Not been on this weekend as had a bloody mental weekend so sorry if there's already been a thread on this. Anyone who went for a leisurely stroll on the pitch will have found out for themselves just how bad it really is. It doesn't look too bad from the stands or the tv cameras, but when walking across it you can feel just how bumpy and uneven the surface really is, all the way over, it's like walking on a cobbled road. I can understand a lot better now how much this would have affected our ability to play 'nice' football at home, and that it can't just be an excuse it really is a valid reason. It really was in ****ing **** condition, akin to the pitches we used to play on at school, and also a lot more bare when up close than it looks from up in the stand. On a side note, how ****ing good a day was that? Doubly glad Leicester didn't beat Watford now, how bloody boring would that have been in comparison? Great effort from the team and painfully unlucky not to give Cardiff a proper good hiding never mind take the 3 points! Such a mental climax to a mental season all over the league though, wouldn't have it any different (except maybe posh swapping places with Barnsley) which in my opinion put last seasons premier league finish to absolute shame. Championship is definitely the most exciting league in the world, going to miss it!
Club are putting in a planning application for a building to house those banks of high intensity lights to grow the pitch - just need the eggchasers to fook off now..
They should get down to the my local grassroots teams pitch. At least 2x games a week (U18, U21, Adults or Adults Reserves), more in the latter months with the backlog from Cup matches etc and the most it needs is a bit of sand in the goal mouths every now and then. I'll pass on the groundsman's number.
Lets try and avoid this going the same way as every other pitch discussion with a rugby vs football bollocks bomb, and all rejoice in glee that our team managed to get promoted on a 'pitch' easily comparable to a cattle grazing field in northern Scotland. Disclaimer: I've never been to Scotland but I just assume its wet, bumpy and ****e.
we wont go into the prem with a pitch like that im sure of it!!! that said look at old traffords pitch these days haha that is ****ing terrible what a disgrace for such a *big club*
to be fair Old Trafford's pitch is 10 years old and getting re-laid for next season. our pitch gets done every summer i think
I know this, I was just making the point we got the chance to find out for ourselves just how bad it really is. And upon doing just that, it was worse than it looked or I'd even imagined, and that using the pitch as an excuse for not so fluent football really wasn't so much an excuse as it was a reality. Hopefully they manage to keep it better from now on. Whatever happened to that foreign (Dutch I think it was) super pitch we were supposedly getting a few years back?
