Seriously, the club ought to come clean on this. Did we think we had paid for a Premier League Standard pitch (with woven nylon fibres, you could host a pop concert on it, etc etc) or just a normal scrape off top layer and re-seed?
I scanned through the match and post match thread on the Wycombe Forum yesterday and there were numerous comments stating how bad the pitch looked, so it's not just "us" noticing this. Am sure Nigel Clough mentioned how bad it was in his post match presser as well.
The Curbs stand towards the JS was always the issue before this new 'state of the art' (sic) pitch was laid. Is it a fundamental drainage issue on that side/corner or a high water table?
The best pitch we have had in recent years was the 2014/2015 season under Duchatelet
That was like a bowling green from the start to the end of the season
This current pitch for the money spent on it should be questioned by the club on why already it looks and plays (According to Jones and Nigel Clough) bad
Don't remember the club saying it would need time to bed in when it was installed, nor have we seen issues in the past when the Belgiums put in a new pitch, or Orient with their equivalent pitch to what ours is now
It looked ok at the start of the season but I have to say, it didn't look exceptional and certainly not up to the standard of the 2014 pitch mentioned by Shirty5. I was surprised/disappointed when I first saw it.
It looked ok at the start of the season but I have to say, it didn't look exceptional and certainly not up to the standard of the 2014 pitch mentioned by Shirty5. I was surprised/disappointed when I first saw it.
It looked ordinary / the same as any tear at the start of the season. It did not look particularly special.
If drainage is an issue you’d expect the specialist firm to cope.
Had a close look at the surface of the pitch for the last game of the season in May as I couldn't believe how well it had stood up over the season. And close up, it really was more or less as good for the last game as it was for the first! I was stunned when the club said it was going to rip it up a couple of weeks after the final whistle.
Here we are half way through the season and the playing surface is a disappointment to say the least. Hope it holds together for the home games in January.
Had a close look at the surface of the pitch for the last game of the season in May as I couldn't believe how well it had stood up over the season. And close up, it really was more or less as good for the last game as it was for the first! I was stunned when the club said it was going to rip it up a couple of weeks after the final whistle.
Here we are half way through the season and the playing surface is a disappointment to say the least. Hope it holds together for the home games in January.
It's not as if it's been overplayed on in the autumn, as we had very few home games, or was destroyed by bad weather. The pitches at Welling and Dartford look much better, and they both have lots of games played on them.
Something has definitely gone wrong with the installation. After the 4th January the men don't have a home game until the 25th, and the women until the 26th, so that's 3 weeks to do some serious work on it.
Good case study for comparing the integrity of the club’s current communications with the past, in my view. This is an obvious problem which they are saying nothing about. Why not? Nobody is taken in by the silence, although perhaps they don’t want bring it to the attention of the substantive investors?
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More like a non league pitch than an expensive Desso one.
Pitch does look shit though.
The Curbs stand towards the JS was always the issue before this new 'state of the art' (sic) pitch was laid. Is it a fundamental drainage issue on that side/corner or a high water table?
That was like a bowling green from the start to the end of the season
This current pitch for the money spent on it should be questioned by the club on why already it looks and plays (According to Jones and Nigel Clough) bad
Here we are half way through the season and the playing surface is a disappointment to say the least. Hope it holds together for the home games in January.
Q "How Green is my Valley"
A. More brown than green !
Something has definitely gone wrong with the installation. After the 4th January the men don't have a home game until the 25th, and the women until the 26th, so that's 3 weeks to do some serious work on it.