hounddog

Got to agree we should have been out of site by half time but sometimes thats the way it goes. we played some good stuff at times but also overplaying at times. the next 7days will have a big say in the rest of our season.

Not looking good re forecast tomorrow think it could be off. fecking murder on a sat without a game.

Quite A few teams are going to be in the same boat, the teams with the biggest Squads will survive better.

Well Mr Batty said on the weather tonight that were meant to be getting snow tomorrow and thats one tihng we could do without right now Agreed Hard hitting financially if it is off.

Same team 2-0 Caley Foran & Rooney if game is on.

Fair enough Scotty, It will be murder if there is no footy this weekend and the way things are going it is going to be a financial nightmare for our club.

I am only 14 was frustrated the game was off no need to take the ****.

Queens can complain all they want but the fact of the matter is that they were presented with options. They were told that there was little to no chacne of the game being played(with or without USH) so why the phuck did we not call the game off when the pitch was suposidly inspected at 12.30 on the Friday if there was little chance of the game going ahead? IF there was little chance of the game going ahead with or without ush why did we go to the expence of switching it on on the Friday morning? we are run like a diddy club at times but keep burying your head in the sand it's nobodys fault bar our own. :P :P

How simple do I have to make this and apparently several other aspects of this issue for you? There was NO 9:30 inspection on Saturday! The 11:00 pitch inspection was originally supposed to be at 09:30 but no-one told the ref. Then that makes it worse on our part diddy club are we.

[quote name='Top Six Next Year' date='Feb 22 2010, 11:53 PM' Ouch. Maybe 'Chis' and the 'stay at home fans' could have contributed towards the massive costs of having the undersoil heating on for an extended period before the match. I find their official website quite amusing at times. I reckon it's some witty Standard Grade pupils from a local school writing the 'articles'.

So knowing the forecast was well below freezing why waste money on switching it on in the 1st place.

Why would QOS pay for hotel and travel and want a game called off someone putting 2+2 the gether and getting 5 and trying to deflect any blame. anyway it's time to move on its happend and its done with l.

The overnight temperature on Thursday night was below the effective range of the USH, switching it on earlier would have had very little if any effect other than costing money. USH is not a magic cure all for wintry weather and hard pitches, it has optimum operating conditions too and once you go outside those conditions you dont get the expected result ! Presumably that is one of the reasons why ICT club officials lobbied the ref hard on Saturday to do a further pitch inspection an hour later .... they wanted the game on and felt the extra hour would have meant the pitch was playable. The referee declined. It is not the club's decision to call the game off, the referee makes that decision, and in this case did so despite the protestations of one of the two clubs involved. I know its easy to blame ICT for absolutely everything that happens at the TCS and some people are very good at that, myself included (when I feel it is justified), but FFS, they cannot be to blame for weather and the decision of a third party with no connection to the club other than the fact that he will be working on their property* for 90 minutes that day !!!! [* - i know, different debate, stadium ownership etc !!!] Understand where you are coming from Scotty and know that ush does not thaw a pitch once the frost was already in the ground so was rather pointless in putting it on in the 1st place. do you know if the club have left it on for the Ayr game or has it been turned back off. anyway although our club has to shoulder some of the blame hopefully lessons will have been learnt.

And calling it off on Friday as you suggest would not have resulted in any loss of hospitality and gate money? :025: Having the vision to look at the weather forcast and knowing that the ush needed to be on earlier would have meant the game being on and not loosing out on hospitality having the game called of means we are loosing out on gate and hospitality money with the game now having to be played midweek. sometimes we run like a diddy club.

injuries perhaps? We know Lilley was out but perhaps there were one or two more who were doubtful that we were not aware of (especially on a 'hard' pitch)? All I am saying, as witnessed by a number of people who started to arrive at the ground either to work or to cover the game for the media, is that the QOS boss did not appear to be that perturbed that the game was called off after the inspection. In fact, he appeared to be dead set against the ICT suggestion of waiting for a further inspection closer to kick-off when the game might realistically have gone ahead. The 'real' reason for his stance is perhaps only known to Mr Chisholm but to come out on the QOS website and spout an opinion that was diametrically opposite to his actions is complete bullshit. We are great at blaming ICT for things, and they give us no end of opportunities to do so but on this one they are not at fault and the crap spouted by Chic Young and then Gordon Chisolm is unwarranted and unprofessional. Game should have been called off Friday end off. stop trying to deflect criticism of our club silly gamble switching ush on Friday hoping game would have been on money we can ill afford was now wasted. It should have been put on on Thursday the loss of income from hospitality etc and gate money will hopefully teach us a lesson