The old pitch has done one...

Good. That yellow grass at the south stand end on view last friday during the dullers game looked awful.

 

Was thinking this morning, apart from the patch where the squash was the rest of the pitch looked in great nick on Friday night (from in the ground at least). It's been relaid for about 6 years in a row now, maybe it would be better if the pitch was just allowed to rest for a month/6 weeks over the summer rather than reseeding it and then Hull having a game before it's ready.

Surely can't be any worse than it was for a while this year.

 

The pitch is always in decentish shape come the summer and the start of the season. But when we get to February and March it'll get a bit worse for wear and people will continue to whinge.

It could benefit us that all the "we play proper football" brigade will be making excuses before setting foot on it.

 

Well no egg chasing games are planned for June. So a good month in the sun and the turf should be lush.

 

I bet RL Forums is in meltdown, a clear agenda of Assem Allam to replace all Hull FC players with tractors - which is against Super League rules, meaning Hull FC would be kicked out of the league! Quick everybody get onto your local MP/Councillor!!!

 

whos paying for the new pitch?

 

I thought that. Wouldnt it have been better just to relay the area ruined by the courts and leave the remainder to rest?

 

probably someone needs to remind the whingeing eggchasers (one old git in my local called the Allams disgusting for the barren/yellow patch) that they're not paying for it - maybe Adam might contribute !!

 

I think so. The other thing is that when Hull next play at home (July 1st so less than a month away) the new pitch won't be quite ready, just as it hasn't been for the last few years when we've had our first game, so there'll be a game of RL on the pitch before it's quite ready and we'll have the same problem next year.

The RFL are pretty good with fixture requests, so it should have been sorted at the start of the season that between May 10th when we played Wakefield in the cup and July 1st when we play Wakefield in the league Hull wouldn't be at home, then left the pitch and let it rest and grow and whatever it is that the groundsmen need to do with it, and not had that squash on it, since its events like that the Arena was built for.

 

It's costing £1M. £500k from us and £500k from FC. In other news our contribution to FC's catering has gone up from £250k to £750k as the tubby's ate an extra pie at the derby game.

 

Actually, looking at that pic does it seem the grass is more established at the far end? Have they done the full ptich?

 

this years top gear Christmas special

 

It probably would OLM if the KC got the same amount of warmth and light as that stadium will have. Looks wonderful...

I wonder what the Humberside police do with all the lamps they confiscate from their Marijuana growing raids? Perhaps a quiet word and donation to the Police Benevolent Fund from Papa, and Bob's your auntie, lots of lamps and plenty of 'grass' on the KC!

 

I wonder if it possible to obtain a photo of the pitch showing the West Stand particularly the bit between where the players enter and the South Stand? In 2010 we had tickets for our first ever visit to the KC which was a Hull FC match as the Tigers season had ended. I had a bad dose of food poisoning and missed the match but my husband went and we still have the tickets and can identify the spot where I would have been sitting. I would then attempt to "Photoshop" my sitting in the empty stadium to compliment a photograph my husband took of me sitting high up all alone in the Roman Amphitheatre in Verona 3 weeks prior to the KC visit.

 

Not the aspect I require as I wanted a more frontal view of the stand as my seat was almost opposite the South end 20 metre line. Thank you anyway for your photo. Much appreciated.

 

According to my husband just squeezed out! Needed the next bay of the Lower West. Thanks again for your photo.