Desso Pitch..

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Except perhaps Desso Sports themselves................ If pukka that is?

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PS: Ben, where's the £1.85m come from? The Telegraph article was estimated at £850k?

http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk...ted-sanction-850-000-pitch-overhaul-1-6536673

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Posted 28 April 2015 - 10:20 AM

Why dont they use the old pitch to try and fill the river in...itl save on takin it away in trucks

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Yeah because the river will stop flowing then won't it? Dimwit!

 

[WhiteRoseBlade]

A little off topic but don't want to start a new thread just for this - as a new fan who's not from the city I've been wondering where the Pigs nickname for Wednesday came from? Twist on Owls or something else?

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

OMG and another one

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Posted 28 April 2015 - 11:05 AM

Surely if we're building the pitch up the turf will be re-used? (minus the grass of course.)

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[Balham]

A little off topic but don't want to start a new thread just for this - as a new fan who's not from the city I've been wondering where the Pigs nickname for Wednesday came from? Twist on Owls or something else?

Several rumours, some, none or all of which might have a basis in fact
- the Wednesday Cricket Club (and then the Wednesday Football Club) was formed by butchers to play on their half days - typically Wednesdays
- Owlerton/Hillsborough stadium was built on the site of a pig farm
- their blue & white striped shirts look like butchers' aprons

Their reasons for calling us pigs (it goes both ways) are, as far as I can tell, based on the impression that red and white striped shirts look like bacon. Which is bollocks.

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Several rumours, some, none or all of which might have a basis in fact
- the Wednesday Cricket Club (and then the Wednesday Football Club) was formed by butchers to play on their half days - typically Wednesdays
- Owlerton/Hillsborough stadium was built on the site of a pig farm
- their blue & white striped shirts look like butchers' aprons

Their reasons for calling us pigs (it goes both ways) are, as far as I can tell, based on the impression that red and white striped shirts look like bacon. Which is bollocks.

The club was initially a cricket team named The Wednesday Cricket Club after the day of the week when they played their matches. The footballing side of the club was established to keep the team together and fit during the winter months so not for butchers specifically although The Wednesday Cricket Club was formed so tradesmen could play cricket on their day off.

 

[Kenilworth]

A little off topic but don't want to start a new thread just for this - as a new fan who's not from the city I've been wondering where the Pigs nickname for Wednesday came from? Twist on Owls or something else?

Cos they smell of pork, obvs!

 

[stringjunior]

Isn't it just because all Wednesday fans (except mrs stringjunior) are ugly as pigs? I like to think so

 

[South London Blade]

Several rumours, some, none or all of which might have a basis in fact
- the Wednesday Cricket Club (and then the Wednesday Football Club) was formed by butchers to play on their half days - typically Wednesdays
- Owlerton/Hillsborough stadium was built on the site of a pig farm
- their blue & white striped shirts look like butchers' aprons

Their reasons for calling us pigs (it goes both ways) are, as far as I can tell, based on the impression that red and white striped shirts look like bacon. Which is bollocks.

I think it was Dkc that wrote the swine cottage article many moons ago...

 

[HoodedClaw]

I'm pretty sure you have to book well in advance to have a Desso pitch installed.

Got to admire Wednesdays optimism that they might've made the playoffs this season then

 

[Foxy]

As I've said previously, in a similar thread... It's going ahead this summer. As soon as the playoff semi's are done, we'll be beginning prep.

Pigs are also having Desso do some work... Should make moving their gear fairly easy.

Ours won't be as chavvy as theirs though

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

A little off topic but don't want to start a new thread just for this - as a new fan who's not from the city I've been wondering where the Pigs nickname for Wednesday came from? Twist on Owls or something else?

There will be several versions but I prefer mine, because I thought of it!

Wendy had a new badge designed and to me it looked like a stylised pig rather than a stylised owl.

I'm fairly sure other people thought so as well, but I could be wrong

They call us pigs so as usual they copy us

 

[Pierre's PC]

Is it still gonna be installed this summer? Overheard that its been cancelled, is this true?

If it is, we want answers.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Looking at the pictures surely they're laying a paddy field to make chief ladyboy feel at home.

I'd be checking to see how deep that diggers going if I was a piggy, might just be sneaking in a fish pond for tuna.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

As I've said previously, in a similar thread... It's going ahead this summer. As soon as the playoff semi's are done, we'll be beginning prep.

Pigs are also having Desso do some work... Should make moving their gear fairly easy.

Ours won't be as chavvy as theirs though

Best that back garden sorted and ready

 

[sheffielder]

Glad we have moved on from who is the biggest pile of crap, to who plays on the best pitch. dreary me

 

[HillmortonBlade]

Glad we have moved on from who is the biggest pile of crap, to who plays on the best pitch. dreary me

While I had my first coffee of the morning today I stared out onto the patch of grass I call my back garden and found myself wondering why it seemed a bit faded. Then I was brought smartly out of my horticultural musings with the realisation that there are other things to think about. And one of those things certainly isn't the grass at the Theatre of Swill.

