Re: The Official Pitch Damaged thread! : Sun Jan 20, 2013 6:27 pm  

What choice did they have - lay the pitch in the spring/summer and move the Rhinos for the whole of the season or do it in the winter?

Re: The Official Pitch Damaged thread! : Sun Jan 20, 2013 7:14 pm  

Sal Paradise wrote:

What choice did they have - lay the pitch in the spring/summer and move the Rhinos for the whole of the season or do it in the winter?

Pitch should have been relaid in the spring/summer. Leeds Rhinos don't kick off their season until *September anyway...


*apart from a one-off game in February.

Re: The Official Pitch Damaged thread! : Sun Jan 20, 2013 7:55 pm  

William Eve wrote:

Pitch should have been relaid in the spring/summer. Leeds Rhinos don't kick off their season until *September anyway...


*apart from a one-off game in February.

Booorrriiiiiinnnnnnnnnngggggggggg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: The Official Pitch Damaged thread! : Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:08 pm  

William Eve wrote:

Pitch should have been relaid in the spring/summer. Leeds Rhinos don't kick off their season until *September anyway...


*apart from a one-off game in February.

They play all the games that matter away from Headingley

Re: The Official Pitch Damaged thread! : Mon Jan 21, 2013 7:13 am  

Sal Paradise wrote:

What choice did they have - lay the pitch in the spring/summer and move the Rhinos for the whole of the season or do it in the winter?

No,they should have changed the rules of nature, erected a huge climate dome over the whole of Headingley (similar to Eden in Cornwall, but bigger) and charged people £20 to come inside and enjoy a sub-tropical winter with the opportunity to buy another special edition shiirt to commemorate the new pitch.

Re: The Official Pitch Damaged thread! : Mon Jan 21, 2013 11:50 am  

JerryChicken wrote:

No,they should have changed the rules of nature, erected a huge climate dome over the whole of Headingley (similar to Eden in Cornwall, but bigger) and charged people £20 to come inside and enjoy a sub-tropical winter with the opportunity to buy another special edition shiirt to commemorate the new pitch.

Now you're talking!

Re: The Official Pitch Damaged thread! : Sun Aug 04, 2013 1:47 pm  

So they've been digging up the pitch again. I'm sure this is all, as they say, planned. But it's a bit of an eye-opener to the non green fingered amongst us to see it was looking like this just a week or so ago:

Re: The Official Pitch Damaged thread! : Sun Aug 04, 2013 4:14 pm  

It's planned annual maintenance, removing and replacing the grass.

Re: The Official Pitch Damaged thread! : Sun Aug 04, 2013 4:18 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

It's planned annual maintenance, removing and replacing the grass.

Yep, they've done the same to the Carnegie training pitch at Kirkstall.

Re: The Official Pitch Damaged thread! : Sun Aug 04, 2013 6:26 pm  

I removed all of the grass in my back garden too, this dog was doing such a good job of removing it himself that I thought I might as well get rid - its now covered in bark chippings which stand up to dogs much better.

Maybe the new pitch could be bark chippings ?