Alex MacLeod

Alex.... I've now heard from an impeccable source that the pitch was 100% playable by 1pm on Saturday. Apart from the fact that for no good reason, around 3000 folk were denied the opportunity of an afternoon's sporting entertainment, this postponement could very well have a damaging effect on the wee bit of momentum that the team has recently built up in the league. The costs and the inconvenience suffered by all who were making there way to Inverness on Saturday is just not acceptable. Surely someone should be called to account for quite unneccessarily calling the game off at around 11.45am on Saturday morning? I aree with all you say John but the fact is that a representative of the SFA (referee) called the game off. Not the board, the club, QoS or anyone else. Maybe everyone should bombard the SFA with complaints. I was one of those making my way up the road and I'm as p'd off as everyone else but call offs are a fact of football not a fault of the club. With one SPL game, three div 1 games, all of div 2, 1 in div 3 and all bar 1 of the Highland League off there's a lot of pissed off people in the country but they all accept it.

If any manager at ICT could have achieved the sort of record expected by many of our fans we'd be playing regular Champions league football. As it is, like a lot of the SFL and most of the SPL, we are an average Scottish football team playing against other average teams so I expect our results to be average.

Not sure if I heard right but were they saying that the St Johnstone game off partly due to human error. Apparantly an area of the pitch was not affected by USH. Not sure what type they have but if its heat pads then thats possible. One zone of pads may have fused or some such thing.

Obviously a lot of money goes through Strathy. They have two treasurers. Marty and Mags Clark. Johnboy, it was also a perfect day in Perth at 11.45 yesterday for a game of football. Unfortunately one small area of the pitch was still hard. People will always be p'd off regardless of when a decision is made but we live in Scotland. We should expect these things to happen. The forecasters all predicted overnight temps of -3 for Inverness. They actually predicted -1 for Perth. I believe Perth dropped to around -7 and Inverness about the same. If the forecasters cant predict whats going to happen then what chance does anyone have of preparing. Had the club known the weather in advance then maybe they could have done more but as it is sh!t happens.

If the game was called off on friday there'd be folks moaning. If it was called off early saturday there'd be folks moaning. If they waited till half hour before k.o. there'd be folks moaning. But lets blame the board, the staff, the groundsman, the players. But for christ sake don't blame the weather.

So are you suggesting that as we are in Div1, we can't expect the USH to be turned on for as long at takes to make the pitch playable? Think some are missing some points. It has been stated that the USH is no good below -5 so, regardless of how long its been on, the surface would still freeze. McDairmid have had there's on all week and still failed an inspection today.

Depends on the type of USH. Ours is hot water pipe system set 12" below ground. A lot of heat transfer is required to keep the hard frosts at bay. As a season ticket holder you'll know that your book is over ?100 cheaper than last year.

Partick are still in the running as well.

Full times as above

Richie Byrne managed an own goal

After the Raith result McGhee got a vote of confidence from the chairman...............I'd say he'll be on the dole come Monday.

Shane Sutherland for Elgin 2-0 for Elgin, Gavin Morrison

Dundee 1 up against Partick Ayr 1 up against Dunfermline

Wonder if there was a conspiracy there too...................................or was it something to do with the effects of the cold on parts of the anatomy.

Falkirk have two shirt sponsors. Central Demolition on the front and Land-Drill on the back.

I blame the board for this. They should have been out all night lighting big bonfires around the stadium to warm up the air. I mean they should have known about how frost works and how to prevent it from affecting our pitch. But then, as someone said, they conspired to make sure the game wouldn't be played because they'd prefer the lower midweek gate to a saturday one. And with the money they've lost they can bribe the SFL to re-arrange the games to suit nobody thus reducing the revenue even further.

USH is useless at temps lower than about -5. Also if its on too long it kills the grass. At least we had some notice of the game being off. St Johnston was called off at twelve for 12.45 kick off.

ITS OFF

Inspection time is ridiculous. Queens fans will be half way up the road by now.

So your no a waiter then Cheers Vic. Order in ages ago.

Forecast for tomorrow: Sunshine and clear skies. (Take your shades if your in the main stand) Temp 3 degrees C. Wind 12 mph. Inverness CT 3 - 1 QotS. (Rooney 2. Bully 1.)

When's the DVD being sent out?

That would then lose them money having to play the game mid week.

My moneys on the ladies. Better looking, fitter and more in the team

Or maybe even this one: