Just heard on the radio that there is a pitch inspection planned for Dingwall tomorrow. Any further rain is likely to result in the game being cancelled.

By the time the game takes place I'm pretty sure County will have strengthened their team, whereas the best we can hope for is that we keep hold of everyone.

^ This. I wonder if they've turned their sprinkler system off now.

By the time the game takes place I'm pretty sure County will have strengthened their team, whereas the best we can hope for is that we keep hold of everyone.

^

This.

I wonder if they've turned their sprinkler system off now.

Ach don't worry. If some of the names being mentioned on OTB are true we will still win!

Why did their megabucks sugar daddy not spend a few more quid and get a working drainage system for the pitch.

Why did their megabucks sugar daddy not spend a few more quid and get a working drainage system for the pitch.

Cause the sun always shines on dungwall in his eyes so he wouldn't need too

Call me cynical but was there not a bug circulating in Dingwall last week? Two postponed matches in succession, who was the referee that called it off?

Joke of a club. Farce.

Joke of a club. Farce.

 

 

To be fair this can happen to anybody -

 

13 March 2011 -  http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/9422305.stm

 

2 April 2011 - http://sport.stv.tv/football/clubs/inverness/240817-inverness-ct-v-celtic-postponed/

Edited January 1, 201312 yr by mainstander

Global Warming Stadium.

Global Warming Stadium.

  :laugh:  

Joke of a club. Farce.

 

 

To be fair this can happen to anybody -

 

13 March 2011 -  http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/9422305.stm

 

2 April 2011 - http://sport.stv.tv/football/clubs/inverness/240817-inverness-ct-v-celtic-postponed/

But it's only happened to us since the USH for the SPL totally ruined our pitch. It's been a problem over in cabbagetown since the year dot.

Time to get on my soapbox once more - I haven't mentioned this all year anyway:

ICT got the 10000 seat rule changed.

ICT should fight to get the USH rule changed. It should be optional to have it, but if you lose a game to frost you get fined. USH is just like the wind turbines, a money-spinner for the industry.

Ive been to the year 2013

Not much has changed but Dingwalls under water

ICTs great  and  the dodgy County ought to

Be fined

There's always a bright side, if the smelltic play tomorrow we will no longer have that game in hand hanging over us. I quite fancy a draw in that match which can only be good news.

There's always a bright side, if the smelltic play tomorrow we will no longer have that game in hand hanging over us. I quite fancy a draw in that match which can only be good news.

Think it would be better if celtic win that one which will keep us in second place.

 

There's always a bright side, if the smelltic play tomorrow we will no longer have that game in hand hanging over us. I quite fancy a draw in that match which can only be good news.

Think it would be better if celtic win that one which will keep us in second place.

 

 

How's that going to help us win the title?! 

A bit of a farce, yes. The only good thing for me is I don't have to try and get out of my sick bed to go and watch it or lose my cash on the two tickets bought. Hopefully I will have stopped coughing by the time the game is rearranged.

Some of the Highland Marchers were going to walk to this one from TCS. Going to do an alternative route now.

How about from the Innes to the Caley Club

Having now to resort to taking my sons to Pittodrie as the only way now to bring an end the seemingly never ending round of visiting distant relatives. Ach at least it's a game of football.

Edited January 2, 201312 yr by Kingsmills

Yet another wheel falls off the C*unty Propaganda Caravan.  So much for the huge investment they made during the summer to put an end to the drainage issues, turns out all they did was install USH and relay the surface.

This link to The Sun has a picture of the flooding which, despite the caption, appears to be located off the pitch and on the ground where the managers would be.

 

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/spl/4721758/Derby-goes-down-drain.html

This link to The Sun has a picture of the flooding which, despite the caption, appears to be located off the pitch and on the ground where the managers would be.

 

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/spl/4721758/Derby-goes-down-drain.html

Did they not know that the drainage would need sorted? Or did they ignore it in the summer and hoped for the best?

Did no one suggest playing the game at the Caledonian Stadium with the Dingwall fixture swapped with March?

I can't see how switching it would have been possible. This is the SPL not the highland league! Police, stewards, hospitality, catering etc and that's just for starters.

Don't forget BBC Alba was to show the game live. That's the reason for the early call-off instead of speculating how the weather would turn out today.

From The Sun article - 

 

 

County called for a 2pm pitch inspection yesterday after rain storms battered Dingwall.

 

Groundstaff worked all morning but could not clear a four-yard strip in front of the dugouts.

 

So the game was called off due to a four yard strip in-front of the dug-outs?!  What a farce!

 

And here's another thing.  If the drainage system was to blame and was set up incorrectly, it was County's job to ensure that it was working properly.  If it is the case that the derby and  the Hearts game would have been playable had it not been for their own incompetence, then both Inverness and Hearts should be awarded 3-0 victories.