The Pitch

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The St James' Park pitch, which was in a terrible state during yesterday's game against Leeds, will be re-laid in time for the Bolton game. Bobby Robson was understood to be furious that only a small section in front of the Milburn Stand had been replaced so far. The original plan had been to relay the entire pitch after the Blackburn game, when there was a suitable break in home games. Robson has refused to let the players train on the pitch and understandably so, as during yesterday's game large parts of it were something of a quagmire. The work will now begin shortly at a cost of around £70,000 and should be ready for the visit of Bolton in three week's time.

-- Anonymous, January 13, 2002

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Will it last as a good pitch or will the lack of light mean we will just have to keep relaying turf?

-- Anonymous, January 13, 2002

I'm not sure it's been proven as yet that the light is definitely THE problem at SJP - although other Club's seem to believe this is the cause of problems with their pitches, eg Ajax.

At SJP we paid a lot of money (ca.£500k!) to lay a fancy seeded surface two seasons ago. This failed, and it was said to be caused by a problem with the undersoil heating which was drying out and killing the roots.

I seem to recall this was reseeded under warranty during the close season before last - even though other Clubs - including I believe ManU - had given up on the concept. The reseeding wasn't a success, and I seem to recall we turfed the pitch during last season.

Yet another reseeding job was undertaken last close season, but it was then turfed to meet the immediate needs of the InterToto Cup.

Ultimately, the light problem may be tagged as the real problem, but right now I'm not sure they really know.

-- Anonymous, January 13, 2002


Quote from the Sunday Times:

Its high entertainment quotient was all the more praiseworthy, given that they were playing on the worst playing surface in the Premiership, with one side suitable for crown green bowls but the other more suited to dressage.



-- Anonymous, January 13, 2002

Sounds perfect for the Blaydon Races.

-- Anonymous, January 13, 2002

Gotta be good to confuse the oppo. Why not keep it like it is - or even put some bare patches in front of the East Stand ;-)

Seriously, it's a bliddy digrace. But if we can play such sublime passing stuff as we did yesterday..................

-- Anonymous, January 13, 2002



Take a look at the official site it explains a 35 inflatable dome is to be use to regulate the temperature & protect it from the elements. WOOO!

-- Anonymous, January 15, 2002

cue Jordan jokes

-- Anonymous, January 15, 2002

Why don't we have a pitch on a raisable pneumatic stand that can rise above the stadium and get light when we aren't playing a match?

Expensive, and not invented yet, but it would be good in the long run :)

-- Anonymous, January 15, 2002


The Millennium Stadium pitch is moveable - it is laid on little plastic thingies that can be moved about on a fork lift truck. They grow new pitches at some airfield somewhere. I know this is totally useful for SJP - just thought I'd mention it!

I do like the pneumatic lifts idea. Surely there's an engineering person on this board who could knock summat up in his lunch hour.

-- Anonymous, January 15, 2002


Hey Swifty, what's Joe Jordon got to do with the pitch, and Av' never heard of any jokes about Scottish footballers with missing front teeth???

he he

-- Anonymous, January 15, 2002



Theres is a NEW platic pitch availble , its not the same as the astroturf QPR effort. it has Long grass (placka) blades and rubber balls embedded in it . Apparently it doesnt burn when you slide on it and it acts just like normall grass. Anyone else heard of this new placka grass.

-- Anonymous, January 16, 2002

Doesn't burn ? Which makem did they test that on ?

-- Anonymous, January 16, 2002

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