Originally Posted by
leather
The pitch in the boro and the pitch in jackmann are totally different in a lot of ways... The boro pitch is a 35 year old construction.. pitch is 99 % soil.other 1% sand added over the years. 1 half newly drained(should have 2nd half drained this year). The boro type of pitch requires a huge amount of time and care, especially with the rain we have been getting in the past few years.Jackmann is like a lot of the modern pitches..it is a sand carpet pitch...main advantage with this type of pitch is that it drains very quickly and very very well. the problem that i see with jackmann is that they dont have the correct maintance schedule and they do not have an irrigation system...a soil pitch holds both moisture & nutrients..the opposite is true of jackmann, nearly everything washes through the sand carpet pitches..there is the question of the amount of games and at what time of the year tey are played...Jackmann also has the problem of not being able to renovate in the summer,unlike the junior clubs.....another problem is teams warming up on the playing surface...this can do more damage in 10-15mins that a whole match..if you factor in the amount of matches with full warm ups on the playing surface, that is a lot of damage...........as a footnote, was up in terryland park pitch a few years ago...they are in the same situation but the pitch was brilliant...they have a full time qualified groundsman...that might be the answer...