Desso sshhhh,

[Northyorksblade]

Look. It is maintenance free for a thousand years, caused the sacking of Adkins and was the sole reason Wilder came to Bramall Lane. When Sharp was transfer listed in Septembuary and due to be sold to the pigs, he cried because he wouldn't be playing on the Desso any more, so McCabe let him off and got rid of Flynn, Hammond and Higdon instead.

The Desso is why we are champions. There. I have said it.

pommpey

I knew you'd come round in the end.

 

[pommpey]

I knew you'd come round in the end.

Speaking to my mate last night, he says at the moment it looks like the Baseball Ground used to.

I saw the 'Bramall Lane into a Boxing venue' speed-vid on YT. When the covers went down, it looked great. When they came up, it looked shit.

Q1: Who is paying for the re-seeding? Is it:

a. SUFC, out of any tangible profit made from the Kell fight?
b. The promoters of the Kell fight

Q2: How likely are we to host further events if the pitch takes a pasting like it has done? Football pitches are meant to have 90 odd minutes of studs and blades once every ten or so days and a couple of cuts in between. Not membrane covering and boards and then thousands of tonnes of feet and equipment on it for a week during the growing season.

Anyone know when the next 'big event' is?

pommpey

 

[finlaytheblade]

Speaking to my mate last night, he says at the moment it looks like the Baseball Ground used to.

I saw the 'Bramall Lane into a Boxing venue' speed-vid on YT. When the covers went down, it looked great. When they came up, it looked shit.

Q1: Who is paying for the re-seeding? Is it:

a. SUFC, out of any tangible profit made from the Kell fight?
b. The promoters of the Kell fight

Q2: How likely are we to host further events if the pitch takes a pasting like it has done? Football pitches are meant to have 90 odd minutes of studs and blades once every ten or so days and a couple of cuts in between. Not membrane covering and boards and then thousands of tonnes of feet and equipment on it for a week during the growing season.

Anyone know when the next 'big event' is?

pommpey

Nothing to do with boxing the surface ( sword ) is renewed every year as standard

 

[Northyorksblade]

Speaking to my mate last night, he says at the moment it looks like the Baseball Ground used to.

I saw the 'Bramall Lane into a Boxing venue' speed-vid on YT. When the covers went down, it looked great. When they came up, it looked shit.

Q1: Who is paying for the re-seeding? Is it:

a. SUFC, out of any tangible profit made from the Kell fight?
b. The promoters of the Kell fight

Q2: How likely are we to host further events if the pitch takes a pasting like it has done? Football pitches are meant to have 90 odd minutes of studs and blades once every ten or so days and a couple of cuts in between. Not membrane covering and boards and then thousands of tonnes of feet and equipment on it for a week during the growing season.

Anyone know when the next 'big event' is?

pommpey

1/ How would normal grass have stood up to the same?
1/If the next big event is as far away as the one before the last one, quite a long time.
As for your questions not a clue.

 

[Tunstall Fred]

I still don't think the Desso was worth selling Jamie Murphy and Mark Duffy for,and it will be John Fleck this summer to pay for another instalment,you mark my words

Desso out

 

[B.Lade]

You know, watching this here tennis malarkey I think they need a Desso at Wimbledon...

 

[Sean Thornton]

Don't tell Pommpey, but new grass is being sown as we speak. More cost, who goes to pay for this?

It's from the sale of Duffy in January of this year.....

 

[Sean Thornton]

no matter how good the product it will require some maintenance in the off season
even more so when theres been a big fight staged on it

They didn't reseed the pitch when Eddie Colquhoun knocked the shit out of Phil Bowyer.

 

[Tyler Durden]

More fixating about the fucking pitch I see. Fun fun fun.

 

[SteveBlade]

I stole a patch of the desso after the Bradford game and I make love to it every night.

 

[zablade]

Last pre season we had motorcycle stunt teams on it which I suggest would have done more damage than the boxing fans this year.

The pitch was reseeded every year pre Desso, it's what grounds men do pre season.

 

[Pittsburg Blade]

I stole a patch of the desso after the Bradford game and I make love to it every night.

They now call you Bamber Grassgroin

 

[blade too long]

They didn't reseed the pitch when Eddie Colquhoun knocked the shit out of Phil Bowyer.

Oh thats why it looked like a ploughed field after January

 

[Balham]

Depends on how you define PL stadium. If you mean better than some of the stadiums in the PL, it is. But I consider a PL stadium to be one like the clubs that are always in the PL, not the visitors; Man U, City, Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool. I don't think you can call any stadium with a capacity of below 40,000 a PL stadium, the championship is full of clubs with stadiums around 30k capacity.

Think you're overestimating the size of Premier League grounds: Bramall Lane would be 10th biggest in the Premier League this season. There are a further 7 bigger grounds in the Championship.

I'd say that anything over 30k is Premier League then anything over 20k is Championship.

