Nothing to keep us there anymore (1 Viewer)

covboy1987

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Nothing to keep us at St Andrews anymore as our main benefit the originally immaculate pitch wasn’t good against Birmingham in the replay, (brummies’ were starting to complain on their site). It was worse again against Bolton and last night crap – It’s now very bumpy and starting to look bare and patchy in places - Had thought that teams like Bolton and Portsmouth has set up to nullify our passing game as our tactics seemed to have changed the last two games and we have become notably more direct in our play, but I think the bounce on the pitch is starting to affect our style of play - Understand the weather is not great and two teams playing on the pitch, but really surprised how this pitch has so quickly deteriorated
 

mr_monkey

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Nothing to keep us at St Andrews anymore as our main benefit the originally immaculate pitch wasn’t good against Birmingham in the replay, (brummies’ were starting to complain on their site). It was worse again against Bolton and last night crap – It’s now very bumpy and starting to look bare and patchy in places - Had thought that teams like Bolton and Portsmouth has set up to nullify our passing game as our tactics seemed to have changed the last two games and we have become notably more direct in our play, but I think the bounce on the pitch is starting to affect our style of play - Understand the weather is not great and two teams playing on the pitch, but really surprised how this pitch has so quickly deteriorated

Other than the indemnity clause.....
 

jordan210

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The pitch has been played on around 10 times since the start of January. So it's lacking in recovery time.

After this weekend no one is playing on it for a week so that should give a bit of time to get the heat lamps out and let it recover.

The Ricoh's pitch is subject to much more damage from scums and so on and arguably lack of maintenance
 
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Still far better than the ploghed field at the wasps nest. Have you seen the video of the turf that lifts up. Shocking on top of which if we go back with cap in hand to the wasps we might as well let em run our club and push it over the cliff
 

ccfchoi87

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I also think the pitch is more muddy than uneven. I seem to remember the Ricoh being greener but with a far more variable bounce
 

eastwoodsdustman

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Nothing to keep us at St Andrews anymore as our main benefit the originally immaculate pitch wasn’t good against Birmingham in the replay, (brummies’ were starting to complain on their site). It was worse again against Bolton and last night crap – It’s now very bumpy and starting to look bare and patchy in places - Had thought that teams like Bolton and Portsmouth has set up to nullify our passing game as our tactics seemed to have changed the last two games and we have become notably more direct in our play, but I think the bounce on the pitch is starting to affect our style of play - Understand the weather is not great and two teams playing on the pitch, but really surprised how this pitch has so quickly deteriorated

Pitch is fine given the recent weather we've had. Dont forget the ricoh carpet was lifting up a couple of months ago. Add the indemnity clause and its a no from me.
 

ccfchoi87

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Pitch is fine given the recent weather we've had. Dont forget the ricoh carpet was lifting up a couple of months ago. Add the indemnity clause and its a no from me.

Yeah St Andrews could be a swimming pool and we’d still be forced to play there due to the indemnity clause
 

clint van damme

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Nothing to keep us at St Andrews anymore as our main benefit the originally immaculate pitch wasn’t good against Birmingham in the replay, (brummies’ were starting to complain on their site). It was worse again against Bolton and last night crap – It’s now very bumpy and starting to look bare and patchy in places - Had thought that teams like Bolton and Portsmouth has set up to nullify our passing game as our tactics seemed to have changed the last two games and we have become notably more direct in our play, but I think the bounce on the pitch is starting to affect our style of play - Understand the weather is not great and two teams playing on the pitch, but really surprised how this pitch has so quickly deteriorated

where do you fancy playing instead then from our endless list of options?
 

sb84

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The condition of the pitch argument is pointless, its pretty obvious that if we share with anyone else at all (rugby, football or any other sport) then the grass gets way too much use during a season to remain in perfect condition for pretty Football. Promotion and our own ground plans actually getting started may make CCFC look more promising to an outside buyer too, that rich guy who just invested in Merc F1 is looking for a English football team to invest in apparently??
 

fernandopartridge

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Nothing to keep us at St Andrews anymore as our main benefit the originally immaculate pitch wasn’t good against Birmingham in the replay, (brummies’ were starting to complain on their site). It was worse again against Bolton and last night crap – It’s now very bumpy and starting to look bare and patchy in places - Had thought that teams like Bolton and Portsmouth has set up to nullify our passing game as our tactics seemed to have changed the last two games and we have become notably more direct in our play, but I think the bounce on the pitch is starting to affect our style of play - Understand the weather is not great and two teams playing on the pitch, but really surprised how this pitch has so quickly deteriorated
Apart from having nowhere else to play you're spot on
 

JimmyHillsbeard

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Nothing to keep us at St Andrews anymore as our main benefit the originally immaculate pitch wasn’t good against Birmingham in the replay, (brummies’ were starting to complain on their site). It was worse again against Bolton and last night crap – It’s now very bumpy and starting to look bare and patchy in places - Had thought that teams like Bolton and Portsmouth has set up to nullify our passing game as our tactics seemed to have changed the last two games and we have become notably more direct in our play, but I think the bounce on the pitch is starting to affect our style of play - Understand the weather is not great and two teams playing on the pitch, but really surprised how this pitch has so quickly deteriorated

yep remember the first leg of the playoff semi and how well the Ricoh coped with that downpour? A crap drainage system might have resulted in the ball getting stuck on the wing and costing us a goal.
 

rob9872

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It's not had an opportunity to recover, but also we're in the worst period post winter. As soon as we get to March/April,they should be able to re-seed and grow some of those 'barer' parts and the pitch will improve again (hopefully!)
 

cc84cov

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I think robins is expecting us back next season,Joy has given him her backing is this regarding him wanting us back ? I don’t see it happening anytime soon anyway I just hope it doesn’t come to a position we lose robins over it.
 

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