Speaking to a Hunslet official the referee declared the pitch playable at 12.30 hour and a half before kick off but it was the groundsman who works for the council who told the ref to call the game off at 20 past reckoned the pitch was icy underneath the snow imo opinion thats a pretty poor excuse because it was not freezing last night

I know what you mean. I think they normally get there 2 hours before the game, so he should have made a decision soon after he arrived & i also wonder if they think about the fans. The Cas game yesterday was ment to ko at 12pm but it was put back for a 2pm start to allow for a pitch inspection. It was given the ok, but then anounced it was ko at 1pm because the ref wanted to.

Sounds like he didn't want his nice green grass messing up.

I hope he's proud of the fact that people have wasted money on a trip over to Leeds because of his decision.

Not to mention the few grand your club will have missed out on.

and the beer was off!! Had to make do with bottles didn't we stealth!!

Referees decision should be final.

If the referee couldn't see ice under the snow, but the groundsman could, you want to be thankful the game didnt go ahead.

What else would he have missed?

it's fair point jim is that, but it's a bugger when you've drove there when as stealth said we couldve been doing something else with our day, I guess at least nobody got hurt.

A bit of a disaster really. Wasn't it?

You've got to ask why did the groundsman miss it on the inspection yesterday or the one this morning though?

It can't of frozen last night, it wasn't cold enough.

Just a tad!

Pretty hacked off





















.. while I can see that the safety of the players is paramount...but calling the game 3/4 hour before kick off really needs to be looked at.....





Hunslet told us the game was on after a pitch inspection yesterday ...today was warmer than yesterday ..so what happened ??

As like many on here who get limited time off work ...a day wasted when I could have been down the other end of the country spending precious time with friends and family..

NOT IMPRESSED AT ALL !

( though good afternoon with fellow board memebers in W.Spoons in a similar situation - Cheers Guys !)