Premiership grounds bigger than BDTBL:
Old Trafford 75,600
White Hart Lane (rebuilt) 61,000
Emirates 60,250
Taxpayers' Olympic Stadium 60,000
Etihad 55,000
Anfield 54,000
St James's Park 52,500
Stamford Bridge 41,750
Goodison 39,500

Premiership grounds smaller than BDTBL
St Mary's 32,500
King Power (Leicester) 32,300
Amex (Brighton) 30,300
Bet365 (Stoke) 27,700
Hawthorns 26,850
Selhurst Park 25,100
Kirklees Stadium (Huddersfield) 24,500
Vicarage Road 21,400
Turf Moor 21,400
Liberty Stadium (Swansea) 20,900
(Bournemouth) 11,500

Championship grounds bigger than BDTBL:
Stadium of Light 48,700
Villa Park 42,700
Hillsborough 39,700* (currently reduced to 33,800 on safety grounds)
Elland Road 37,900
Riverside 35,000
Pride Park 33,600
Cardiff City Stadium 33,300

 

[BushBlade]

Think you're overestimating the size of Premier League grounds: Bramall Lane would be 10th biggest in the Premier League this season. There are a further 7 bigger grounds in the Championship.

I'd say that anything over 30k is Premier League then anything over 20k is Championship.

Premiership grounds bigger than BDTBL:
Old Trafford 75,600
White Hart Lane (rebuilt) 61,000
Emirates 60,250
Taxpayers' Olympic Stadium 60,000
Etihad 55,000
Anfield 54,000
St James's Park 52,500
Stamford Bridge 41,750
Goodison 39,500

Premiership grounds smaller than BDTBL
St Mary's 32,500
King Power (Leicester) 32,300
Amex (Brighton) 30,300
Bet365 (Stoke) 27,700
Hawthorns 26,850
Selhurst Park 25,100
Kirklees Stadium (Huddersfield) 24,500
Vicarage Road 21,400
Turf Moor 21,400
Liberty Stadium (Swansea) 20,900
(Bournemouth) 11,500

Championship grounds bigger than BDTBL:
Stadium of Light 48,700
Villa Park 42,700
Hillsborough 39,700* (currently reduced to 33,800 on safety grounds)
Elland Road 37,900
Riverside 35,000
Pride Park 33,600
Cardiff City Stadium 33,300

No, I think I was quite clear when I said 'But I consider a PL stadium to be one like the clubs that are always in the PL, not the visitors; Man U, City, Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool.'

 

[The Crab]

I still don't think the Desso was worth selling Jamie Murphy and Mark Duffy for,and it will be John Fleck this summer to pay for another instalment,you mark my words

Desso out

 

[Blade for Sale]

I stole a patch of the desso after the Bradford game and I make love to it every night.

Filthy sod

 

[Balham]

Depends on how you define PL stadium. If you mean better than some of the stadiums in the PL, it is. But I consider a PL stadium to be one like the clubs that are always in the PL, not the visitors; Man U, City, Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool. I don't think you can call any stadium with a capacity of below 40,000 a PL stadium, the championship is full of clubs with stadiums around 30k capacity.

No, I think I was quite clear when I said 'But I consider a PL stadium to be one like the clubs that are always in the PL, not the visitors; Man U, City, Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool.'

It was the last sentence I was responding to. To my mind, a PL stadium is one which is over 30k: only really Cardiff stands out on the list I gave as a club which isn't ready for PL football; the other clubs with capacities over 30k have all spent a considerable amount of time in the top flight.

 

[BushBlade]

It was the last sentence I was responding to. To my mind, a PL stadium is one which is over 30k: only really Cardiff stands out on the list I gave as a club which isn't ready for PL football; the other clubs with capacities over 30k have all spent a considerable amount of time in the top flight.

I'm not going to disagree because I started my post with 'it depends on how you define a PL stadium' and I'm not claiming that I've got the right to define it. As I've said, it's better than quite a few clubs in the PL. If we get back in, sort the Kop out and increase the attendance to above 35k then I'd concede it's a PL stadium. Just

 

[Harrisblade]

I reckon Desso is the inkjet printer of the football world.

They'll sell you a cheap pitch, probably for about the same cost as a decent L1 winger, but they don't tell you that you have to dig it up every season and then they charge you an absolute fortune for the grass seed.

Canon did exactly the same to me with my MP490 printer, where the ink costs more than the product itself. I'm surprised SUFC fell for a similar trick

Are you?

 

[snootyfenooty]

Championship grounds bigger than BDTBL:
Stadium of Light 48,700
Villa Park 42,700
Hillsborough 39,700* (currently reduced to 33,800 on safety grounds)
Elland Road 37,900
Riverside 35,000
Pride Park 33,600
Cardiff City Stadium 33,300

I think you'll find that after SYP/SAG have redefined our capacity for the likes of Millwall, Leeds & Pigs there'll be a few more ahead of us together with that lot.