Pitches

I walked from Sutton Park to Kingswood today and saw that the Bude Park pitch was in use.....I guess for the first time...Impressive facility. I watched about 10 mins of Kingswood Tigers vs somebody. Good stuff. Other than the coach of one side having a go at the ref for not giving a pen..Feck sake it's kids...Not the Premier League....
 
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TIGERSCAVE said:
Hybrid football pitches consist of 100% natural grass reinforced with millions of synthetic fibres (often 5% artificial, 95% natural) injected 20mm–65mm into the rootzone. They provide the high-performance feel of real grass with enhanced durability, stability, and up to 3x more playing hours than traditional turf. Common in elite stadiums (e.g., Premier League, FIFA World Cup), they offer better performance in wet conditions.

Clubs including Aston Villa, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Liverpool, Leeds United and Nottingham Foresthave all installed SISGrass Hybrid systems at stadiums or training grounds.

Beyond the top flight, SIS Pitches’ technology is also being adopted across the EFL and non-league football, with recent installations at Birmingham City, Wrexham, Derby County, Wycombe Wanderers, Stevenage, Mansfield, Colchester United, Swindon Town, Notts County, Stockport County and Hednesford Town.

Typically a hybrid pitch would cost around £500,000 to £1.5m to install. The price varies depending on multiple factors which include the size of the pitch, sporting regulations, drainage and irrigation, the hybrid style (stitched, carpet or lay & play).
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We were told last year that our new pitch cost £1.5m and City paid every penny of it.
 
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I posted this on another thread... excuse the duplication...

"Basically it looks like a cumulative set of impacts that never give the pitch time to recover, especially a newly laid one. The roots get saturated, so the grass can’t anchor properly and just shears off under load. Once that starts happening it’s almost impossible to catch up, because every attempt to reseed or repair gets undone by either more rain or further churn under match conditions. The weather hasn’t helped. The ground is effectively “full” and struggles to absorb the next hit."

But then surely if ours is a hybrid pitch and the root is attached to fibres, this should not be happening...?
 
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AlRawdah said:
It will be a combination of lots of things. But the weather is very clearly part of the problem right now.
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Other regions including the already mentioned Bristol have had twice the rainfall.
It's a bigger issue than just the weather even Wigans pitch looked like it had more grass on it yesterday
 
Boothferry Park pitch February 60 years ago. Lots of divots but we were always contenders with Boro and Ipswich for best pitch.

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We have two professional teams playing in a not very good surface in the winter months. The pitch really doesn’t stand a chance. It’s not ideal sharing with FC, but I doubt the stadium would have ever been built had it been just for us. So we have to put up with the chubby chasers I guess
 
Kevin Francis said:
We have two professional teams playing in a not very good surface in the winter months. The pitch really doesn’t stand a chance. It’s not ideal sharing with FC, but I doubt the stadium would have ever been built had it been just for us. So we have to put up with the chubby chasers I guess
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There has been 2 RL matches on the new surface and it was looking poor before that. Bristol and Swansea have had rugby union, which damages pitches more, played all winter in terrible rainy conditions and their pitches are better. It must be drainage and the orientation of the stadium.
 
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So it's not the wet weather because others have had worse than us.
It's not the Rugby because other grounds have more rugby than we do.
It's not the bowl like stadium because others are the same shape.

I think the first port of call should be to the companies who laid the pitch, numerous times and at great expense.
 
balkan tiger said:
So it's not the wet weather because others have had worse than us.
It's not the Rugby because other grounds have more rugby than we do.
It's not the bowl like stadium because others are the same shape.

I think the first port of call should be to the companies who laid the pitch, numerous times and at great expense.
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Yes and also was the original sub base done correctly.
The stadium was built at a heck of a pace .
Is there something deeper down that effects it ?
 
balkan tiger said:
So it's not the wet weather because others have had worse than us.
It's not the Rugby because other grounds have more rugby than we do.
It's not the bowl like stadium because others are the same shape.

I think the first port of call should be to the companies who laid the pitch, numerous times and at great expense.
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I think drainage is the problem. As Edelman says it may stem back to how it was originally built.
 
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