Just read this is to be replaced by another plastic pitch as to find alternative training facilities and switch it the grass would £10m?!
Very disappointing news for the league and frankly baffling price. Surely there are pitches down that way? University of West of Scotland must have good ones for instance.
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Thread: Kilmarnock's Plastic Pitch
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30-01-2019 06:22 AM #1
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Kilmarnock's Plastic Pitch
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30-01-2019 07:32 AM #2
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Clubs should be fined each season they use these pitches for Competive matches, and if opposition players are injured due to your **** surface your pay the rehab. Find it hard to believe it cost 10m to switch to grass when the trumpets over the road spent 1m on a hybrid pitch.
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30-01-2019 07:42 AM #3
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30-01-2019 08:35 AM #5
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30-01-2019 09:37 AM #6
The £10m costs include extra pitch and training facilities. If what I have understood.
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30-01-2019 09:48 AM #7
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30-01-2019 10:07 AM #8
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Can't say I'm overly against plastic pitches like a lot of people on here. Maybe it's because I'm younger and have grown up playing on them and they seem normal to me. Teams such as Hibs, hearts, rangers and Celtic who all have access to plastic pitches where they train shouldn't use them as an excuse for a poor result though
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30-01-2019 10:26 AM #9
I admit to my ignorance about the pros and cons of plastic / grass pitches; but isn't the point that all pitches in the same league should be made of the same type of surface, be that grass, plastic or otherwise?
I know it's not an entirely fair analogy, but it's a bit like having Wimbledon or the US Open playing different rounds on different surfaces, making it much more of a lottery.
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30-01-2019 12:25 PM #14
It should be against the rules to have anything except a grass pitch in the top flight. End of story.
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30-01-2019 12:28 PM #15
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I think having a grass pitch should be a baseline expectation for getting into the Premier League. it's not being too elitist to expect that all teams play on a similar and safe surface. Although interestingly Killie's away record is the 3rd best in the league this year so it's hard to argue that their pitch has given them an advantage.
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30-01-2019 01:08 PM #16
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All the kids are training on it these days.
I prefer playing on it and I hope it is here to stay.
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I'd rather it was grass pitches but saying that you have a better chance for a game on a good astro than the terrible pitch at St Mirren on Sunday and some of the ploughed field Hearts have made us play on. The surface at ER is the best I have ever seen it this year.
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31-01-2019 01:13 AM #23
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Not having to install and maintain a grass pitch gives these other clubs a financial advantage. Killie have basically said we're not going to spend the money on a grass pitch. So what will they spend their money on instead? Ah yes, their team . . . . .
Financial doping?
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I wouldn't want us to, but Killie aren't fiddling the system. I imagine that the real income benefit is that it can be used
throughout the week by other groups that Killie can charge.
Also, ré injuries, comparing our injury list with Killie's, get a plastic pitch down ASAP! (I know it's not that simple but still...)
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I'm not totally for or against plastic, but I see the reasons for some clubs to have them (lack of maintenance and all weather) it can also be used for training without damage!!!
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01-02-2019 07:31 AM #28
if you must have a plastic pitch it needs to be looked after, Killies is a disgrace and football should not be played on it, it IS an unfair advantage, most other teams will manage to practice on a plastic pitch somewhere before playing Killie, but again Killies pitch is dire its nowhere near what a proper plastic pitch should be. Teams should refuse to play on it until it has been properly replaced.
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01-02-2019 08:55 AM #29
People have some seriously doolally notions about plastic pitches, prime amongst which is that they "cause" injuries that wouldn't otherwise occur on grass pitches.
All of the research pretty much goes against this - and those studies that DO find a relationship between the 2 identify that the newer pitches (with the rubber pellets) reduce this back down to being akin to natural grass.
Economically, these surfaces make sense. The cost of undersoil heating systems are exorbitant by comparison - the capital outlay is about the same, and the maintenance of an artificial surface is near zero. It reduces the chance of losing games to waterlogging or hardened freezing (the upper layer may well still freeze, but it doesn't result in a frozen soil below that makes it more dangerous) and the resultant loss of earnings via lessened attendances at midweek rescheduled games.
Sure, the bounce of the ball etc doesn't make for great football at times but I've equally watched some utter dross on grass pitches irrespective of the "natural dynamics" of the ball.
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