Quote Originally Posted by Deeranged View Post
The weather isn't the root cause although it is a huge contributory factor.

When the amount of rainfall is low enough to allow the drainage to work it'll be perfectly effective and the pitch will dry out fairly quickly when it stops. The amount of water put out by the sprinklers will be fairly low and only really enough to make the surface slick without actually saturating it.

The rain overnight Saturday was heavy and incessant, I know because I drove from the west on Saturday and it was hellish at times, it also woke me a few times overnight. All other Scottish games had completed before the worst of it. I'm not excusing the condition of the pitch, or the ineffectiveness of the drainage which is the fault of one man, but it really doesn't help to have that kind of rain the night before a game - and we've been unlucky that way four times this season. If our fixtures had been reversed, i.e. away when we were home and home when away, we likely wouldn't be having this conversation.

Worth noting that on at least one of the four postponement dates the weather was so bad that many other games in Scotland were also flooded off suggesting that, whilst we're the worst, we're not the only club in Scotland to fall foul of the unusually high rainfall stats this season.
Agree with all of that. Sums it up well.