St Andrews Playing surface (6 Viewers)

[DionDublinsJockstrap]

Thought our passing game was pretty damn good yesterday. Question whether we could play like that on a Ricoh pitch after the first few egg chasing games

 

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[lord_garrincha]

Not an expert on this, but with the pitch getting twice as much use, will it significantly deteriorate?

 

[sw88]

From my seat position it looked as though the pitch had a curve on it. But didn’t impact our play

Was a nice surface we could play football on, which most have been asking for for some time

 

[Nick]

Westbrooke also commented on it after the game

 

[fernandopartridge]

Let's not get too excited, I can remember St Andrews pitch being a right state in recent years with just one team on it. It's going to have a game a week played on it which is significantly more than the Ricoh

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[Seaside-Skyblue]

From my seat position it looked as though the pitch had a curve on it. But didn’t impact our play

Was a nice surface we could play football on, which most have been asking for for some time

Arent all pitches slightly curved for water drainage or do you mean something else?

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[sw88]

Arent all pitches slightly curved for water drainage or do you mean something else?

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Could have been my eyes

 

[matesx]

Yeah the pitch looked like it "bulged" up from my seat

 

[block16]

Plenty of grounds have a game a week, just needs managing correctly by good football groundsmen . The Ricoh clearly was left to go to shit unfortunately

 

[fatso]

Plenty of grounds have a game a week, just needs managing correctly by good football groundsmen . The Ricoh clearly was left to go to shit unfortunately

It was constantly getting covered in flying insect shit!

 

[Somerset Sky Blue]

Yeah the pitch looked like it "bulged" up from my seat

Think seaside is right - lots of pitches are higher in the middle and have a gentle slope away to the edges.

 

[Mcbean]

Pretty well all
Pitches have a crown for drainage - I think the biggest bump I saw was forest green where if you were at ground level you could hardly see the socks of a player on the other side

 

[oldskyblue58]

so is the quality of the pitch in Coventry a barrier to our return to the Ricoh? If it suits Wasps game now they could be unlikely to change it. CCFC & players repeatedly highlight it as a problem

The other thought is if it is a problem for wasps and they utilise some of the CVC windfall to improve the infrastructure of the playing surface and go to 5G hybrid or even fully artificial. That would effectively prevent us from using the Ricoh under EFL rules wouldnt it ?

What type of pitch is it at SA that at first glance and from MR comments appears to suit us (ie Natural, 3G, 4G) ?

 

[Mcbean]

I guess it depends if the egg chasers are or not - signs that things aren’t all they should be are circulating

 

[hill83]

What type of pitch is it at SA

Football

 

[Nick]

so is the quality of the pitch in Coventry a barrier to our return to the Ricoh? If it suits Wasps game now they could be unlikely to change it. CCFC & players repeatedly highlight it as a problem

The other thought is if it is a problem for wasps and they utilise some of the CVC windfall to improve the infrastructure of the playing surface and go to 5G hybrid or even fully artificial. That would effectively prevent us from using the Ricoh under EFL rules wouldnt it ?

What type of pitch is it at SA that at first glance and from MR comments appears to suit us (ie Natural, 3G, 4G) ?

If it was 3G or 4G we wouldn't be able to play on it would we?

 

[chiefdave]

What type of pitch is it at SA that at first glance and from MR comments appears to suit us (ie Natural, 3G, 4G) ?

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[Kneeza]

The Ricoh's hybrid though isn't it? All down to maintenance?

 

[Nick]

The Ricoh's hybrid though isn't it? All down to maintenance?

Maintenance will play a massive part in it.

 

[chiefdave]

The Ricoh's hybrid though isn't it? All down to maintenance?

Suspect so. Other teams share with a rugby club and don't have the issues we've seen at the Ricoh. After our first season back Wasps did claim that the company who installed it would be taking over maintenance, would expected them to be involved anyway. Not sure if that happened. If it wasn't done on the cheap I'd be asking for my money back.

Interestingly the pitch we're using at St Andrews, which our manager and players have praised, is the same type they will be using in the rugby world cup.

 

[Liquid Gold]

I heard that the Ricoh pitch was a certain cost and there was a maintenance cost on top of theat. London Wasps decided to go for just the pitch and maintain it themselves, which they clearly are incapable of doing, to save some cash. Rugby and football can be played on the same surface as evidenced by any number of grounds that do it without destroying the pitch.

 

[Nick]

I heard that the Ricoh pitch was a certain cost and there was a maintenance cost on top of theat. London Wasps decided to go for just the pitch and maintain it themselves, which they clearly are incapable of doing, to save some cash. Rugby and football can be played on the same surface as evidenced by any number of grounds that do it without destroying the pitch.

Yeah when they did the massive PR thing about the new pitch the people who laid it said it would be fine for both playing on it if maintained properly all year round.

Then there was a big press overload that they had got some heat lamps in over the winter.

 

[lordsummerisle]

Then there was a big press overload that they had got some heat lamps in over the winter.

That was just to keep their Southern Hemisphere players warm.