Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes was frustrated his Reds were denied the chance to make amends for Monday’s defeat at Inverness when today’s game at Partick was postponed because of a waterlogged Firhill pitch.
Referee Bobby Madden called the game off after a 4pm inspection.
It would have been Aberdeen’s second away match in the space of five days but the manager and his players were hugely frustrated when it was called off after a day of incessant rain in Glasgow.
He said: “We were ready for the match and we wouldn’t have been tired. We had done a lot of preparation and had trained well.
“We had settled on the team and we were all looking forward to the game.
“We wanted the game on. There were far more reasons why we wanted the game to be on than not.”
Despite his frustration, McInnes felt referee Madden made the right decision to call off the match.
The Aberdeen manager added: “We were worried about the weather and the pitch for most of the day.
“I spoke to Alan Archibald, the Partick Thistle manager, and he said he felt the pitch would have been playable at lunchtime. But it just couldn’t cope with the amount of rain that fell during the day and the right decision was made.
“It certainly couldn’t have been made any later. We were pushing for an earlier inspection as our supporters would have had to leave Aberdeen between 3pm and 4pm to get to Firhill.”
This was the fifth match Thistle have had called off since the start of December and the fourth at Firhill, which has been badly affected by the wet winter weather.
The Jags could drop to second bottom if Kilmarnock beat Dundee this afternoon, although they would have four games in hand.
Details of a new fixture date are yet to be confirmed but it is likely to be arranged for Saturday, March 5, when both sides have a free weekend having already been knocked out of the Scottish Cup.
Neil Simpson, head of Aberdeen’s youth academy and a member of the Aberdeen side which won the 1983 European Cup-Winners’ Cup, took to social media after the postponement urging Scottish football to consider switching its calendar following a recent raft of postponements.
Summer football should be firmly on the next "think tank" agenda.Better pitches,light nights more practice time. Makes sense?Not in Scotland
— Neil Simpson (@NeilSimmy8) February 19, 2016