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The valley pitch!!!

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  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,355
    edited August 2014
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  • Jaddick
    Jaddick Posts: 249
    Bigger pitch than Wembley? Anyone else worried about the impact for us in the playoff final?
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,194
    J BLOCK said:

    hmmmmm,

    CAFCdamo said:

    Don't want to sound ungrateful but wish they'd done the west upper this summer. Only thing letting the ground down at the moment.

    the toilets in the West Lower are a disgrace, will report on the East Stand one's after Saturday. Alright making the ground look nice for the camera's etc but other things are just as important.

    Go in, have a wee, wash hands, get out. Simple.
    Wash hands?! What's happening to football?
  • Atletico Addick
    Atletico Addick Posts: 5,843
    edited August 2014
    J BLOCK said:

    hmmmmm,

    CAFCdamo said:

    Don't want to sound ungrateful but wish they'd done the west upper this summer. Only thing letting the ground down at the moment.

    the toilets in the West Lower are a disgrace, will report on the East Stand one's after Saturday. Alright making the ground look nice for the camera's etc but other things are just as important.

    Go in, have a wee, wash hands, get out. Simple.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQthwyF2LqY
  • paulie8290
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,344
    If this rain carries on we will find out how well the pitch is going to handle it, it did look good under a bit of rain on Tuesday but lets see if Saturday goes ahead
  • Gumbo
    Gumbo Posts: 957
    edited August 2014
    I know for a fact the pitch is doing it job, the club have be measuring the rain fall on the pitch and whilst the car park flooded you could hear the water draining away and was perfectly playable
  • JollyRobin
    JollyRobin Posts: 1,706
    It'd just be nice, if for one week part of our ground wouldn't flood

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  • RedMist
    RedMist Posts: 1,404

    It'd just be nice, if for one week part of our ground wouldn't flood

    image

    Is that where the fishing boats come in and drop off their catch for the Fish and chips?
  • AllHailTheHen
    AllHailTheHen Posts: 3,063
    edited August 2014
    Gumbo said:

    I know for a fact the pitch is doing it job, the club have be measuring the waterfall on the pitch and whilst the car park flooded you could hear the water draining away and was perfectly playable

    We now have a waterfall on the pitch? RD really has surpassed himself with these ground upgrades :)
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,572

    It'd just be nice, if for one week part of our ground wouldn't flood

    image

    Never had this problem, when we had potholes in the car park.
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  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,416
    The water from the pitch has to go somewhere, there's just no pleasing some folk. ;)
  • Gumbo said:

    Forget about the pitch did anyone else see the two worldy's handing out fixture list and season ticket info out side the west stand before the game

    Best bit of investment in years well done Roland you sly dog :)


    Anyone got any pics of this ?

  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,345

    Gumbo said:

    Forget about the pitch did anyone else see the two worldy's handing out fixture list and season ticket info out side the west stand before the game

    Best bit of investment in years well done Roland you sly dog :)


    Anyone got any pics of this ?

    Now we would not want the CL synchronised hand wringing team alerted would we?
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,912
    edited August 2014
    Dazzler21 said:

    The Valley is shown as 112 x 73 yards on Wiki the upgrade takes us to 114 x 77 we'rebigger than Man U too.


  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,912

    That's very wide, is the extra width on both sides, as the East side is bordered by a rather hard and unforgiving concrete wall which you really wouldn't want to hit!

    They made it 10 yards wider on the west and moved the lines in 3 yards on the east.. 8 yards towards the coverd end and 2 yards away from the away fans. I think it helps with acoustics too
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,068

    Gumbo said:

    Forget about the pitch did anyone else see the two worldy's handing out fixture list and season ticket info out side the west stand before the game

    Best bit of investment in years well done Roland you sly dog :)


    Anyone got any pics of this ?

  • uie2
    uie2 Posts: 4,596
    Looked lush
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,816
    shine166 said:

    That's very wide, is the extra width on both sides, as the East side is bordered by a rather hard and unforgiving concrete wall which you really wouldn't want to hit!

    They made it 10 yards wider on the west and moved the lines in 3 yards on the east.. 8 yards towards the coverd end and 2 yards away from the away fans. I think it helps with acoustics too
    10 yards wider on the west side, that's a massive shift? And would the 8 yards towards the Covered end affect sightlines there?
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,912

    shine166 said:

    That's very wide, is the extra width on both sides, as the East side is bordered by a rather hard and unforgiving concrete wall which you really wouldn't want to hit!

    They made it 10 yards wider on the west and moved the lines in 3 yards on the east.. 8 yards towards the coverd end and 2 yards away from the away fans. I think it helps with acoustics too
    10 yards wider on the west side, that's a massive shift? And would the 8 yards towards the Covered end affect sightlines there?


    Only slightly, they stretched out the corner towards block A too.
  • SilentAddick
    SilentAddick Posts: 1,603

    shine166 said:

    That's very wide, is the extra width on both sides, as the East side is bordered by a rather hard and unforgiving concrete wall which you really wouldn't want to hit!

    They made it 10 yards wider on the west and moved the lines in 3 yards on the east.. 8 yards towards the coverd end and 2 yards away from the away fans. I think it helps with acoustics too
    10 yards wider on the west side, that's a massive shift? And would the 8 yards towards the Covered end affect sightlines there?
    Ah that explains why I was no longer able to see the player taking the corner on the left even when standing up in Block B of the covered end lower and I'm 6'2"!... Thought that were summation strange there...
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  • Ben18
    Ben18 Posts: 1,638

    shine166 said:

    That's very wide, is the extra width on both sides, as the East side is bordered by a rather hard and unforgiving concrete wall which you really wouldn't want to hit!

    They made it 10 yards wider on the west and moved the lines in 3 yards on the east.. 8 yards towards the coverd end and 2 yards away from the away fans. I think it helps with acoustics too
    10 yards wider on the west side, that's a massive shift? And would the 8 yards towards the Covered end affect sightlines there?
    Ah that explains why I was no longer able to see the player taking the corner on the left even when standing up in Block B of the covered end lower and I'm 6'2"!... Thought that were summation strange there...
    Siddarn!!!
  • Sonicstud85
    Sonicstud85 Posts: 2,159
    No splash no gash
  • Sonicstud85
    Sonicstud85 Posts: 2,159
    No wash no nosh
  • Sonicstud85
    Sonicstud85 Posts: 2,159
    No davidoff no have it off
  • Sonicstud85
    Sonicstud85 Posts: 2,159
    No joop no poop
  • shine166 said:

    That's very wide, is the extra width on both sides, as the East side is bordered by a rather hard and unforgiving concrete wall which you really wouldn't want to hit!

    They made it 10 yards wider on the west and moved the lines in 3 yards on the east.. 8 yards towards the coverd end and 2 yards away from the away fans. I think it helps with acoustics too
    Surely not. Those figures don't sound possible to me. Certainly not width wise anyway.

  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,343
    No Spray No Lay...
  • DeeBee
    DeeBee Posts: 1,033
    No Armani no punany
  • Plaaayer
    Plaaayer Posts: 8,995
    Wash your fingers, for the mingers