woodworkimp
Vital Youth Team
I know we have had poor weather recently but does anyone else feel the pitch today in places didn’t look in the best of condition considering the time of year and also on last season?
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Liam Scully
Vital Newbie
The pitch certainly isn’t in great shakes right now, this is due to a few reasons.
The main reason is the Everton EFL Trophy game.
Playing on the frost pretty much killed off a lot of all of the surface, which is not only coverage but it also helps keep the sub-surface stable and binded together.
The other related element is the number of occasions the frost covers have been peeled back for inspections/remedial work. I’m told each time we peel back the covers, it is like pulling sellotape from your arm. This too negatively impacts the grass coverage, albeit Everton game is still the principle factor.
The final issues is we have had to limit the hours Brad uses his lamps. The projections were if we continued with the usual trend, it would have cost the club £80,000 in electricity alone. We have had to reduce this to around 1/4 of that. All of this said, the lamps wouldn’t have been able to make a material difference to the points above.
We have no long term concerns and as soon as we get back into growing season the pitch will recover quickly.
Looking forward, the pitch will become gradually worse for Portsmouth, MK and Oxford, with a programme planned to make positive strides (possibly major ones - weather dependent) for the Peterborough game onwards.
The main reason is the Everton EFL Trophy game.
Playing on the frost pretty much killed off a lot of all of the surface, which is not only coverage but it also helps keep the sub-surface stable and binded together.
The other related element is the number of occasions the frost covers have been peeled back for inspections/remedial work. I’m told each time we peel back the covers, it is like pulling sellotape from your arm. This too negatively impacts the grass coverage, albeit Everton game is still the principle factor.
The final issues is we have had to limit the hours Brad uses his lamps. The projections were if we continued with the usual trend, it would have cost the club £80,000 in electricity alone. We have had to reduce this to around 1/4 of that. All of this said, the lamps wouldn’t have been able to make a material difference to the points above.
We have no long term concerns and as soon as we get back into growing season the pitch will recover quickly.
Looking forward, the pitch will become gradually worse for Portsmouth, MK and Oxford, with a programme planned to make positive strides (possibly major ones - weather dependent) for the Peterborough game onwards.
woodworkimp
Vital Youth Team
Like I have mentioned Liam, was an oberservation, i appreciate you taking your time to come on here and explain the situation, I attended the last fans forum so from conversations on that night am aware of the issues the club can and are facing in terms of finances.
Absolutely Ed it was an obvious constant topic of conversation yesterday, it was fair to mention it in a thread on vitals too and it wasn’t posted as a harsh criticism more of a fair observation. It would be expected to suffer with the recent heavy frosts but it was worse than I thought it would beA fair question, quite a few were talking about it at the game, and promptly well answered by Liam.
bristolimp
Vital Champions League
We have badgers and foxes in our garden (not to mention west of England rain levels) to me the Sincil Bank pitch looks like the 18th hole Augusta compared to our lawns.
clanfordimp
Vital 1st Team Regular
To be honest I think it looks worse on the TV as opposed to actually being in the stadium and looking at it live.
It looked pretty good for the time of year seeings that it's probably had covers on it for the best part of two weeks recently.
It looked pretty good for the time of year seeings that it's probably had covers on it for the best part of two weeks recently.
impsimps
Vital Football Hero
Good to have have a CEO who will come on here and explain the situation and to see Clive in the Fan Zone yesterday and available for a few words !
UTI.
cherryexile
Vital 1st Team Regular
Liam thank you for the input. It is really appreciated.
G-Of-Lincs
Vital Reserves Team
Never mind the state of the pitch. What about the mud on the players socks? I noticed after about 5 minutes play that some of theplayers were wearing filthy socks. It ruined the whole Match day experience for me.
woodworkimp
Vital Youth Team
No need to apologise football is many peoples release, as much as we have differing opinions, views etc at the end of the day were all imps fans and will support each other I’m sure if and when needed.
Merthyr Imp
Vital Football Hero
I blame their mothers.
It has been a really hard winter. The frosts from a couple of weeks ago have jaded grass all over with lots of bruising to the leaf and loss of colour. Especially where it has seen footfall. There is a lot of grass cover on the pitch and it will soon bounce back with warmer temperatures.
Scotimp
Vital Football Legend
Thanks Phil, always good to hear from you.
woodworkimp
Vital Youth Team
I had a opinion which divided people, some in agreement some others not happy with it, even Liam Scully took time out to comment about the work the club was going to put in to get the pitch back up to scratch.
just got into the ground today and I have to say a massive well done to the ground staff over the period of time Liam mentioned which the club was going to take time to repair the pitch, it looks immaculate so well done to the ground staff.
just got into the ground today and I have to say a massive well done to the ground staff over the period of time Liam mentioned which the club was going to take time to repair the pitch, it looks immaculate so well done to the ground staff.
