Dimensions have been and always will be at the manager's discretion. What on earth is the fuss about!?
Graham Clark":2ujx5mxu said:This link might help
https://plymouth.vitalfootball.co.uk/ho ... h-perfect/
That shows the Home park pitch originally to be 71.32m (78yds) wide (apologies for the direct metric conversion). A reduction by in width by 2m would only bring it in line with the width of the Wembley pitch (69m), Liverpool, Manchester City, Arsenal at 68m and Chelsea at 67m. So nothing radical.
Most Premiership pitches seem to be 105m in length. I have seen the Home Park pitch quoted variously at 104m and 105m during Adams tenure so again not radically different
Biggs":19e10ip4 said:This is getting silly...
RG you're confused. He brought the pitch MARKINGS two metres in, not the ACTUAL GREEN GRASS OF THE PITCH. Unless you have a problem with exactly where the white lines are, which would be odd because they're changed all the time.
Apology from you, please? :lol:
RochdaleGreen":2zqolvme said:Biggs":2zqolvme said:This is getting silly...
RG you're confused. He brought the pitch MARKINGS two metres in, not the ACTUAL GREEN GRASS OF THE PITCH. Unless you have a problem with exactly where the white lines are, which would be odd because they're changed all the time.
Apology from you, please? :lol:
Are you trying to wind me up, Biggs?
If you pull in the white lines, you shrink the pitch, and that is what I am concerned about. Even if the geographical extent of the grass remains the same, if it is outside of the white lines, it's not on the pitch. Do you get that?
However, I am also concerned that laying astroturf on land that used to form part of the grass pitch that was within the white lines will make it more difficult to revert to grass pitch where the astroturf currently is, i.e. to revert to the size of grass pitch within the white lines that existed before Adams' dictatorial mutilation. Now do you understand that? Because I am not going to post anymore on this. I can't make it any more clear.
Certainly no apology from me, mate. What have I got to apologise for?
Biggs":2zchbl4u said:Right, so it is the white lines you have an issue with...
1) the dimensions of a football pitch are in no way sacred. The dimensions of the Home Park pitch will have been different in 1967 to how they were in 1987, to how they were in 1997. It's entirely up to the manager that season and maybe even the mood or sobriety of the groundsman the day he marks it :lol:
Not dictatorial or a mutilation, just completely common practice at every single football club.
2) the astro turf was put in around the pitch when Inscapes laid a completely new pitch in 2010, six years before Adams changed the pitch dimensions. It was red asphalt before, so I would have thought you'd see that as a visual improvement?
oldage":2upod3hu said:Why waste money on a new pitch when ours seems to be superior to most of the others in the division.
Willis88":1vlpddk2 said:This thread has got to be up there as one of the most pointless debates ever held on PASOTI.
I'm looking forward to watching it being replaced over the summer on Webcam 1, anyone know whether that'll be before or after ABBA?