The Liberty Pitch

[Jacket]

To pay for re-laying and then not to maintain it is the very height of stupidity. Hardly surprising, paying top wack for things and running them into the ground seems to be our current owners' forte.

To see it on Saturday, it was absolutely pittiful, it seems to have deteriorated dramatically since the last home game when it was already looking pretty dire. Seems Winter is incapable of sorting out a pitch ready for the rigours of a winter in South West Wales.

 

[Badlands]

These jobs are just above apprenticeship level trying to make out this is in someway slave labour is pathetic. They are not being employed to run the grounds maintenance.
Similar jobs are advertised at c£8.02 - £9 per hour or an annual equivalent with greater experience / training coming in at less than than £9.
If you are paying £20 an hour to someone to cut your hedge you are being very generous but even if you are that person will be
self employed & therefore responsible for own NI, tax, insurances, finding the work, buying and maintaining equipment, undertaking safety checks and training in equipment use where necessary, environmental compliance including the management of waste.
While we all want to earn a decent wage the facts of life are these job is filled at these levels of pay.

 

[Swansea93]

How is this pitch gonna last the season.

 

[Muteswan]

How is this pitch gonna last the season.

Well, if the tide is out, there’s always Caswell. Couldn’t be any worse.

 

[Darran]

My mate Dan knows the score.


https://twitter.com/duffgmd/status/1336424891868844032?s=21

 

[Jacket]

Switched over after the end of the match to see the last couple of minutes of Scumdiff v Stoke. The Bet 365 pitch as green and blemish free as a brand new snooker table, just like the Liberty used to look for the first 15 years of its existence. Not gonna lie, it nearly brought a tear to my eye thinking what we were and what we've become. That pitch tonight reeked of mismanagement, penny pinching and sheer dissapointment.

Now I know the guys on £9 an hour aren't in charge of the pitch, but that almost makes it worse, that a pitch so recently invested in has become such a source of embarrassment in such a short period of time is a discredit to who ever it is that's in charge and our absentee landlords. It was like rolling back the years watching match of the day from the 70s, not a recently laid Desso GrassMaster pitch that looked worse than the pitch down the Vetch if you were to take a stroll down there now.

We should seriously consider moving to Fairwood until fans are allowed back to see if these goons can do something with it in the meantime. Failing that we should move back to Llandarcy or make enquiries to see if Cwmdonkin Park is available.

 

[Swanjaxs]

God help when we play a game in heavy rain, it'll be a lottery

 

[Ronald Parp]

I’ve told you what the problem is many times. Get Cooper off the pitch between matches and tell him to stop telling them to water it. Where do you think they are training these days?

 

[Dr. Winston]

Maybe it's Cooper's answer to last season's poor home form. Make the pitch so Goddamn awful that only we can play on it.

If the first team are training on it they need to be told to stop. Pronto.

 

[Jinxy]

Whichever way you cut it (pardon pun), I think it's having a very detrimental effect on our play, especially the passing game. Last night I noticed several passes, on both sides, falling short. Players were often putting the ball in the air to avoid dodgy bobbles (yes I know you can cream for this). Ironically, it may have slightly worked in our favour last night, given Bournemouth's style.

Another issue is that presumably the players train, rehearse moves etc. on good surfaces, only to turn up on a match day to play on what looks like a recently ploughed field. Cooper must have voiced concerns shirley. Mind you, I bet they reminded him that he liked a brownfield site.

Sort it out SCFC ASAP, it's getting serious, and embarrassing if nothing else. Oh and it doesn't look great on TV either.

 

[AceJack]

Maybe it's Cooper's answer to last season's poor home form. Make the pitch so Goddamn awful that only we can play on it.

If the first team are training on it they need to be told to stop. Pronto.

They surely can't be training on there as well?

 

[Darran]

Some of those journos don’t half talk some shit mind.
The main Swans one Mitchelmore reckons this morning the pitch doesn’t allow for free flowing football.

Free flowing football mind. :lol:

 

[Dr. Winston]

They surely can't be training on there as well?

That's the widely held belief. One you'd hope wasn't true given the state of it.

Nobody from the club seems prepared to comment, which tells its own story.

 

[AceJack]

They surely can't be training on there as well?

That's the widely held belief. One you'd hope wasn't true given the state of it.

Nobody from the club seems prepared to comment, which tells its own story.

This just keeps getting worse.

 

[Darran]

That's the widely held belief. One you'd hope wasn't true given the state of it.

Nobody from the club seems prepared to comment, which tells its own story.

This just keeps getting worse.

That’s not exactly true and he knows that he just doesn’t like Cooper.

The Trust have said they were training on it a few weeks ago but aren’t anymore.