Blundell Park pitch

We all know the pitch at BP has been dreadful this season and needs tearing up and relaying over the summer.

If we don’t pull off the great escape maybe we could install a 5G pitch for the National League?

Would mean we could train at BP without having to worry about the pitch.

If we return to the EFL before we move to a new stadium we would have to relay grass, but we could keep the 5G pitch and install it at the new training ground that is in the pipelines.

5G pitches haven’t done any harm to Harrogate & Sutton in recent seasons.

What has happened to it this season? We've always prided ourselves, especially when we was in non-league in having a good pitch.

Quoted from Plankton

What has happened to it this season? We've always prided ourselves, especially when we as in non-league in having a good pitch.

Do you have a garden? If you want to know what went wrong this season simply don’t cut your lawn or do any work on it at all for the next 5 months and then cut it at the start of September and see what condition it’s in.

The idiots furloughed the ground staff.

Quoted from Plankton

What has happened to it this season? We've always prided ourselves, especially when we was in non-league in having a good pitch.

Wasn’t it rumoured that the groundsman got furloughed, and that the Chief Exec was cutting the grass?

Is this genuine, they furloughed the groudsman?

Quoted from ska face

Wasn’t it rumoured that the groundsman got furloughed, and that the Chief Exec was cutting the grass?

No, they bought 2 goats. Apparently Llamas are the best grazing animals for keeping grass in good order but Fenty heard goats are much cheaper.

Quoted from Plankton

Is this genuine, they furloughed the groudsman?

Cost us a fortune getting a 110 metre extension cable for the Chief Exec to use his Flymo.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

Cost us a fortune getting a 110 metre extension cable for the Chief Exec to use his Flymo.

Yeah right, like we would of payed for the electric..more likely we found a rusty old mower thrown over the fence down Harrington st.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

If we don’t pull off the great escape maybe we could install a 5G pitch for the National League?

No its extra cost to pull it back up again when we get promoted back up.

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

No its extra cost to pull it back up again when if we get promoted back up.

Corrected

I feel like I'm in the twilight zone. It seems established that they furloughed the grounds team, which is outrageous. We was always a team in recent years that was absolutely shite, but always had the best pitch.

Quoted from Cambs Mariner

The idiots furloughed the ground staff.

The idiots furroughed the ground 😉

Quoted from KingstonMariner

The idiots furroughed the ground 😉

They probably thought there will be no football so we will grow potatoes and sell them to Papas Fish and Chips on the pier.

Yeah the tight fisted idiots furloughed the groundsman.

But no i dont think what you’ve said is a good idea. Extra expense laying it, if we go up, extra expense tearing it up

Quoted from Plankton

What has happened to it this season? We've always prided ourselves, especially when we was in non-league in having a good pitch.

I think you need to ask Principal Funder about that one...

Quoted from Hagrid

Yeah the tight fisted idiots furloughed the groundsman.

But no i dont think what you’ve said is a good idea. Extra expense laying it, if we go up, extra expense tearing it up

I believe if you don't get it done and you get promoted, you're refused into the EFL and kicked out of the National League. One of the new owners first jobs should be to do whatever our groundsman says needs to be done.

There was an interesting post on here the other month about the work the groundsman usually puts into keeping the pitch in pristine condition.

Found it
https://forum.thefishy.co.uk/Blah.pl?m-1609667803/s-20/#num27

Quoted from GollyGTFC

We all know the pitch at BP has been dreadful this season and needs tearing up and relaying over the summer.

If we don’t pull off the great escape maybe we could install a 5G pitch for the National League?

Would mean we could train at BP without having to worry about the pitch.

If we return to the EFL before we move to a new stadium we would have to relay grass, but we could keep the 5G pitch and install it at the new training ground that is in the pipelines.

5G pitches haven’t done any harm to Harrogate & Sutton in recent seasons.

I disagree. I think the training pitches and the playing surface should be the same quality. Otherwise, the players are playing on a different surface once a fortnight than they are training on 5 times a week!

Quoted from GollyGTFC

We all know the pitch at BP has been dreadful this season and needs tearing up and relaying over the summer.

If we don’t pull off the great escape maybe we could install a 5G pitch for the National League?

Would mean we could train at BP without having to worry about the pitch.

If we return to the EFL before we move to a new stadium we would have to relay grass, but we could keep the 5G pitch and install it at the new training ground that is in the pipelines.

5G pitches haven’t done any harm to Harrogate & Sutton in recent seasons.

I disagree. I think the training pitches and the playing surface should be the same quality. Otherwise, the players are playing on a different surface once a fortnight than they are training on 5 times a week!

Quoted from GollyGTFC

We all know the pitch at BP has been dreadful this season and needs tearing up and relaying over the summer.

