Ross County offline for three days after website wiped out

Ross County's ticket sales were thrown into chaos after a technical error wiped out the Scottish Premiership club's website.

County travel to champions-elect Celtic this weekend in the first of the post-split fixtures with tickets for visiting fans to Parkhead only available online.

However, the site had been down since Saturday evening due to an error by the web-hosting company used by the Dingwall club.

After receiving a number of enquiries from fans desperate to travel to Glasgow for Sunday's game, the club tweeted: "Continued apologies to anyone trying to access the club website. It is offline due to circumstances outwith our control.

"We're working hard with our technical partner to reinstate the site ASAP. For matchday tickets please call our ticket office on 01349 860860."

And the club's operations manager David O'Connor stressed more than ticket sales were affected as a result of Saturday's technical blunder.

Speaking to the Ross-shire Journal, he said: "The site went offline on Saturday. We discovered when users trying to get in alerted us. There's an awful lot of information on that website including tickets, information about how to book places on buses and, of course, merchandise.

"It's not always easy for people to make it in to Dingwall during the working day to get tickets so that alone is a real inconvenience. We're using our other social media channels in the meantime such as Facebook and Twitter @RCFCStaggies and, of course, people can still phone in."

The website was up and running again on Tuesday afternoon but O'Connor stressed the online operation was a "core part of the business" and admitted the club would take a financial hit as a result of the blunder.