The "pitch"

[Sufc.2008]

What an absolute joke that pitch is. Worse now than it was before, cutting up all over the place... unlikely we will ever be able to play anything other than hoofball on it... really not helping our cause!

 

[MK Shrimper]

Time to sack the new groundsman and get someone in who knows what they're doing.

 

[Magnum PI]

Draining the players of confidence. By the time they sort it half our side will have retired.

 

[E for B and Billy Best]

The pitch is shocking. Not only is it knackering any chance of playing the ball on the floor it is also verging on being bloody dangerous.

 

[Blues 'n twos]

Time to swallow some pride and go begging to a very good groundsman who got "frozen" out Ron :whistling:

 

[Chairman Trigg]

Not really to do with the groundsman. Who ever laid the new one has created the problem, as with any bad job can it actually be repaired to the standard expected.

Time to swallow some pride and go begging to a very good groundsman who got "frozen" out Ron :whistling:

 

[Shrimperforlife]

Have to question the goalkeeping team warming up in the goal and sidelines cutting it up ... not clever really

 

[South Bank Hank]

Agreed it's shocking but it's not hampering our ability to play football on the deck. Our defenders launching it forward straight to the opposition's assembled defenders are doing that.

 

[Crowstone Crevette]

Not really to do with the groundsman. Who ever laid the new one has created the problem, as with any bad job can it actually be repaired to the standard expected.

Not meaning to be a pedant but wasn't grown from seed rather than turf laid?

 

[mattitouk]

Whilst listening to the game on the BBC commentary, they were discussing the pitch, and someone emailed them about the pitch, and pretty much said that nothing much can be done to it now, other than stop watering it (something to do with the roots of the grass being to short, as they don''t have to grow down as much to reach the water level on the soil).

I'm no gardener, but that makes sense to me. If that is the case, and it's such an easy solution, it goes to show the lack of knowledge of our current groundsman. Surely just stop watering it, check the weather reports and cover as much as possible if rain is expected.

 

[Crowstone Crevette]

Not meaning to be a pedant but wasn't grown from seed rather than turf laid?

please insert the word 'it' between the words wasn't and grown in order for it to make sense

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Not really to do with the groundsman. Who ever laid the new one has created the problem, as with any bad job can it actually be repaired to the standard expected.

I think it is. I remember reading somewhere after the first game that the new groundsman said something about him and his team being told last minute to lay a new pitch before the start of the season. You can clearly see that the grass roots are coming away far to easy from the sand/soil mix underneath. So somethings clearly wrong with the job that was done.

 

[Blues 'n twos]

Surely the groundsman has the final say on what happens to "his" pitch??

Wholly down to the current ground staff, please no more excuses, just sort it out!

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

Surely the groundsman has the final say on what happens to "his" pitch??

Wholly down to the current ground staff, please no more excuses, just sort it out!

I thought someone posted on here a few weeks ago the decision to reseed the pitch was not made by the new groundsman and his team. The decision came from higher up.
We were told that pitch would be much better today, but it was just as bad.

 

[Oakley1]

Time to approach the league and ask if we can have a fixture or two changed and have 4 or 5 away games to get a new pitch laid before the winter weather sets in and we get our games called off

 

[mattitouk]

I don't know who ordered it, but yes, the pitch was drained, re-seeded & had further fertiliser added to it (cue the puns) about a fortnight ago or so (before the Plymouth game).

Clearly hasn't made an ounce of difference though.

 

[Benfleet A1]

It clearly isn't turf. How long ago was it seeded, I seem to remember from my council days that a playing surface needs at least 3 months to bed in.

 

[Leoblue]

Time to approach the league and ask if we can have a fixture or two changed and have 4 or 5 away games to get a new pitch laid before the winter weather sets in and we get our games called off

I said this a couple of weeks ago. We'll probably get a fin for doing so and rightly so, shocking pitch.

 

[mattitouk]

It clearly isn't turf. How long ago was it seeded, I seem to remember from my council days that a playing surface needs at least 3 months to bed in.

Work started on it on Thursday 1st June, so it's pretty much been 3 months to the day.

But as i said in an earlier post, it has been re-seeded again since then (about 2-3 weeks ago, & I don't know to what extent) as well as being drained again. What ever they are currently doing, clearly isn't working. & if they don't find a solution to fix it soon, surely it will get a hell of a lot worse come the winter months.

 

[rigsby]

Not meaning to be a pedant but wasn't grown from seed rather than turf laid?

please insert the word 'it' between the words wasn't and grown in order for it to make sense

Whilst were in the mood shouldn't you have an 'ic' on the end of pedant :winking: