Key staff on their holibobs.

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key staff

As Hmac says, holidays can easily be covered.

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As Hmac says, holidays can easily be covered.

You know it's ridiculous to have the groundsman off in the worst weather in Scotland.

Proof of pudding only meaningful game off in the country.

Shambles

[hmac]

Obviously not playing and coaching staff, but I suspect you knew I wasn't including them.

Of course but fact is everyone there works for a football club. There are quite easily defined times of higher importance. I’d offer that February is one of them for a groundsman

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You know it's ridiculous to have the groundsman off in the worst weather in Scotland.

Proof of pudding only meaningful game off in the country.

Shambles

Fair enough I'll go with your theory, was just pointing out that the guy should have the right to take time off when it suits him if he wants to. I doubt his duties weren't covered by the club bringing in someone else but I don't know that for sure.

But what difference would having the groundsman there have made in this instance? There's s decent drainage system under the turf, the water didn't drain away and the pitch was saturated, it wasn't like it was surface water it was saturated. What could he have done to get it to drain away if he'd been on site? And would this have definitely made the pitch playable? Could it have caused damage to the pitch making it more likely that future games might be called off?

He's a groundsman, essentially a gardener, and not a Drainage Engineer.

On another note, you claim it's the only game off in 'the country' and yet on anther thread you've implied that Scotland isn't a country in its own right. Some games were called off in England today. If we're all one country then ours wasn't the only meaningful game called off in the country today was it?

Anyway I don't see how it being the only meaningful game called off in Scotland is in any way relevant. The pitch wasn't playable and the right call was made; why people can't just accept that and get on with their lives rather than trying to find someone to blame is beyond me.

[hmac]

Fair enough I'll go with your theory, was just pointing out that the guy should have the right to take time off when it suits him if he wants to. I doubt his duties weren't covered by the club bringing in someone else but I don't know that for sure.

But what difference would having the groundsman there have made in this instance? There's s decent drainage system under the turf, the water didn't drain away and the pitch was saturated, it wasn't like it was surface water it was saturated. What could he have done to get it to drain away if he'd been on site? And would this have definitely made the pitch playable? Could it have caused damage to the pitch making it more likely that future games might be called off?

He's a groundsman, essentially a gardener, and not a Drainage Engineer.

On another note, you claim it's the only game off in 'the country' and yet on anther thread you've implied that Scotland isn't a country in its own right. Some games were called off in England today. If we're all one country then ours wasn't the only meaningful game called off in the country today was it?

Anyway I don't see how it being the only meaningful game called off in Scotland is in any way relevant. The pitch wasn't playable and the right call was made; why people can't just accept that and get on with their lives rather than trying to find someone to blame is beyond me.

I don’t think it’s a case of looking for someone to blame, more pointing out another systemic failure. Reality is the person who is responsible for the pitch isn’t there and the game was off. Whether he could have remedied that we don’t know but given how few games we have off I’d say he might have had an influence.

But let’s just shut our pusses and forget it.

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the bottom line has to be he has an understudy,however it is fffnnnn feb and the game gets put off,i understand re hols etc
surely its like me taking the dundee fortnight off when its nigh on my busiest period,but as h says given the amount of games we have lost in past seasons i tend to agree that had the head groundsman been here then we may have not lost this game to the rain

bottom line is a saturday fixture with full hospitality will now be a midweek game with a huge downturn in hossi,£35k a week we as a club are pishing doon the lavvie and now this week that will jump upwards

[Returnofrros]

Fair enough I'll go with your theory, was just pointing out that the guy should have the right to take time off when it suits him if he wants to. I doubt his duties weren't covered by the club bringing in someone else but I don't know that for sure.

But what difference would having the groundsman there have made in this instance? There's s decent drainage system under the turf, the water didn't drain away and the pitch was saturated, it wasn't like it was surface water it was saturated. What could he have done to get it to drain away if he'd been on site? And would this have definitely made the pitch playable? Could it have caused damage to the pitch making it more likely that future games might be called off?

He's a groundsman, essentially a gardener, and not a Drainage Engineer.

On another note, you claim it's the only game off in 'the country' and yet on anther thread you've implied that Scotland isn't a country in its own right. Some games were called off in England today. If we're all one country then ours wasn't the only meaningful game called off in the country today was it?

Anyway I don't see how it being the only meaningful game called off in Scotland is in any way relevant. The pitch wasn't playable and the right call was made; why people can't just accept that and get on with their lives rather than trying to find someone to blame is beyond me.

Country not a nation....you served our nation....Jack an all

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Country not a nation....you served our nation....Jack an all

I served my own and my family's purposes, had a decent living for 12 years, did some travel and got drunk a lot.

I hated being in the RAF but am reaping the rewards now.

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I served my own and my family's purposes, had a decent living for 12 years, did some travel and got drunk a lot.

I hated being in the RAF but am reaping the rewards now.

Thank you for serving the nation.

[Returnofrros]

P.s.

Did you not like the RAF cause you cudnae say "**** the war em away to tenerife"😂