Artificial Surfaces

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Wed Oct 29 2014 11:41 am

(I'm on my high horse again, look out!)

For those who didn't see the game at Sutton Coldfield a couple of years ago, here's what football looks like on 3G - Newtown's new-this-season surface which replaces a previously awful grass/sand pitch on which football was often near-impossible and games were postponed too often

Looks OK to me!

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Sat Nov 01 2014 10:10 am

The debate rumbles on, always with an unnecessary look back to the first generation pitches!

http://www.wsc.co.uk/wsc-daily/1187-oct ... detractors

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Thu Nov 06 2014 11:11 am

League clubs vote today

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29919748

The Maidstone United co-chairman spoke very eloquently in support on Five Live at about 0825 this morning, worth a listen in iplayer if you missed it

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Sat Nov 08 2014 8:42 am

50/50 vote means no go

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29919748

Although it doesn't say so in the quotation there, PFA's Simon Barker was quoted on the radio as saying that "artificial surfaces shouldn't be played on by elite players, and that's what players in the Football League are"

I wonder if the "elite players" of Exeter wish they could have played on a level, dry and consistent playing surface last night?

And how many clubs, with heavy rain now and a harsh winter allegedly ahead which could well lead to postponements and inevitable increased costs and lost revenue, will wish they'd reconsidered?

The Beerhunter · Post by **The Beerhunter** » Sat Nov 08 2014 12:05 pm

Glyn wrote:50/50 vote means no go

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29919748

Although it doesn't say so in the quotation there, PFA's Simon Barker was quoted on the radio as saying that "artificial surfaces shouldn't be played on by elite players, and that's what players in the Football League are"

I wonder if the "elite players" of Exeter wish they could have played on a level, dry and consistent playing surface last night?

And how many clubs, with heavy rain now and a harsh winter allegedly ahead which could well lead to postponements and inevitable increased costs and lost revenue, will wish they'd reconsidered?

None of 'em.

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Tue Nov 11 2014 8:23 am

Two up for sale, if you've got an hour to read this article!

http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... s-football

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Tue Jan 20 2015 1:42 pm

TNS v Carmarthen, postponed on Sunday due to frozen pitch, and again tonight.

Seems you need braziers even when you've got an artificial surface...

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Mon Jan 26 2015 11:04 am

A success story

http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/interview ... tones.html

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Mon Feb 09 2015 5:29 pm

The Principality continues to lead the way

http://welsh-premier.com/index.php/late ... 3g-pitches

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Tue Feb 24 2015 2:14 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31603948

And still they bury their heads in the sand [no pun intended] (and complain when they have to play on one, as Everton did last week, before they stuffed the Berne team!)

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Fri Mar 06 2015 8:31 pm

Hednesford gets one...

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2015 ... h-project/

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Tue Apr 21 2015 2:07 pm

The future is RNT, apparently

http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/top-stori ... clubs.html

Perton Pitman · Post by **Perton Pitman** » Sat Dec 26 2015 12:46 pm

Llandudno v Bangor postponed due to flooding on the A55. Having an artificial pitch hasn't saved their game today.

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Fri Jan 22 2016 7:30 pm

NL clubs vote to seek FA approval for artificial surfaces

http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/top-stori ... tches.html

A tad ironic that that meeting was held at Telford....

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Mon Feb 08 2016 11:33 am

http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/headlines ... irman.html

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Wed Feb 10 2016 6:35 pm

The discussion continues. I wonder how many games Pat Nevin has seen on them....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35543071

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Tue Feb 23 2016 4:53 pm

Next: (they have more games postponed than they play so it has to make sense...)

http://www.balatownfc.co.uk/2016/02/23/ ... -town-f-c/

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Wed Feb 24 2016 11:59 am

FA responds to recent scare stories....

http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/top-stori ... cerns.html

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Thu Feb 25 2016 5:37 pm

Glyn wrote:Next: (they have more games postponed than they play so it has to make sense...)

http://www.balatownfc.co.uk/2016/02/23/ ... -town-f-c/

... and Aber makes six...

http://welsh-premier.com/index.php/late ... he-3g-club

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Fri Feb 26 2016 12:52 pm

Farnborough go for 4G:

http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/headlines ... plans.html

I think it may be 5G by the time we get around to it...

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Mon Feb 29 2016 6:16 pm

Newport have come up with their own solution to the "grass v plastic" debate.

Sand. (And I'm loving that shout of "get off the pitch, you've lost!"

)

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Fri Apr 08 2016 6:51 pm

Boldmere:

http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/headlines ... ssion.html

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Fri Apr 08 2016 6:55 pm

... and maybe Salisbury next....

http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/headlines ... -move.html

The future is bright, the future is plastic (prefacing my final programme article of the season which I wrote a few days ago before these latest converts materialised....)

My concern is that someone else in our catchment area might get in before we do....

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Sat May 21 2016 12:21 pm

Harrogate....

http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/top-stori ... adium.html

Glyn · Post by **Glyn** » Tue Aug 09 2016 1:37 pm

http://welsh-premier.com/index.php/late ... s-3g-pitch

"... local grass roots participation..." is a tad unfortunate isn't it!

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