Pirlo just to clear something up , Mayfields seniors play their games on Saturdays at 2 normally . Our options were to play Sunday morning or Saturday evening at 6 . encase if any of our players were needed then they were available for the seniors . A lot of them have been used already .
I choose 6pm on Saturday because I wanted at the very least to give the lads the option of goin out on Saturday night an not expect them to stay in all weekend for a game on Sunday morning .Id like nothing better than to play on grass but we dont have the use of the senior pitch , and the under age pitch is being used by the underage section , so my options are nil .
I'll make no excuses for having to play on the all weather . We just get on with it . The majority of pitchs we play on are superb ,flat and rolled .Well taken care of . For me the only benifit we gain by playing on an all weather is when the ordinary bloke thinks his game wont go ahead during the week cause of the weather and he starts to switch off then we are up for the game straight away cause we know it will go ahead .
Cant hide on an all weather either , teams get found out . Not fit enough , ball retention an passing isnt good enough .Easier to blame the pitch than admit their failings .
Pirlo us Norries would play on the side of a hill ,,,,,,,,,but then again we do anyway;)