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Another problem is that if it was for rugby only the grass would be 3 to 4 inches long, not much good for football.
 
You can tell by looking at it that it’s nowhere near even. If they can’t sort it out then the water is just going to collect and make it worse. Plenty of other teams share with a rugby club and have pristine surfaces. Either wasps have been missold or they are not doing basic maintenance. Somebody needs to be asking them why, it’s a shame they have the local paper in their pockets.
 
italiahorse said:
Dead rubber against an irish team in horrible weather.
World domination ? I would guess that is still the intention.
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Dead rubber was it? Wasps knew that there was an outside chance of qualification depending on other results. Its a shame other posters on here have Rugby knowledge and catch out your utter drivel.

Oh and the pitch is crap.
 
Warwickshire lad said:
Another problem is that if it was for rugby only the grass would be 3 to 4 inches long, not much good for football.
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To have grass 3-4 inches long, you need to have grass there in the first place!!!

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Moff said:
Dead rubber was it? Wasps knew that there was an outside chance of qualification depending on other results. Its a shame other posters on here have Rugby knowledge and catch out your utter drivel.

Oh and the pitch is crap.
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Harlequins (bottom) to beat La Rochelle away ?
Even I knew it wasn't going to happen.
I'll settle for top team in the midlands though. ;)

Can agree on the pitch.
 
italiahorse said:
Harlequins (bottom) to beat La Rochelle away ?
Even I knew it wasn't going to happen.
I'll settle for top team in the midlands though. ;)

Can agree on the pitch.
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Touche!

Thought there was one of the Best placed second places up for grabs, and Quins could have grabbed a result, if my memory serves me right I think they did against Wasps ;)

Pitch is a worry, cant see a great deal of recovery in it over the coming months.
 
The pitch looks like a rugby pitch
 
It's all part of a master plan to knock out Man U in the 5th round
 
That pitch used to be like a snooker table at one stage

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one of the many down sides of being a tenant and not a landlord :muted::muted::muted:
 
What a twat I am! I take it back, next one isn't until the 24th!

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Nick said:


Newport, apparently 2 rugby teams and a football team!

Granted, they did have to play away games at the start due to work on the pitch!
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Strikingly clear that the Ricoh pitch isn't being maintained at all looking at This! They only missed the 1st 3 games of the season playing on that pitch, and with 2 rugby teams playing as Well that pitch will of seen a lot more action than ours!

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italiahorse said:
Harlequins (bottom) to beat La Rochelle away ?
Even I knew it wasn't going to happen.
I'll settle for top team in the midlands though. ;)

Can agree on the pitch.
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No way are the parasites the top team in the midlands That honour belongs to the rugby team that bears the name of our ciy
 
Nick said:


Newport, apparently 2 rugby teams and a football team!

Granted, they did have to play away games at the start due to work on the pitch!
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Just looked into the pitch at Rodney parade. Cost half what the Ricoh pitch cost to be laid at £750k, and is pretty much the same "hybrid" technology that's used at the Ricoh.
Yes our pitch is 2 years older, but surely the more bedded in the grass, the thicker and greener it should be??
And as I think about it more, last 2 season's, as soon as the final whistle blew, w***s staff were out on the pitch, filling divets, pulling over heat covers, watering it, etc etc. They don't even come out with forks at half time anymore!!!

It's clear they give not 1 fuck about the state of the pitch, and I believe any rent agreement should hold this fact in the clause. If the pitch reaches states of disrepair then rent payments fall.
After all, if you were to rent a furnished house and the living room carpet was threadbare and showing the concrete through, you'd expect the carpet replaced. And if Not, you'd either reduce your rent to unfinished and lay it yourself, or you'd move out and live somewhere else!!
maybe that's exactly what w***s want! The Ricoh to themselves without the backlash of kicking us out! Or, if we stay, fix your own pitch out of your own pocket!

