Taddy count the true cost of storms...

THERE can’t be many things in football more frustrating than a blank Saturday with no game. Storm Dennis swept in and wiped out much of the Non-League calendar yesterday. There were only three games on in the National League’s top tier, while the Southern League programme was hit hard across Steps 3 and 4.

Fortunately, some of the afternoon’s bigger games – the top two clash in the Isthmian League between Worthing and Folkestone Invicta along with Slough against Havant in National League South – went ahead so there was still some action to report on.

Postponed games – some at the last minute – causes all sorts of headaches. From all the planning in the week, often by volunteers, the printed programmes that can’t be sold and the myriad of other jobs and work required to get a game on that have gone to waste.

At least those games that fell foul of the wind and rain can be rearranged and played later in the season.

But that’s little consolation for clubs like Tadcaster Albion and Wisbech Town, who were hit hard by Storm Ciara last Sunday.

They weren’t the only ones, but the pictures of the damage on page three of this week’s NLP, show the lasting impact of weather.

Wisbech have launched a fundraising campaign while the news from Taddy sounds potentially even more serious.

The Step 4 Nothern Premier League club say the damage caused by flooding to their pitch and clubhouse could see them go out of business.

It’s the third time they’ve been hit in recent years and – with no one now willing to insure them and their contingency well run dry – they are facing a fight for their future.

They too have launched a fundraising campaign and hope the football family can ride to their rescue.