Message to the groundsman, stop drenching the pitch!

[1973Blade]

We have done it for years and I don't know why. Players on both sides could hardly stand up at times. If we're going to do it at least get proper studs for our players!

 

[Jolly Buffer]

Was the pitch made too wet?
A lot of slipping and falling today.
I could see areas of the pitch that looked worn and like an oil slick.
Seemed to be a lot more falling over than even in a normal rain soaked game.

Not looking for an excuse for being second best.

 

[Maidenhead]

Was the pitch made too wet?
A lot of slipping and falling today.
I could see areas of the pitch that looked worn and like an oil slick.
Seemed to be a lot more falling over than even in a normal rain soaked game.

Not looking for an excuse for being second best.

I heard a Fulham fan make that excuse on my train home last week and nearly fell out of seat with laughter.

Maybe we need to get some straws and drain it

 

[Harry's Game]

You have to water a Desso numerous times a day or the real grass dries up and dies,

Here endeth the Alan Titchmarsh lesson.

 

[Iceybabey]

Tbh, Egan nearly slipped doing the same thing not long before his actual slip. He didn't learn.

 

[Bladesman]

Was the pitch made too wet?
A lot of slipping and falling today.
I could see areas of the pitch that looked worn and like an oil slick.
Seemed to be a lot more falling over than even in a normal rain soaked game.

Not looking for an excuse for being second best.

We always soak our pitch and then looked stunned when our players slip over.

 

[FATTYFOULKE]

I’ve said the same a few times this season. We water the pitch far too much and players of both sides slip at crucial times. It’s cost us two goals today but that’s not to say Forest weren’t the better side, they were.

 

[Bladesman]

We like a soggy bottom.

 

[Jolly Buffer]

We always soak our pitch and then looked stunned when our players slip over.

Yeh, I remember old Dave Bassett liked a soggy slippy surface.

 

[BladesOnToast]

We have done it for years and I don't know why. Players on both sides could hardly stand up at times. If we're going to do it at least get proper studs for our players!

Youre sending them this message at the wrong time mate, it's months til we play at the Lane again so now's the time to drench it. And it's just coming towards the hottest and dryest part of the year. Terrible time to stop drenching. Grass needs water. Your message, if heeded, could destroy the living element of the desso. Not something you'd want on your conscience. Put the message on ice, spend the summer down the Lane with a hosepipe, and only when next season is imminent, deploy the message.

 

[Gavlar]

All teams do it.

 

[LS16Blade]

I’ve said the same a few times this season. We water the pitch far too much and players of both sides slip at crucial times. It’s cost us two goals today but that’s not to say Forest weren’t the better side, they were.

It also cost Fleck a yellow that could very easily have been a red card. The TV replays showed that he slipped into The challenge that he was penalised for - water sprayed everywhere.

Not content with Osborn slipping over for the first goal, we proceeded to drench the pitch again at half-time. Brainless.

 

[wavy-blade]

Try these Egan and Ozzy ffs

 

[Rudders]

Our Hecki was very quick to point the finger at a badly drained training pitch the other week after a humiliating defeat. I presume the home pitch is watered like it is on his instructions. Backfired today badly. I wonder if he will own this. I doubt it!

 

[metalblade]

It worked for us in the Fulham game when their defender slipped.

 

[JT89]

We have done it for years and I don't know why. Players on both sides could hardly stand up at times. If we're going to do it at least get proper studs for our players!

That's why he's the groundsman and you're not...

 

[S64 Blade]

Tbh, Egan nearly slipped doing the same thing not long before his actual slip. He didn't learn.

He slips at least one every home game (or seems to). Needs some proper boots.

 

[SwissBlade]

I’ve said the same a few times this season. We water the pitch far too much and players of both sides slip at crucial times. It’s cost us two goals today but that’s not to say Forest weren’t the better side, they were.

Yeah we could easily have been 4 down at half time

 

[Wandsworth Blade]

All teams do it.

QPR watered their attacking half at half time but didn’t water the end we attacked towards. Given it was our best 45 minutes of the season, I believe there was a direct correlation between the two. We should stop watering as much….