The Pitch…..what can be done about it?

We could do a Wimbledon/ MK Dons and move to the Sahara desert.

 

If we had any sort of genuine ambition of moving up the leagues then it would be wise to invest in under soil heating.

 

Sorry I thought you was talking about the team.

 

Was thinking about this earlier. Maybe fans could sponsor small areas of the pitch to raise revenue towards its upkeep-say a m2. It seems every other part of the stadium is sponsored so why not the pitch? Unless it is already?
Our pitch is approx 6500 m2. Fans sponsor a square meter at £15 a chuck or you could pay more if you wanted. That would raise £97000 minimum towards the cost of renovating etc. This would be separate to ST prices.

 

That doesn’t help with rainfall on its own . Frost yes, snow, yes. Unless the substrate quality and depth arnt sorted first, to include drainage and soak away then anything else is useless and a waste of money. The only thing feasible is complete pitch coverage and drain away , a bit like the Wimbledon of old. The only ground I can think of that had anything remotely close would be Filbert St ( Leicester City) of old. It was a revelation in its day.

https://fb.watch/qzjm_iBsmo/?

 

Can anyone explain why the police were involved with regards the pitch inspection, unless it was a police inspector.

 

An artificial pitch costs about 1.2 m for a national League standard. To resurface Headingley cost Carnegie just over a million, but non of the drainage issues of VP. I am sure someone quoted about 1.5 m a few years ago.

A lot of money, but makes no sense unless you own the ground.

 

52 years ago since Leicester had that massive tent surely in this day and age there is something like it that is a reasonable cost to the club.



I cant get your link to work Kev maybe its the same as I've posted ?.

 

Yes that’s the one David. Apologies it works fine at my end.

 

I believe @wetherbywhaler posted an in-depth message on here with regards the drainage problem being a massive cost if the club went down that route but as you say would it be viable to the club as they don't own the stadium.

 

Well it wasn't the greatest of days for the club, but I very much doubt we'd be playing now if we were considering delaying the kick off.

 

Delaying the kick off very much depends on by how long the delay is.

After a longish period of time, surely it becomes rearranged.

 

Someone told me one of the clubs Directors was in charge of looking after the drainage problem with the so called experts. Think it may have been Roger Owen ?

 

Yes it was more tongue in cheek mate, I can't remember the last time I saw police presence in the stadium, maybe the League Cup game against Leeds ?.

 

There's more sand on our pitch!

 

He was there to root out any potential crowd issues.