THE PITCH

[MR. CYNICAL]

Apologies if this is in the wrong place or already been mentioned but just to comment how much worse the pitch is this season than it has been compared to the last two seasons. Worse pitch in the championship by a mile and after all the money we spent on it last year.Hope its not going to affect our home form for the remaining games.
Thoughts anyone?

[sam1]

Um, lot of rain? Gets churned up more. Takes a bashing from the rugby?

[CMRoyal]

Really worried about it. I think it affected the way we played yestreday, and would like to see all Youth, Reserve, Academy and egg-chaser games banned from the Mad Stad until it's sorted. It's a tough enough campaign as it is - we don't want the pitch to make it even harder.

[Archie's penalty]

Really worried about it. I think it affected the way we played yestreday, and would like to see all Youth, Reserve, Academy and egg-chaser games banned from the Mad Stad until it's sorted. It's a tough enough campaign as it is - we don't want the pitch to make it even harder.

An emphatic + 1. It looked horrible. To be honest it makes yesterday's win seem more and more impressive.

[IMAMATEOFJOVSKY]

Rugby match played on it Thursday night - after a week of wet weather as well - never going to be too good surface for yesterdays game. Lets hope egg chasing doesnt put a big spanner in our season

[SLAMMED]

they said on the championship this morning that 8 games had been played on it in 2 weeks or something

[Ian Royal]

4 games in 8 days was on 107.

With the wet weather as mentioned it was always going to happen. Problem is now getting it decent again. Something we may struggle with.

[rg6royal]

I was LOLing at the pitch yesterday.

[skipper]

Apologies if this is in the wrong place or already been mentioned but just to comment how much worse the pitch is this season than it has been compared to the last two seasons. Worse pitch in the championship by a mile and after all the money we spent on it last year.Hope its not going to affect our home form for the remaining games.
Thoughts anyone?

4 Games in 8 days did it... our game, Rugby, a youth cup game and an other all took their toll'

Is our pitch 100% natural, as the % grass with plastic fibre pitch's tend to last longer. I know the lower leagues use these more.

[Arnie_Pie]

Apologies if this is in the wrong place or already been mentioned but just to comment how much worse the pitch is this season than it has been compared to the last two seasons. Worse pitch in the championship by a mile and after all the money we spent on it last year.Hope its not going to affect our home form for the remaining games.
Thoughts anyone?

4 Games in 8 days did it... our game, Rugby, a youth cup game and an other all took their toll'

Is our pitch 100% natural, as the % grass with plastic fibre pitch's tend to last longer. I know the lower leagues use these more.

I swear our pitch has those plastic fibres in it? I blade in ten or something or have we ditched it?

[chandog]

they said on the championship that the pitch has been used 4 times in 8 days so it is no surprised it was looking pretty bad

are we still using those massive light structures to make the grass grow longer?

[jocombes]

Apologies if this is in the wrong place or already been mentioned but just to comment how much worse the pitch is this season than it has been compared to the last two seasons. Worse pitch in the championship by a mile and after all the money we spent on it last year.Hope its not going to affect our home form for the remaining games.
Thoughts anyone?

More like a Mud Track

[1960]

If they had played on my back lawn, which hasn't had four games including 30 big fat rugby players on it, it still would have cut up with all the rain we have had. What do you bloddy expect? Strewth.

[Handsome Man]

Football was better in the 1970s and then every pitch was grassless in the box and in the middle: Derby's had no grass at all.
I thought yesterday's pitch was fine.

[rabidbee]

Apologies if this is in the wrong place or already been mentioned but just to comment how much worse the pitch is this season than it has been compared to the last two seasons. Worse pitch in the championship by a mile and after all the money we spent on it last year.Hope its not going to affect our home form for the remaining games.
Thoughts anyone?

4 Games in 8 days did it... our game, Rugby, a youth cup game and an other all took their toll'

In order: a youth cup game, our game on Tuesday night, rugby on Thursday, our game yesterday.

[Sun Tzu]

Pitch seemed to play OK, no standing water, ball ran pretty true, no one struggling to keep their feet.

There's now a week until the next game - plenty of time for it to drain as long as we get a couple of dry days.

The lights we had last year were borrowed from the Millenium Stadium. Not sure if we plan to take them again this year but it doesn't look there is much need. The grass cover is better this year than it was this time last year.

[bishbosh92]

Now we have a week Break the pitch should be ok for when we return for Boxing day Against Cardiff.

[Alan Partridge]

I was LOLing at the pitch yesterday.

Simple things...

[The 17 Bus]

Worse than the rain is the frost, it stops water from draining, and makes the surface very slippery, playing one game on it in those conditions wont help, however it will soon recover, I for one hope that the extension allows more light onto the pitch, this would help a lot IMHO.

[Sun Tzu]

I suspect they won't have been using the undersoil heating a great deal either - I know it's a mixed blessing anyway as it can kill the roots but you are right that the combination of heavy use, frost and rain is a nightmare. If the ground freezes after a game it limits what work the groundstaff can do on it as well...