Scottsville Sunday 21st Aug

rob faux wrote:

Craig Eudey wrote: They could not have one ball bowled at the cricket because of the outfield being so wet( also GC's fault? :blush: ) The grass has just been scarified and plugs put in the annual spring treatment I think they call it. Can you imagine what the grass would have looked like being so soft and wet and with the tractor dragging the pens on and off it between races. An absolute mess. Impossible to let that happen.

Sorry Craig ,but your "Gold Circles fault " quote,in relation to the cricket, is exactly why You guys get no respect ..............its stupid and the act of a "Dummy spitting" tantrum of perceived victims rather than a sensible logical response!
It would seem that it is clearly to deflect from answering the sensible question of "If the weather forecast indicated that racing was in danger on the turf ,and presumably you knew you had done the scarification and plugs!!!!!!!"... then why was a timeous decision not made to race on the Poly?

Craig Eudey wrote: This is exactly why I always get asked why I bother to even post on here. OTA, it doesn't matter when or if they decided to move to the poly, the grass would still have been too soft to have tractors all over it. As you can see from the ESPN post we are not supposed to have the rain we had lately. RF the GC fault for the cricket being delayed was tongue in cheek as you should pick up from the emoji. They get blamed for everything else so it was just a chirp and if read with 2 eyes open it would gave been seen as that.

Craig Eudey wrote: RF, you have finally shown me that I must be stupid to even bother to try and help here. You do not want to see the truth that the tractors and the pens could not be pulled onto the grass after all that rain and the track being under spring treatment. As the ESPN article says we have had completely unseasonal weather this year. I hope you wrote to the cricket union and asked them why they had redone the grass? Actually you do not want to see the truth as it would spoil your blinkered approach to GC in particular. Well done, you have just chased away the final person in racing from ABC. I will not even bother to log on anymore. I am tired of telling the truth and being made out to be someone who does not know it in the first place. Play nicely boys. Sorry Bob.

Over the Air wrote: I do not want to get into the lipstick and handbags side of this argument however I must agree with one segment of Rob's logic. That is the abysmal management skills, and lack of planning on Gold Circles part. What is the use of having an all weather track if you cannot service it during spells of wet weather? That defeats the object of having put one in in the first place!

Over the Air wrote: I do not want to get into the lipstick and handbags side of this argument however I must agree with one segment of Rob's logic. That is the abysmal management skills, and lack of planning on Gold Circles part. What is the use of having an all weather track if you cannot service it during spells of wet weather? That defeats the object of having put one in in the first place!

dilligaf wrote:

Over the Air wrote: I do not want to get into the lipstick and handbags side of this argument however I must agree with one segment of Rob's logic. That is the abysmal management skills, and lack of planning on Gold Circles part. What is the use of having an all weather track if you cannot service it during spells of wet weather? That defeats the object of having put one in in the first place!

OTA what would you have done ie planning?

Made sure all the scenarios were covered to ensure that an all weather track be functional in all weather outside of tropical cyclones. To lose meetings because a track cannot be serviced speaks clearly of no contingency planning.

contingency plan
noun
a plan designed to take account of a possible future event or circumstance.