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Anybody know whether the ticket office is remaining open this afternoon for the sale of Spurs tickets? Was planning to go up and get mine just in case by some miracle the club manage to get the pitch sorted/relaid and the game goes ahead!
Wonder if the intention was for game to be off to either give more time to replace the pitch, or to twist the hands of the financial providers to give us some pennies?
Stupidity to send that tweet out, given the weather report and the fact the pitch hasn't been covered for the past 24 hour's.
Out of curiosity, if the game is moved to Wembley (or anywhere else for that matter) and someone who's already purchased a ticket doesn't want to go/cant make it due to location, are they able to get a refund?
The point made about the amount of rainfall in Rochdale, well it’s a case of the Club making sure it has the relevant pitch for the LOCAL conditions! Yes us locals know it’s wet here, a lot, we get pissed through enough to know that!
I have seen posts about liaising with a firm that sorts Wembley and other such pitches out. Bollox to that. We need a pitch relevant to conditions HERE not in North London, where the weather conditions are quite a lot different. It need to be a pitch including drainage that can cope with lack of sunshine â˜€ï¸ and plenty of precipitation ☔ï¸, and if that means not being like a snooker table surface, so be it. It needs a one off super investment, that puts down a surface that along with appropriate maintenance will last for years, that appropriate maintenance being putting down relevant covers, rain or frost, when required, and if necessary paying for the dome type covers IF possible. Of course the right pitch might not require so much coverage, but no harm having it, as when it is raining it is not sunny, so would make no difference as far as growth of grass.
The point made about the amount of rainfall in Rochdale, well it’s a case of the Club making sure it has the relevant pitch for the LOCAL conditions! Yes us locals know it’s wet here, a lot, we get pissed through enough to know that!
I have seen posts about liaising with a firm that sorts Wembley and other such pitches out. Bollox to that. We need a pitch relevant to conditions HERE not in North London, where the weather conditions are quite a lot different. It need to be a pitch including drainage that can cope with lack of sunshine â˜€ï¸ and plenty of precipitation ☔ï¸, and if that means not being like a snooker table surface, so be it. It needs a one off super investment, that puts down a surface that along with appropriate maintenance will last for years, that appropriate maintenance being putting down relevant covers, rain or frost, when required, and if necessary paying for the dome type covers IF possible. Of course the right pitch might not require so much coverage, but no harm having it, as when it is raining it is not sunny, so would make no difference as far as growth of grass.
Don't you think a firm that deals with somewhere Wembley might have the sort of credentials to work on any pitch anywhere in the country/world?
It would be like Keith Hill not taking advice off Pochettino next week because he doesn't have to work with Premier League players.
When I was your age, I used to enjoy the odd game of tennis. Or was it golf?
Would hope so, but I am not presuming either way, just that the only reference to grounds made where the likes of Wembley and Twickenham. Just making point that it has to be totally relevant to local conditions, and not about trying to lay down a Premiership style carpet of a pitch.
Oh yes, I definitely think that the Spurs Manager will be giving Hill advice for next weekend. 😀
It’s pretty embarrassing that the club go to bat in the national media to defend the hard work that’s been done and to say the pitch isn’t as bad as its being made out. To go and call the game off the next day because it’s not fit to play football on. What also pisses me off is that there’s no mention of any concern that the game is in doubt beforehand, as if they don’t have access to the weather report. Wasn’t the drill and fill process we did supposed to help the drainage of future games so that we could start clearing this backlog of games that are piling up? Extra cranky this morning here in Canada because the game kicks off at 8am here and having worked late last night and only getting a few hours sleep before the game is due to start, I would have greatly appreciated a heads up from the club on the matter beforehand. Everything at the club just seems a bit amateurish this season, which is a shame because there’s been a lot of excellent work and progress made at the club over the last 10years.
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