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  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,423
    Henry Irving said:

    But seems, according to @addickted05 on twitter, a whole new pitch is being laid at the Valley.

    Wasn't it stripped and reseeded a year after the new drainage, irrigation and pipes for under soil heating put in?
    I seem to remember someone saying that the original works included the resurfacing for the first 3 seasons.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    Only repeating what was said in reply to a tweet from the excellent @chathmuseum which said "repair" and said that is was a whole new pitch,
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,459
    Probably the ONLY thing they've got right since they've been here.

    They're so desperate to show they can do something right again and this is what they come up with.

    Pathetic morons!
  • Tunwellsaddick
    Tunwellsaddick Posts: 2,452
    Sometime ago I suggested he took his ball somewhere else and play; I did not expect him to take his pitch as well. Bastard.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    Don't we usually get someone posting pictures of what's happening with The Valley pitch ?

    Or has the breakdown in goodwill now got to the stage where the club won't even show us something that's good.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    edited June 2016

    With a long wait we are under way

  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    image

    With a long wait we are under way

  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    Try again

    image
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    So it is a new pitch and not a re seeding ?
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,993
    ShootersHillGuru said:

    So it is a new pitch and not a re seeding ?

    Surely it's one and the same ?

    Take off the top surface and then reseed it.
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  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    Covered End said:

    ShootersHillGuru said:

    So it is a new pitch and not a re seeding ?

    Surely it's one and the same ?

    Take off the top surface and then reseed it.
    Ok. Thought last close season it was covered in sand but I guess that picture is a bit early to tell.

  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    Mick Everett ‏@Addickted05 12h12 hours ago Gillingham, England
    Mick Everett Retweeted Heather McKinlay
    Every year after pitch hires we start renovations.Include taking top 25mm off pitch, laying fibre sand and reseeding
  • sammy391
    sammy391 Posts: 3,782
    edited June 2016
    ShootersHillGuru said:

    Covered End said:

    ShootersHillGuru said:

    So it is a new pitch and not a re seeding ?

    Surely it's one and the same ?

    Take off the top surface and then reseed it.
    Ok. Thought last close season it was covered in sand but I guess that picture is a bit early to tell.

    The response to the picture on the museum Twitter is Mick Everett- he's said that "Every year after pitch hires we start renovations.Include taking top 25mm off pitch, laying fibre sand and reseeding"
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    sammy391 said:

    ShootersHillGuru said:

    Covered End said:

    ShootersHillGuru said:

    So it is a new pitch and not a re seeding ?

    Surely it's one and the same ?

    Take off the top surface and then reseed it.
    Ok. Thought last close season it was covered in sand but I guess that picture is a bit early to tell.

    The original poster of the picture on Twitter is Mick Everett- he's said that "Every year after pitch hires we start renovations.Include taking top 25mm off pitch, laying fibre sand and reseeding"
    nathan chapman @nathanc1978 actually, the head groundsman
  • sammy391
    sammy391 Posts: 3,782
    Henry Irving said:

    sammy391 said:

    ShootersHillGuru said:

    Covered End said:

    ShootersHillGuru said:

    So it is a new pitch and not a re seeding ?

    Surely it's one and the same ?

    Take off the top surface and then reseed it.
    Ok. Thought last close season it was covered in sand but I guess that picture is a bit early to tell.

    The original poster of the picture on Twitter is Mick Everett- he's said that "Every year after pitch hires we start renovations.Include taking top 25mm off pitch, laying fibre sand and reseeding"
    nathan chapman @nathanc1978 actually, the head groundsman
    Thanks , now edited
  • smiffyboy
    smiffyboy Posts: 4,314
    From that photo it looks like the club have finally taken the netting down.

  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    Henry Irving said:

    Try again

    image

    Is that the machine for shredding failed network products (undisclosed)?
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,318
    Yup that bloke you see on the left is being fed into the machine as we speak.

    He was the idiot who thought up having a DJ in Crossbars!!
  • addick1965
    addick1965 Posts: 5,092
    Looks like the ball could do a bit on this track..deffo a bowlers strip!
  • Norman_Smith
    Norman_Smith Posts: 338
    Only way to get the bits of sofa off the pitch!
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  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,467
    Gotta love the man who came up with the name "FieldTopMaker."
  • NornIrishAddick
    NornIrishAddick Posts: 9,623
    smiffyboy said:

    From that photo it looks like the club have finally taken the netting down.

    Only to allow for the tractors turning circles at the end of the pitch.

    We'll probably see ice hockey style perspex next season.
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,955
    Henry Irving said:

    Try again

    image


    Another poor crowd ...... supporters staying away in droves.

    ROLAND OUT!


  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    They're only relaying the first 74 metres.
  • DRAddick
    DRAddick Posts: 3,588
    SDAddick said:

    Gotta love the man who came up with the name "FieldTopMaker."

    Probably a committee that took several days and thousands of pounds.
  • Tunwellsaddick
    Tunwellsaddick Posts: 2,452
    Addickted said:

    They're only relaying the first 74 metres.

    The other part didn't get any wear.
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,467
    edited June 2016
    DRAddick said:

    SDAddick said:

    Gotta love the man who came up with the name "FieldTopMaker."

    Probably a committee that took several days and thousands of pounds.
    Ah, I see you've worked in marketing too

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lwpS5M7hgA
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,855
    Looks like 2% to me.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,022
    soapy_jones said:

    Henry Irving said:

    Try again

    image

    Is that the machine for shredding failed network products (undisclosed)?
    I was hoping it might be a muck-spreader getting lined up to shoot a load of silage into the directors box.
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 50,974
    Work has begun on the annual resurfacing of The Valley's playing surface
    Olly Groome reports

    Work has begun on the annual resurfacing of The Valley's pitch, which will ensure a brand new, lush turf in time for the start of the 2016/17 season in August.

    The Addicks' playing surface has proved to be one of the best in the Football League since it was completely renovated in the summer of 2014 and requires a yearly re-seeding process to keep it in tip-top condition.

    Valley Groundsman Nathan Chapman is overseeing the work which began early on Tuesday morning and he explained the reasons for digging up the pitch on an annual basis.

    "The reason for renovation is to revitalise everything, bring back the levels and, very simply, to re-establish it," he said.

    "It is vital to do this every year because, if you don't, you'll end up with a lot of horrible grasses and divots within the pitch. Also, the end-of-season pitch hire events badly damage the surface, so it allows us to start afresh every season.

    "We have now taken the old pitch off, gone down to a depth of 7mm and will be re-incorporating 87 tonnes of fibre concentrate. We will then re-seed and fertilise and we should expect to see green again in about three weeks time."

    Supporters can keep up to date with the progress of the Valley's pitch regrowth via all the usual social media channels over the coming weeks.

    Read more at http://www.cafc.co.uk/news/article/charlton-valley-pitch-work-3132050.aspx#xhRAxBLMTtuUjKYG.99

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