| The pitch 15:20 - Mar 28 with 10368 views | 442Dale |
What has happened? It's always drained so well recently, yet today it isn't. |  |
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| The pitch on 15:21 - Mar 28 with 8829 views | Yorkshire_Dale |
what about the JD |  | | |
| The pitch on 15:23 - Mar 28 with 8822 views | 442Dale |
Theirs had problems pre season, it was obvious it didn't drain. Ours never had an issue with rain. | |
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| The pitch on 15:48 - Mar 28 with 8701 views | windowsbug |
Pay peanuts.... |  | | |
| The pitch on 16:00 - Mar 28 with 8634 views | deeplishblue |
Surprised at the wet patches, same old area near in the corner of the sandy and the main stand. Looks like the drains need doing again. |  |
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| The pitch on 17:07 - Mar 28 with 8508 views | Ralphs12 |
Who is the groundsman now? |  | | |
| The pitch on 17:17 - Mar 28 with 8415 views | 442Dale |
To be fair once the rain stopped it eventually drained. But that downpour from just before kick off created a lot of issues, not least their penalty. | |
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| The pitch on 17:20 - Mar 28 with 8390 views | SaxonDale |
In the first half it was an absolute embarrassment, particularly in the corner between The Sandy and Main Stand. Could have changed the outcome of the game, whatever the reason is for our pitch deteriorating recently, it needs addressing. |  | | |
| The pitch on 17:26 - Mar 28 with 8334 views | dilleydaler |
When you look at bury's pitch and the abandonment, looks like our pitch stood up reasonably well. Low temps mean grass isn't growing, which isn't helping. Roll on April! | | | |
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| The pitch on 17:35 - Mar 28 with 8273 views | Thran |
| The pitch on 17:20 - Mar 28 by SaxonDale |
In the first half it was an absolute embarrassment, particularly in the corner between The Sandy and Main Stand. Could have changed the outcome of the game, whatever the reason is for our pitch deteriorating recently, it needs addressing. |
If they had scored the penalty it would have changed the outcome of the game | |
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| The pitch on 19:14 - Mar 28 with 8071 views | Rockerdale97 |
| The pitch on 17:07 - Mar 28 by Ralphs12 |
Who is the groundsman now? |
Rob Bennett is the new groundsman. | | | |
| The pitch on 19:18 - Mar 28 with 8043 views | Toffeemanc |
| The pitch on 17:07 - Mar 28 by Ralphs12 |
Who is the groundsman now? |
I think our groundsman changed around November time and to be honest the pitch looks like it has been steadily deteriorating ever since. There seems to be a lot more sand on it now than I can remember in any of the last 4 or 5 seasons. Apart from the Orient game the pitch hasn't really seen much bad weather this season so the current condition of it is a little worrying. I guess the frost in the pitch that caused the orient postponement seem to have caused long term damage. |  |
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| The pitch on 19:20 - Mar 28 with 8031 views | D_Alien |
| The pitch on 19:18 - Mar 28 by Toffeemanc |
I think our groundsman changed around November time and to be honest the pitch looks like it has been steadily deteriorating ever since. There seems to be a lot more sand on it now than I can remember in any of the last 4 or 5 seasons. Apart from the Orient game the pitch hasn't really seen much bad weather this season so the current condition of it is a little worrying. I guess the frost in the pitch that caused the orient postponement seem to have caused long term damage. |
Or the treatment of the frost |  |
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| The pitch on 19:22 - Mar 28 with 8007 views | KenBoon |
Did you see the amount of rain that fell? The Motorway flooded too. Sometimes nature will just beat you. I'd say the pitch coped remarkably. The game could have been stopped - without complaint - between 3:15 and 3:45, but before and after that period it was playable, and by the end was absolutely fine. As for deterioration... I think it's called Winter. |  | | |
| The pitch on 19:23 - Mar 28 with 7991 views | rich_dale |
Am not that close to the inner dealings at the club but seems the pitch's deterioration is in some way related to Oli's departure? Others may have better insight | | | |
| The pitch on 21:13 - Mar 28 with 7828 views | Shun |
| The pitch on 19:23 - Mar 28 by rich_dale |
Am not that close to the inner dealings at the club but seems the pitch's deterioration is in some way related to Oli's departure? Others may have better insight |
I thought it didn't work out for Oli in Arabia and he came back? Can't we just give him his job back? He was clearly good at it! |  | | |
| The pitch on 21:28 - Mar 28 with 7785 views | D_Alien |
| The pitch on 21:13 - Mar 28 by Shun |
I thought it didn't work out for Oli in Arabia and he came back? Can't we just give him his job back? He was clearly good at it! |
I'll bet everyone involved at Dale (the current groundsman excepted) would welcome that. Oli too. | |
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| The pitch on 21:38 - Mar 28 with 7748 views | flyerdale |
| The pitch on 21:28 - Mar 28 by D_Alien |
I'll bet everyone involved at Dale (the current groundsman excepted) would welcome that. Oli too. |
He has gone back to Qatar now was only back for a bit |  | | |
| The pitch on 21:39 - Mar 28 with 7740 views | D_Alien |
| The pitch on 21:38 - Mar 28 by flyerdale |
He has gone back to Qatar now was only back for a bit |
Ah, fair enough. The info on here was he'd returned because it wasn't working out for him other there. | |
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| The pitch on 10:26 - Apr 3 with 7317 views | 442Dale |
Rain forecast for most of the day and Hornets are playing Oldham, Vespa can let us know later on what the pitch is like at the end. | |
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| The pitch on 11:49 - Apr 3 with 7184 views | macro |
| The pitch on 10:26 - Apr 3 by 442Dale |
Rain forecast for most of the day and Hornets are playing Oldham, Vespa can let us know later on what the pitch is like at the end. |
Over rolled and too much sand I was told. |  | | |
| The pitch on 17:01 - Apr 3 with 7020 views | pcolly |
Too much sand? In a fibresand pitch?
I'm guessing whoever told you that doesn't know much about turf science and pitch construction. | | | |
| The pitch on 17:35 - Apr 3 with 6949 views | Vespa |
| The pitch on 17:01 - Apr 3 by pcolly |
Too much sand? In a fibresand pitch?
I'm guessing whoever told you that doesn't know much about turf science and pitch construction. |
If the truth is told though how many people bother going to night school to study "turf science and pitch construction" just for a bit of a hobby?
Pitch didn't look too bad to me (I've not been to night school either), grass looked a bit thin down the Main stand. No standing water but looked a bit slippy to be honest, though it did drizzle through out the game so to be expected. |  |
| Up the Dale, C'mon Hornets |
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| The pitch on 17:38 - Apr 3 with 6937 views | Yorkshire_Dale |
Sunday is meant to be sunny......San Spotty will be back to it's Bowling Green best by then. | | | |
| The pitch on 18:21 - Apr 3 with 6833 views | pcolly |
My point was I wouldn't take too seriously the opinion of someone who thought there was too much sand in a fibreand pitch. They clearly don't know/understand modern pitch constructions so probably aren't best placed to comment. It would be like asking me to comment on road construction (I haven't been to road construction night school you see) | | | |
| The pitch on 18:26 - Apr 3 with 6815 views | 442Dale |
Vespa noticed that the grass is thinner down the main stand side too, what's the reason for this?
Talking of pitches, how good was Preston's today? That one of the best I've ever seen at this stage of the season. | |
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