New State-of-the-art Pitch at The Valley

CombeMartin

Yes that's what meant !

MuttleyCAFC

You would have thought they would switch to the other side for the warm ups.

Raith_C_Chattonell

Dazzler21 said:

Raith_C_Chattonell said:

I thought it looked a bit threadbare in front of the East stand.  I mean, for a million quid you'd want better, I assume they have some kind of guarantee?

How does one guarantee grass will grow when it's been as frosty and wet as it has been this winter?

The Desso pitch - now rebranded as Grassmaster make this claim.


Installations so far:-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GrassMaster

cafcfan

Raith_C_Chattonell said:

Dazzler21 said:

Raith_C_Chattonell said:

I thought it looked a bit threadbare in front of the East stand.  I mean, for a million quid you'd want better, I assume they have some kind of guarantee?

How does one guarantee grass will grow when it's been as frosty and wet as it has been this winter?

The Desso pitch - now rebranded as Grassmaster make this claim.


Installations so far:-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GrassMaster

Interesting that part of the claim is that it makes the pitch "firmer" That kind of fits in with me being told it was rock hard as was Liverpool's. And I see Anfield has the same stuff.

In terms of actual growth, the grass will require consistent soil temperature above 5-6C. And then we also use grow lights but not sure that these would do anything worthwhile unless the soil temp is high enough. Is that where undersoil heating really helps out rather than just preventing matches from being called off?

Rothko

cafcfan said:

Raith_C_Chattonell said:

Dazzler21 said:

Raith_C_Chattonell said:

I thought it looked a bit threadbare in front of the East stand.  I mean, for a million quid you'd want better, I assume they have some kind of guarantee?

How does one guarantee grass will grow when it's been as frosty and wet as it has been this winter?

The Desso pitch - now rebranded as Grassmaster make this claim.


Installations so far:-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GrassMaster

Interesting that part of the claim is that it makes the pitch "firmer" That kind of fits in with me being told it was rock hard as was Liverpool's. And I see Anfield has the same stuff.

In terms of actual growth, the grass will require consistent soil temperature above 5-6C. And then we also use grow lights but not sure that these would do anything worthwhile unless the soil temp is high enough. Is that where undersoil heating really helps out rather than just preventing matches from being called off?

Yep, that’s the missing element at the Valley, just a few grow lights in areas of higher wear. Temperatures are up from this week, so maybe it’ll come back in those areas, but the rest of the pitch looks good