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The Valley Pitch
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Snow actually behaves like a greenhouse, but if it fell on frozen ground it may have warmed the top half inch or so only.Pelham123 said:They shifted tons of snow off it in December to get the game on. Don’t suppose that did it any good.
This may have resulted in the grass roots breaking away at the frozen part of the ground.
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As an aside to this..............When you've made as many friends both past and present as Burger boy, when you f*** up, my phone goes into melt down with the amount people wanting to tell all about it.T_C_E said:
Someone ordered in an inappropriate temporary boiler, I believe the terminology used was........"It was more suited to heating a couple of flats than a football pitch".MuttleyCAFC said:
I think that Cheltenham game, which we lost, messed the pitch up. That was the one where we were going to use the undersoil heating but didn't have any oil for the boiler.Pelham123 said:They shifted tons of snow off it in December to get the game on. Don’t suppose that did it any good.
In fact someone saw exactly the same model boiler heating the academy rooms at Sparrows Lane and thought "Thats exactly what we need at The Valley for the pitch" and ordered it.
As if someone would want to try to make a name for themselves and do something like that?
Morning Burger Boy.
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2nd annual museum volunteers outing last night
First a Valley tour with @KillersBeard then a meal in the New Viceroy, the only restaurant in Charlton Village with a 2022/23 on the wall. Excellent food and value.
Delighted to be able to thank our band of fantastic volunteers for all their great work.
But relevance to this thread are the photos of the pitch being reconstructed
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Is it a better reconstruction than last summer?0
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Afraid we're a football museum not a horticultural consultantancy so can't express a valid opinion at this stage
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It looks playable by Chelsea standards!7
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who's paying for that
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In that bottom photo is that the new squad, meeting for the first time? I knew there was no need to worryCharltonAthMuseum said:2nd annual museum volunteers outing last night
First a Valley tour with @KillersBeard then a meal in the New Viceroy, the only restaurant in Charlton Village with a 2022/23 on the wall. Excellent food and value.
Delighted to be able to thank our band of fantastic volunteers for all their great work.
But relevance to this thread are the photos of the pitch being reconstructed7 -
No, some Americans that Peter Storrie was showing around.
Think they were all quite shy as Peter said we couldn't talk to them or ask them any questions.
Think they were gardeners as we overheard them talking about funding hedges26 -
The museum paid for the food and drinkElthamaddick said:who's paying for that
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Thank you to everyone that volunteers and contributes. What a fantastic job you are doing.7
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Yeah, I heard you sold some old rags from 1947 to pay for the poppadumsCharltonAthMuseum said:
The museum paid for the food and drinkElthamaddick said:who's paying for that
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I was referring to the pitch maintenanceCharltonAthMuseum said:
The museum paid for the food and drinkElthamaddick said:who's paying for that
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Yeah, tatty old shirts but got £20 eachkillerandflash said:
Yeah, I heard you sold some old rags from 1947 to pay for the poppadumsCharltonAthMuseum said:
The museum paid for the food and drinkElthamaddick said:who's paying for that
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Being a pedant at times, the word in this case is Turfculture, grounds staff central concern is turf not flowers.CharltonAthMuseum said:Afraid we're a football museum not a horticultural consultantancy so can't express a valid opinion at this stage
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Each member of the Methven consortium will pay for one blade of grass eachElthamaddick said:who's paying for that
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Ain't the pitch lovely and flat now, after that kind Belgian man paid to get the hump in the middle of the pitch removed, and shortly before that naughty Belgian lady, paid to have some couple hump in the the middle of the pitch.3
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Seems they've started on the pitch early this year. Usually it's hired out during late may/early june before reconstruction starts mid-June. This year there's been no hiring out at all it seems (certainly not received the usual adverts regarding hiring the pitch)
Would indicate the major reconstruction that's been clearly needed, and avoided for the last few years, is finally being done.6 -
I know that it was used for hire last Saturday.randy andy said:Seems they've started on the pitch early this year. Usually it's hired out during late may/early june before reconstruction starts mid-June. This year there's been no hiring out at all it seems (certainly not received the usual adverts regarding hiring the pitch)
Would indicate the major reconstruction that's been clearly needed, and avoided for the last few years, is finally being done.0 -
They will have it in tip top condition for the start of the season will we get VAR now palace are coming to use it0
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Don’t think we have any thing to worry about with our pitch. This 
is Reading, I am no expert but…..
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Yeah but aren't Reading in the shit financially?1
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If Palace come we will need to get a boiler. But before undersoil heating I think the learning from last season is not to bust a gut to get a game on as per Cheltenham as the damage it does to the pitch is lasting.0
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Don’t forget the pitch covers weren’t even in the borough let alone on the pitch, the executive decision to send the covers to VCD in an attempt to get the women’s game on meaning The Valley pitch was already frozen before the covers went on.
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We've been bought by an ice hockey team.2
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The pigeons were the most entertaining things on the pitch last season. Seems a bit unfair to diddle them out of their reward.6
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Don’t know why they bothered reseeding. After all, there wasn’t much football played on that pitch last season.0
