.

Grandparents booked late. I'm sure others in same situation.

And if they aren't good by then they'll say wait til 6am Saturday morning as they threaten to pull all their teams playing those clubs that own those fields.

Works great for us. We had a 8am game. All hail the soccer gods.

Five years ago we found out at 7:30 am they cancelled.  I wouldn't put it past Concorde to wait until 9am tomorrow but I also wouldn't put it past them to find any way humanly possible to get those two guaranteed games in then cancel Sunday for field condition reasons. 

It's really too bad how horribly they manage their communications about this tournament - I know Concorde cannot control the weather but they need to communicate better - especially since they are one of very few tournaments locally these days that will draw a good number of out of town teams.  Makes it a better tournament for us locals to get a chance to play teams from other states in our own - albeit soggy - backyards!

One more burning question - Concorde has the reputation for being one of the 'richest' clubs in the area - why the heck haven't they turfed some fields for their own use?  Does Concorde even have one single turf field?  All the venues they use or where we've played them in the past years are grass.  Makes not sense that they don't invest in some better facilities.

Those attending games at the Ashford Dunwoody fields will be pleasantly surprised that they re-turfed fields 1-4 (the right side entering the park). Last time my oldest played there the fields were practically dirt so I was happy to see beautiful new grass. The rain drained great on them too so last week was no problem. They probably could've held Sunday games there but I'm sure the rest of the venues fields were a muddy mess based on past history at the other fields. Of course I was so sure they would cancel last Sunday that I didn't even look closely at my kids scheduled game time nor the results from the first two games. Had a feeling Concorde would've had staff hold umbrella's over each player on Saturday if needed to get 2 games in. 500 teams plus $400 equals $200,000 and that is a conservative estimate.