The pitch!

..now come 'on you can tell old sleeves....what caused the brown mark...knecht wont sleep tonight.

I forgot to ask what make of mowers are you using these days at hp. still using the old toro`s

Are you still a member of IOG or have you let it slip.???

lawnmowerman wrote:

So what is you job title then .

My industry and area of expertise is not relevant to this thread but I can assure you I have never cut a lawn in my life and I don't intend to.

davec wrote:

lawnmowerman wrote:

So what is you job title then .

My industry and area of expertise is not relevant to this thread but I can assure you I have never cut a lawn in my life and I don't intend to.

But you're the finest trolley attendant Tesco's have ever had.

Nuclear physicist?

The brown 'skidmark' is caused by a fuel or oil leak from one of the machines, obviously not the fault of the groundsman though Dave.

davec wrote:

lawnmowerman wrote:

So what is you job title then .

My industry and area of expertise is not relevant to this thread but I can assure you I have never cut a lawn in my life and I don't intend to.

So who cuts your grass at home then and I forgot to ask what make of mowers are you using these days at hp. still using the old toro`s

Are you still a member of IOG or have you let it slip.???

davec wrote:

lawnmowerman wrote:

I won`t to know so come on dave from one groundsman to another what did cause the brown mark.

I am certainly no groundsman and if I were I find the term derogatory.

That's not very nice Dave. 
Mapperly will be along in a minute to test you on a few horticultural theories.
By the way, just how many tons of rather expensive fertilizer does the pitch take per annum ?

davec wrote:

knecht wrote:

davec wrote:

To all the posters who were skeptical about the pitch condition once we got into winter and that not enough money was being spent... believed rumours and not their own eyes ...how d'you like them apples?

What has caused the skid-marks?

You don't want to know, that's no problem I don't know what gave me the impression you did.

No, you mis-read me. I did want to know but I changed my mind. I suspect you don't know anyway. So we're all happy.

I would say it is a drainage pipe that has caused the skidder.

GOB wrote:

Chris Webb's knees?

Mrs Purse's arse?

Surely with the way he changes loyalties he would be unsure which end to put it

Jack Sheppard wrote:

The brown 'skidmark' is caused by a fuel or oil leak from one of the machines, obviously not the fault of the groundsman though Dave.  

Still waiting for confirmation that i'm right Dave.   

It's all very well having a nice lawn but there something about a mud-bath that made football more exciting and more entertaining all those years ago.

Ah, those were the days when we could compete(almost) with some of the best teams in the land, and what fantastic floodlights at Maine Road.   

P.S Still waiting for an answer Dave.   

GOB wrote:

It's all very well having a nice lawn but there something about a mud-bath that made football more exciting and more entertaining all those years ago.

Bloody hell, GOB! That was a brilliant find! Hore, Furnell, Saxton, Davey, Sullivan .....! Sheer nostalgic magic. And didn't the kit look good?

But it was worth watching, if only for Davey's goal.

And I agree about the pitch. It's certainly good to see skills on display on a top quality pitch but football's also about strength, endeavour and being able to adapt.

I was there! if anybody takes the day off to go to the plymouth argyle cup match they will be in serious trouble said my teacher( fanks to the miners is wuz on a wednesday afternoon) only 15 of us ignored the fellow,i could have done without his shouting and bawling the next day though i had a minging hangover! great days! 

davec wrote:

lawnmowerman wrote:

I won`t to know so come on dave from one groundsman to another what did cause the brown mark.

I am certainly no groundsman and if I were I find the term derogatory.

Just don`t call him a groundsman he gets a bit upset  

Sufferedsince68 wrote:

I was there! if anybody takes the day off to go to the plymouth argyle cup match they will be in serious trouble said my teacher( fanks to the miners is wuz on a wednesday afternoon) only 15 of us ignored the fellow,i could have done without his shouting and bawling the next day though i had a minging hangover! great days! 

Tavvy comp was very under pupilled that afternoon.About 30000 there,must have been quite a few places of employment empty,would probably have been a sell out if it was an evening kick off.Hell of a team City had there-Marsh,Lee,Summerbee,Bell,the Lawman,can't remember if they went on to win the cup though.As you say,happy days-so depressing to think that we're very unlikely to see a crowd of that size ever again at Home park.   

Greenskin wrote:

Sufferedsince68 wrote:

I was there! if anybody takes the day off to go to the plymouth argyle cup match they will be in serious trouble said my teacher( fanks to the miners is wuz on a wednesday afternoon) only 15 of us ignored the fellow,i could have done without his shouting and bawling the next day though i had a minging hangover! great days! 

Tavvy comp was very under pupilled that afternoon.About 30000 there,must have been quite a few places of employment empty,would probably have been a sell out if it was an evening kick off.Hell of a team City had there-Marsh,Lee,Summerbee,Bell,the Lawman,can't remember if they went on to win the cup though.As you say,happy days-so depressing to think that we're very unlikely to see a crowd of that size ever again at Home park.   

I think it was around 34 thousand, like you say city had a fantastic team, i'm pretty sure they went on to win it,sad thing is the chances of us ever playing a club like that now, is far less likely than it was back then. we went down on the train it was full of school kids!

I think it was a sell out 38,000(?) on a Wednesday afternoon owing to the power cuts and I got caned at school for it!. I think it was the cup run when we had beaten Pompey 4-0 at home and then 1st Division clubs QPR, Burnley and I think Brum(?) away to then draw City at home. City may have lost in the final but I can't remember who it was against?

Jeez, I even went to reserve matches back in those days and there were thousands at Home Park to watch the reserves when we beat either QPR or Burnley, I can't remember now, but it was the only way to get a kind of commentary over the tannoy as there was no local radio or football commentary on the radio in those days. I have never heard an atmosphere like it at Home Park for a reserve match with thousands in the crowd singing their heads off!

Aaaaa, Avivia!


Edit to add....73/74 League Cup ....I was wrong, the attendance against City was 30,000....like hell it was!

For those of you that have never experienced a crowd of that size at Home Park, you never, ever, will now and you know who to thank for that!

Bump.

Quite ironic how at the time this thread was ridiculed by the fat controller.

Now look at the state of it....

If you say something for long enough, you'll be right eventually. I had a mate who was predicting the financial crash of 2007 every year from 1999 onwards. The fact that he was bound to be right eventually didn't stop him from being insufferably smug afterwards.

Our maintenance budget is almost certainly poor, and the pitch will need constant maintenance that we almost certainly aren't providing. That doesn't necessarily make the OP any more correct.

Can I go on record now as saying that we'll get a new grandstand next season, and then be intolerable when it finally happens (some time in the 2050s, probably)?

MikeWN wrote:

If you say something for long enough, you'll be right eventually. I had a mate who was predicting the financial crash of 2007 every year from 1999 onwards. The fact that he was bound to be right eventually didn't stop him from being insufferably smug afterwards.

Our maintenance budget is almost certainly poor, and the pitch will need constant maintenance that we almost certainly aren't providing. That doesn't necessarily make the OP any more correct.

I have a similar but opposite problem, Mike. I keep saying things and am nearly always right, year in, year out, but once in a blue moon, it subsequently turns out to be wrong. I then just put my error down to the law of average. (smug quotient 8 )
I really do believe pitches like that installed by Todd on the slate should only be used by sport clubs that can afford their costly, and rather environmentally unfriendly maintenance. This Winter will have tested a few pitches though, and I wonder if any other clubs have had the same algae problem to this extent. There must be many of these pitch types around in the league.

Wembley and the Emirates pitches are the same type, but I would imagine their maintenance budgets would cover pitch matters.