Size of pitch

[bertieblade]

will we be changing the size of our pitch for the new season?

What size as it last year and what size suits NA style of play?

God it's boring with no real football news in the close season

 

[mosbolad]

I don't know whether this is true but I am just passing it on. A friend of mine whose wife's sons father brother once went to a school where a lad from a nearby school was nearly selected for a trial at the academy reckons that a coach at the academy who he never had says the pitch will be much much smaller to be size appropriate to the players legs.

Larger opposition players will be continually running out of play.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

This Desso pitch isn't the same stuff that they're currently using at the women's World Cup, is it? That looks awful. I play five-a-side on something very similar and as our game goes on, the ball builds up static and the rubber crumbs get attracted to it and stick to it. You can actually hear the ball rattling as it rolls!!

 

[Balham]

This Desso pitch isn't the same stuff that they're currently using at the women's World Cup, is it? That looks awful. I play five-a-side on something very similar and as our game goes on, the ball builds up static and the rubber crumbs get attracted to it and stick to it. You can actually hear the ball rattling as it rolls!!

No. That's 3G (rubber crumb) which is currently only permitted up to Conference North/South level I think.

Desso is a grass pitch with some plastic fibres inserted into it which keeps it together better.

 

[Ashtonsmashton]

I believe it will be as big as possible to keep with Adkins style of play, as at Southampton he tended to use fast attacking players.

I big pitch would be suited to them as it would give them more time and space to run with the ball and look for a pass.

It also gives more spaces for the players to attack into. The only problem it does the same for the other players so we will need some fast full back or a fast CB if we were to play in that way

 

[Worksop II]

The only problem it does the same for the other players

Whoa there !! - are you telling me its the same for both sides, I thought the pitch was only shit for us .........................

Has anyone told the Prince ?

 

[Blade56]

I thought we were building in a tilt mechanism and handles across the pitch to move players around

 

[HighfieldBlade]

If this top-10 list of pitch sizes is accurate, we should make our pitch as big as Man City's.
If we have a big home pitch, away teams will psychologically feel they have more ground to cover and get tired out quicker. Simple!!

1. Manchester City, City of Manchester Stadium, 116 x 77 yards, 8932
2. Manchester United, Old Trafford, 116 x 76 yards, 8816
3. Southampton, St Mary’s Stadium, 115 x 74.5, 8740
4. Stoke City, Britannia Stadium, 115 x 75 yards, 8625
5. Aston Villa, Villa Park, 114 x 75 yards, 8550
6. Swansea, Liberty Stadium, 115 x 74 yards, 8510
7. Arsenal, Emirates Stadium, 114 x 74 yards, 8436
8. Cardiff City, Cardiff City Stadium, 114 x 74 yards, 8436
9. Norwich, Carrow Road, 114 x 74 yards, 8436
10. Sunderland, Stadium of Light, 114 x 74 yards, 8436

 

[RedandWhite]

A friend of mine whose wife's sons father brother once went to a school where a lad from a nearby school was nearly selected for a trial at the academy reckons

Hahaha!

 

[vorpal blade]

Highfield, how big was the Bramall Lane pitch ?

 

[Jon Bon]

If we have a big home pitch, away teams will psychologically feel they have more ground to cover and get tired out quicker. Simple!!

It's not just psychological. They WILL physically have more ground to cover.

 

[blade too long]

Adkins is introducing a much more rigid system

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Adkins is introducing a much more rigid system

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If you've never had a go at human table football , do so... it's a reyt laugh. It requires your teammates to pull in the same direction - quite literally!

 

[GB10]

will we be changing the size of our pitch for the new season?

What size as it last year and what size suits NA style of play?

God it's boring with no real football news in the close season

It sure is !!!!
And so the real answer is quite boring too... They any really change it much at all ( larger) than what it has been as the if they do the advertising hoardings have to go with it and they get to the point certainly on the south stand side where you wouldn't be able to see them for the concrete wall .. And as we know money talks
The science of what's called C values ( what the supporter can actually see over the head of someone in front based on everyone being the same height) is actually quite tricky
One of the points that spoils the lane for me is the slope on the pitch - one metre from south stand to john street and c values are why they aren't sorting that out - personally I still that's a mistake !!
Like you say roll on the start of the season I have nearly sent myself to sleep with that answer never mind you guys !!!

 

[metalblade]

The lane pitch is a small 112 x 72 yards which could explain why we found it difficult to break down lesser teams that came and parked the bus.

 

[MalvernBlade]

was it Bassett who made the playing area smaller?

 

[vorpal blade]

Thanks for the info. Metal. I thought ours was narrow and yet there is no need given the space at both sides of the pitch. But any lengthening would make the Kop virtually redundant.

New pitches seem to have astroturf abutting the grass at both sidelines (so the linesmen don't make a muddy track) - that puts paid to any adjustment of the width after they have lain the Desso® pitch - or is this a different system?

I'll be intrigued as to whether they manage to make the Bramall Lane end goal a rectangle this time round because I don't think it was last season .

 

[metalblade]

Thanks for the info. Metal. I thought ours was narrow and yet there is no need given the space at both sides of the pitch. But any lengthening would make the Kop virtually redundant.

New pitches seem to have astroturf abutting the grass at both sidelines (so the linesmen don't make a muddy track) - that puts paid to any adjustment of the width after they have lain the Desso® pitch - or is this a different system?

I'll be intrigued as to whether they manage to make the Bramall Lane end goal a rectangle this time round because I don't think it was last season .

Yes as MalvernBlade says Basset was responsible for the narrow pitch didn't Colin also mess with the pitch size at some point too ?

 

[Silent Blade]

Yes as MalvernBlade says Basset was responsible for the narrow pitch didn't Colin also mess with the pitch size at some point too ?

Yes, it was noticeable when we played Liverpool at the start of the 2006-07 season

 

[blade too long]

yes the pitch was so small our players were tired just getting to the pitch when running out

play was very congested that season

 

[Bladebri]

They have worked the pitch size out,

 

[Mustela Putorius Furo]

was it Bassett who made the playing area smaller?

Yeah, Agana was one of the players that reckoned they had to spend more time chasing punts into the corners if the pitch was too wide.

It's generally a tactic of "long-ball" managers to narrow the pitch. It's also something useful to teams that prefer to defend fairly narrow, forcing attackers out wide, and inviting crosses but avoiding being cut apart through the middle - a bit like us in the second half of last season. Narrow the pitch to cut down the physical space out on the wings and getting the crosses in becomes harder.

Trouble is you often take that defensive approach because your central defenders and defensive midfielders are big lumbering cart-horses that aren't quick or clever enough to cut out the attacks, but can defend crosses and corners till the cows come home...... We took that approach with short-arses... we couldn't keep crosses out or stop being cut apart through the middle.... no wonder we couldn't keep a clean sheet.