The pitch

[Monts]

Looks terrible, but I assume the groundsman was on explaining it. I missed what he was saying. What was he saying?

[Nakedmanoncrack]

Its awful, deteriorated alarmingly since last game.

[Jones28]

It’s January. Grass doesn’t grow in January. I imagine.

[Lago]

QUOTE=Jones28;6422498]It’s January. Grass doesn’t grow in January. I imagine.[/QUOTE]
Yes but that is horrendous. Not a good look for a top class football club.

[Jones28]

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QUOTE=Jones28;6422498]It’s January. Grass doesn’t grow in January. I imagine.

Yes but that is horrendous. Not a good look for a top class football club.[/QUOTE]

What are they supposed to do?

[calumhibee1]

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Yes but that is horrendous. Not a good look for a top class football club.

What are they supposed to do?[/QUOTE]

Do we not have, or at least have access to they lamp things?

I’m fairly certain they’ve been out on our pitch before.

[Jones28]

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What are they supposed to do?

Do we not have, or at least have access to they lamp things?

I’m fairly certain they’ve been out on our pitch before.[/QUOTE]

We’ve got a couple for the goalmouths.

[Helensburghhibs]

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Yes but that is horrendous. Not a good look for a top class football club.

What are they supposed to do?[/QUOTE]

Invest in a hybrid pitch. If we want to play good football could be as good an investment as any player

[hibsbollah]

It’s gone downhill since Tam McCourt stopped doing it. That man had horticultural magic running through his veins.

[SChibs]

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What are they supposed to do?

Invest in a hybrid pitch. If we want to play good football could be as good an investment as any player[/QUOTE]

I cant see us paying for a hybrid pitch when we are making budget cuts all over the club due to covid.

[Jones28]

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What are they supposed to do?

Invest in a hybrid pitch. If we want to play good football could be as good an investment as any player[/QUOTE]

A hybrid pitch is only worth the money if we can afford to maintain it. They cost millions to lay and still require upkeep the same way a grass pitch does.

[Forza Fred]

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It’s January. Grass doesn’t grow in January. I imagine.

I just looked out my window and I swear mine has grown about an inch and a bit this week!

[flash]

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I just looked out my window and I swear mine has grown about an inch and a bit this week!

I see what you did there Fred.

[Jones28]

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I just looked out my window and I swear mine has grown about an inch and a bit this week!

I was genuinely confused until I saw where you are

You must to cut it 4 times a week.

[Forza Fred]

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I was genuinely confused until I saw where you are

You must to cut it 4 times a week.

nah, once a week.

The bloody Galahs peck it down to size!

[weecounty hibby]

Groundsman was saying that due to the covid situation they couldn't do the usual renovations in the pitch in the summer. It does look as bad as I can ever remember

[Stonewall]

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Groundsman was saying that due to the covid situation they couldn't do the usual renovations in the pitch in the summer. It does look as bad as I can ever remember

Well I’m sure Clacmannann CCCCs pitch was well maintained, Linlithgow certainly was. Green keepers/ Groundsmen were allowed to work. Maybe because Hibs use contractors?

[Jones28]

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Well I’m sure Clacmannann CCCCs pitch was well maintained, Linlithgow certainly was. Green keepers/ Groundsmen were allowed to work. Maybe because Hibs use contractors?

These places don’t have massive stands blocking the light getting to the pitch.

[Peevemor]

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These places don’t have massive stands blocking the light getting to the pitch.

Light and air circulation make a huge difference.

[cabbageandribs1875]

watching the Glasgow v Edinburgh rugby just now, whatever that surface is GET IT it looks great

[WhileTheChief..]

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These places don’t have massive stands blocking the light getting to the pitch.

We’d have a crap pitch every January if it was down to the size of the stands.

[Peevemor]

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We’d have a crap pitch every January if it was down to the size of the stands.

We often do, and it is.

That's why public parks are less sparse than ER and why Hearts had do much trouble with their grass pitch - with the stands very close together (corners) and very close to the pitch.

[superfurryhibby]

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We’d have a crap pitch every January if it was down to the size of the stands.

Particularly wet and cold winter so far may be a factor.

Did anyone else here the discussion on the state of the pitch that Hibbysam referred to as part of the pre-match build up? I wonder who it was that attributed the current conditions to lack of maintenance during furlough?

[Jones28]

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We’d have a crap pitch every January if it was down to the size of the stands.

