State of the pitch

[Dusic]

Sounded from TV like there is some sort of disease in the grass which I am sure is a nightmare to resolve, but the pitch looked (and played) awful yesterday and Im sure is much worse close up.

Wonder how long it will take to sort out?

[eurosaint]

I was there and never noticed any problems, the pitch actually looked fine to me ! 

Only heard about it later and was a bay surprised 😃

[AlexLaw76]

42 minutes ago, eurosaint said:

I was there and never noticed any problems, the pitch actually looked fine to me ! 

Only heard about it later and was a bay surprised 😃

It was clearly patchy down by the northam / Kingsland

Edited 28 August, 2022 by AlexLaw76

[Whitey Grandad]

1 hour ago, AlexLaw76 said:

It was clearly patchy down by the northam / Kingsland

I saw the ball jump up off something in the second half just as one of our defenders was about to kick it.

[Sarisbury Saint]

Some players were clearly struggling to control it with their feet and decided to use their hands instead.

[SaintsFan86]

It looked awful from watching from a stream.

[Ken Tone]

It did look threadbare..... bare earth showing through.... as if it had been played on a lot recently. The sort of thing you see when a club shares its ground with a rugby team. 

[The Kraken]

42 minutes ago, Ken Tone said:

It did look threadbare..... bare earth showing through.... as if it had been played on a lot recently. The sort of thing you see when a club shares its ground with a rugby team. 

I don’t think it was bare earth. It looked like it, but at half time they showed close ups of it, the grass is mostly still there but just looked almost dead.

The pitch also looked quite hard and bobbly to me, not sure how much they’re watering it while treating the fungus/rot.

[Saint Fan CaM]

One thing I noticed was a few times Saints players slipping over - I thought it likely this was due to the absolute soaking the grass received before the game. Not sure why but didn’t notice the same for the Manure players.

[Whitey Grandad]

1 hour ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

One thing I noticed was a few times Saints players slipping over - I thought it likely this was due to the absolute soaking the grass received before the game. Not sure why but didn’t notice the same for the Manure players.

I think that's been happening for quite a few years now, the opposition always seem to be better prepared than us. 

[skintsaint]

Not much recovery time for the grass before Tuesdays game either - could look worse!

Edited 28 August, 2022 by skintsaint

[Roo1976]

9 hours ago, Ken Tone said:

It did look threadbare..... bare earth showing through.... as if it had been played on a lot recently. The sort of thing you see when a club shares its ground with a rugby team. 

Isnt there supposed to be a hose pipe ban?,maybe that would account for the strange patchy pitch look on the stream?

[Roo1976]

Just now, Roo1976 said:

Isnt there supposed to be a hose pipe ban?,maybe that would account for the strange patchy pitch look on the stream?

Water it at night noone will know.........😇

[rooney]

My sons lawn  was like this and all down to chaffer bugs.

[Saint Garrett]

Any news on what the issues actually are? It’s an absolute mess atm. 

[S-Clarke]

It didn't play very well tonight, looks like a pitch you see at the end of a season. I do think the problem is that we haven't been able to replace it for 2 years though, so it's probably going to be a case of babysitting it this year until we have a big enough gap to rip it up.

[Saint_lambden]

On Solent they said that it’s some sort of disease that has come from treatment they’ve used on the pitch recently. The club are hoping to resolve it more permanently during the break in home games between Brentford on 10th Sept and Everton on 1st Oct. 

[trousers]

28 minutes ago, Saint Garrett said:

Any news on what the issues actually are? It’s an absolute mess atm. 

 

[cloggy saint]

I think it looks great! Takes me back to ye olde days when football was better.