[TheWorthinGer]

There must be a suitable synthetic pitch in the area? Or a real one they can borrow.

[Larry-AV]

Try yet again with this !

Scottish FA Cup 3rd Round results, postponed and replays.

Postponed :

14/12/2015 : Wick Academy v Linlithgow Rose - postponed for the 4th time, 13/12/2015, now :
16/12/2015 : Wick Academy v Linlithgow Rose - per the Wick Academy website.

Wick Academy FC

[Trusevich]

There must be a suitable synthetic pitch in the area? Or a real one they can borrow.

Nearest 3G pitch is in Orkney, but it's a hockey pitch! The Highland Football Academy in Dingwall has three 3G pitches but they're all 3/4 size.

Closest suitable pitch would be Brora's Dudgeon Park, 45 miles south. There's no chance Academy would accept playing a home game there.

Bottom line is it's the Scottish Cup, and the home team have the right to play the game at their home ground. That can't be taken away from them, especially just because you soft sooth-moothers cannae handle the weather!

If they'd have let the locals do the pitch inspections, the game would have been played at the first attempt.

[TheWorthinGer]

There must be a suitable synthetic pitch in the area? Or a real one they can borrow.

Nearest 3G pitch is in Orkney, but it's a hockey pitch! The Highland Football Academy in Dingwall has three 3G pitches but they're all 3/4 size.

Closest suitable pitch would be Brora's Dudgeon Park, 45 miles south. There's no chance Academy would accept playing a home game there.

Bottom line is it's the Scottish Cup, and the home team have the right to play the game at their home ground. That can't be taken away from them, especially just because you soft sooth-moothers cannae handle the weather!

If they'd have let the locals do the pitch inspections, the game would have been played at the first attempt.

Ahem, "sooth moother" sounds like a certain edinburgher to me.

[supercooper]

I'm a proud member of the it's too cold club.

[Trusevich]

"Sooth-moother" is actually a pejorative term used predominantly by the peoples of the Shetlands and Orkneys when referring to "incomers" or "white settlers", or people from the mainland. I picked it up from my own mother, who is from Kirkwall.

In Caithness we tend to refer to these types as being from "sooth o' 'e Ord" whether they're from Golspie or Brisbane.

And therein ends the lecture on the various Northern terms for soft southern puffery.

I could link to a twelve minute monologue in broad Caithness dialect on the story of The Battle of the Orange - the last pitched battle involving the militia on British soil, which happened in Wick in the mid nineteenth century. It was about an orange, strangely enough - if anyone's genuinely interested.

[TheWorthinGer]

Link?

[Trusevich]

OK, I will warn you, there's no translation. Most of it is understandable though. "Humphy-backit breeg" is self-explanatory.  

Edit: Thanks for that Larry, audio was fine before I uploaded it. Google apply their own processing to it afterwards. I've increased the amplification and it's a bit better now - still a bit muffled but then that's an old condenser mic recording from the eighties, compressed down to 128kbps mp3, so not a lot can be done with it now.

[Larry-AV]

I watched it but the sound was/is muffled, this despite having the sound setting on my PC at 100%.

Consequently I could not follow the storyline, but I did pick up this : 'nobody died'.

The same sound muffling affects (to a lesser degree) the 'Robbie' clip I posted on the old site.

[Trusevich]

See my post edit, Larry.