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Nice and waterlogged already with sprinklers still on,all ready for the eggchasers to make it worse no doubt.
Bingo, but I think it was taken earlier tonight. Someone on the Southampton forum posted it so I assume one of their players or coaching staff put it on twitter. There's no wonder we have a terrible pitch if we're going to insist on watering it when it's already waterlogged.
I had my picture taken on the pitch before the game and the pitch is the equivalent of that of a Sunday League game. Bobbly, bare and no good for our passing game. Justin Whittle confirmed that it will be treated in July.
We need to stop ****ing about. As a club there are loads of problems we've had for years that never get addressed, I'm talking about things on and off the pitch. It's recognised that we need the pitch sorting, just as it's recognised that we need to do something about getting the ball back into play faster but we do nothing about either. Equally, on the pitch it's obvious we need to be more streetwise with refs like everyone else is, it's obvious we need to stop trying to cross from the halfway line to the edge of the box especially when our strikers are McLean and Fryatt and it's obvious we have a big problem with scoring against teams that sit back. All of these things have been going on for years and years and we never do anything about any of them. Start by getting the off the pitch stuff sorted and someone tell Nick to sort the rest out!
One thing I find really strange about our team is in attack we are so ridiculously honest to the point where if the ref gave us a penalty that shouldn't be our players would probably go and tell the ref he made the wrong decision and to give them a goal kick. Yet when it comes to defending we don't play to the whistle, we just stop and wave out arms round at the ref as if we're forcing him to blow his whistle, we've been extremely lucky so far but soon enough well get punished for it.
Of course the disgusting state of the pitch is NOTHING to do with the rugby, i saw the highlights of Hull FC and Widnes on Sunday and every sliding tackle shaved a sq foot of grass off the pitch. Kick them out for **** sake, sharing a stadium with them is humiliating.
I agree they're not even a proper egg chasing team, just one of those ****ing stupid pointless egg chasing league teams. Sure theres a school with a patch of grass suitable for them.
Based on the pitch before that game that's only one or two blades of grass. The rugby makes it worse, of course it does because it's another game happening, but that pitch was an embarrassment when we played Ipswich the first time and there'd been one rugby game on it in the space of 3 months at that point.
I wish people would stop blaming the rugby for the state of the pitch and saying kick them out! For starters we would nit have the KC if they didnt sign up to play there with us. People have also said how good Wigans, Hudds and readings pitch are and they all have rugby and football! Some people forget that there are people that support City and FC on here and all this blaming the rugby team is getting boring now!
I've often read/heard that the lack of grass is nowadys due to poor light and or dodgy drainage. With the poor light linked to stadium construction and to an extent - **** local weather! Also drainage is due to poor pitch construction, or a deterioration in the drainage system (blocked, damaged etc etc). But this is often overcome by better quality grass seeds (that can cope with the crap conditions) better management of the turf generally and better or replaced/repaired drainage systems. Sometimes clubs have repalced the metal clad roofs of the stands with plastic/perspex to allow more light onto the pitch. To echo the comments of others, all these problems have been known about/observed for ages. There are clubs with similar problems or conditions (including the rugby) BUT these are clearly now addressed. So the question to the club's groundsmen/SMC/Hull City/Hull FC is - WHY HAVEN'T WE OVERCOME THIS AGE OLD ISSUE YET? I recall that the pitch had a special fibre woven into it when the KC was first constructed. This holds the pitch together and stops it cutting up (as much). Has it been removed, or is it not working as well? Does it need replacing or upgrading?
Is it possible we're all missing the point? Could it be that they engineer it that way because looking out for buds and watching the grass grow is more entertaining than watching FC?
Wasn't that ripped up early on because of some fungal infection on it? I do recall reading one KC official claiming that smoking could be allowed in the confined areas near the concessions, but not in the outdoor einvironment of the seats, because of the fear of the artificial pitch catching fire. Such is/was the level of people involved.
I agree with this, there are other things causing the pitch to be in this state having a much bigger impact than the rugby and it is getting really boring having people use threads about the pitch as just another excuse to slag off rugby even though the Craven Park pitch isn't even in a state as bad as the KC's, I think the winter weather has a much larger effect and other things such as grass seeds and the like which has already been pointed out.
I don't see why we haven't got the lights yet. I was working at Pittodrie (Aberdeen) yesterday, and they had 3 strips of them running right through the afternoon, and they were still on at 11pm when we left. Now in January Aberdeen's manager was worried about losing key players from their team because, amongst others, Southend were interested in one of their players and they thought they might make an offer the club couldn't afford to turn down. So if they can afford to run 3 strips of them on a pitch that looked way better than ours we shouldn't have a problem running them.
Well a complete lack of the colour GREEN for starters springs to mind me thinks.!!! Must say the Festa pitch look very good.
