Bad weather has forced the SWPL's Throgmorton Cup third-round tie between Wadebridge Town and Saltash United to be postponed for a ninth time.

The game should have been played on Tuesday night, but heavy rain has left Wadebridge's Bodieve Park ground unfit.

A 10th attempt to play the game will be made on on Thursday at 1930 GMT.

"It's driving me nuts," SWPL secretary Phil Hiscox told BBC Cornwall. "It's certainly a record for the league, although the league is fairly new."

The South West Peninsula League is in its second season after the merger of Cornwall's South Western League and the Devon County League.

"It's certainly unusual though and an indictment of the weather we've been having," he added.

Hiscox says the match came closest to be played in January.

"At the fifth or sixth attempt on a Tuesday night the game was declared on at Wadebridge and everybody had travelled," he added.

"I drove down the A30 from Exeter, got to the top of the hill at Wadebridge, got the ground and the referee declared it off just before kickoff after a cloudburst."

The bad weather has also hit Truro City. The club's Southern League Division One South and West match at Thatcham Town has been called off.

Bad weather has rendered Thatcham's Waterside Park pitch unplayable with the game being re-scheduled for Saturday, 7 April.

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