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I just get annoyed when I come on to a Hibs' supporters' forum to find people who, whenever something isn't quite right, their default position is to criticise the club, often very vociferously, while appearing to make no attempt to understand how the situation may have arisen in the first place and no allowances for people having to deal with a global crisis that's a first time for everyone.
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Thread: The pitch
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17-01-2021 12:03 AM #91
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17-01-2021 12:06 AM #92This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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17-01-2021 08:37 AM #94
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17-01-2021 09:07 AM #95
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I’d happily divert money away from other stadium improvements to work on the pitch. A hybrid model is needed. Can’t exactly complain about poor football when the pitch looks like jack kane on a wet Sunday.
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17-01-2021 09:42 AM #96
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17-01-2021 09:48 AM #97This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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17-01-2021 09:53 AM #98
I’m no expert of the maintenance of a professional level football pitch, but I do like gardening.
I’m struggling to see a hypothetical link between the furlough of ground staff ten months ago and the current state of our hallowed turf. In fact the early finish to the season and the long hot early summer months we had in April, May and June would surely have been great for it ( assuming someone knew how to turn the sprinklers on every now and then).
I would find it very strange that the club anticipated that this would lead to the current situation and thought, **** it we’ll play on a tattie field for half a season.
More probable is that the pitch has suffered from a long spell of very wet weather, mixed with some prolonged hard frosts and damaged further by regularly having the undersoil heating on? It’s been a long and miserable winter and this will affect ER’s turf.
It is what it is. It will be sorted this summer no doubt. Until then it’s the same for both teams. Hibs need to find a style and means to play to the conditions.
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17-01-2021 10:30 AM #99This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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17-01-2021 10:30 AM #100
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[QUOTE=Iggy Pope;6423760]Just had a close up of the surface at Elland Road on MOTD, We’re not alone, although it looks greener.[/QUOT
Green sand maybe?
Look at some You Tube clips of mid winter games from the 70s and the Easter Road surface looks tip top by comparison.
Given the extent to which some folk are blaming our lack of free flowing football on the pitch I'm looking forward to us playing champagne football on the Hampden surface and whipping St Johnstone by at least five.
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17-01-2021 10:35 AM #101This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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17-01-2021 10:43 AM #104
The pitch looked like it had been recently, very heavily sanded which gave the appearance of large bare areas with no grass.
I maybe wrong, but I think the pitch will look a whole lot better for our next home game.
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17-01-2021 11:18 AM #105This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I was the first on here yesterday to comment on how the pitch looked. I didn't however criticise decisions that were maybe made during the summer or question why people were furloughed even though I don't know who they work for.
Neither will I suggest what should be allocated to what budget for next season. I doubt that anyone at the club is currently able to project that far given the current situation.
Comments and criticism are fine, we're here for that among other things. Not looking to understand both sides of any story bothers me. But maybe that's just me.
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17-01-2021 11:26 AM #106
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17-01-2021 11:33 AM #107This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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17-01-2021 11:37 AM #108This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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.
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17-01-2021 11:42 AM #109This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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?
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17-01-2021 11:49 AM #110This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
United we stand here....
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17-01-2021 11:51 AM #111
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I was around to see it in the 70s but that’s not where we are. I never said anything about the quality of football Greenbeard I only remarked on the quality of the pitch. This time last year or the year before that, it didn’t look like it does now and there will be a reason for that. And it won’t have anything to do with the position of 4 stands that have been complete for over a decade.
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17-01-2021 12:22 PM #112
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And a lot of my posts aren't actually a defence of the club (or whoever) but more a questioning of the criticism. It's not the same thing.
For example, someone called David Tanner a "f***ing moron" yesterday. That sort of stuff annoys me and I can disagree with it without necessarily defending Tanner.Last edited by Peevemor; 17-01-2021 at 12:26 PM.
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17-01-2021 12:31 PM #113
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Like this bit where you weren’t even replying to anyone or any single post, more just an address it seems to the whole Main Board...
“Our pitch is ordinarily pretty good, with maybe 3-4 matches per season (around this time of year) where it's less than perfect. Maybe we can trust the people who run the club to decide where money needs to be spent?
In case you haven't noticed, they've done a pretty good job of it in recent years.
Of course, there will always be people on here who know better, or are looking for something to be outraged about”
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17-01-2021 12:32 PM #114
We had a couple of games in awful conditions in a row in late December.
I thought then, when I saw players running through treacle, that we’d have issues with the pitch after that.
It’s Scotland. The weather can sometimes be grim. Grass pitches aren’t brilliant at standing up to that. We’ll have better winters where we get away with it and every so often we’ll be unlucky, like this year.
Not sure what can be done about it really.
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17-01-2021 12:38 PM #115
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[QUOTE=Iggy Pope;6424082][QUOTE=Greenbeard;6423984]
I was around to see it in the 70s but that’s not where we are. I never said anything about the quality of football Greenbeard I only remarked on the quality of the pitch. This time last year or the year before that, it didn’t look like it does now and there will be a reason for that. And it won’t have anything to do with the position of 4 stands that have been complete for over a decade.
Cool your jets Iggy. I know you didn't. My comments were not aimed at your post directly, other than my question about the possible use of green sand. Had Easter Road groundstaff used green sand I doubt there would be much to this thread.
I suspect the usual off-season work on the pitch was compromised not just because of the direct consequences of the covid on ER groundstaff, but also by the non-availability of external contractors and maybe also supplies. EG the course where I golf couldn't get in supplies to top dress the greens after April coring.
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17-01-2021 12:40 PM #116
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17-01-2021 12:42 PM #117
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The pitch looks like it has been affected by the groundskeepers not being able to do their normal maintainance work on it during the close season, followed by persistent heavy rainfall and repeated freezing and thawing. Which is exactly what the grounsman said. I'm not sure he actually mentioned furlough but he did refer to issues caused by the pandemic. A unique set of circumstances. When he gave the explanation it all seemed to make perfect sense.
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17-01-2021 12:44 PM #118This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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17-01-2021 12:52 PM #119This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Think that will be the case almost everywhere just now.
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17-01-2021 02:10 PM #120
But my grass is growing this month, honest. The pitch had major work done a few seasons ago but I don't think anything major has been done since then
I think you need banks of lights to encourage growth.
We could however spend a million pounds on it but look how that turned out for our near neighbours.
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