If we don’t pull off the great escape maybe we could install a 5G pitch for the National League?

Would mean we could train at BP without having to worry about the pitch.

If we return to the EFL before we move to a new stadium we would have to relay grass, but we could keep the 5G pitch and install it at the new training ground that is in the pipelines.

5G pitches haven’t done any harm to Harrogate & Sutton in recent seasons.

I disagree. I think the training pitches and the playing surface should be the same quality. Otherwise, the players are playing on a different surface once a fortnight than they are training on 5 times a week!

Quoted from malkamalka

I disagree. I think the training pitches and the playing surface should be the same quality. Otherwise, the players are playing on a different surface once a fortnight than they are training on 5 times a week!

We get your point Malka! I agree though, the two should replicate one another in size and quality as much as possible.

No need for a 3/4/5G pitch, (if we go down) we’ll have almost 4 months to get the pitch in excellent condition. That might mean some financial outlay to get top side of it, but with mentions of the training facilities and in particular the pitches there potentially being updates by the new owners, then I would guess they would want that standard replicated at BP.

I’m not sure how much they cost to buy/lease, but those mobile lighting strips you see at most bigger clubs would help no end, especially the patch in front of the Findus.

The pitch needs to be better and I’m sure it will be next season.

Looking at a number of clubs we’ve visited this season the overall standard has been poor in many cases so it doesn’t make it right but we’re not alone.

I’d like to think the training & playing pitches would be well looked after.

On a relative note I think that clubs in the bottom 2 Divisions of the EFL and NL should have the choice of being able to install a “G” pitch if they want to. This should prevent most postponements, provide a consistent surface to play on and give clubs some opportunity to raise revenue by using it for other football events.  

In the football league postponements for excrement pitches aren’t as common as they are in the conference. Better facilities or stricter rules for covers etc help, and probably more than one groundsman.

Furloughing our groundsman tells you everything about the morons who’ve been running our club for twenty years and emphasises again that they prepared for the season to never start or certainly not finish.

I’m not a fan of artificial or hybrid pitches but I see why a club may invest in one.

The one thing that I have noticed is how hard and blobbly it is . A simple remedy would be to water it well before the game.

Quoted from mimma

The one thing that I have noticed is how hard and blobbly it is . A simple remedy would be to water it well before the game.

they're on a water meter , i'm afraid Fenty won't let it happen

Quoted from mimma

The one thing that I have noticed is how hard and blobbly it is . A simple remedy would be to water it well before the game.

It's a simple solution but would Fenty pay? He might see it as money down the drain. (couldn't resist the pun)

Quoted from malkamalka

I think the training pitches and the playing surface should be the same quality. Otherwise, the players are playing on a different surface once a fortnight than they are training on 5 times a week!

That's what Fenty thought the fact that he could save money was a bonus.  

Quoted from jimgtfc

No need for a 3/4/5G pitch, (if we go down) we’ll have almost 4 months to get the pitch in excellent condition. That might mean some financial outlay to get top side of it, but with mentions of the training facilities and in particular the pitches there potentially being updates by the new owners, then I would guess they would want that standard replicated at BP.

I’m not sure how much they cost to buy/lease, but those mobile lighting strips you see at most bigger clubs would help no end, especially the patch in front of the Findus.

JF was waiting for a couple old sunbeds to go across the block at Prestige Auctions but with the lack of foreign holidays second hand sun beds are pretty scarce.

Quoted from forza ivano

they're on a water meter , i'm afraid Fenty won't let it happen

Fenners has got a cunning plan for that. Pump seawater onto it. Nothing can hold our man back.

Afraid it goes back further than this season, the groundsman and Hursty were asking for major investment a long time back, but it wasn't deemed to be a necessary investment, much the same as the strength and conditioning coach at the same time.

No thank you, no interest at all in having an artificial pitch.

There is major work planned to get the grass pitch back to its former glory. Work and investment was already sorted to flatten the goal mouths. Clearly a mistake to furlough the groundsman, and the usual top soil and seed didn’t take place last summer because of the pandemic.

The groundsman was only given 5-6 weeks to get a pitch ready. The kids had trained on it too during the summer, as there was no other venues open. There was queues of parents dropping off and picking up their children from summer football clubs

Quoted from Fillipe Noche

No thank you, no interest at all in having an artificial pitch.

There is major work planned to get the grass pitch back to its former glory. Work and investment was already sorted to flatten the goal mouths. Clearly a mistake to furlough the groundsman, and the usual top soil and seed didn’t take place last summer because of the pandemic.

The groundsman was only given 5-6 weeks to get a pitch ready. The kids had trained on it too during the summer, as there was no other venues open. There was queues of parents dropping off and picking up their children from summer football clubs

So if the pitch was used frequently, furloughing the groundsman was an even bigger member up...excellent.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Fenners has got a cunning plan for that. Pump seawater onto it. Nothing can hold our man back.

