Cougars game against Hunslet called off 40 minutes before kickoff.

By all accounts both teams wanted to play but the referee didn't fancy it due to ice under the pitch.

Nice of him to wait for us to get to the ground before calling it off the ar$ehole.

sat in the car coming back now and stuck because of all the shopaholics at White rose! I'm completely fed up! If an inspection was made at 11.30 this morning surely the ground staff at hunslet mustve had a fair idea the game was gonna be called off, yet they waited until nearly 1.30 to inform us the red had called it off and we'd already spent money in their bar!! Makes me wonder?

They did a pitch inspection yesterday and said it was on. Walking on the pitch made the ice compact and the cold weather last night didnt help i dont think. The pitch should have been cleared before today then the game could be play. Hunslet were appealing for fans on the website yesterday to go down with shovels and help clear it. From the picture i've seen doesn't look like anyone turned up!

So the pitch passed an inspection yesterday even though it was covered in snow?

The mind boggles!

That's pretty poor on Hunslet's part.

Anyway there's a few of us off back to spoons if anyone fancies a rant.

I didnt go, so I dont know what the pitch was like. But if it was still covered in snow that had frozen then the referee has to consider the players safety.

If theres anyone to blame it sounds like Hunslet. Remember when they had a game called off due to no doctor afew years ago.

The ref should have been at that game well before kick off so that he could inspect the pitch and make a decision well before people set off to the game.

If there is any shadow of a doubt that a game could be postponed he should be there early.

Do fans not matter anymore.

At this time of year I could have visited family, instead I go out to follow my team and get treat with absolute contempt.

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.