Because SISU cut back on funds for the pitch. The groundsman is now with ACL keeping the pitch in top condition, with funds available. would be interesting to see if it would hold up any better with a supported groundsman?
Are you speculating about the groundsman? Strikes me the owners are an easy target for anything & everything that go's wrong with Coventry City Football Club!
By the way, the pitch at Sixfields has so far stood up very well and the football entertainment is fantastic!
Happy New Year - PUSB!
Are you speculating about the groundsman? Strikes me the owners are an easy target for anything & everything that go's wrong with Coventry City Football Club!
By the way, the pitch at Sixfields has so far stood up very well and the football entertainment is fantastic!
Happy New Year - PUSB!
I was going to include the CET article, but assumed people would remember it. It included details about his lack of funding under SISU, and now has increased funds with ACL? Hardly speculation.
Just for you RFC, so you can come down from your high horse after I "targeted our poor, defenseless owners SISU"
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/sky-blues-groundsman-defects-work-4031470
Not on a high horse just pointing out that the Sixfields pitch has looked good and is standing up well, so far!
Just read the article but couldn't see where it said the owners were to blame?
"But the pitch suffered badly during last winter’s freakish weather, making it extremely difficult for managers Mark Robins and Steven Pressley to develop their pass-and-move philosophies."
To be honest our club has been very badly run for more years than I care to remember, not just the current regime IMHO.
By the way, who forced us out of Highfield Road (they would not allow us to develop it further and wanted the land for housing as they could make more money from that). Yes you've got it, CCC!!!!!!!!!
By the way, who forced us out of Highfield Road (they would not allow us to develop it further and wanted the land for housing as they could make more money from that). Yes you've got it, CCC
Not on a high horse just pointing out that the Sixfields pitch has looked good and is standing up well, so far!
Just read the article but couldn't see where it said the owners were to blame?
"But the pitch suffered badly during last winter’s freakish weather, making it extremely difficult for managers Mark Robins and Steven Pressley to develop their pass-and-move philosophies."
To be honest our club has been very badly run for more years than I care to remember, not just the current regime IMHO.
By the way, who forced us out of Highfield Road (they would not allow us to develop it further and wanted the land for housing as they could make more money from that). Yes you've got it, CCC!!!!!!!!!
Not on a high horse just pointing out that the Sixfields pitch has looked good and is standing up well, so far!
Just read the article but couldn't see where it said the owners were to blame?
"But the pitch suffered badly during last winter’s freakish weather, making it extremely difficult for managers Mark Robins and Steven Pressley to develop their pass-and-move philosophies."
To be honest our club has been very badly run for more years than I care to remember, not just the current regime IMHO.
By the way, who forced us out of Highfield Road (they would not allow us to develop it further and wanted the land for housing as they could make more money from that). Yes you've got it, CCC!!!!!!!!!
Any mention of Northampton or Sixfields and Nick gets so sensitive.Is Northampton the only game off today with this weather? The weather is really bad at the minute,I am surprised there hasn't been any off before now.
Just watching fl72 review. Mk Dons pitch v Colchester looked horrific. You've got to remember that AB never had his sides play football so the pitch is unlikely to wear.
What, with all those big lumps running up and down the pitch, have you ever seen parks pitches after you have had a team of tubby's running round on them on a Saturday and Sunday.
Clive Platt can't run though
It isn't as much as the games already played there as much as the damage that will be caused now it is saturated. And the groundsman won't have time to repair the damage as others would in between games.
Think this is key. Yep, two teams playing on the same pitch, but more importantly is the recouperation time and repair of damage time between the games. There is always going to be a game every week pretty much, either for Northampton or for us. Any postponement is going to have a domino effect on future games to come.
Let's face it, it's going to get worse rather than better this season. The more games the worse the pitch will get.
Yep, it doesn't matter how good the groundsman is, playing every week in this weather will wreck the pitch. A mudbath hardly favours our current style of play, and when it does finally dry I suspect it'll be bobbly - not great for passing teams either. Hard to see how it won't impact the team.
Playing at Northampton is hurting us in more ways than one.
Handbags all round on this thread. People need to get a life.
I seem to remember the ricoh pitch resembling a beach the other year.Modern stadium design? ?
sadly, i fear the longer we are away from Coventry, the bigger the breakdown between the fans
Handbags all round on this thread. People need to get a life.
From looking at this thread it is apparently because we groundshare with Northampton that the Yeovil ,Leyton Orient, Stevenage, Swindon,Bristol Rovers, Exeter, Newport, and Northampton games were called off?
From looking at this thread it is apparently because we groundshare with Northampton that the Yeovil ,Leyton Orient, Stevenage, Swindon,Bristol Rovers, Exeter, Newport, and Northampton games were called off?
No but they are all bottom end grounds so what do you expect ? Non league type grounds are more likely to have their games called off with just one team playing on it but with two it will be inevitable..
I think a lot of people are just trying to say that two teams playing on the same pitch on a weekly basis is going to have a more detrimental effect than if it was just one team. Or do you think different or are going to disagree with this comment too ?
I think a lot of people are just trying to say that two teams playing on the same pitch on a weekly basis is going to have a more detrimental effect than if it was just one team. Or do you think different or are going to disagree with this comment too ?
The op tried to link the game being called off with the fact that two teams played on the pitch, rather than the very heavy rainfall.
I don't think anybody disagrees that the pitch will be in a poor state due to two teams playing. Although the Ricoh pitch has been atrocious for the past few years so we should be used to it!
I thought the OP was saying this is where the fun begins with two teams playing on the same pitch, with the game being called off due to being unplayable. Wasn't the point he was making that there is a perfectly good pitch in Coventry not being used ?
No, just that some seemed to think that it is the major reason why the Northampton game was called off, which wasn't the case for the other games called off,sometimes it's just bad weather.
It's also not the reason that Boothroyd was sacked, nor the sightings of the Northampton clown.
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