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Something off topic but does anyone know way the pitch was in such a bad way last night? I've never seen it that bad before....

 

Even the groundsman has had enough and given up , That or all the **** we have been serving up has over fertilised the grass !?

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The only game we have had postponed for a waterlogged pitch was against (funnily enough) Palace, where the combination of a Spring Tide and antiquated drainage outside the stadium resulted in the system becoming overwhelmed by the volume of rain across the city.

Bizarrely when the stadium was built one of the big claims was the pitch having a super dooper pumped drainage system that could handle a downpour of 8 inches of rain in an hour, but apparently it wasn't connected when they made the discovery that the drains outside had no spare capacity for such a system emptying into them!

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I remember when they tried to improve the surface at the Dell by cutting narrow trenches into the surface and filling them with sand. I guess the trenches (slits) were 50mm wide and at 2 metre centres. The ball used to bobble all over the place. I think there is an old video on Mick Channon's website showing a match from that time. Pitches were generally quagmires in the winter back then, and the Baseball Ground had no grass on it all for most of the season.

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Was better than Palace at the weekend but still fairly poor, despite the amount of rain.

 

Hopefully better for Brighton, our team is based around technical play and in a league of marginal gains, a crappy hoke surface does our chances no good.

 

Strange that this season it has been worse with fewer games than we had last year.

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Remember when we used to have pitches that were the envy of the premier league? Beautiful geometric patterns?

We must have sold the ground staff to spurs along with Potch.

This new lot can't even be bothered to clean out the drainage holes.

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Remember when we used to have pitches that were the envy of the premier league? Beautiful geometric patterns?

We must have sold the ground staff to spurs along with Potch.

This new lot can't even be bothered to clean out the drainage holes.

 

Premier League clubs aren't allowed 'fancy' patterns anymore, some pointless new regulation. Straight lines only.

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Remember when we used to have pitches that were the envy of the premier league? Beautiful geometric patterns?

We must have sold the ground staff to spurs along with Potch.

This new lot can't even be bothered to clean out the drainage holes.

 

Roof was leaking in block 2 at the Spurs game, first time I’ve ever had that since the ground was built. Whole clubs gone to pot!

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We were talking about that at the game last night. You youngsters wouldn't believe the mudbaths that they used to play on back in 'the old days'. Loftus Road was only suitable for beach volleyball.

 

Haha indeed. A bit of mud didn't stop Le Tissier making it look easy. First clip on here is a classic

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The only game we have had postponed for a waterlogged pitch was against (funnily enough) Palace, where the combination of a Spring Tide and antiquated drainage outside the stadium resulted in the system becoming overwhelmed by the volume of rain across the city.

Bizarrely when the stadium was built one of the big claims was the pitch having a super dooper pumped drainage system that could handle a downpour of 8 inches of rain in an hour, but apparently it wasn't connected when they made the discovery that the drains outside had no spare capacity for such a system emptying into them!

 

This sounds like the exact same story about the undersoil heating being built but not connected, so you'll forgive me for cynicism.

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This sounds like the exact same story about the undersoil heating being built but not connected, so you'll forgive me for cynicism.

It was one and the same apparently it could blow warmer air for undersoil heating as well as sucking gallons or water, but it was never plugged in let alone plumbed in.

Although now I believe they have undersoil heating as a requirement for Uefa and possibly FIFA international stadium accreditation.

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