 

[WhiteHawk]

How come we've had to wait over a year for our Desso pitch but Wendy have been able to get one at a couple of months notice?

 

[Jonboy60]

How come we've had to wait over a year for our Desso pitch but Wendy have been able to get one at a couple of months notice?

You know what it's like WhiteHawk, your having new guttering done on the house, the tradesmen nip next door tell the neighbours what's going on, and how shite theirs will look once yours is done. So while the're here would you like yours done with the left- overs, at a very reasonable cost of course.

 

[s4-blade]

Except perhaps Desso Sports themselves................ If pukka that is?

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PS: Ben, where's the £1.85m come from? The Telegraph article was estimated at £850k?

http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk...ted-sanction-850-000-pitch-overhaul-1-6536673

Some cheeky bleeders nicked mi name.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

How come we've had to wait over a year for our Desso pitch but Wendy have been able to get one at a couple of months notice?

Desso do lots of different types of work on pitches. The waiting list is for their high-end work such as the 4g hybrid grass pitch. These are the ones with a waiting list. Basic pitch replacement might not have the same waiting list.

 

[metalblade]

Don't know what all the fuss is about it is not only Desso that lay Desso pitches a company very close to Sheffield does them too.

http://www.dessosports.com/hybrid-grass

http://premierpitches.com/ I would imagine the pigs are having theirs laid by this Sheffield based contractor who have done pitches at the sty before as well as at Doncaster's Keep Moat

 

[Kenilworth]

One relatively sane poster on pork talk produced this reasonably coherent explanation:

Just to put things into perspective, If you check on the Desso site, it explains that the actual building of the pitch including the sprinklers, under soil heating, drainage etc is done by pitch builders using local experts and using the knowlage of the grounds staff. Once the pitch has been laid and the grass sewn, the Desso machines come in and inject 20million foot long strands of artificial grass into the new pitch with only 2 cm sticking out of the top.
The new grass seeds then grow their roots attaching themselvs to the artificial strands making the grass roots longer and stronger. they also obsorb the water and drain it down their length where the grass roots benifit from the water.
This final bit is the only bit that is DESSO its designed to strengthen the pitch, keep the grass thich and keep it looking rich. The bit where they sew the Desso strands takes only a couple of days so they can get a couple of pitches done in a week. The actual building of the pitch etc is always done by contractors.

My absorvation is that you can just about see he has done the knowlage even though he is a bit thich

Anyway that was speedily followed up by the next illiterate:

I read that desso injects 20 million of their fibers into the grass pitch. But if you take a clump of grass in your hand then count how many you have pulled out I bet there are about 200 pieces of grass at least. What happens to the fibers when say one of our strikers takes a lump out of it as he kicks the floor instead of the ball?
Is 20 million fibers enough?
How do you keep the fibers from coming out of the soil?
Do birds eat the fibers as well as the normal grass?

Fibers? - do birds eat them? - What happens if one of our strikers takes a lump out of it as he kicks the floor instead of the ball? -

Birds eating grass? What you going to do? Milk them afterwards?
It must be a blue tit then
What a Divi

 

[Rollerball]

The entire training pitches at shirecliffe have been lifted nothing but what looks like sand or sand/soil mix are they having this desso at the redtooth too or just relaying "old school" grass?

 

[SwissBlade]

Desso do lots of different types of work on pitches. The waiting list is for their high-end work such as the 4g hybrid grass pitch. These are the ones with a waiting list. Basic pitch replacement might not have the same waiting list.

As others have said there's a waiting list, apparently we've waited for ours and paid the standard fee of x hundred thousand. Wednesday couldn't get theirs quick enough so apparently went to one of the desso agents abroad and paid a load more for it

It was the rumour I heard at least.

Anyway sod all that, we're getting a webcam too! Boo-yah!

 

[Ben_1982]

The entire training pitches at shirecliffe have been lifted nothing but what looks like sand or sand/soil mix are they having this desso at the redtooth too or just relaying "old school" grass?

We're having some 3 & 4G pitches installed at Shirecliffe to maintain our academy status and to ensure pitch availability over a short horizon

 

[UnitedBlade]

For sale

http://www.sufc.co.uk/news/article/sheffield-united-bramall-lane-2435900.aspx

 

[AnonymousBlade1995]

For sale

http://www.sufc.co.uk/news/article/sheffield-united-bramall-lane-2435900.aspx

strange how they are only selling pen spots and the centre circle would gladly bid £20 for a square piece of grass

 

[Punk Blade]

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Does nobody else find it odd that Desso themselves don't seem to think they're doing our pitch this summer?

 

[super_pig]

now we re arguing about pitches ffs
I don't give a monkeys what the porkers are up to. they're like jealous neighbours

 

[Bladesman]

Does nobody else find it odd that Desso themselves don't seem to think they're doing our pitch this summer?

Different installer will be fitting out pitch.

It means nothing that the desso person who manages their twitter knows fuck all.