I'm no gardener but surely the salt would kill the grass? And the Principle Funder would have to buy a hosepipe long enough to get from the sea to the ground. And it could only be used when there were no trains and the tide was in........

Other than that, great idea.

Call me traditional but it’s grass for me all day long (not weed!)

Quoted from Fillipe Noche

No thank you, no interest at all in having an artificial pitch.

There is major work planned to get the grass pitch back to its former glory. Work and investment was already sorted to flatten the goal mouths. Clearly a mistake to furlough the groundsman, and the usual top soil and seed didn’t take place last summer because of the pandemic.

The groundsman was only given 5-6 weeks to get a pitch ready. The kids had trained on it too during the summer, as there was no other venues open. There was queues of parents dropping off and picking up their children from summer football clubs

Clearly, you have realised that come May 5th your mate John will be out so are you now trying to cuddle up to 1878, making one of your first criticisms against him. Covid should not have been a problem for the topsoil and seeding as you have to be 2 metres apart and surely you should realise that even 10 men on BP pitch could always be 2 metres apart.

Another inept defence of our outgoing main funder, who didn't want to fund the groundsman's wages.

Quoted from BobbyCummingsTackle

I'm no gardener but surely the salt would kill the grass? And the Principle Funder would have to buy a hosepipe long enough to get from the sea to the ground. And it could only be used when there were no trains and the tide was in........

Other than that, great idea.

Whoosh! 😆

Quoted from Fillipe Noche

No thank you, no interest at all in having an artificial pitch.

There is major work planned to get the grass pitch back to its former glory. Work and investment was already sorted to flatten the goal mouths. Clearly a mistake to furlough the groundsman, and the usual top soil and seed didn’t take place last summer because of the pandemic.

The groundsman was only given 5-6 weeks to get a pitch ready. The kids had trained on it too during the summer, as there was no other venues open. There was queues of parents dropping off and picking up their children from summer football clubs

And you know all this how?

Maybe not a club employee or board director, but a partner/spouse or close personal friend of one.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

And you know all this how?

Maybe not a club employee or board director, but a partner/spouse or close personal friend of one.

has phillip day got a son?

Quoted from KingstonMariner

And you know all this how?

Maybe not a club employee or board director, but a partner/spouse or close personal friend of one.

Sounds like somebody with inside knowledge to me, or listens into other people's conversations?

Quoted from Hagrid

has phillip day got a son?

Only on the 7th day of the week Sonday!

Quoted from BobbyCummingsTackle

I'm no gardener but surely the salt would kill the grass? And the Principle Funder would have to buy a hosepipe long enough to get from the sea to the ground. And it could only be used when there were no trains and the tide was in........

Other than that, great idea.

I was under the impression the ground has it's own aquifer and can draw water as and when required.

Once again Fillipe Noche unveils some information which only people with inside knowledge would know! He claims he has no contacts within the boardroom at all but it's quite clear to me and others on here that he does as he very often posts stuff which aren't in the public domain and you would need to have contacts to know this information!

Quoted from Davec

Once again Fillipe Noche unveils some information which only people with inside knowledge would know! He claims he has no contacts within the boardroom at all but it's quite clear to me and others on here that he does as he very often posts stuff which aren't in the public domain and you would need to have contacts to know this information!

Personally I think he is one big WUM. What has he actually stated that wasn’t pretty much probable ? Obviously the pitch needs a lot of work. So it’s pretty much a given that it will take place. I really can’t understand why people on here give him the attention he very sadly craves.  Calling JF ‘John’ and accidentally saying ‘we’ on occasion.  As for the user name, if you really think either Day or Marley would be so obvious then you underestimate them. They are both intelligent men.  By sticking up for JF and playing Devils advocate on threads people fall for his guff. Of course me posting this is a catch 22. Because it is giving him attention. If nobody replied to his posts he would soon leave. However I fear that that won’t happen

Quoted from Civvy at last

Personally I think he is one big WUM. What has he actually stated that wasn’t pretty much probable ? Obviously the pitch needs a lot of work. So it’s pretty much a given that it will take place. I really can’t understand why people on here give him the attention he very sadly craves.  Calling JF ‘John’ and accidentally saying ‘we’ on occasion.  As for the user name, if you really think either Day or Marley would be so obvious then you underestimate them. They are both intelligent men.  By sticking up for JF and playing Devils advocate on threads people fall for his guff. Of course me posting this is a catch 22. Because it is giving him attention. If nobody replied to his posts he would soon leave. However I fear that that won’t happen

I don't think he is Day or Marley but I do think he is maybe a solicitor friend to Phillip Day? Fillipe does seem quite legal minded.