Re: The Official Pitch Damaged thread! : Mon Jan 07, 2013 7:59 am  

Ex-Swarcliffe Rhino wrote:

Mmm delicious irony.

A fantastic troll for so early in the year.

All a bit sad really.

Re: The Official Pitch Damaged thread! : Mon Jan 07, 2013 9:40 am  

To be fair, and I was at the game yesterday, they had 3 scrums on the pitch in the first 15 minutes.

Each time the players were taking up large chunks of turf. This was the reason why the referee decided to call for uncontested scrums as the players were losing footing.

Had the game continued with scrums then the pitch would have taken a beating.. but as it was, it escaped relatively unharmed.

So yeh, not really an issue and certainly shouldn't cause any problems for our matches. Might mean Carnegie have to take some more games on the road though....

Re: The Official Pitch Damaged thread! : Mon Jan 07, 2013 9:53 am  

where else could host them? South leeds stadium?

Re: The Official Pitch Damaged thread! : Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:48 am  

The Eagle wrote:

where else could host them? South leeds stadium?

West Park? They've played at Wharfedale, York and Hull already whilst the pitch was being relaid so there are options.

Re: The Official Pitch Damaged thread! : Mon Jan 07, 2013 11:28 am  

Union will always give the grass a right battering, I imagine once the pitch has had more time to bed down it should be okay. We won't see these issued when we play.

Re: The Official Pitch Damaged thread! : Mon Jan 07, 2013 1:18 pm  

Special One wrote:

Make your own mind up.......

Looks ok to me, once the groundstaff have got a bit of repair work going on it and as the growing season comes around should be fine.

Much of the "£1m investment" was in the underground stuff such as the new drainage and undersoil heating. None of that will have been "ruined" by yesterday's events.

Re: The Official Pitch Damaged thread! : Mon Jan 07, 2013 1:42 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

Looks ok to me, once the groundstaff have got a bit of repair work going on it and as the growing season comes around should be fine.

Much of the "£1m investment" was in the underground stuff such as the new drainage and undersoil heating. None of that will have been "ruined" by yesterday's events.

Can't wait for the brouhaha when it's used for parking during the test match.
Mind you it's only the Kiwis this summer so there won't be much call for it this year.

Re: The Official Pitch Damaged thread! : Mon Jan 07, 2013 1:50 pm  

Old Feller wrote:

Can't wait for the brouhaha when it's used for parking during the test match.
Mind you it's only the Kiwis this summer so there won't be much call for it this year.

Don't think that happens any more does it?

To summarise what I can see from the thread:

The pitch got muddy while they were playing Union on it.
This inconvenienced the small and inconsequential Union team we ground share with.
It's better now.

Is that about right?

[Wheels]

Re: The Official Pitch Damaged thread! : Mon Jan 07, 2013 2:02 pm  

Old Feller wrote:

Can't wait for the brouhaha when it's used for parking during the test match.
Mind you it's only the Kiwis this summer so there won't be much call for it this year.

That hasn't happened for three years now.

Re: The Official Pitch Damaged thread! : Mon Jan 07, 2013 2:35 pm  

I can offer the services of my big dog to come and fertilize it, works wonders for my lawn and the grass verge down the bottom of the street, and the playing fields at Tinshill, and Horsforth Park, and in fact anywhere where he decides to have a dump.