QuoteIs that a 4G?Originally Posted by KevB76
They'll be playing on the new grass pitch just above the astro.
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Is that a 4G?
If you attack me with stupidity, I'll be forced to defend myself with sarcasm.
its the future : )
Purely looking at the financial aspects of the 3g pitch in Oriel with regard to income generated, barring times that the squad are training and playing on weekdays, it's being used constantly from 6pm to 11pm and then Saturday and Sundays all afternoon and evening for the mostpart. The local winter league uses it for the majority of their games and some of the summer league teams use it too, thats not even including general kickabouts, junior district league games/ finals etc etc. €220 for a full 90 min match/ 2 hours booking conservatively works out at least 3 or 4k a week and thats 52 weeks of the year. We even have a few community events over the summer every year on it. Of course there'll be times when it's not completely booked up or being used but the financial benefits are absolutely worth it for the initial outlay in the medium to long term. It's benefit to turning the financial situation the club was in is woefully underestimated for those looking from the outside in.
With regard to the inspections, we had to relay it a few years back for the reasons already mentioned and in January last year it passed the league licencing, then in May/ June the Uefa for the Euro games and again this January for the league with absolutely no issues whatsoever. A lot of the reticence from people is pretty much ignorance of the facts, memories of the old style 80s ones or experience of JJB/ Astropark/ Sportslink ones which are of a far less standard and basically astroturf lolz sort of stuff. Anyone who has any misgivings on it if you can get up and play a game on it in Oriel you'd realise though it may be a wee bit hard on the feet and legs to get used to initially it'd change your perception of it entirely.
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