The Pitch

[marky No.1]

Lots of commenting, moaning and groaning about it, but apparently it has a disease, so i presume we can't get pulled up about it.
If anything it has improved our goalscoring and results, long may it continue

[black morse]

I wonder if they have insured the pitch against disease as it will cost a bit to relay a new pitch in the off season.

[redrobo]

If true about a disease then it must have been in the original make up last close season and the weather especially the rain has brought it to the clubs attention.

I had a similar problem with my renovated lawn last spring and took ages and specialist treatment to get rid.

I also the absence of a qualified groundsman will not have helped.

Evidently our forner groundsman who left to join a Premiership club in London has now moved on to Manchester City.

[Wild Bill]

Away teams won't like playing on the awful pitch. Hopefully we can keep turning it to our advantage

[al1]

A bit naughty saying our groundsmen are not qualified! Apology required there CC surely.

[Lurchy]

Jees RR you talk some rubbish sometimes. Disease happens on all sorts of sports surfaces. Richer clubs can probably just deal with it better spraying preventative fungicides and having an expensive fertiliser programme.

As for qualified groundsmen, not sure if the full time team is 2 or 3 but the 2 I know of are qualified.

People asked me why i didn't go for the job after Rob left. It would have been a hiding to nothing. Rob was brilliant and a very hard act to follow. They don't pay there bills, so the Groundsman has next to nothing to work with

[Little Shrimp]

Worth saying as well that Derek made a fair point that despite the grass issue, the pitch doesn't cut up too badly all things considered. Don't see the turf/ground ripping up loads, despite the lack of grass.

[CityShrimp]

Worth saying as well that Derek made a fair point that despite the grass issue, the pitch doesn't cut up too badly all things considered. Don't see the turf/ground ripping up loads, despite the lack of grass.

True. It looks horrendous but we don’t see too many nasty bobbles throughout the course of a game.

[redrobo]

It's forecast to rain on Satueday . Let's hope the pitch can cope.

[marky No.1]

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