how was it for you
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how was it for you
Watched the highlights from wed and the pitch looked ok. but what about the other ground Improvements any change ? any better?.
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Pitch looked great for the stands, and seemed ok for playing decent passing football on - but on a few occasions huge clumps would get kicked up, or if someone went for a slide tackle it would really churn up. No idea what will happen once the rugby starts being played on it.
Ground was the same as far as I could tell. Nice to see a few new sponsor boards appearing.
Ground was the same as far as I could tell. Nice to see a few new sponsor boards appearing.
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Having the dugouts recessed outside the line of the perimeter fence has massively improved the view of the playing area from the clubhouse side. Money well spent.
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I've not heard much mentioned about the improvements at BM - I guess it's a case of people will moan if there's something they don't like but won't comment if everything is satisfactory so I'm taking that as people were happy. From what I could see the following improvements have been made which for me gave the place a much more complete feel.
• Dugouts moved back and AstroTurf technical area
• Seats raised and fencing height re-adjusted
• Grassing of the area to the side of the Seated stands and paved emergency exits - this has smartened up that side no end.
• Floodlight repositioned and stand foundations put in. It's great to see some tangible evidence of what will be there - I think it'll look great once complete
• Dugouts moved back and AstroTurf technical area
• Seats raised and fencing height re-adjusted
• Grassing of the area to the side of the Seated stands and paved emergency exits - this has smartened up that side no end.
• Floodlight repositioned and stand foundations put in. It's great to see some tangible evidence of what will be there - I think it'll look great once complete
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Noticed some of the shorter people in the front row of the seats had their feet dangling in the air. Don't know if there is a step planned to go there.
"At a meeting held at the Grammar School on Friday last - Mr Phillip Wood M.A., in the chair - it was resolved to form an Association Football Club for Darlington and neighbourhood. The opinions of those present were so unanimous as to the desirability of this step, that a committee was formed to complete the organisation of the club, and Mr Craven, 17, Garden Street, was appointed secretary pro tem." - The Northern Echo, Monday 23rd July 1883
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Can't make midweek games, but interested to see how the pitch fares. From the highlights, a few clumps came up... That is not promising... It's a long old season ahead, and once rugby is being played on it too...
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Just because the season has started it doesn't mean that the grass has stopped growing and the root system stopped developing. Grass will only stop growing when temperatures fall below 6 deg C. New lawns can be sown very successfully in September because there is more moisture retained in the soil and the temperatures still well above 6 deg C - albeit not for playing football on.H1987 wrote:Can't make midweek games, but interested to see how the pitch fares. From the highlights, a few clumps came up... That is not promising... It's a long old season ahead, and once rugby is being played on it too...
Try being a little bit more optimistic for a change instead of looking for problems.
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Oh i'm aware it can keep growing well up until October given the mild few winters we have had recently, but the issue is going to be the at least weekly football or rugby match on it, which is bound to undo much progress.
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Unless the dreaded watermain is outside the playing area the new stand foundation slab is over the pipe. I thought we were avoiding building over this main?
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No it isn'tSecretspy wrote:Unless the dreaded watermain is outside the playing area the new stand foundation slab is over the pipe. I thought we were avoiding building over this main?
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Pipe is the other side of the stand. We would be able to build another stand next to the tinshed before hitting it. It stops us building one for about 25-30 yards next to the existing seating stand (on the side where the foundations are not, there's nothing to stop us building all the way to the corner there).
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Rugby Club not playing until late September early October.H1987 wrote:Oh i'm aware it can keep growing well up until October given the mild few winters we have had recently, but the issue is going to be the at least weekly football or rugby match on it, which is bound to undo much progress.
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Thanks for the information. I assumed that the pipe only cut off the corner of the pitch whereas your advice is that it runs from somewhere near the goal in the away end down past the current seated stand over the half-way line and exits the playing surface between the current seated stand and the tinshed if I understand you correctly.H1987 wrote:Pipe is the other side of the stand. We would be able to build another stand next to the tinshed before hitting it. It stops us building one for about 25-30 yards next to the existing seating stand (on the side where the foundations are not, there's nothing to stop us building all the way to the corner there).
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Second half we stood at the top of the grass bank was expecting to get moved but not a bad view