Re: All Things New Stadium : Tue Feb 08, 2022 6:52 pm  

newgroundb4wakey wrote: Vasty mate you are making the same mistake as lots of others have before you. A few years ago Sean O' Loughlin blamed a Wigan defeat on Tigers small pitch. Powell pointed out the Wigan pitch was 74 Yards wide (the same as The Jungle) but Castlefords pitch was 5 yards longer than Wigans. If you google it you will find Cas and Wakey's pitches are identical in length. Nobody seems to moan about the wigan pitch being short. Assuming you accept Wikipedia as 100% accurate... https://d2j31icv6dlhz6.cloudfront.net/L ... Pitch.jpeg The 30m lines are dashed because they're not 10m from the 40m lines.

newgroundb4wakey wrote: Vasty mate you are making the same mistake as lots of others have before you. A few years ago Sean O' Loughlin blamed a Wigan defeat on Tigers small pitch. Powell pointed out the Wigan pitch was 74 Yards wide (the same as The Jungle) but Castlefords pitch was 5 yards longer than Wigans. If you google it you will find Cas and Wakey's pitches are identical in length. Nobody seems to moan about the wigan pitch being short. Assuming you accept Wikipedia as 100% accurate... https://d2j31icv6dlhz6.cloudfront.net/L ... Pitch.jpeg The 30m lines are dashed because they're not 10m from the 40m lines.

Re: All Things New Stadium : Tue Feb 08, 2022 9:16 pm  

excitedly saw there was some updates on the stadium thread when I woke up this morning... then disappointed to see it was a quibble about Feath snd Castleford’s pitch size

Ah well forums will be forums

Re: All Things New Stadium : Tue Feb 08, 2022 10:13 pm  

Spookisback wrote:

excitedly saw there was some updates on the stadium thread when I woke up this morning... then disappointed to see it was a quibble about Feath snd Castleford’s pitch size

Ah well forums will be forums

You will remember the tv program some mothers do have em for years Bradford had every corner of there pitch raised due to the speedway and stock car track! Did any one complain about an unfair advantage? Then you had Widnes with the astro turf ! What an advantage that was if you can find an advantage that is within the rules and you keep winning on it!
Go for it

Re: All Things New Stadium : Tue Feb 08, 2022 11:05 pm  

newgroundb4wakey wrote:

...but Castlefords pitch was 5 yards longer than Wigans. If you google it you will find Cas and Wakey's pitches are identical in length.

Utter bunkum.

Wakey and Wigan are both 100m long (+ in-goals), and Cas is 86m long.

Re: All Things New Stadium : Wed Feb 09, 2022 7:48 am  

The whole point for me and a huge pun is intended is at SL level we quite literally should have a level playing field. I don’t find it in any way amusing or quirky, at this level people jobs are at stake and the least that can be asked for imho is that the pitches are all the same size and more importantly yet that the thing is level.

I accept there is an argument that plastic pitches do the same thing, yet fundamentally a 4G pitch is flat and the right size and most teams can practice on one if they wish.

No team should stand a better chance of winning because they have a better knowledge of their inadequate pitch. Some things in RL will always be unfair but this shouldn’t be one. As noted by another poster it makes us a laughing stock.

Re: All Things New Stadium : Wed Feb 09, 2022 8:08 am  

coco the fullback wrote: Assuming you accept Wikipedia as 100% accurate... https://d2j31icv6dlhz6.cloudfront.net/L ... Pitch.jpeg The 30m lines are dashed because they're not 10m from the 40m lines. Did it used to be the 20M line or they were spaced out, then had to change because of the 40/20 rule? I'm sure the dashed lines used to be further away from 1/2 way

coco the fullback wrote: Assuming you accept Wikipedia as 100% accurate... https://d2j31icv6dlhz6.cloudfront.net/L ... Pitch.jpeg The 30m lines are dashed because they're not 10m from the 40m lines. Did it used to be the 20M line or they were spaced out, then had to change because of the 40/20 rule? I'm sure the dashed lines used to be further away from 1/2 way

Re: All Things New Stadium : Wed Feb 09, 2022 9:41 am  

1873 wrote:

Did it used to be the 20M line or they were spaced out, then had to change because of the 40/20 rule? I'm sure the dashed lines used to be further away from 1/2 way

Good point.
It could be because of rule changes that it's now more obvious.
You now need a 10m line for drop outs. A 20m line for restarts and 40/20. A line 30m from the try line for 20m drop outs (is that still a rule). A half-way line and 10m from that for kick-offs. That only leaves the gap between the 30 & 40m as 'flexible'.
In the good old days it was much simpler with just a 25 yard line from the try line and on 10 yards from half way with nothing in between.

Re: All Things New Stadium : Wed Feb 09, 2022 1:28 pm  

I think the problem is due to the rule changes about the distance of the dead-ball line from the spectator fences, for health and safety reasons, so some otherwise full-size pitches that were close to the fences were squashed in to fit.

As for the slope at Featherstone, it's not the biggest surprise, and I assume the coin toss takes added significance, as teams want to play up the slope when they're fresher and attack down the slope in the second half.

Re: All Things New Stadium : Wed Feb 09, 2022 4:39 pm  

Slugger McBatt wrote:

As for the slope at Featherstone, it's not the biggest surprise, and I assume the coin toss takes added significance, as teams want to play up the slope when they're fresher and attack down the slope in the second half.

It didn't help us the other week.

As for level playing fields, what about the curled up pitch at Odsal. Quirky and disgraceful in equal measure.

Re: All Things New Stadium : Wed Feb 09, 2022 4:49 pm  

SL not based on level playing field.
The extra tragic game can give an advantage.
Turn round games, just how that will work with games now on Thu, Fri, and Sat will be interesting.