Trojan76 Posted May 25, 2021 Report Share Posted May 25, 2021 5 minutes ago, Zorro said: This suggests differently https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/scottish-football-stuck-plastic-pitches-13398421 not sure if this is still the case, that article is 3 years old. Was being widely reported last night and at the weekend on radio and journalists on twitter that it would be an 11-1 vote in SPL for it to carry. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainmaccoll Posted May 25, 2021 Report Share Posted May 25, 2021 Wee never really gave a s**t about astro pitches when wee were winning every game, beating the old firm regular and sitting top the league please shut the feck up about the pitch -4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Posted May 25, 2021 Report Share Posted May 25, 2021 Just now, Trojan76 said: do the youth and woman not use the pitches at Kilmarnock academy for training and some games? Would imagine it would cost the club a significant sum to lay a grass pitch, whole new underlayer then the grass and also take in to mind we just paid for new plastic pitch a year ago and the fact the club will already be taking a hefty financial hit by being relegated the money is unlikely to be there to move to a grass pitch any time soon When there are fixture clashes, KWFC play at the academy. But, for the most part, Rugby Park is their home ground. Won't be a return to grass unless absolutely, positively necessary. I'd like to think there would be at least a year's grace, to install a 'proper' grass pitch once promotion is secured. It's not as simple as just laying grass. Underneath our surface are two shockpads, some sort of brown layer, tarmac, and a base layer. Plus the new irrigation system has been built in to it. We'd need to take up the top, remove the shock pads, whatever the brown stuff is made of (think its sand plus something else), dig up the tarmac, remove the base, reinstall a pitch protection system (our last one cost 500k), put a natural base layer in, plant the pitch, allow a proper amount of time to let it bed down, and not the 2.5 hours (exaggeration to make a point) we got back in '99. Grass, at this moment in time, is the least of our concerns. Unless it's California sinsemilla, then wire in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Posted May 25, 2021 Report Share Posted May 25, 2021 6 minutes ago, Trojan76 said: not sure if this is still the case, that article is 3 years old. Was being widely reported last night and at the weekend on radio and journalists on twitter that it would be an 11-1 vote in SPL for it to carry. 'Any change to the current set-up would require the support of nine top-flight clubs as well as 75 per cent of the clubs in the lower three divisions. This season more than 25 per cent of professional clubs in Scotland currently use artificial surfaces in the four divisions.' When it was the SPL, sure, but, we're all one big happy family now, and must consider the lower leagues. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorro Posted May 25, 2021 Report Share Posted May 25, 2021 10 minutes ago, Trojan76 said: not sure if this is still the case, that article is 3 years old. Was being widely reported last night and at the weekend on radio and journalists on twitter that it would be an 11-1 vote in SPL for it to carry. It hadn’t been changed last season when some clubs were complaining about being unfairly relegated. It hadn’t been changed last year when some clubs were demanding an investigation. It seems unlikely they’d have changed it covertly. And after a quick skim through the spfl rules, I can’t see anything about an 11-1 vote on pitches being a thing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillinger Posted May 25, 2021 Report Share Posted May 25, 2021 (edited) Lost a post in here, think it maybe disappeared in to the ether as two threads got merged? I was saying that since it got laid, people in Scottish football have loved bringing it up as a false narrative - it suits a lot of folk. Managers can blame it when they lose, and the opposition's fans can buy in to that rather than examine the real reasons their team lost. Rangers and Celtic are the worst for this! Players like Jamie Murphy can blame it for their injuries. We beat Celtic in a game a few years ago when two of their players went off with injuries within the first 25 mins or so - the astro was blamed, despite the fact they had lost two players on a grass pitch the week before. It gives drivel-talkers like Boyd and McFadden something to say to fill five minutes as they don't have the nous to offer any sort of real insight. It gives rags like the Daily Record something to write about rather than do any sort of actual journalism that isn't copy and pasting from press releases and Twitter posts. I'd be perfectly calm about it getting lifted for grass to be laid, but personally it's never bothered me. I think it's contributed to some decent performances at RP over the years and I'd far rather have it than Dundee's rain-soaked heap from the other night. Edited May 25, 2021 by Dillinger 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorro Posted May 25, 2021 Report Share Posted May 25, 2021 (edited) I’m firmly in the “I’d prefer a grass pitch, but we’ve just been relegated, we have four. players under contract and a budget which is about to get smaller, camp”. If we can still get promoted with it in place, it’s way, way, way down the list of things I think we need to address first. If someone can show me the rule about this I should be worried about, I’ll rethink my stance. For now I’m going to treat it as wishful thinking from the s**t-stirrers of Scottish football. Edited May 25, 2021 by Zorro 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted May 25, 2021 Report Share Posted May 25, 2021 Getting rid of the pitch sounds like a special project. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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