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pastythegreat said:
Just looked into the pitch at Rodney parade. Cost half what the Ricoh pitch cost to be laid at £750k, and is pretty much the same "hybrid" technology that's used at the Ricoh.
Yes our pitch is 2 years older, but surely the more bedded in the grass, the thicker and greener it should be??
And as I think about it more, last 2 season's, as soon as the final whistle blew, w***s staff were out on the pitch, filling divets, pulling over heat covers, watering it, etc etc. They don't even come out with forks at half time anymore!!!

It's clear they give not 1 fuck about the state of the pitch, and I believe any rent agreement should hold this fact in the clause. If the pitch reaches states of disrepair then rent payments fall.
After all, if you were to rent a furnished house and the living room carpet was threadbare and showing the concrete through, you'd expect the carpet replaced. And if Not, you'd either reduce your rent to unfinished and lay it yourself, or you'd move out and live somewhere else!!
maybe that's exactly what w***s want! The Ricoh to themselves without the backlash of kicking us out! Or, if we stay, fix your own pitch out of your own pocket!

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Well maybe this nonsense is part of Wasps negotiating tactics over extending the rent deal?
Minimal maintenance till CCFC comes up with a number they're happy with.
I seem to remember that CCFC also did not bother much in the penultimate season at the Ricoh before they moved to Northampton.
 
Captain Dart said:
Well maybe this nonsense is part of Wasps negotiating tactics over extending the rent deal?
Minimal maintenance till CCFC comes up with a number they're happy with.
I seem to remember that CCFC also did not bother much in the penultimate season at the Ricoh before they moved to Northampton.
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I suspect that CCFC do not come in to Wasps thinking on this subject, perhaps they are happy to play Rugby on a churned up pitch as it may suit their game.
I cant see them hurting their own club to upset ours.
 
Swansea seem to look after their pitch well...wasps must be doing it on the cheap.
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Captain Dart said:
Well maybe this nonsense is part of Wasps negotiating tactics over extending the rent deal?
Minimal maintenance till CCFC comes up with a number they're happy with.
I seem to remember that CCFC also did not bother much in the penultimate season at the Ricoh before they moved to Northampton.
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CCFC wasn't responsible for pitch maintenance as a tenant was/is it?
 
Captain Dart said:
I think that was the situation before the Northampton move. The CCFC groundsman (that went to Leicester eventually) did the upkeep & if you search I think you'll be able to find a story (whether from horses mouth or rumour) that said he wasn't supplied with an adequate budget.

Look: Grass is greener on other side of the M69 for ex-Sky Blues groundsman
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Was PWKH wasn't it, yet the pitch was still much better than now with Wasps bragging about their "investment"? What does that say?
 
Says they didn't get a very good return on their "investment" perhaps they should be speaking to their suppliers and complaining, that would be the normal course of events. It is not as if the suppliers didn't know what it was going to be used for or how often. Who knows that course of action may already be under way hopefully anyway.
 
hopesprings said:
Says they didn't get a very good return on their "investment" perhaps they should be speaking to their suppliers and complaining, that would be the normal course of events. It is not as if the suppliers didn't know what it was going to be used for or how often. Who knows that course of action may already be under way hopefully anyway.
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Or it isn't being maintained properly.

The suppliers said at the time it would be fine if looked after properly.
 
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Captain Dart said:
I think that was the situation before the Northampton move. The CCFC groundsman (that went to Leicester eventually) did the upkeep & if you search I think you'll be able to find a story (whether from horses mouth or rumour) that said he wasn't supplied with an adequate budget.

Look: Grass is greener on other side of the M69 for ex-Sky Blues groundsman
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He was employed by CCFC, the pitch wasn't in a great condition in 2013 (but still much better than now) before the Northampton move. He transferred to ACL so he could look after the pitch in the interim, the job at Leicester came up while we were in Northampton, the move was pretty much a no-brainer, I doubt there was much challenge looking after a lawn that wasn't having football played on it!
 
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