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Sorry I can't make it any clearer than I already have. Lives were at risk for the sake of a few football games. The SPL have taken a decision to aleviate the burden and removed the onus from them. Surely better to err on the side of caution. I saw plenty of weather forecasts advising that travel was ill advised, where have you been hiding? Prove to me that by holding these games in crap conditions that nobody would have been inconvenienced. Your argument is flawed and ill advised I'm afraid. I'm sure I could have travelled from Inverness to Dundee and back again if I put my mind to it. It's a whole different ball game expecting 5000 to do it without incident in the prevaling climate.

Surprised at your stance CaleyD. In midweek when the games were called off, in my opinion it was the correct decision at that time. The travel conditions on air/rail/road were all up in the lap of the gods. The SPL have no more of a crystal ball than me or you, but only a blind man would agree that everything was sweet. I see you are going to be no more convinced than I am of the opposing beliefs. How would the emergency services have coped if they were still on 24 hour call for another three or four days? WTD dictates that you have rest periods. We up here in cosy land have not a clue what it was like further South. If you saw the pictures of Aucterarder about wed/thurs then you would have seen folk digging cars out of 3ft snow banks in the High Street. That itself tells me that all is not well. The SPL are not travel experts. Correct me if I am wrong, but I doubt it was them that shut roads/airports and rail lines because of the weather. A decision has to be made at some stage, would you rather the scenario of a game called off half an hour before kick off? The SPL were pro-active and saved everyone a lot of hassle. If you believe they were wrong then write to them and complain. I also thought that Butcher criticising the decision was out of order as well, a rather selfish outburst from a man who has built a reputation from using logic and rationale, with little thought for the general public.

On the basis that the emergency services were employed elsewhere and anyone travelling to and from games were at risk. Don't be confused by the fact that bus routes may have been ok, because there are still areas where the snow and ice are causing issues. Why risk adding to the confusion because we want to see a game of footie. Don't forget that we live in the relative safety of Inverness, where it is renowned for it's less severe weather at this time of year. I take it your tv is broken and you have not seen footage of the conditions further South than here. If you think that football is more important than the safety of thousand of civilians then so be it. Don't quote me about folk going to Tesco's etc as they will try to get there anyway.

No they don't but one delivery truck is hardly the same as 5,000 football fans travelling to 6 different locations, and two of them would have more fans going. There were no trains North of central belt on Thursday/Friday. As it happened, local conditions were fine, but overall the correct decision was reached.

It would appear that Mark Wright is wrong, not right and it's wrong of Mr Wright to write to the wrong papers to suggest that he was right, and wrong of him to accuse ICT fans of being in the wrong by berating Mr Wright. Right or wrong Mr Wright, you better watch out before the reverend gives you your last rites you wrong Wright writer of right wrong Wright rubbish.

The biggest attractions for new fans are the match previews and reports obviously.

I can't believe people are debating this. A lot of the country is at a standstill, yet here we go moaning about a sporting fixture being called off early to save putting lives at risk and further exacerbating the roles of the already stretched emergency services. Inverness area is one of the better off areas as far as the severity of the snow. Forgot to add Mantis..........Why on earth do you have your age written on yer wheelie bin?

Andycam, check out the questions I put to Roy for the article about his testimonial. It might give you an idea as to what has already been asked. It's on the CTO main page. The red card one would make good viewing. here is the link

Apparently there is 2ft of snow near the Stadium in Inverness now 2ft of snow.bmp

You are right Roger, it is useless.

He got a cap, what more do you want.

Seem to remember that they have done this to Real Madrid in the past. Thought I noticed a headline or two when on a stadium tour there a couple of years ago. Big win though and a boot in the erse for Ronaldo.

Wow, we have a few on here who suffer from anoraka nervosa............ I'll get ma anorak Some fascinating stats though Scotty, are all yer drawers full of stats.

The ddddddddduckkkkkssss are fffffffn ffffffffffffffreeeeeeeeeezzzzzinngggg. Had 10 ducks for dinner the other day, and a couple of stray pheasants, well, that's what I was told. There was an otter running about last night looking for some grub. The birds in the firth were a bit tetchy about all this. Still the hard core of six return most days for a wee top up and a dram.

I won't tell you again Neil, get yer fingers out of ma dose.

And there you have it, straight from the Kettles spout. Looks like Roger is a new signing on here, welcome aboard.

Stick to reading the match reports on CTO, only the truth comes out.

Report now published..........sadly no Shakespeare this time, just a great report, stewards and all. Cheers Maryhill Match Report

Davie said "when I went to the loo, I was followed there by stewards, who told me "we were waiting for you, you teuchter *******" and ejected me" They must have been reading some of yer match reports wee man.

I might be wrong here Mr Caley Jag, but I thought Joe was aiming his reply at dangerous dougie and not yersel, good rant though.

In real life, Hayes took a corner, Rooney knocked the ball goalwards with a fantastic overhead kick on the volley and Munro made sure by nodding the ball in from two yards.

Brilliant,

Too much going on in these places............I prefer going to watch a game of football.

They just realised they might just sneak a point.

Good to see you out of retirement bread.