I haven't seen Maginn Park but it doesn't look great on TV and heard a few reports before the season that it was substandard.
Maybe McGinn wasn't great at the start of the season but it looked in great nick for the Harps game on Good Friday. Sprinklers at half time, though only at the end Derry were going to attack into!
Havin a weekend away is quite frankly,lettin ur team mates down!
Maginn Park isn't a great pitch. It's good a good bed of grass, but it's very bobbly and heavily sanded. It looks a lot better than it plays.
The joys of summer football is that pitches are crap for the first half of the season and only start to come good now. They have absolutely no time to grow over the winter and no real rest during the off-season. We only get two or three months of good pitches in the League of Ireland.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
For once Shiels is right. Majority of pitches I've seen this season have been a total disgrace. Cobh's should be deemed unplayable it's that bad and Cabinteely is a broken leg waiting to happen. FAI need to do something but we all know they don't care about the league
What, do you want them to man the lawnmowers themselves?
Blaming the FAI for stupid stuff like bad pitches just takes away from the stuff they should be blamed for.
They need to look at it in some way. Clubs don't have the money for professional grounds men. Should the FAI provide professionals to them?
I have to say Shields is correct. Last night on a perfect summer's evening the Terryland facilities looked beautiful and the pitch is in a bad state. We have no rain in the west since the call-off game against Sligo. The amount of gorse fires tell its own story, so it is a surprise that the pitch hasn't been watered more. Of course the number of games on it is also a big factor.
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