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  1. There is a general belief in fitba that the hardest part of the season for most championship contenders is securing those crucial final points to make it mathematically impossible to be overtaken. You will see many teams just manage to stumble over the line or indeed blow it in the last few games . This is going to be one of those seasons . Loads of points to be won and dropped before April is out.
  2. Last night was brutally awful. A game played in an Arboath-like wind tunnel. Our lot couldn't work out how to play with the wind and crapped themselves playing against it. Forres could and should have won it as they pummelled us in the last half hour . We scored a decent goal in the 5 minute period that we managed to control the ball. After that it looked as if we were just going to settle for the 1-0 win with no real attacking ambition. Forres then just pumped loads of balls high in the air and let the wind create the panic in our defence when it landed . Almost every time the ball was won by a Forres player who managed to lay off easily to one of their wide guys who seemed to have the freedom of the park. It wasn't pretty but it was certainly effective. In these conditions you sometimes have to just forget your formation football and find a way to grind out a result. We couldn't , Forres did. We certainly need a big reaction on Saturday and maybe Price needs to swallow some pride and start playing his strongest team more regularly. We certainly don't have the quality that he thinks to be able to rotate the squad seamlessly . Get back to the basics now and learn how to win ugly .
  3. A very SPFL type response from someone who is making up his own narrative to suit his own ego.
  4. We were sitting in the pub at Keith when , around 2.15pm - 2.30pm , the announcement was relayed to us . The club statement was obviously and most probably a diplomatic generalisation of the events. The main thing they wanted to stress was that an official complaint was being lodged. I am sure a full and accurate report would have been sent.
  5. I take it you left after 15 minutes. That was as convincing as we have been in a while once we got going. Could and should have been about 8 or 9 in the end.
  6. Here's another scenario . 1. The ref only bothered to turn up at 2.pm. 2. The ref then called the game off at 2.15pm. 3. The ref was nowhere to be seen at 3.00pm 4. The ref just wasn't interested and should be handed his arse on a plate.
  7. Your posts are starting to descend to the bigoted drivel you used to spout when we were in the SPFL..
  8. I've seen games played on far , far worse pitches than that . I wonder if that ref has been sacked yet ?
  9. Again , I would hope that most refs have a bit more compassion than merely doing it for the money. There are also good reasons (maybe not 100 ) why a ref might need to "hang about " longer than he might have expected . Football can create some unexpected delays . As a side note . Would anyone actually know if the pitch would have been "officially" playable at 3.00 pm ? Did the ref "hang about " long enough to make that official judgement after calling it off at 2.15 pm ? Going by reports I would say that the overwhelming verdict was that it would probably have been . The delayed kick off would obviously have been to allow for some kind of warm up beforehand.
  10. I would have thought that any referee at semi professional level has indeed chosen to give up his Saturday along with the players , management staff and directors . You make it sound as if they are grudgingly undertaking a chore and would rather be elsewhere. ( which looks like that might have been the case at Keith ) I would hope that the bulk of refs are actually a bit more compassionate in their efforts to actually get games on instead of trying to find a reason to call them off. Is it not £75 plus expenses by the way ?
  11. We have had previous discussions over the years on various topics.
  12. Either was the Wick pitch evidently . That's why they delayed kick off till 4.00pm. That's all we were asking . Rules for some and not others just shouldn't happen but unfortunately it does .
  13. Had the ref at Wick on Saturday not set a precedent of common sense then we wouldn't be having this conversation.
  14. I probably could have worded it better but with decisions made elsewhere on Saturday as stated , it seems the consistency in determining playability varies considerably between referees . That is the frustrating factor here and the one which I feel should be addressed. Given the refereeing reaction to the events in premier games at the weekend , nothing will be resolved other than the unity and wagon circling from the refereeing community as per usual. All parties ? I think you will find that the only one not willing to find a solution to getting the game played was the referee.
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