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New State-of-the-art Pitch at The Valley
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Looking really muddy near the Curbs stand, especially on the south side of the halfway line.
More like a non league pitch than an expensive Desso one.3 -
Need our money back2
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Hope we kept the receipt.2
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It looks terrible on the stream. Surprised the club haven't commented on it given the fanfare about it at the start of the season.2
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Maybe it's getting too much of a watering.1
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Wrong thread.
Pitch does look shit though.1 -
A bit like @SoundAsa£Glovepup said:
This. Apparently takes a season for the pitch to mature.SoundAsa£ said:I am going to take the wait and see route.
There seems to be plenty of evidence that it actually takes a season or two to become fully functional.2 -
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Someone will claim it’s confidential and will give the opposition an advantage and not therefore appropriate to comment 😉😆Clem_Snide said:It looks terrible on the stream. Surprised the club haven't commented on it given the fanfare about it at the start of the season.0 - Sponsored links:
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Seriously, the club ought to come clean on this. Did we think we had paid for a Premier League Standard pitch (with woven nylon fibres, you could host a pop concert on it, etc etc) or just a normal scrape off top layer and re-seed?2
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Change the title of the thread by removing the word art.5
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State-of-the-shart0
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Did we actually install a state of the art pitch or just keep the grant and do the usual reseeding ? 😆6
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I scanned through the match and post match thread on the Wycombe Forum yesterday and there were numerous comments stating how bad the pitch looked, so it's not just "us" noticing this. Am sure Nigel Clough mentioned how bad it was in his post match presser as well.2
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This area is especially bad
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killerandflash said:This area is especially bad
The Curbs stand towards the JS was always the issue before this new 'state of the art' (sic) pitch was laid. Is it a fundamental drainage issue on that side/corner or a high water table?
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The best pitch we have had in recent years was the 2014/2015 season under Duchatelet
That was like a bowling green from the start to the end of the season
This current pitch for the money spent on it should be questioned by the club on why already it looks and plays (According to Jones and Nigel Clough) bad7 -
Don't remember the club saying it would need time to bed in when it was installed, nor have we seen issues in the past when the Belgiums put in a new pitch, or Orient with their equivalent pitch to what ours is now3
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Something went wrong when the Womens team played Lewes, and from then on it's been poor.0
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It's still nothing like the pitches of years gone by. Or even that one we had that seemed to be permanently waterlogged back in the Roland years.0
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It looked ok at the start of the season but I have to say, it didn't look exceptional and certainly not up to the standard of the 2014 pitch mentioned by Shirty5. I was surprised/disappointed when I first saw it.4
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It looked ordinary / the same as any tear at the start of the season. It did not look particularly special.Simonsen said:It looked ok at the start of the season but I have to say, it didn't look exceptional and certainly not up to the standard of the 2014 pitch mentioned by Shirty5. I was surprised/disappointed when I first saw it.If drainage is an issue you’d expect the specialist firm to cope.1 -
Had a close look at the surface of the pitch for the last game of the season in May as I couldn't believe how well it had stood up over the season. And close up, it really was more or less as good for the last game as it was for the first! I was stunned when the club said it was going to rip it up a couple of weeks after the final whistle.
Here we are half way through the season and the playing surface is a disappointment to say the least. Hope it holds together for the home games in January.
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Sure it has something to do with TK being on “gardening leave”.0
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State of the art pitch! More like a state of the art ditch1
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The words of Richard Llewellyn spring to mind ?
Q "How Green is my Valley"
A. More brown than green !
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It's not as if it's been overplayed on in the autumn, as we had very few home games, or was destroyed by bad weather. The pitches at Welling and Dartford look much better, and they both have lots of games played on them.Dugdaleclass said:Had a close look at the surface of the pitch for the last game of the season in May as I couldn't believe how well it had stood up over the season. And close up, it really was more or less as good for the last game as it was for the first! I was stunned when the club said it was going to rip it up a couple of weeks after the final whistle.
Here we are half way through the season and the playing surface is a disappointment to say the least. Hope it holds together for the home games in January.
Something has definitely gone wrong with the installation. After the 4th January the men don't have a home game until the 25th, and the women until the 26th, so that's 3 weeks to do some serious work on it.3 -
It has looked a bit thin all season, I thought it would grow in but clearly not. The amount of water we put on it can’t help though1
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Good case study for comparing the integrity of the club’s current communications with the past, in my view. This is an obvious problem which they are saying nothing about. Why not? Nobody is taken in by the silence, although perhaps they don’t want bring it to the attention of the substantive investors?
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