Christ, if its not too much then its too little!Originally Posted by EnDai
Thought Rugby League was played on it too, the lines seemed to look like it.
As I say, we're just young & a bit nieve.
Fingal Co Co had a water warning recently saying not to use water to wash cars or water gardens. Maybe this covers football pitches too, wouldn't want Ollie falling foul of the law again.Can't shels use a hose to water the pitch & not steal from the river?
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
get your coatYeah, a brown carpet
Sorry, couldn't resist
water shortage ??come over to the wessst and have some. plenty here for everyone. i wud have thought they cud have found a way to water the pitch. even with the drouts. they should have a reserve tank full of water for backup. we'd never have a water problem here, with our weather. hence all the ducks i suppose
Of course they are. Unless you know of some matches postponed that I haven't heard of?
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Christ, if its not too much then its too little!
Thought Rugby League was played on it too, the lines seemed to look like it.
I think the lines are just the drainage system that was put in after the floods a couple of years ago. They seem to become very noticeable when the pitch gets bad.
That Felon ****** had some cheek when he was on the RTE panel for the Bohs-Rovers game at the start of the season to have ago at the Dalyer pitch considering Tolka has been a disgrace for the past few seasons and is a disgrace yet again.
Was never a huge problem anyway, was it? You had Harps last season (during summer soccer). Kilkenny and Shels suffered flooding - summer soccer won't avoid that. I remember one game being cancelled for frost.
Anyway, the point about better pitches was that they would make for better passing football, not that fewer games would be called off. The pitches haven't improved to that extent yet. Where they were bogs, they're not hard beaches. No real improvement really.
I must say for the setanta cup game v shels at tolka earlier in the year the pitch was like a snooker table, while ours resembled dollymount strand,find it hard to belive a pitch can deteriorate so much due to the lack of rain. After all this is an island.
First Division Champions
Interesting. Where does the grass go?
As I say, we're just young & a bit nieve.
I was critical last week but fair play to whoever minds the pitch for Shels. There was a massive improvement in the space of a week.
Well done.
yeah, the lines for the drainage system were not put in deep enough apparently!
Sitting pretty!!!
Well im sure it wont need sprinkling today.
Heres what Fenlon said last April: Taken from elevenaside .com
What a gobsh!te, he ain't sayin' much now!!Fenlon slams surface standards
Shelbourne manager Pat Fenlon feels that clubs around the country should have been able to do more to improve the standard of their playing pitches before the start of the new season.
Shels’ Tolka Park venue is in good condition at present, with the club preventing First Division side Dublin City – who had been tenants at Tolka Park – from playing games at the venue in recent weeks in order to ensure a best possible playing pitch for the Reds’ games.
But some pitches elsewhere have been in a lamentable state, with plenty of sand in evidence at many venues across the country – and Fenlon has spoken out after seeing the quality of the surfaces at Derry’s Brandywell, Turners Cross in Cork and Dalymount Park, which is being shared by Bohemians and Shamrock Rovers this season.
He told the Irish Sun: “We played on an awful pitch against Derry at the Brandywell on Friday night but it’s not as though it’s something new to us.
“For all of our away games in either the league or the Setanta Cup, the pitches have been poor and that is very disappointing when you consider it’s the start of the season.
“We seem to be the only ones making an effort to get our pitch right – and that’s not right.”
Filed: 4/11/2005
In fairness though, it was poor for one game - it was very quickly rectified by those working at the club.
God
He probably is, given it's back to near perfect condition againHeres what Fenlon said last April: Taken from elevenaside .com
What a gobsh!te, he ain't sayin' much now!!
Fcuking eegit,he deserves a kick up the arseHeres what Fenlon said last April: Taken from elevenaside .com
What a gobsh!te, he ain't sayin' much now!!
Oh how funny is this. Shels see the Dalymount pitch as yet another attempt to make a PR attack at the club. Now the pitch in Dalyer is like a carpet and the pitch in Tolka is a mess.
Somehow I doubt that Gareth Farrelly and Feilim O'Rielly will be going to the press to embarass Shelbourne.
Not seen it latley have you? It was a mess for one game and is back in fine shape now.
It doesn't matter how good the pitch is. Shels play the ball in the air anyways. It's not as though they are playing passing football
Nice one!It doesn't matter how good the pitch is. Shels play the ball in the air anyways. It's not as though they are playing passing football
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