Inspite of every attempt to get the game on, the Cherries Chairman Eddie Mitchell is kicking himself for not doing more to get the televised match against Notts County on. The postponement could also cost the Cherries £30,000 in tv monies.
Speaking in the Bournemouth Evening Echo, Mitchell is quoted as saying: "I think myself and the board have let the supporters down. I don’t think we were equipped. We ask the supporters to help us in every way they can and we are blasé enough to throw away £30,000, assuming everything is going to be all right. We knew what the weather would be like. The temperatures were not insurmountable, we knew it was coming for the past week-and-a-half and I forecasted it to the board over the weekend. But I didn’t push it hard enough. For sure, I want to carry the can. I want the board and myself to realise how important it was to get the game on and we could’ve done it if we had taken the right precautions. How many times do we get to show the whole country what we can play football like? We’ve let the opportunity slip badly".