pitches or bitches

[charliesboots]

The RSC is easily the worst of the bunch.
I'm unsure if they do but it seems like they actually do all the shot putt and stuff on the pitch.
Terrible place for a game of ball but then again

It seems there were a few hurdles in the RSC that Cork City couldn't get over earlier this season alright.

[Jerry The Saint]

Have the cutbacks extended to the groundsmen & hoses?

Pitches ain't sh!t but hose and tricks.

[pete]

Turners Cross is usually a bit "grassy" at the start of the season but after about a month they seem to cut the grass lower & the surface is great then. Looked excellent on tv on Monday although sometimes seems to be too dry & lacks pace.

Richmond Park pitch looks much improved this season but then again the whole ground seems to been cleaned up or something.

IMO while the surface is generally flat the Belfield Park grass is always too long & was no different a few weeks ago. Long grass slows down the ball so makes passing football more difficult. However it holds up long balls except when wet.

The RSC is usually the worst in the Premier & haven't heard its changed this year.

Over the last few years 3 best & worst would be: (no order)
Best - Dalymount, Turners Cross, Tolka or Brandywell
Worst - RSC, Belfield,

[pineapple stu]

Don't remember these complaints last year or the year before.

In fairness, it's been mentioned a couple of times in the past few seasons. From Pat Fenlon's "farmer's field" comments to thread on here asking clubs to water their pitches - this season's nothing new.

Worst - RSC, Belfield,

Awww...is our curiously long yet slippery grass still causing you bother?

[noby]

I'm not going to try to defend the state of the RSC pitch, or the state of football we play on it, but there seems to be a 'situation' going on.
The club rent the ground from the corpo. Up until a couple of years ago the club also had a groundsman who took care of the pitch. It seems he was doing some council worker out of a job; union threw their weight around, and now the club aren't allowed do the ground maintenance. Negotiations are 'on going', as they say, but as principal tenant I hope the club are kicking up a stink.

[Sam_Heggy]

Finn Park is a disgrace at the moment

In fairness its a sh!t load better now than in pre-season. But its still in bad shape all the same.
whats worse is that our team are in worse shape than the pitch they are incapable of playin "hoof football" or most other styles of football too

[harpskid]

In fairness its a sh!t load better now than in pre-season.

I thought that too until i walked across it on Friday night. It looks better from the terrace alright, but it's woeful when you're actually on it

[iceman]

Have to say United Park is a billiard table , its immaculate and great credit due to the groundsman. Had the pleasure of walking on it last Friday and it is even better than it looks. Heard talk that when the Drogs move to their new stadium the plan is to lift the pitch and take it with them.

[gufct]

Terryland is very bumpy too many games on it each year and all the junior/juvenille league club finals yet to be played on it.Because its played on year round the groundsman doesnt get a right go at until the junior season finishes and by late June it should be up their with the best in the country.


The change to Summer Soccer never actually allowed for pitches to at their best as the saeson starts when the work should be starting on sorting out the pitches after the winter break

[galwayhoop]

Terryland is very bumpy too many games on it each year and all the junior/juvenille league club finals yet to be played on it.Because its played on year round the groundsman doesnt get a right go at until the junior season finishes and by late June it should be up their with the best in the country.

yeah and with the ongoing contaminated water noel will be able to water and fertilise the pitch all at once

[sonofstan]

Pitches ain't sh!t but hose and tricks.

- no one else seems to have noticed but i thought it was funny

[BohsPartisan]

- no one else seems to have noticed but i thought it was funny

Yeah nice one - Junkeez With Attitude!

[DmanDmythDledge]

UCD are still refusing to cut their grass.

IMO while the surface is generally flat the Belfield Park grass is always too long & was no different a few weeks ago. Long grass slows down the ball so makes passing football more difficult. However it holds up long balls except when wet.

Have yoy noticed that you seem to be the only two people to have ever "noticed" this?

[Poor Student]

Have yoy noticed that you seem to be the only two people to have ever "noticed" this?

I'll save them the handy quip of saying it's because Cork are the best footballing side blah, blah, blah.

[smellyfeet]

Ours looks good alright but it's after getting awful hard and a little bit bumpy. I'd say it's still one of the better pitches around, but it badly needs some water!

Wexfords pitch is very good, well it was the day Limerick 37 played there but the wind was brutal and ruined any chance of football been played. Is it always windy up there.?

[passinginterest]

Wexfords pitch is very good, well it was the day Limerick 37 played there but the wind was brutal and ruined any chance of football been played. Is it always windy up there.?

I'd say the wind is the reason the pitch is getting so hard. It's very exposed and with the weather lately it'd take a ton of water to keep it from drying out and burning up.

[neutrino]

Showgrounds pitch is a disgrace. Worst I've seen so far this season and last season too.

rovers pitch has always been shocking. never seen it being good. might always look decent on top but it's ridiculously bad. just a field basically

[khoop]

There's a rather excellent pitch in Tallaght. Unfortunately though, we aren't allowed use it until the stadium is finished - and that may take a while.

[TonyD]

Richmond Park doesn't seem in the best of nick this season. it looks ok but there are a lot of bad bounces and bobbles. Brian Kerr admitted as much recently. He did say however that some major work is due to be done to imporve things. As for the rest, United Park did look very good on the TV last night, also agree with Neutrino re Sligos pitch. Always been poor.

[galwayhoop]

There's a rather excellent pitch in Tallaght. Unfortunately though, we aren't allowed use it until the stadium is finished - and that may take a while.

actually drove past it about a week or so ago. hadn't been to tallaght for years and it just struck me what a shame the whole mess is. your club will seriously flourish when ye can finally settle there. population, sense of belonging, ease for public transport .... all the elements are there - except one: Rovers, keep the faith and hopefully ye will have a full time home shortly!!