A big thank you, and sincere apologies for being put through the situation we were left in. we had to charge everyone on the bus for the cost of getting there and we got there (almost) in good time. we arrived at the venue planned before ,before the start of the game and as everyone on here knows, the situation became farcical. I have complained vehemently by email to Greenock Morton by Email and I immediately called Hibernian fc, on arrival at the club we were booked into. I spoke to a young lady at Hibernian,who declined to give me her name but agreed to take my Email address, and then send me a contact email address at Hibernian. this was done at 12:40pm on Saturday. I have not yet received that address. once again, I do apologise to all, for shelling out their hard earned cash and especially to the group of young lads that spent their pocket money to get to the match. I did receive the message, about someone who had left their scarf on the bus and will contact the company this morning. I will be calling the club again, today and expressing our disgust about the way we were treated. no one can say that "this was outwith the control of the club" in my opinion. the warnings were put out, 2 days in advance and as someone had said in a previous post, All football clubs knew about the real possibility of what could happen and the authorities could have said......let's make it Sunday! and why not??
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07-12-2015 01:37 AM #1
to all who travelled on the Milton Mowbray bus on Saturday.......
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07-12-2015 05:05 AM #2
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Hope you're tin hat is on securely mate, I think you're gonna need it!
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07-12-2015 05:42 AM #3This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
You said yourself there was a warning 2 days before so it's up to yourself to take the chance and travel through! I only had to look out the window on sat to know there would be a very high chance it would be off.
I honestly don't know what you think Hibs could have done because like yourself many busses went through knowing it may be off. It's the chance you take.
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07-12-2015 06:13 AM #4
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The question is, how much liaison was there between Morton and the police on Sat morning, what was said and when did the situation dramatically change to the point of the match being called off ? One thing's for sure, if the home club or police were made to compensate away fans for late call off, such as this, they would make different decisions and earlier too ! It would certainly concentrate minds. As it is, they all simply walk away and leave the fans to foot the bill.
In 2015, there has to be a better system of informing away fans using social media, giving up to the minute details.
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07-12-2015 06:25 AM #5This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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07-12-2015 06:29 AM #6
I think there are just days like Saturday, where the weather is so severe that it's just not safe enough for folk to be travelling to watch a game of football.
Some of the carnage i witnessed on the way to the game was awful, numerous lorry's on their side and even on their backs upside down on both sides of the motorway, and cars smashed to bits at the side of the road was terrible.
The amount of rain and the strong winds were making it very dangerous for everyone who left their houses, just because a pitch is playable, is not enough to decide the game is on.
The sensible decision on Saturday would have been to call this game off in the morning, sometimes you just have to do the most sensible thing, yes some folk will be upset, but i'd put money on folk who would normally travel not even bothering to leave their house on Saturday.
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07-12-2015 06:37 AM #7
Dempster really needs to have a word with herself for allowing the A8 near Greenock to get flooded two hours before KO.
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07-12-2015 06:48 AM #8This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The police have clearly ballsed up on this one that's for sure. But as with any game you travel at your own choice and with the weather being as it was on sat I think everyone going through would have known it may be called off. It's crap for us fans who make that journey but sometimes that's the chance we take.
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The police issued a warning to all on sat that only travel if you really need too. This surely applies to football fans as well. Again it was bad timing no doubt about it but it was the right call. Safety of the fans must come first!
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07-12-2015 07:01 AM #11This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The police and club should liaise sooner but hindsight is a wonderful thing.
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07-12-2015 07:15 AM #13
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Don't think the club can be accountable at all. They faced the exact same problem as us, in that the team bus had to turn round on the M8. It was a matter of public safety and the police should have dealt with it earlier.
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07-12-2015 07:17 AM #14
The clubs aren't to blame here at all, but for police Scotland to postpone a game 2 hours before when the know the distance away fans are travelling from is a joke.
All the signs were there that this could be cancelled about 2 days before and things hadn't improved by the Saturday morning. An early morning cancellation was in order
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07-12-2015 07:19 AM #15
Re: the OP, presumably if the info in the post really was purely for the benefit of those on your bus, that info could have been conveyed via PM/phone call, text message etc without the need for a public thread?
Seems a little bit "look at me, I'm so very enraged" IMO.
From what I can glean from the info on what happened yesterday, unless Petrie has donned his skintight "Storm from X-Men" costume and spent yesterday morning just ****ing the weather up all across the land, the club is blameless here.
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07-12-2015 07:41 AM #16
I don't see why Hibs are to blame at all to be honest. Seems quite ridiculous to be losing the rag at the club.
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07-12-2015 07:47 AM #17
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The other thing is what level of interest each of the parties have who are involved in the decision. Morton want the game to go ahead and will do everything they can to make it happen. Hibs may have been a little less keen. The police, on balance, would probably have been happier to have the game called off so they could concentrate on all the other problems the weather created for them.
The question I have, is how hard did Morton press the police for a definitive answer throughout the morning ? If Morton were not pressing the police hard, they should have been. They have a due to the fans, beyond just getting the pitch playable.
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07-12-2015 08:03 AM #19
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Fwiw, I have sympathy for the OP, but there's no way Hibs were at fault.
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07-12-2015 08:36 AM #21This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Anyway, we digress. Like you say, a fair % of them may not even be on .Net which makes the OP even odder.
Must have been an immensely frustrating afternoon for all concerned, but Hibs are not to blame.
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07-12-2015 08:37 AM #22
Agree that Hibs are in no way to blame for the late call off, I would imagine the team bus would likewise be en route when the match was called off.
My gripe is that Morton fans were tweeting at 10.30am saying there was serious flooding on the A8 at Cappielow and that they didn't know how Hibs fans would get there. A pitch inspection was held at 11am and the announcement was "game on" Hearing that news we set off and were within a mile of Cappielow when news came through that the game was off. As previously posted the weather forecast was for heavy rain to continue throughout the day. So how would anyone expect a road that was nearly impassable at 10.30am improve as the day wore on !! The Police are 100% to blame for the late call off, they said it was in the interest of spectator safety, if that's the case then the game should have been called off before we had to leave the house.
I don't blame Morton either as their concern is the stadium and pitch, its not their job to ensure that access roads are clear.
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07-12-2015 09:06 AM #24
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If the SFA contacted an insurance company to find out about insurance for supporters bus' being insured in case of a game getting called off and having to pay for the bus, then this would be something at least pro active rather than re active from our Governing body.
If you take all our clubs in Scotland that have dedicated branches that go to away games, then I believe the insurance would be cheap enough that most supporter's bus' would join.
GGTTH
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I'm sure they would argue that because they arrived several hours before kick-off, the bus journey wasn't solely for the purpose of attending the football match.
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07-12-2015 11:04 AM #28
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I can't for the life of me understand why the police are coming in for any kind of stick over this. Police Scotland issued warnings about travelling for everyone in Scotland, not just football fans. I'm petty sure the police would have had their hands full with plenty of weather related incidents before getting round to calling this match off. The blame lies firmly with GMFC and no one else.
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07-12-2015 11:16 AM #30
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Its the groundsman's fault!
He spent the night before the game and the morning off the game banging on about how he's never had a game off and that his pitches are always great.
The creep couldn't see the bigger picture.
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