Disappointing that Ross Jenkins picked up an injury near the end of Thursdays training.....he commented that training at Argyle was longer and harder than what he was used to at Watford. We do seem to be picking up more than our fair share of injuries........can it be that Carl needs to tweak the training sessions a little now that fitness levels should of been sorted out at the end of September ? I'm curious that others might of overdone it in training as well....and if Darren Purse is playing still while not fully recovered from his small op then wouldn't it be better that he was rested for awhile to help his full recovery,he is being caught out at times at present....is it his fitness ? So....I wonder if the training ground is stretching them all too much and it needs reviewing.....of course being injured in a match is not related to hard training is it?.........I just wonder if there could be any link....or are we just unlucky.
Fair point Plym especially if over the pre-season too, but yes should hold back a little in season and work on set pieces and target practice more rather than the physical stuff. Remember years ago players used to train about an evening a week and still run all over the place during a match!
Fletcher made the point a few days ago that the Home Park pitch is so well drained that it plays quite hard and that this had contributed to match-day injuries anyway, if not training ones. The ground-staff were I believe going to step up watering...
Yes notDistant........that comes back to my memory now about the hard pitch.....I assume that they are on a water meter system.....like we are around here........but on an industrial scale not domestic.....I don't know how it works in there case.....but if they step up the watering during dry periods that will be a hell of a bill to pay. Having looked through GoS's picture gallery on the pitch development it his hard to know if the drainage installed would make it more acceptable to never being a paddy field in bad weather or would it retain some moisture......must be hard to judge....but they would have known the geology of the land at Home Park and surely taken that into account. The training ground which is only a short distance and that not being highly redeveloped would play differently I expect.
Purse was limping slightly after the first 15 minutes yesterday. However, the Southend player turned him with a class move and he would have done most centre halves to be fair. His finish was exceptional. I don't particularly blame Purse for that one and for most of the match he was quite firm as was Blanchard. Quite firm without being great if you know what I mean. They water the pitch just before kick off and again at halftime. We have had a lot of rain in Plymouth this summer so I can't see the pitch being exceptionally hard unless it is meant to be. It doesn't cut up much however wet the day is.
Ah well, it had occurred to me that when Mr Brent builds his various pleasure palaces in Central Park, it would be a jolly eco-friendly thing to harvest all that surface water into a great big tank and re-cycle it into the hotel toilets and onto the Home Park pitch....
If I wasn't such a gentleman I would be quite rude to you at this point notdistant. Hows the shoulder doing?
I'm perfectly serious Sensible, rainwater harvesting is a well known technique - and the planners love that green stuff. How much water you'd collect as against what is needed, I have no idea. http://publications.environment-agency.gov.uk/PDF/GEHO0611BTYB-E-E.pdf So is grey water recyling, where used water, excluding that from toilets, is re-processed. That could also be used for watering the pitch. Ideal where you have a building generating a lot of grey water e.g. an hotel next to one that needs water for irrigation e.g. a sports ground. Not only is this eco-friendly, it reduces your water bills. I'd suggest solar electric panels on the new stand roof to drive the floodlights, but I'm sure there's a flaw in that somewhere.......... And sore, thank you for asking.
notDistant.....have you had a break recently.......just a few days away can do you the world of good.....I'd take the umbrella just incase it rains.
I see Sturrock mentioned that the pitch had a funny bounce on Saturday.......... Excuses, excuses comes to mind but he said the bounce was very high, which corresponds to it being on the hard side. I don't suppose we can complain to the suppliers can we, given we didn't pay for it....
Didn't they come along during off season and do some maintenance work for us on it.....at least they would get paid for that.
Sensible, i think Distant has a point with all the eco ideas. Rain water harvesting is great, i am just installing one on a job and then doing the same at home. Not have much info on solar electric panels, we install the thermal panels for the hot water. So i think it is a good option and the planners like it!! The sheep would be cheaper!!
