PITCH

[ironlion82]

See the Club are asking for volunteers to replace divots etc on the pitch at half time and after the final whistle
Guess the pitch is not going to improve anytime soon !

[Sanfran49]

At the Podcast Forum recently George Aitkenhead said the club had been told the pitch would improve after they had raised issues regarding the surface that the fans had raised concerns over.

Can imagine he will not be impressed and looking for answers !

[Deereyme66]

I took what he said with a handful of salt

[BigLeftToe]

Amateur hour. This is what happens when you try to do things on the cheap and sack your ground staff. Only going to get worse as the temperatures drop towards winter.

[sufc_not_on_tour]

BigLeftToe wrote:

Amateur hour. This is what happens when you try to do things on the cheap and sack your ground staff. Only going to get worse as the temperatures drop towards winter.

No, the ground staff were not sacked, I’ve no idea where you picked up that bollox from!
At the end of last season, one retired and the other retired due to I’ll health.
North Lincs council are responsible for the pitch now.

[Rene Artois]

sufc_not_on_tour wrote:

BigLeftToe wrote:

Amateur hour. This is what happens when you try to do things on the cheap and sack your ground staff. Only going to get worse as the temperatures drop towards winter.

No, the ground staff were not sacked, I’ve no idea where you picked up that bollox from!
At the end of last season, one retired and the other retired due to I’ll health.
North Lincs council are responsible for the pitch now.

Jesus!
A football club that doesn’t nurture its own work surface.

Would Ferrari have Charlie Browns as their pit team?

Sounds a bit shambolic?

[lancsiron]

but remember it’s better for the club not to own its own ground.

[Iron-awe]

Rene Artois wrote:

sufc_not_on_tour wrote:

BigLeftToe wrote:

Amateur hour. This is what happens when you try to do things on the cheap and sack your ground staff. Only going to get worse as the temperatures drop towards winter.

No, the ground staff were not sacked, I’ve no idea where you picked up that bollox from!
At the end of last season, one retired and the other retired due to I’ll health.
North Lincs council are responsible for the pitch now.

Jesus!
A football club that doesn’t nurture its own work surface.

Would Ferrari have Charlie Browns as their pit team?

Sounds a bit shambolic?

Only if Snoopy was the spanner dog.

[Sanfran49]

Deereyme66 wrote:

I took what he said with a handful of salt

But he said it and now will have to own it ! Now he has to do something.

[ironingboard]

Pitch looked decent to me.

Was cutting up a little bit but it’s had a fair bit of water.

Fingers crossed it gets the required TLC to see it through winter.

[Rene Artois]

Time for an artificial pitch? Grants / funding available.

[ironingboard]

I don’t like the idea of an artificial pitch. Turf or mudbath for me.

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[Northumbiron]

Rene Artois wrote:

Time for an artificial pitch? Grants / funding available.

Noooooo!

Not if we harbour hopes of getting back into the Football League.

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[lancsiron]

Getting an artificial pitch would say to fans we are staying non league a while as they are not allowed in the EFL.

I am fairly confident that is not a message the board will want to give…

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[Deereyme66]

Rene Artois wrote:

Time for an artificial pitch? Grants / funding available.

Good lord, no!

[Deereyme66]

Did the increasing rain yesterday keep the divots down?

[Iron-awe]

The pitch stood up pretty well yesterday TBF a couple of large divots were stamped back into place by our lads, indeed AB instructed Scales to do exactly that when a large section of turf got “ excavated “ opposite the dugouts second half, there is a gradual improvement taking place.

[Deereyme66]

Well it certainly hasn’t held up tonight

[Iron-awe]

Yep it cut up bad second half, two games in four days certainly took its toll. Ten day break before the next home game which on observations tonight is a good thing, it will be another long season of nurturing by the looks of things.

[WonderGoals]

Sanfran49 wrote:

Deereyme66 wrote:

I took what he said with a handful of salt

But he said it and now will have to own it ! Now he has to do something.

This is the same George Aitkenhead who appeared on Iron hour podcast stating that no deal was to be done with fc100,000. Fast forward 2/3 months and the board were on the verge of signing off on a deal ?

[Deereyme66]

It was Sharp that said there was no deal at that present time. George kind of contradicted what he said in a muffled answer.

[Deereyme66]

Pitch seemingly can’t take frequent use. How’s it going to root now it’s getting colder?

[BigLeftToe]

It’s not, only going to get worse from here on in. Pretty miffed that lessons clearly weren’t learnt from last season’s pitch/beach fiasco.

Had a flick through the highlights of all the other NL games this week and ours was by far the worst.

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