Our new pitch has arrived

[Jinxy]

I wonder what they'll do with the old one?! There's at least 45,000 sq feet so at fiver each that's £225k raised. I'm not greedy SCFC, 10% will be fine. I'd take a punt, once the disease gets a grip no more mowing the lawn eh. Win win!

 

[mrploppy]

They should live stream the pitch being relaid. I'd watch it anyway. Something to do during lockdown.

 

[Darran]

They should live stream the pitch being relaid. I'd watch it anyway. Something to do during lockdown.

Ian Walsh mentioned that on Radio Wales just before the end of the game today he said they should film it then do one of those speeded up thingys.

 

[Swanjaxs]

They should live stream the pitch being relaid. I'd watch it anyway. Something to do during lockdown.

https://twitter.com/IanMitchelmore/status/1340356910126665730?s=19

 

[mrploppy]

They should live stream the pitch being relaid. I'd watch it anyway. Something to do during lockdown.

https://twitter.com/IanMitchelmore/status/1340356910126665730?s=19

Excellent. Got any more? Love a bit of turf porn.

 

[Badlands]

If it's true that the current pitch has acquired some sort of bug then that's rank bad luck and the club has done reasonably well in looking to rectify the situation ASAP.

We are unfortunate compared to a lot of our rivals in that we've got to tolerate Eggers rolling around on it regularly too.

Birch said, as it was being laid, the new playing surface would be changed from the previous composition to the same as the training pitches which had impressed since being laid in 2017. The idea was to have the training and match day pitches as close as possible in dimensions and performance. As the training pitches are OK it suggests something has gone seriously wrong at the Liberty that has nothing to do with the preparation or maintenance.
I remember our group commenting on the state of the pitch surface in the autumn / winter last year. I don't think it has ever been quite right.

 

[DwightYorkeSuperstar]

:mrgreen:

Will whoever oversaw the truly woeful management of the pitch over the past 18 months face consequences for costing the club huge sums of money?

What's it got to do with you?

I would have like to have seen the hundreds of thousands of pounds it costs to replace a football pitch being put towards loaning a promising or out of favour striker from a Premier League team to maximise our chance of automatic promotion this season.

 

[Itchysphincter]

:mrgreen:

What's it got to do with you?

I would have like to have seen the hundreds of thousands of pounds it costs to replace a football pitch being put towards loaning a promising or out of favour striker from a Premier League team to maximise our chance of automatic promotion this season.

...and play on what?

Pitch is probably insured. Hope no one posts pictures of Ospreys running around in it after their game...

 

[JackSomething]

:mrgreen:

What's it got to do with you?

I would have like to have seen the hundreds of thousands of pounds it costs to replace a football pitch being put towards loaning a promising or out of favour striker from a Premier League team to maximise our chance of automatic promotion this season.

I'm disappointed. That was not worth the 22-hour wait.

 

[Polskijack]

If there was a disease in the grass, let's hope they remove any trace of this before the new surface goes down or we could be in the same position again.

 

[airedale]

If there was a disease in the grass, let's hope they remove any trace of this before the new surface goes down or we could be in the same position again.

Perhaps it caught COVID-19.

 

[Jacket]

If it's true that the current pitch has acquired some sort of bug then that's rank bad luck and the club has done reasonably well in looking to rectify the situation ASAP.

We are unfortunate compared to a lot of our rivals in that we've got to tolerate Eggers rolling around on it regularly too.

As tempting as it is to blame the egg chasers, we seemed to cope well despite with having both sports played on it for 15 years.

 

[Jacket]

:mrgreen:

What's it got to do with you?

I would have like to have seen the hundreds of thousands of pounds it costs to replace a football pitch being put towards loaning a promising or out of favour striker from a Premier League team to maximise our chance of automatic promotion this season.

Promising players don't tend to command the same level of fees and are loned out to clubs the parent clubs trust. It's players that are surplus to requirements at the parent club that tend to be subject to bidding wars, for example Harry Wilson going down the road because Liverpool couldn't care less if he goes to a completely unsuitable club if the money's right.

 

[AceJack]

I thought our pitch was always a hybrid pitch? Did that change when they relayed it in 2019?

 

[mrploppy]

I thought our pitch was always a hybrid pitch? Did that change when they relayed it in 2019?

I think even the relaid pitch was hybrid. From what I understand though, this time it's hybrid turf - you're not going to grow grass from seed this time of year. AFAIK the others weren't turf. Could be wrong though.