Looking at the Superleague fixtures that have come out it looks like there's only our last home game against Everton that's going to be played a short time after FC have had a game. They're playing on the Saturday night, and we're playing Sunday afternoon. Every other game seems to have a good length of time between their game and ours so maximum recovery time for the pitch. Looking the other way that obviously means there's a few where they're playing the day after us. I always thought they asked for their home games in the first half of the year to be when we were away from home, and then we did the same for the start of our season (you can do requests like that in shared stadia, a bit like us having tended to be away for the non-international weekend Hull Fair is open. (just ****ed about the weekend before because the carpark is out of use anyway). I wonder if we've changed it so that the pitch has the two games and then a lot of recovery time rather than being used once a week.
I always wondered what was best - we play at home on alternate weekends so it has a week rest between games or we both play on the same weekend and after an initial blitzing it gets 2 weeks rest? I guess it's probably down to the weather. If it's pissing it down 2 games would really kill the pitch but otherwise I suspect a 2 week break would be better.
The whole debate should be irrelevant with the introduction of pitch lamps this season, the problem has always been the inability of the pitch to recover rather than it been over-used, Reading/Wigan/Quins/Wycombe...etc all ground share and have none of the problems we have. The pitch lamps should in theory allow suffcient growth and recovery between games that for the first time in 10 years this isn't a problem anymore.
Can we get something to clean the tubby lards lines off the pitch rather than paint over them. They look **** and its an embarrassment.
What difference does it make though? They're 2 days apart (Friday and Sunday) and they're played at different grounds.
Can't understand the issue myself? Maybe 30 people max would go to both, and one games on the Friday night and one on Sunday afternoon.
Surely somebody must have invented one that biodegrades in a few hours. You can get the stuff the refs use in some countries for where the ball has to be placed but that would disappear too quickly
Hull FC game on that weekend is being played on the Friday night against Wigan(May 9th). Tigers v Everton(Sun May 11th).
That's better than it was then (HDM was originally saying it was the Saturday they were playing so I should have known it was wrong). Still not great but it's a one off.