Our pitch looks poor every January, this year looks particularly bad because of the conditions.

It’s really really simple and there’s not a magical solution to the problem that doesn’t involve spending money we don’t have on banks of lights to keep the grass growing.

[weecounty hibby]

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Well I’m sure Clacmannann CCCCs pitch was well maintained, Linlithgow certainly was. Green keepers/ Groundsmen were allowed to work. Maybe because Hibs use contractors?

Nae idea about the use of contractors at ER. But aye, The Arns was looking fabulous this year as we're the local golf clubs. Probably due to the fact no one was playing on them

[lord bunberry]

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Well I’m sure Clacmannann CCCCs pitch was well maintained, Linlithgow certainly was. Green keepers/ Groundsmen were allowed to work. Maybe because Hibs use contractors?

The staff required to relay the pitch in the summer weren’t available. The teams you mentioned won’t have played anywhere near as many games on their pitch as hibs have.

[NAE NOOKIE]

We are back to the mantra being preached when Leeann Dempster first came to the club, but which seems to be backslid on at times.

That was, if you take care of the little things as carefully as the big obvious things all of these small fractions end up making a difference. As others have pointed out, this club for the most part signs footballers, it's no accident we go for folk like Allan, Murphy and Newell. We spend 5 million quid on somewhere for them to train and no doubt spend a fortune every year running the place.

What's the point of all that when you then provide them with a ploughed field to play on that immediately turns every game into a physical long ball battle where their superior ability is taken out of the equation? It's too late for this season, but before the next one our seemingly never ending pitch issues really need to be addressed, either that or we save a pile of money and just sign a whole load of journeymen bruisers more suited to football on a quagmire.

[Chorley Hibee]

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We are back to the mantra being preached when Leeann Dempster first came to the club, but which seems to be backslid on at times.

That was, if you take care of the little things as carefully as the big obvious things all of these small fractions end up making a difference. As others have pointed out, this club for the most part signs footballers, it's no accident we go for folk like Allan, Murphy and Newell. We spend 5 million quid on somewhere for them to train and no doubt spend a fortune every year running the place.

What's the point of all that when you then provide them with a ploughed field to play on that immediately turns every game into a physical long ball battle where their superior ability is taken out of the equation? It's too late for this season, but before the next one our seemingly never ending pitch issues really need to be addressed, either that or we save a pile of money and just sign a whole load of journeymen bruisers more suited to football on a quagmire.

Absolutely agree, we're our own worst enemy at times.

[Jones28]

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We are back to the mantra being preached when Leeann Dempster first came to the club, but which seems to be backslid on at times.

That was, if you take care of the little things as carefully as the big obvious things all of these small fractions end up making a difference. As others have pointed out, this club for the most part signs footballers, it's no accident we go for folk like Allan, Murphy and Newell. We spend 5 million quid on somewhere for them to train and no doubt spend a fortune every year running the place.

What's the point of all that when you then provide them with a ploughed field to play on that immediately turns every game into a physical long ball battle where their superior ability is taken out of the equation? It's too late for this season, but before the next one our seemingly never ending pitch issues really need to be addressed, either that or we save a pile of money and just sign a whole load of journeymen bruisers more suited to football on a quagmire.

The thread is full of reasons as to why the pitch in the state it is.

- essential work wasn’t done in the summer due to the furlough. For as long as I can remember Hibs have ripped up and re-seeded the whole pitch in the summer.

- the atrocious weather we have had over the last week or so.

- this time of year we don’t get light to the pitch due to the height of the stands and we don’t have the massive lighting rigs they have down south that costs hundreds of thousands of pounds.

This isn’t penny pinching or mismanagement, it is purely down to circumstances out with the clubs control.

[Chorley Hibee]

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The thread is full of reasons as to why the pitch in the state it is.

- essential work wasn’t done in the summer due to the furlough. For as long as I can remember Hibs have ripped up and re-seeded the whole pitch in the summer.

- the atrocious weather we have had over the last week or so.

- this time of year we don’t get light to the pitch due to the height of the stands and we don’t have the massive lighting rigs they have down south that costs hundreds of thousands of pounds.

This isn’t penny pinching or mismanagement, it is purely down to circumstances out with the clubs control.

Whilst today is by far the worst I've seen it, I don't think our pitch has been of a particularly good standard for at least a few years. I've remarked upon it to others for the last couple of seasons prior to this.