Cant wait for saturday always love going away to Forfar Great wee pub we go to...usually always get loads of pub time so half cut so lots of singing Your right on top of the pitch also helps and usually lots of abbuse given to opposition keeper..but most important of al..BRIDIES

So Loons how are your team doing on saturday? Whta do you's expect for saturday? no idea what Stranraer will turn up hopefully the one that plays good football and gets results:D

Given we have just won at home for the 1st time since beating yourselves on march 15th,am not sure what to expect.

I would think it will be a close game anyway and dont want a midweek replay at stranraer.

Really looking forward to this one!
Nice to get a break from sh*tty league games.
Should be a close game, but we should have too much quality! *fingers crossed*

2nd home win of the season, then either of the old firm in the next round is whats needed

Stranraer and too much quality in the same sentence? Theres something just totally wrong there. No game is easy for us as the Girvan tie last year proved, as said fingers crossed but never too confident these days.

You've had a break the last couple of away games have you not?

Forfar's bridies are the most over rated thing I have ever encountered.

Check the weather in the morning on this one guys, baltic as I left Forfar tonight!

A hard frost overnight and its still -3 at the moment.

Its not meant to get above 0 all day going by the forecast.

Phoned station park. Guy has to phone sfa which only opens at 9am to arrange a ref to inspect pitch. They have got covers down on parts of the pitch so it's 50/50.

I see lochee V ayr is off and they had covers down. dont hold out much hope for our game then.

Although the grass embankments at lochee would be the problem.

pitch inspection at 10am

game off

not a suprise

Game will be played next Saturday

Not good to hear seeing as the supporters bus left at 9 this morning, although I am slightly pleased because I was missing the came today hopefully a bus runs next week for this one.

Agreed pitch inspection should have been at 9am. Car and minibus load of committee had reached Girvan while I expect supporters bus had reached Ayr - 50 odd miles.

nightmare that folk had got away before the game was canceled but at least they never got to Station Park before it got called off

Yes, sadly I can't make every game in the season!

We went to Kilmarnock game anyway.

Winner of our tie versus the winner of the Forres/Dalbeattie game. Good incentive for all 4 teams to know they could get through and be in the next round with the chance of a good draw.

*looks out the window and frowns*

A decent draw for whoever gets through, as they would surely be favourites to go on to the 5th with a good chance of a big draw and maybe even tv coverage.

*looks out the window and looks a bit more hopefull*

Has the snow thawed. Or is the pitch still frozen underneath. Slight frost forecast for the next two nights.

Cant say anything about the pitch, but the snow is more like ice than snow.

Also given the forecast is not that great for friday and saturday it looks to me as if monday night will be the earliest it goes ahead,as sunday is to be mild and monday is the same going by the 5 day forecast.

Can anyone in Forfar update us on the likelihood of the game going ahead tomorrow?

Its been raining at times during the morning and the ice and snow is disappearing.

The grass is solid underneath so am not sure if it will thaw in time,also depends on overnight weather if there is a frost that might make it game off.

Still think monday night is more likely than saturday.

0930 pitch inspection tomorrow

Is there a bus going to Forfar tomorrow?
With a pitch inspection at 9:30am it couldn't leave till 10'ish probably.

off again. joke. bring back summer football

game off

played monday 1945 KO

The bus met about 9 then waited untill we knew whether it was on or off before leaving or not.

brrrr

having just come home it was 6 degrees on the gauge and has also been raining,unfortunatly the grass is still solid so monday i would think is out.

Club just phoned - game ON

Were you out when they called back to tell you it was OFF again.Shocking,Stranraer team 5 minutes from Forfar when they got the call.Forecast was frost,hardly a difficult one to work out.

No I was at the ground you cheeky scamp

How much longer does this go on for?

That's a real shiter.

Really feel for the Stranraer players and any supporters who have made the trip. This must be costing supporters and team buses a shit load surely that they don't have?

Last week we were told that the whole of Scotland would be buried in snow, how much did we get ....not one flake!!! Some you win some you don't! Feel sorry for any fans who travelled, but lets face it, its not the first time this has happened and it won't be the last!!!

Feel for the Stranraer fans who made the trip and no doubt some will go up again on Wednesday. The way it's going these games aren't going to get played in time before the 4th round fixtures.

Was having a wee pre match pint in the Caledonian before the game when we got the news Took a we wander up to the park and the pitch although crispy on the top was actually soft below, could take a stud no bother, car key went in and turned. Forfar then went on and had a training session. Only person happy with the call off was the ref as he chuckled away when he left with his match fee in the hip pocket

At least it was the company diesel

When is this next scheduled for? Will they keep trying this week till its played or what? Only asking as ive got a bet on it

From what I can gather

The SFA super intelligent rules state that they will try mondays and wednesdays until the game is played.

Sadly travelling all that distance is no laughing matter for Stranraer
Know how that feels after we go to the outskirts of Ayr one night

10am inspection tomorow - little chance of game going ahead at the moment.
Game would then be moved to next Monday 7.45pm KO) with our re-scheduled league game against Annan the following night put on the back burner.

Looks as though Kilmarnock and Motherwell will be fined so why don't the SFA give that money to the teams who have had to fork out for meaningless trips?

So I take it the re-arranged league fixtures will be re-arranged again? Better hope this doesn't end in a draw.

Unless I am reading this incorrectly it may have been re-imbursed to Stranraer, but by Forfar bizarrely. Can anyone confirm if this is the case?

i dunno - i think it would cover repeat trips though - just the trip that is incurred when the actual game takes place?