Re: That pitch. : Sat Feb 06, 2016 2:15 pm  

MM took a cheeky pop at the Greens keeper in his post match interview. something along the lines of "i'd like to thank the GC for his hard work in the close season"

In all seriousness though

I was mortally embarrassed looking at the goat track last night. I have never seen a worse pitch in SL

We deserve all the pelters we get from other fans. I understand that we do not own the place, but i am not having that IL has so little leverage with DW that he cant get it sorted.

That needs to be sorted and fast. We will become a laughing stock. Not to mention we in essence throw away a large proportion of our home advantage having to play on that thing

Re: That pitch. : Sat Feb 06, 2016 2:56 pm  

Clearwing wrote:

Wow. Only 10m centres for the laterals. Says it all...

Well at least it was more interesting than the game!

Re: That pitch. : Sat Feb 06, 2016 4:33 pm  

Time to look at a 4G pitch? The wendyballers would spit their collective dummies out, and personally I remain to be convinced, but Widnes don't seem to have many problems.
Although, would it preclude us hosting internationals in the future? Not sure of the IRLB regs.
????

Re: That pitch. : Sat Feb 06, 2016 7:08 pm  

Well at least everyone can forget " rugby has ruined the pitch " what is it , one game of rugby on it in the last four months , presume we will have to wait until July for a decent surface

Re: That pitch. : Sat Feb 06, 2016 7:34 pm  

That pitch last night was a total disgrace
I have watched amateur games that are played during the winter months that are played on better surfaces than that cow field
Wigan Warriors really need to get a home ground of their own and sharpish
Does IL have the funds to go down this road?

Re: That pitch. : Sat Feb 06, 2016 8:50 pm  

CyberPieMan wrote:

:USTUPID: Time to look at a 4G pitch? The wendyballers would spit their collective dummies out, and personally I remain to be convinced, but Widnes don't seem to have many problems.
Although, would it preclude us hosting internationals in the future? Not sure of the IRLB regs.
????

With all honesty I don't think a 4G pitch would improve things a lot, with the water table being so high and the drainage so inadequate, it would be like squelching about on a soggy carpet with Dougie water coming back up through the 4G drainage holes.

Re: That pitch. : Sat Feb 06, 2016 9:23 pm  

Really, the whole thing needs tearing up and doing again properly, but neither ourselves nor Latics would want to be the ones who gave up some home games to do as I'd imagine it's a lengthy procedure.

Re: That pitch. : Sat Feb 06, 2016 9:32 pm  

CM Punk wrote:

Really, the whole thing needs tearing up and doing again properly, but neither ourselves nor Latics would want to be the ones who gave up some home games to do as I'd imagine it's a lengthy procedure.

We could make Leigh Sports Village a busy place for a couple of months if the decision was made .

Re: That pitch. : Sun Feb 07, 2016 10:00 am  

Northern Boys wrote:

......
I have watched amateur games that are played during the winter months that are played on better surfaces than that cow field
.....

The main difference being that the Metro/Council would close any pitches if they were that bad

Re: That pitch. : Sun Feb 07, 2016 10:58 pm  

TonyM19 wrote:

The main difference being that the Metro/Council would close any pitches if they were that bad

They haven't got televised SKY games.