One thing that surprised me today was the state of the Loftus Rd pitch. There was a strip of frost all the way down the centre of the pitch, with a 20 yard strip down each flank clear. I thought we had under-soil heating now? Very strange!
I thought we'd installed it when the pitch was re-laid. Clearly not then. Can't believe we didn't. It was pretty poor to have most of the pitch covered in frost all game and the players seemed wary of their footing at times.
I'm sure I remember the pitch was taken up for under soil heating to be installed a few years ago...am I imagining it?
I can't believe we haven't got it. Perhaps it was broken or we forgot to turn it on. At the game Beth pointed out that it produced a very unpredictable bounce. My daughter's hockey match was cancelled this morning because of frost, which apparently also affects artificial pitches. Thanks to the wonders of the internet at least she didn't have to turn up to find out it was off. Unlike me in the olden days, having to cycle up to school on freezing mornings (and up a massive hill) to find cut up pitches frozen solid, with ridges like razors. Or even worse, then getting in a minibus for an away game, getting there to find that cancelled as well. Why we never used commonsense is beyond me.
You're all forgetting the 4 degree convex camber on the pitch which naturally channels the isobaric warmitudes safely and efficiently towards the wing extremities thus leaving the central fossa high and dry and unfortunately prone to surface polarities. Least that's the way I understand it.
