Isn't rugby league just a cross between american football and rugby union? I don't even know the difference between them, other than union is a lot more violent and a team game where as league is regarded as a game for pussies and one man armies. Anyway, we're getting side tracked, the problem is the pitches worsening condition. And Golaccio, don't think it matters what pitch you played on as a kid, this is high standard professional football, alot faster paced and a lot more technique and on the deck stuff going on. A bobble on a bad pitch could potentially turn a fast counter attack from a straight 1 on 1 to a bounce, bad control and loss of posession. Considering our players are better suited to playing on the deck, I'd argue that the pitch is a considerable hindrance. Steve Bruce seems to agree as he's commented on the poor state of it after most games recently. If the manager says we'll have to find ways around it and a terrible pitch means we can't play the way we want to that suits us, wouldn't you say it's a significant problem?
The pitch is no doubt a problem but our players seem to be coping better than the away teams playing on it
Regarded by who exactly? If you don't know the difference, then don't attempt to use your ignorance to support your argument. ''Anyway, we're getting side tracked, the problem is the pitches worsening condition.'' THE PITCH is indeed the issue I agree with you, but the pitch had problems when there wasn't 2 games being played on it. See my previous post...who knows it might a solution
The Rugby Union die hards and players, of which there are plenty where I live. More a rugby area than a football area. I don't know if there's any hatred between the 2 codes but that's what they tell me whenever I've asked about the difference. More specifically they say league is about getting the ball to your fastest players straight away and have them run the length of the pitch, where as union is about working as a team and passing your way through. And that rugby league it for pussies. That's about all I've been told. Enough about egg chasing now.
Lincolntiger, you sound like one of those happyclappers off the HDM website with all your talk of 'community stadium'. Explain how, if it is a community stadium, the community actually benefit from it? (unless you're a city fan or a duller) Its that same community stadium bullshit that keeps getting trawled out by people like you everytime Dr A gets knocked back by the egg chasing obsessed numpties at the council
Some teams get pitches relaid mid season, couldn't we do that during the next international break? Regardless of who is to blame, the pitch is utterly ****.
Well after reading up about it out of interest, it appears what I was told is absolutely spot on. ****e my arse. Stop play after a tackle and 6 tackles means switch in posession (), rugby league is just a ****ter version of american football, which is a ****ter version of rugby as a whole, which is a **** abomination of football.
League is so much faster than Union it's not even funny. All they do it kick it to each other, and I played the game for ten years! In an average union game the ball's in play for about 35 minutes out of 80, that's closer to 55/60 out of 80 in RL. The pitch is looking bad, but there are far worse out there than ours. Also, City have played on it 4 times in just over a fortnight, with FC playing once, so it's been used a lot recently.
Calm down S&B, I'm a city fan and wouldn't choose to watch Dull FC if you put a gun to my head. I wouldn't write to the HDM in the way you suggested, my professional background is/was in the media. When you use generalisations such 'people like me' you assume too much. Out of interest and for the record, I do hope the stadium is sold to the Allam family. In time I think it will. I have no time for Brady etc, however, I just don't operate with a monoculture mind or myopic view and I do try to see the bigger picture, for sport and for Hull in general. The term 'Community Stadium' is part of an official the term used by those who operate it/run it/built it etc. Remember with whose money it was built. So, not my phrase, it is part of the 'official' description. However, I do remember the Lloyd stuff only too well and do understand why some folks get fidgety. I'm not after an argument, I was after making a point about the pitch and the nonsense (in my humble view) about the rugby. UTT
As your not a rugby fan you can be forgiven for your ignorance but practically everything in your post is the complete opposite to the truth.
You only have to look at the goal mouth and you can see this isn't a rugby/football issue, pitches don't grow this time of year and ours seemingly suffers more than others. This is simply down to the fact that the conditions are not conducive to growth, which is a is a function of the weather, stadium design and lack of investment in technology (growth lights...etc). Not much we can do about it, but as we've won 4 in 4, I think it's time some people got over it, if we start losing and can't string 3 passes together because the ball bobbles everywhere then maybe it would be worth talking about.
You're confusing the uneven surface and the lack of growth. As I mentioned earlier, if you look at the pitch, in places it's more bobbly than a gypos jumper and these places don't just relate to where the pitch is less green. The lack of growth is possibly due to there seemingly not being a lot for the grass to grow in at various parts of the pitch. It looks to me more like the problem being in the sub-soil layer. It's not to be dismissed lightly due to winning though, especially not when the manager repeatedly comments on the state of the pitch being a factor in him picking the game plan.
I'm not confusing anything I was merely pointing out that the problem lies deeper than rugby vs football debate or simply over-use as most elude to on here. It's probably a function of both my post and yours, the stadium is not the best for getting light onto the pitch and we haven't compensated by investing in technology, it will therefore always suffer more than other grounds. But as you say the problem may deeper rooted as there is certainly an issue with the uneven surface across the park. Let's face it all we can do is speculate, we don't know much more than we see on match days. We just have to hope it doesn't effect performances and if it does the club are proactive in resolving it.
The answer to your question is in the question. It's a community stadium because it's owned and controlled by the council who are the appointed representatives of the Community. Quite why you feel the need to attempt to insult anyone who doesn't agree with your views I don't understand.
