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Your pitch's too small for you
Henry Irving
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Sorry for the lateness, and I admit bizarre comment, but while at Colchester I thought the pitch looked tiny.
So I checked the Rothmans and it says that it is 106m x 68m.
Most other grounds seem to be around 112 x 75m but when I looked up the Valley it gave the pitch size as 101.5m x 65.8m.
A mistake? But it was the same last year.
So I went back to 95/6 when the Rothmans said the Valley pitch was 110 yds x 73 yds.
So is it the imperial to metric conversion or do we really have a smaller pitch than Colchester?
Are we so short of cash that we've sold some of it off already or has Paddy gone a bit mad with the chalk machine.
We need to be told!
So I checked the Rothmans and it says that it is 106m x 68m.
Most other grounds seem to be around 112 x 75m but when I looked up the Valley it gave the pitch size as 101.5m x 65.8m.
A mistake? But it was the same last year.
So I went back to 95/6 when the Rothmans said the Valley pitch was 110 yds x 73 yds.
So is it the imperial to metric conversion or do we really have a smaller pitch than Colchester?
Are we so short of cash that we've sold some of it off already or has Paddy gone a bit mad with the chalk machine.
We need to be told!
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Perhaps it's something to do with how much the famous inflatable pitch cover can cope with. Has that been mended yet, ready for the new Ice Age?0
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i thought ours was quite short in length after the charity game. Or maybe it was my blistering pace?0
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Seemed bloody enormous when I hopped over the fence at the end of the Preston game in 1975. It must have shrunk since, or possibly I may have got bigger . . .0
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I always thought the pitch was narrow, looking at how much width there was from the side of the 18yd box to the side line. That info would suggest it.0
