Most liked posts in thread: The Pitch…..what can be done about it?

They will have received over £100 million for getting relegated last season, it helps a little bit.

 

Its the only thing that gets you through a saturday afternoon at VP. If you didn't laugh you'd cry.

 

The guarantee will only cover the drainage work they've done. The issue this season hasn't been drainage, it has been delayed pitch work in the summer and a broken sprinkler which meant the grass didn't get enough water when growing. Added to that we've had the Liverpool game which was played on a freezing pitch and the Stockport game which only went ahead as the drainage worked really well. Once all of that happen the grass was destroyed on the majority of the pitch which will make the pitch more susceptible to waterlogging. There's also been an element of bad luck in the timing of fixtures in the middle of one of the wettest winters like if the Notts County game was 6 hours earlier it most likely would've gone ahead.

 

Is there a version available for £3.87, a Mars bar and half a pack of Jaffa cakes?

That's the one for us if so.

 

From supporters board minutes:

 

It’s a good point not sure how much it costs to put on a match but we normally charge a £10 I think.

I don’t agree with Sparks laissez faire attitude. You market your business as we have done previously no matter how hard it is, you don’t just throw your hands in the air and give up. That statement from him is the reason he shouldn’t be here. He has given up and can’t be bothered.

 

As I’ve explained several times it’s a new pitch every season. Top korrowed off, new fibre sand around 180 tonnes then reseeded.

 

I suppose fans need to feel assured that everything that is necessary to keep the pitch in a good playing condition is being carried out. The two drainage systems need checking and maintaining. Other than what we already do is there anything else we can do. We could purchase the very expensive type pitch that the PL have, that is probably beyond our reach financially. We could look at physical protection again and see what is the latest for both frost and rain.

 

Work starts tomorrow on the pitch for next season.

 

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 ?.

 

Genuine question, if the rain persists could there be a scenario we are at risk of not being able fulfil our home games? If yes, what is the solution eg. ground share?

Acknowledge this unlikely, but looking at the short term forecast the rain doesn’t seem to be letting up much.

 

Where does the water go though rod? I assume at VP any rainwater that is discharged into the touchlines just finds its way back to the pitch due to whatever lies underneath?

 

The EFL is the clubs and the clubs the EFL so it's maybe time to have serious rethink about artificial pitches. The modern artificial pitches of today are a million miles away from when Preston, Oldham etc had them.
Whether you care to accept it or not, global warming is leading to wetter winters. We've just had the wettest February on record.
The EFL needs to wake up to this and accept it needs to rethink it's policy on artificial pitches.
I know they're expensive to install but due to their durability clubs can train on them during the day. Youth and women's teams can play matches on them and they can be rented out to communities. All of which reduces costs and generates income. At the moment we only use it 25-30 times a season.

 

Now that is something I would personally be prepared to chip in for a fans to funded covers/tent, obviously dependant on cost, if it would guarantee we did not have a problem playing with regards the situation we've seen recently, as we know it would not guarantee we didn't have games postponed as the H&S could get involved and say the surrounding area is not safe for fans to walk down.
And yes I agree the wife's been telling me for donkeys years I need my head testing.

 

Worked alright for Stevenage when they built their new stand and asked fans if they wanted to take up a debenture to build the stand with the possibility of getting back double their money.

Condition 1 was that if they get promoted to league one then fans get their initial investment back. If they make it to the Championship then the club pay double the money back to the fans.

It's not such a pie in the sky suggestion as some think.

 

Don't fancy improving Mr Rupps chances of making an undeserved healthy return on his s investment then !!!
Me neither

 

Sorry Dennis but those comments about depth no longer apply post the work in 2018 which I personally witnessed. The current drainage is at a level that will collect and dispose of water and these is no impermeable layer that ‘fills’ the substrata back as high as the surface. Suggest you also read the comments of GA in today’s T&A as to why the call off was late yesterday.
I spoke to Mick Doyle at 9.15 all was well and apparently better than Wycombe then the heavens opened. Even then the view was delaying the kick would make things playable but the torrent never stopped.

 

They have us over a barrel mate. They know we need a place to play football or we get kicked out of the league. So they know if we either refuse to negotiate a rental contract we will place the club in a precarious position. As you say they can sell it to someone else. By far the most profitable position for them is to renegotiate a rental agreement.