Hull FC play their first match of the season at the KC on January 13th. If Brucie was upset about the state of the Blackpool pitch wait until he sees the rugby boys digging up the KC. Here's hoping the weather improves a little and the playing surface allows the team to continue playing the free flowing football we are used to. Hang on! Did anyone tell him it's a ground share stadium?
I think the former Wigan manager might know how to get a team to play on a pitch that's being shared with a rugby team.
Oh dear, here we go again. I am no fan of rugby league or sharing the ground but it has been mentioned often enough that the ground staff say there is more wear and tear from football than rugby league. RL is not like union, no contested scrums, no loose scrums or mauls. There is more damage from sliding tackles in football. Rugby league is merely catch and run, roll about after tackle and play the ball back 5 times before kicking it forward. Nothing to churn the pitch up.
I absolutely detest rugby, and I hate the fact i'm going to defend them - but last season, didn't the pitch start getting **** BEFORE the RL season started?
Im sure people miss the point here, either that or Im seeing a point he isn't making... but when people moan about the egg chasers ruining the pitch isn't it not that they play rugby, just that we share the pitch with ANYONE that ruins it? Its not what sport ruins it most, but the fact that it gets used 100% more than a pitch used by just City and doesn't get 3 months off in the summer.
I think the cold winters of the previous 2 years was the major factor to the poor pitch. A mild winter this year and the pitch is near perfect. No coincidence.
Last years bad pitch was down to a parasitic worm in the soil that was eating the root of the grass! It has since been treated and should not return. Nothing to do with football or rugby!
That's misleading in my opinion. Compare Boothferry parks award winning pitch to the Boulevard swamp. What i recall being said and later misquoted was that the pitch suffers more damage during the football season. That's primarily due to the weather and the extra work it gets with both sides playing on it at that time, especially as the rl means it gets no rest.
Just a thought, but surely BP hosted first team games, reserve games and even training in any one week during the old days. So it's quite possible the pitch would have had a fair bit more use in comparison with recent times at the KC. Yet very few problems with BP! An old groundsman I've spoken to said it was probably the parasitic worm.
Glad he went back to Leicester because we are better off with Bruce but NP is doing a fine job @ Festa
so if it was this said "worm".. and it has been treated or exterminated or whatever. We can expect a pristine pitch from now on or is that pushing it??
KC is a shared stadium that is fact and assume that pitch design is such to accomodate the two sports. What I can not get my head around is why the west stand touchline has been used for something like shuttle runs and is churned up leading down to the SW corner. It may be pre - match fitness checks or something similar but on Saturday there were a couple of times in the first half when Brady struggled to take throw ins because of it. Surely the dead ball area is best for this. I doubt FC could be blamed for this as I would doubt that they have actually seen KC yet this season.
