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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.
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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 .
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A very SPFL type response from someone who is making up his own narrative to suit his own ego.
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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.
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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.
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Custard creams all round tonight.
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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.
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Your posts are starting to descend to the bigoted drivel you used to spout when we were in the SPFL..
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I've seen games played on far , far worse pitches than that . I wonder if that ref has been sacked yet ?
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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.
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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 ?
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We have had previous discussions over the years on various topics.
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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 .
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Had the ref at Wick on Saturday not set a precedent of common sense then we wouldn't be having this conversation.
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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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I would have thought that with the current situation of backlogged games to be played before the play off deadline , every effort would have been made to get this game on. All we are looking for is a bit of consistency. The Huntly game went ahead on a worse surface than Kynoch Park. The Wick game went ahead after a delayed kick off to work on a small area of concern. It appears that some refs are prepared to listen to reasonable suggestions and some are just not for whatever reason.
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Good statement
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Shambles at Keith yesterday. Looks like the ref couldn't be arsed.
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Where did this game eventually get played ? Are Buckie slowly becoming the new Fort William? .............. The "We'll do what we want until the league gets fed up of us" attitude .
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Seemingly it was the P&J who complained it was up before their Monday programme.
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I was generalising
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I agree with a lot of what has been said but don't think things are as bad as some are making out. Yesterday's game was a very close affair and in reality could have swung either way . It was a case of 2 good teams with completely different game plans . Buckie are very good at closing down the opponents and taking advantage of mistakes while we try to play expansive attacking football (maybe too much at times ) which leaves us open quite a lot of the time . When we equalised yesterday I actually thought the winner wasn't too far away as we were winning numerous corners and free kicks around the box . My one big gripe at that time was when Grady came on Price took off Fraser when Ewan Loudon looked knackered . Fraser is always a good option in the middle of the park to hold the ball up and give the defence some options . He also has a very good partnership with Grady which might have paid off in those nervy last 10 minutes or so. I enjoyed the game though. It was very entertaining and had a bit of everything. Buckie certainly won the physical battle especially in the second half as the card count will show . They also looked a lot fitter than us which is very worrying. We lost this battle but hopefully lessons can be learned going into the final stretch. There are a lot of games to be played and I'm sure points will be dropped along the way.
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Nothing pedantic about it. Facts don't really come into that strange world of his.
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Seemingly the SPFL clubs are being given time to sort it out. The Highland clubs aren't . No word of the Lowland clubs in all this . ..........Mind you they are giving the Colts a temporary home until the SPFL get their way on this new 6 colt conference league shite. Once they get the Highland league out of the equation by imposing new licence criteria then it's all systems go for the conference. Corrupt to the core. Just my opinion of course.
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Was just about to say that. We had a game called off because of frost which had been in the ground for over a week (possibly longer). The forecasts are good these days but not as accurate as predicting how long the frost is going to stay in the ground. Also covers need to be put down before the frost gets in the ground . To leave them on a park for over a week is just creating more problems.