QuoteOut of curiousity, why would it be kept in shape?
Is their LSL teams playing there?
Drive past there every morning and always comment to myself about the quality of the playing surface. Someone is obviously putting some effort in keeping it in shape. It was mowed and rolled last week and looks immaculate.Originally Posted by khoop
Out of curiousity, why would it be kept in shape?
Is their LSL teams playing there?
City definetly have the best bands playing at half-time.
O'Bama - "Eerah yeah, I'd say we can alright!"
G.O'Mahoney Trapattoni'll sort ém out!!
I don't know if any non-Bray fans have already commented on but the Carlisle ground was an absolute disgrace last night. Horribly hard and bumpy pitch. Looked hard not seen water for weeks. Bumpy pitch suits long ball play but makes passing very difficult. There would have been smaller bounch in the car park.
The FAI have introduced licencing to bring up minimum standards but they do not have seem to have set minimum pitch standards.
the fai have introduced licensing not to improve things but to give the illusion that things are getting better
I wish i did not know then what I dont know now
It removed Dublin Cty from the league. How is that not a success?
It didn't - Dublin City was the greatest failure licencing. Dublin City going broke removed them from the league.
The great anti-Cork conspiracy theory rolls on!I don't know if any non-Bray fans have already commented on but the Carlisle ground was an absolute disgrace last night. Horribly hard and bumpy pitch. Looked hard not seen water for weeks. Bumpy pitch suits long ball play but makes passing very difficult. There would have been smaller bounch in the car park.
It was fu*k all to do with the pitch. Cork last night were at best ordinary!. Even with getting the benefit of some terrible refereeing decisions, they still never looked like breaking down a poor Bray team.
Honest! I am not a secret Tim nor a closet Sham - I really am a Seagull.
Please stay on topic as I never even mentioned the result.
Is your pitch good enough? Yes or No?
To get back on topic to pitches, one of the reasons some people opposed summer soccer was this very reason bone dry rock hard pitches and so it has finally come to pass. One of the major problems with the close season is it coincides with the months of zero grass growth which means pitch overhauls now have to take place during the League season for the ELOI club concerned.
That means waiting for a window where you have two away games back to back and hopefully an away draw in one of the cups before the club can get any work done on their playing surface. If you happen to be the Tolka Park groundsman no such luck, two teams playing there means a game every week. And beside the bulldozers will be in there in 12 to 18 months so what's the point?
you can only blame summer soccer if all pitches are bone dry etc - they are not, some clubs have excellent pitches as the groundmen have done good jobs of watering etc when required, other clubs don't seem to have put any effort in their pitches.
if it was a winter season, you can be gauranteed that the clubs with the bad pitches now, would be the clubs having the matches postponed for unplayable pitches - which as memory serves happened an awful lot back in the dark old days of the winter seasons.
[off topic - now that the attendances are up, can it be said that it is due to summer soccer, just as summer soccer was being blamed last season for low crowds??]
Exactly, If some clubs can make the effort why don't the others? Surely all it needs is a hose & sprinkler? Maybe some clubs see it as a tactic to stop the fulltime sides a bit like narrow pitch & longer grass?
You just love getting a few digs in. Your pitch was terrrible.
Not this again.....
Surely if teams are good enough they can play on the surface given. No matter what. No excuses.
I have to agree with Superhoops, you're bringing up your conspiracy theories again. Get over it.
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Maybe this applies to Bray, you've always played the same in every game ive seen you play. If you'd ever seen a team trying to pass the ball along a surface like the RSC or the Showgrounds, for example, or a higher profile choice, Croke Park, you'd quickly change your mind. But sure, ignore that (apparantly) your pitch isnt up to a good standard because "sure it'll do, quit whining.". Thats the sort of small town, small club attitude I'd expect from a purposeless joke of a club making up the numbers with no ambition or hope of improving its 'product' and attracting support.
grow up.I have to agree with Superhoops, you're bringing up your conspiracy theories again. Get over it.
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Please answer the question... I never mentioned the result last night. If you are unable to stay on topic maybe post in a different thread.
I can only comment on the pitches I have seen so far this season. The RSC is usually poor but not seen this year...
It was shocking. The first thing that crossed my mind when we went down there is "how on earth are they going to promote this league to people when somehting as fundamental as the pitches are in this kind of state"
Your Chairperson,
Gavin
Membership Advisory Board
"Ex Bardus , Vicis"
I walked the pitch before the match yesterday and yes it was a bit hard but it was a carpet and it always is. the only bad part of the pitch would hav been the goal-mouth at the training pitch end of the ground was a bit dug up.I don't know if any non-Bray fans have already commented on but the Carlisle ground was an absolute disgrace last night. Horribly hard and bumpy pitch. Looked hard not seen water for weeks. Bumpy pitch suits long ball play but makes passing very difficult. There would have been smaller bounch in the car park.
The FAI have introduced licencing to bring up minimum standards but they do not have seem to have set minimum pitch standards.
And bray do have a sprinkler system in place and i'm not too sure why they havent been using it. it pops up out of the ground!!
Maybe if you ask your players when they dive on the ground they could roll around a bit more (6 rolls instead of 5) you know the groundsman needs all the help he can get.
DEVO: 'we want to challenge for the league next season' - speaking at the player of the year awards nite 2005. boy was he so far wrong!!
Dalymount last night looked like there was sand or something flying up from the surface in places. A few lads went on their snot as well. Might be imagining it.
Tell you what. I don't know, I wasn't playing on it so how would I?
The standard of football wasn't great but that's pretty much the same that I've seen everytime I've watched an el match this season, not just Bray ones (before you get all smart).
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Oh maybe you missed that one. But pete seemed to think that UCD deliberately didn't cut the grass at Belfield when Cork travelled there last season as it was a perfect excuse for them to stop Cork playing that brand of total football you're so famous for.
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