Gretna Stuck at Blair Atholl!!!

[DundeeICT]

Just heard that Gretna seem to be stuck at Blair Atholl.

The snow gates are shut on the A9.

Fingers crossed they make it up the road!!! :024:

[Kingsmills]

They've got another 20 hour to get to Inverness with a thaw forecast for tomorrow. No problem surely.

[DundeeICT]

Aye 20 hours but surely they must get time to rest overnight??

And time to train in the morning??

Hopefully it goes ahead!!!

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[Kingsmills]

A train in the morning sounds like the perfect solution !

[+Tree]

A nice detour via Aberdeen to tire them out will suffice  :023:

[Alex MacLeod]

Always amazes me how the rail line can be kept clear but the roads cant. A9 closed at Drumochter. A96 was also closed at Glens of Foudland but rail line was open.

[TomCaleyJag]

A nice detour via Aberdeen to tire them out will suffice  :023:

If we need that to happen before we can beat Gretna at home we're in seious trouble!

[The Mantis]

Lets just hope that tomorrow night they're wishing they had stayed in Blair Athol and got pished.

[TheresNoEsInBlack]

Anyone know if a visiting team has ever been prevented from getting to Inverness at all since 1994?

Reason I ask is because I mind listening to Your Call when it was uncertain whether we'd be admitted to the SPL and some plank of an OF fan was complaining that we shouldn't be allowed in because "the road isn't good enough" and is "always shut" and "it's too far away" and so on ad nauseam :L

[Fanoffooty]

  Just in from the pantomime , any word of the Gretna boys getting up the road ?

[ekjules]

Family just phoned. Thats them home they left EK 2.30pm. Got through at blair atholl  after 2 hour wait , stopped at Aviemore and told that the police had closed the road again untill morning, so heres hoping Gretna got through. COME ON THE JAGS  :021: :021: :021:

[Hamish]

I very nearly got stuck in the snow driving between Alford and Inverness last night. Thought I'd try the short-cut over The Cabrach (I've since found that it's THE most frequently closed road by snow in Scotland - DOH!) but the road conditions rapidly deteriorated, ending up in 1-2m deep drifts. Luckily I got turned (never been as thankful for 4wd!) and just managed to get back through before the drifts closed up around me. I also had zero phone signal where I nearly got stuck! I did have 2 cases of Stella in the back of my car though so it wouldn't have been an entirely bad experience. Just lots of yellow snow around the car when the snow plough got to me!

[Connie.Orr]

This weather isny funny!  Was driving through rural Perthshire with the kids at tea-time last night and didn't get over about 20mph!  I've got a four-wheel-drive number that I've been thinking of trading in for a while...not anymore, gonna hangon to that little beauty forever!

Gretna were stuck at Blair Atholl eh?!  ... best place for them!  :001:

[DJS]

I suppose Blair Atholl is the big smoke if you come from Gretna.