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On A Lighter Note 22:34 - Jan 24 with 1191 viewscolinallcars

The pitch seemed, well, playable. That's something I suppose.
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On A Lighter Note on 22:38 - Jan 24 with 1167 viewsloftboy

Got in the ground early and couldn’t believe that the sprinklers were going!

Nourry out
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On A Lighter Note on 22:39 - Jan 24 with 1152 viewsWatford_Ranger

On A Lighter Note on 22:38 - Jan 24 by loftboy

Got in the ground early and couldn’t believe that the sprinklers were going!


We were talking about that too. Water barely seemed to be draining. Surface looked ok from the lower loft but saw a pic from upstairs and it was crap.
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On A Lighter Note on 23:12 - Jan 24 with 1034 viewsstainrods_elbow

Their manager still made a specific point about how bad it was - so, considering they won, it must have been!

Even if it was a billiard table, woo hoo, let's have a pitchside party! Saying the pitch played well, even if it didn't, really is clutching at grassy (or muddy) straws!
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On A Lighter Note on 23:16 - Jan 24 with 1042 viewsMrSheen

Fresh sprigs of new growth along the Ellerslie touchline. Might have been killed during the game though.
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On A Lighter Note on 00:25 - Jan 25 with 937 viewsCLAREMAN1995

On A Lighter Note on 23:16 - Jan 24 by MrSheen

Fresh sprigs of new growth along the Ellerslie touchline. Might have been killed during the game though.


Probably killed with our groans of disbelief and their celebrations after that smash and grab.
I am not complaining about their celebrations they earned them with 3 superb shots and we would have gone nut if we pulled a win out like that
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On A Lighter Note on 07:52 - Jan 25 with 801 viewsWokingR

On A Lighter Note on 23:16 - Jan 24 by MrSheen

Fresh sprigs of new growth along the Ellerslie touchline. Might have been killed during the game though.


It looked like a fresh hair transplant that hadn’t filled out yet
Lots of nice rows of freshly planted grass
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On A Lighter Note on 07:57 - Jan 25 with 782 viewsHammersmithR

Thought it looked awful once again. We sit in the Upper Loft. It’s actually an embarrassment to have a pitch in that state at our level. Genuinely my local park has pitches in better nick than ours.
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On A Lighter Note on 09:29 - Jan 25 with 660 viewshoopstar67

On A Lighter Note on 22:38 - Jan 24 by loftboy

Got in the ground early and couldn’t believe that the sprinklers were going!


They were still on not long before kick off, I couldn't believe it myself and made no sense.
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On A Lighter Note on 09:45 - Jan 25 with 626 viewsPaddyhoops

Wrexham manager Parkinson reckons it was the worst they’ve played on this season and he’s right .
However there ground has the advantage of having plenty of natural light .
Having only three stands probably helps.
I thought it looked better than previous weeks .
Although Putting the sprinklers on was bit baffling as yesterday was the only rain free day we’ve had in weeks. Surely it’s got enough water on it?
Answers on a post card to Monty Don .
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On A Lighter Note on 09:50 - Jan 25 with 604 viewsbosh67

On A Lighter Note on 09:29 - Jan 25 by hoopstar67

They were still on not long before kick off, I couldn't believe it myself and made no sense.


I spend quite a lo of time working in gardens, laying and looking after turf and I honestly have no idea what their fixation with watering the pitch is. I can only think that they are replacing patches and worrying that it will just come up in square chunks if it dries up. But the amount of water they put on it, if you slide at all on it, it will just churn up that turf anyway. It chucked it down all day Friday so that should have given the turf enough to at least more or less stay in place. It's a majorly historical problem. They nailed it a few years ago with turf that could survive the shade but this year we've almost gone back to the Trevor Francis mud bath era.

Never knowingly right.
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On A Lighter Note on 10:35 - Jan 25 with 531 viewsOldPedro

I thought the strip near to the Stan Bowles side looked slightly better than the Sheff Weds game but the pitch overall is threadbare. Didn't understand having the sprinklers on at all given the amount of rain this week.

Hope the club understand what has happened and have plans to use the two week gaps between home games that we have a few times over the next few weeks to try to make some improvements. Assume it will need major work in the summer.

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On A Lighter Note on 11:36 - Jan 25 with 476 viewsNorthernr

It's an absolute embarrassment.
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On A Lighter Note on 11:44 - Jan 25 with 459 viewsPaddyhoops

Agreed . I have a picture from three years ago at the same time of the year and it’s not perfect but miles ahead of what it is now.
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On A Lighter Note (n/t) on 13:17 - Jan 25 with 361 viewsNov77

Brentford’s ground has high rise buildings surrounding it, so it must get less light than ours yet their pitch is perfect. It’s a problem that’s never been fixed. Amateurish.
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On A Lighter Note on 13:32 - Jan 25 with 334 viewsted_hendrix

When I was working we done a fair few new pitches, courts etcetera, the biggest 'Issues' we had with clients was lack of programmed maintenance being carried out.

Each pitch that we laid (our recognised/approved contractors) would come with Operation and Maintenance manuals, they were seldom used by the client due to cost (everything In this bloody world that goes wrong Is blamed on cost).

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On A Lighter Note on 14:28 - Jan 25 with 266 viewsstevec

From SAR it looked like they’d planted a strip of grass down the middle, presumably for Madsen as nobody else can pass the sodding ball.
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On A Lighter Note on 16:57 - Jan 25 with 186 viewsBushRanger82

We've been sprinkler mad for the last few seasons.
We could have a monsoon season in Shepherd's Bush, and QPR would still have the sprinklers going full pelt before games, and at half time.
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On A Lighter Note on 17:24 - Jan 25 with 153 viewsSpaceman_P

When the earth collapses at Loftus Road and a borehole sucks in half the pitch. Only then will they find it was built on top of a Pagan sacrifice site, which hereby has fuelled our bad luck.
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