I should think so.
http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2018/0...ferred-choice/
Hearts owner Ann Budge has confirmed that the club will lay a new pitch this summer – with a £1 million hybrid surface the preferred choice.
The existing turf was only put down a year ago at a six-figure cost but is already showing extensive signs of wear and tear, and any sustained period of rainfall makes underfoot conditions difficult for the players.
This was evident during the recent Premiership victory over St Johnstone, with manager Craig Levein saying afterwards: “When it’s really wet, it’s really bad it was really poor on Saturday, the players were slipping all over the place.”
Despite costs for the new main stand rising to £15 million, the club are keen to install a hybrid surface, which uses natural grass intertwined with artificial turf fibres.
Budge said: “As you will remember, a new surface was laid down this time last year, however, that was only ever intended to be a temporary solution.
“I am pleased, therefore, to announce that plans to relay the pitch in the summer have been approved by the board of directors.
“This will allow us to completely rip up the turf and the soil beneath it, something that hasn’t been done in nearly 20 years.
“This will represent another major financial commitment by the club but we believe it to be an essential investment that will benefit the team for years to come.”
The Scotland rugby team already benefit from using a hybrid surface at neighbouring Murrayfield stadium, which Hearts used for four games earlier this season while Tynecastle was being redeveloped.
The SRU paid an estimated £1.25 million to lay the pitch in 2014.
English football sides Manchester City, Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool all use a similar surface
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12-02-2018 11:07 PM #1
new pitch being laid at the PBS
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12-02-2018 11:34 PM #4
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Does anyone know what surface we have? It says on Wikipedia we have a hybrid pitch, but I'm not sure if that's accurate.
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13-02-2018 12:16 AM #5
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Oh goody. We might actually get to play them at football there next season.
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13-02-2018 12:17 AM #6
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13-02-2018 03:08 AM #8
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potato field tynie
Who cares the reasoning or amount of money spent? It can only be an improvement - the furrows and lumps on the existing farmland hampered Hibs and other teams who have gone there and want to play a game of football - not hoofball. For Hibs it is great news. 6-4-0 will no doubt be claiming it's the ''natural order''.
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To be it's the best I've seen in years
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13-02-2018 06:41 AM #11
Queen Anne and the believers are just so amazing. I hear spurs have been in touch tapping into the jumbos comprehensive knowledge on how to maintain the 30th best footballing surface in Edinburgh
http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/spur...-pitch-update/
try this one.Last edited by Not In The Know; 13-02-2018 at 07:06 AM.
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13-02-2018 06:57 AM #13
Not sure that pitch will fit in with Hearts traditional footballing philosophies.........HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOF!
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13-02-2018 07:11 AM #14This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Fan ownership kicked further into the long grass, mystery benefactors exhausted and fans paying large sums over and above their season ticket money for a bang average mid table club.
What could possibly go wrong?
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13-02-2018 07:14 AM #15
This is exactly it, whatever the good doctor chooses to do next by way of running costs and maintenance just moves the dream further away.
Wait until they realise they have to turf the clouds as well to accommodate their "style" of play.
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13-02-2018 07:34 AM #16
Celtic relaid thier pitch with the more expensive hybrid but it’s really not great.
The yams issue will be lack of light and even though they use some fancy lights to help it grow they aren’t cheap to buy or use.
I hope they do spend the money on a decent pitch as fed up playing them on a terrible surface which suits Leveins direct hoofball. It’s like watching a different sport at the PBS.
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13-02-2018 07:38 AM #18
No doubt they will defray the costs by selling the turf that they beat us on to their delusional supporters.
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13-02-2018 07:39 AM #19
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I always thought that ****** was supposed to be good for the grass !
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13-02-2018 07:52 AM #21
About time they sorted it. We should see how they get on and consider doing similar in future if it makes a big difference.
Why is their fan ownership thing mentioned here so often?
Hearts fans couldn’t care less about when FoH funds are used to pay back Budge. They’re happy for the funds to be used to pay for the stand, bring in Naismith or for the new pitch.
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13-02-2018 08:18 AM #23
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I take it they will be lifting the tatties first to sell at the Farmer's Market to help pay for this?
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13-02-2018 08:23 AM #24
There is no way on this earth that the pitch they relaid last season was meant to be a temporary solution. Sportsound gave them a platform in the build up to last seasons cup derby telling all how making it was.
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13-02-2018 08:30 AM #25
It was.
There was chat of them doing a hybrid last year but they didn’t have the time so went with a temporary measure.
Why we we trying to find fault here? We’ve been slagging their pitch for ages and they’re finally doing something about it!
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13-02-2018 08:32 AM #26
"In another exclusive first for Scottish football, establishment club Hearts hope to install a "hybrid" style of pitch. This won't be the type of hybrid seen at clubs like Manchester United - Hearts' hybrid will combine a football pitch with a traditional tattie field. The Gorgie club aim to be able to provide the quality of surface preferred by hoofball boss Craig Levein whilst simultaneously attempting to satisfy their punters' increasingly insatiable demand for chips.
Levein commented from his special Tynecastle toilet "plop, plop, gurgle, fart, gurgle, skoosh - blood doesn't show on a Maris piper."
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A hybrid surface would only really be worthwhile if we were going to be using it more.
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In theory it would also allow the Development squad to play their games at ER without any concerns about wear and tear of the pitch.
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13-02-2018 08:41 AM #30
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They laid a temporary surface (only 40mm apparently) when Cathro was there with the premise that it was the surface that was stopping the Gorgie Galacticos performing. They were 'meant' to then completely resurface at the time of the build of the new stand as they had plenty of time between the end of the season and the opening of the new stand in September ().
I'm sure you know how that particular planning operation ran. For what it's worth i think it's a good thing, their pitch is a disgrace and anything that introduces further cost burden to our pink chums is fine by me.
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