Tonights crowd & pitch insp

[tm4tj]

OK, get your guestimate in for tonight's poor crowd and the reason why..................

 

864

 

The weather is rubbish, very wet all day and roadworks on the Kessock Bridge.

[Kingsmills]

0 Due to no football taking place on the muddy open area in front of the stand.

[dunco]

I'll go for 1953

[Sneckboy]

I'll go for an optimistic 1300. Please god, don't let it drop below 1000. We'd get crucified if, in our current situation, played a home match in front of 'hundreds'!

[tm4tj]

Pitch inspection according to SSN

[Renegade]

Game ON!

[Kingsmills]

  On 2/18/2014 at 6:38 PM, Renegade said:

Game ON!

 

  On 2/18/2014 at 6:38 PM, Renegade said:

Game ON!

 

To be more accurate, game not off for now..

[tm4tj]

So, to clarify, the game will start, yes????????

[RiG]

ICT Twitter says game on. Richard Gordon says there will be another inspection.

[Kingsmills]

  On 2/18/2014 at 6:42 PM, tm4tj said:

So, to clarify, the game will start, yes????????

 

Listening to Sportsound, there still seems to be some doubt about that and much depends on the weather in the next hour.

[tm4tj]

Official ICTFC ‏@ICTFC 18m

Referee has been out and done his inspection. GAME ON. #ICTFC #togetherNess

[tm4tj]

Good enough for me, I'm off over the bridge

[tm4tj]

Game def on

[RiG]

Richard Gordon now also saying the game is on.

[Scarlet Pimple]

Er--don't they think putting out covers, like in cricket and other big football matches, is an option. It would be a saviour would it not?

[Kingsmills]

  On 2/18/2014 at 9:29 PM, Scarlet Pimple said:

Er--don't they think putting out covers, like in cricket and other big football matches, is an option. It would be a saviour would it not?

 

The pitch was covered. Seems they were not entirely effective.

[Kingsmills]

Crowd 1,458

[Scarlet Pimple]

Thanks Kingsmills.  Excellent. Can only do your best after all.

 

I can see the deluges of rain you are experiencing in poor old Blighty. I have a buddy who lives in the S W of England and he is very close to the Thames flood.

 

Cor blimey! What a mess?

[Sneckboy]

An okay turnout considering the weather and the Champions League competing on TV or in the pub! Cup attendances don't count towards clubs' published 'official' home average gates - so no damage done.

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

That  is a feckin great attendance.

[ForzaCaley]

Last nights attendance has proved what i've always thought. And that is we have a core support of around 1500. If we ever 'did a sevco' i would be certain we would continue to get 1500-2000 every week easily!

[Oldken27]

Never seen the ground in such a mess!

 

Where did all the torrential rain come from?

 

There was none in my part of Inverness.

 

Is the ground sweating under the covers and spoiling the grass?

 

neksor

[Scarlet Pimple]

As I recall Neksor of you go back over the posts I think there is a reference to this very thing.

 

Personally speaking, I am not sure what sweating alone could do to ham the pitch IF the drainage is good.

If the side drains can cope and proper drain pipes are installed under the turf why would there be a huge problem?

 

Here in Maple Ridge, B.C.,  we moved into a new house some 9 years ago and had a very heavy clay soil. Drainage was a problem indeed since the back yard sloped downwards a bit towards the house. So I had to dig a few trenches a foot deep --which was like breaking up rock and nearly killed me in the process-- filled them up a couple of inches with stone chips then laid 5-6 inch water pipes over the top of the bed of chips with holes drilled through the bottoms, then filled-in again over these pipes with stone chips followed by soil on top and led it all into the perimeter drains along the side of the house. The latte discharged the water flow out to the street drains I think. 

Anyway, it  worked a treat and we did not have any more new young trees die when their soil holes flooded all the time after we planted them.

 

So, where is the problem? Hmmmm.

[IBM]

Think you need to come over here and help Tommy, I am sure he will provide the spade!