Our Butt Ugly Sand Pit

[Arabmariner]

No drink in NSW

I like to watch

Shame that.

Doc says "all's well......back on the beer and kebabs lad"........or words to that effect  ;D

 

[bjw]

No drink in NSW

I like to watch

replays are for watching.

 

[FFC Mariner]

or we get an away final in Vic or Qld...............

 

[Forum Phoenix]

Hows the pitch looking?

Boys trained on it in the wet today.
Pitch looks pretty good. Not perfect, but certainly very decent.
The replacement patches are now light green and still visible unfortunately -  but once they roll the lines in presumably they will be much less noticeable.

 

[Jesus]

Hows the pitch looking?

Boys trained on it in the wet today.
Pitch looks pretty good. Not perfect, but certainly very decent.
The replacement patches are now light green and still visible unfortunately -  but once they roll the lines in presumably they will be much less noticeable.

Hopefully those patches are the only part of the pitch which needed replacing, and after 6 weeks off the rest will be also up to standard

 

[Forum Phoenix]

Yeah I hope so. Seemed like a bit of an odd move. As there were a couple of areas that seemed like there was a lot of slipping/turf giving way. Hopefully all the sand work took care of that.

Also they rolled fat vertical lines down it today. All but eclipsing the new squares. They'll still be there, but happily won;t be much of an eyesore.

Looking forward to seeing how it plays.
EDIT * CANNOT BLOODY WAIT*  to see how it plays!

 

[marinermick]

for six weeks of maintenance the pitch looks average

 

[Honkee]

for six weeks of maintenance the pitch looks average

average it a compliment, there's a massive skid mark down the centre of the field spaning from one end of the pitch to the other, then there's a very noticable patch on the side where the teams run out, PATHETIC!

 

[serious14]

But we moved our home games for essential pitch maintanence??

:

 

[FFC Mariner]

Pitch was a disgrace - covered in sand, still cutting up all over the place.

CCM simply lied in order to take ACT's money

 

[bikinigirl]

. ok i know its been an age since we were at home ... but the pitch seemed even worse than what i remember

 

[cruiser]

Pitch is still crap. 

 

[curious]

Does BT have full time grounds keeping staff, or council staff that have other duties?

If they contracted advice from Sydney re maintenance, I'd imagine the staff are unqualified?

 

[bikinigirl]

. and i assume they're still paying the guy to run out with a bucket and sand to play with the divots during breaks in play

 

[Arabmariner]

I think FP should change this thread title to "our f**ked up pitch" tbh !

 

[Forum Phoenix]

lol. I think thats pretty bloody fair Arab.

Looked like a real dogs breakfast up close - though apparently was very smooth to play on.

They have worked on it, truly they have...

But 7 weeks to get that??

Honestly it looks worse than it did before they started, was clearly soft to play on, still tearing up, and the way the sand was spraying up now was just ridiculous. And the giant skid mark seems to have just erupted out of nowhere?

 

[elevated position]

The skidmark is on google earth maps (dated a couple of years back) It appears that the continual grass cutting this ground gets is not allowing the root level to grow deeper so the grass just balls up on top of now essentially a sand pit.

 

[Forum Phoenix]

Council should have relayed the bloody lot. Not just a few small squares.

 

[Arabmariner]

The skidmark is on google earth maps

'Skidmark Stadium' has a nice ring to it  ;D

 

[pjennings]

SFS has been completely relaid since Sydney's last game. Why do we have to put up with this shit!!!!