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Post by borobob on Jan 20, 2024 17:51:11 GMT
No real damage done with todays results. We are still in 14th place. Havant's mini revival slipped, and I was kind of hoping they could overtake Eastbourne, who's huge financial, full time, outlay has done a 'Haylock' and they look pretty doomed.
So too do Taunton who's problems on the pitch, with another postponement, adding to the problems off field, could well find them dropping down the pyramid very soon, or worse!!
Can't see Dover escaping either. Welling?? maybe escaping, but Weymouth have suddenly found a bit of life, so could make it difficult for them!
In the NL, Shots took another battering, after being 2-0 up!! losing 4-2. Woking could have slipped in to the bottom four, but Ebbsfleet just won't play the game and get the points needed to push the cards down in to it!! Ebbsfleet, another financially endowed crashing Club!!
Interesting to note that in our League, four of the six games that went ahead were on artificial pitches, and the other two were ex FL Clubs who probably have the covers and equipment, and full time staff, to ensure pitches are playable!
That's no disrespect to our fantastic team that work so hard, and I'm sure they worked their nuts off to try and get a game on.
Truth is, like them or loathe them, and I don't like them, artificial pitches got games played AND more importantly, got people in, and cash through the tills and bars!!
Food for thought!!
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Post by rob1966 on Jan 20, 2024 18:33:57 GMT
An artificial pitch is something I've always wanted to see, yes I know all the reasons why not to have one but match day income is important.
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Post by Tom Bowen on Jan 20, 2024 20:48:52 GMT
An artificial pitch do not match the club's ambitions, as I seem to remember Rob and Spencer saying we aspire to be a football league club in future, meaning we would have to rip up a pitch if we do replace it. Is it worth it? Not sure.
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Post by borobob on Jan 20, 2024 22:56:12 GMT
Not so sure it did Sutton a lot of good really. Short term yes, hiring it out etc, and it got them promoted to Division 2, but a fortune to lay it and then the expense of ripping it all out again which, ultimately, cost them a lot more money, and a perilous slide to the point of almost back where they started!
Is it worth it? For the experience of Div 2 maybe yes. For Club stability? No.
Even if there was enough room to have a training pitch alongside your main pitch, which could be hired out and used for training sessions, it still wouldn't give you the same effect as playing on grass for 70/80% of the season.
Synthetic pitches WILL come about, I have no doubt, especially with the climate changes we are starting to experience, but the situation as of now, some with , some without, is not practical, or fair!
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Post by beardedavenger on Jan 21, 2024 9:37:02 GMT
I'd like Farnborough to really be trailblazers - import an indoor football pitch from Finland.
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Post by Admin on Jan 21, 2024 10:26:35 GMT
I'd like Farnborough to really be trailblazers - import an indoor football pitch from Finland. I'd prefer to import Mediterranean weather.
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Post by markhardy on Jan 21, 2024 20:06:57 GMT
Not so sure it did Sutton a lot of good really. Short term yes, hiring it out etc, and it got them promoted to Division 2, but a fortune to lay it and then the expense of ripping it all out again which, ultimately, cost them a lot more money, and a perilous slide to the point of almost back where they started! Is it worth it? For the experience of Div 2 maybe yes. For Club stability? No. Even if there was enough room to have a training pitch alongside your main pitch, which could be hired out and used for training sessions, it still wouldn't give you the same effect as playing on grass for 70/80% of the season. Synthetic pitches WILL come about, I have no doubt, especially with the climate changes we are starting to experience, but the situation as of now, some with , some without, is not practical, or fair! I read somewhere that Sutton's is under the grass pitch.
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Post by borobob on Jan 21, 2024 22:24:52 GMT
You mean they piled soil and grass on top of the 3G? Didn't seem to be any higher than normal when we payed them!
Looked a bit rough though!
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Post by armchairarry on Jan 22, 2024 8:53:28 GMT
Not so sure it did Sutton a lot of good really. Short term yes, hiring it out etc, and it got them promoted to Division 2, but a fortune to lay it and then the expense of ripping it all out again which, ultimately, cost them a lot more money, and a perilous slide to the point of almost back where they started! Is it worth it? For the experience of Div 2 maybe yes. For Club stability? No. Even if there was enough room to have a training pitch alongside your main pitch, which could be hired out and used for training sessions, it still wouldn't give you the same effect as playing on grass for 70/80% of the season. Synthetic pitches WILL come about, I have no doubt, especially with the climate changes we are starting to experience, but the situation as of now, some with , some without, is not practical, or fair! I read somewhere that Sutton's is under the grass pitch. Nope - It was cut up and auctioned off to raise money. Know people with some pieces of it.
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