Thank Goodness

[Red Robin]

I am very pleased to hear GJ say on the radio this morning A, he does not want BRISTOL ROVERS or B, BRISTOL RUGBY playing on our pitch on a regular basis.

That pitch after the last Rugby game was a complete joke.

We as a club have traditionally played proper football,we certainly do not want to lose that.

The pitch for our home games is always spot on lets keep it that way.

[Rocky]

A'men brother.

[Guest Jurssey]

A'men brother.

EXACTLY!!!!

I DO NOT WANT THE RUGBY CLUB THERE FOR THE PITCH'S SAKE!!!

I DO NOT WANT THE GAS THERE BECAUSE.....WELL I don't HAVE THE TIME OR THE INCLINATION TO LIST THE REASONS...

[Robbored]

If the Rugby club do share AG with us there is no reason that it wouldn't work - after all it works well at other stadiums.The 'problem' is the pitch but there is a type of turf (I can't remember what its called) that is designed for heavy use and its used at places like Swansea and Watford.The drawback is that it costs around £750k to install.

Obviously if the egg - chasers are to move into AG then they would have to bear the cost of laying a new pitch.

[Maesknoll Red]

If the Rugby club do share AG with us there is no reason that it wouldn't work - after all it works well at other stadiums.The 'problem' is the pitch but there is a type of turf (I can't remember what its called) that is designed for heavy use and its used at places like Swansea and Watford.The drawback is that it costs around £750k to install.

Obviously if the egg - chasers are to move into AG then they would have to bear the cost of laying a new pitch.

With the current pitch, its obviously out of the question, the pitch looks worse this season than it has for quite a while, this only became apparent after the egg chasers churned it up. if they played all their home games on it it wouldn't last more than a couple of weeks before we were getting complaints from visiting clubs, as well as putting a stop to any decent passing playing style.

The pitch type that can cope with both sports does provide a decent service, the 2002/2003 season saw us travel to Wycombe on New Years day, the rain bloody hammered down all the way there and Radio 5 were announcing games called off all over the country, every few minutes. We arrived at Wycombe fully expecting the game to be called off, but their pitch, which is, IIRC, a combination of turf and some synthetic material to keep it together was excellent, it rained throughout the day and the pitch stood up well ( better than us, losing 2-1).

They have egg chasing on it, but you really couldn't complain about the suitability for football, I assume that the synthetic part of the pitch ensures that the grass can be kept short enough to play decent football on, rather than the slightly longer grass favoured by egg chasers.

If the egg fanciers want to stump up the toatal cost of relayiong the pitch to the correct spec and contribute a decent amount for rent, it would make business sense, although my heart says keep it as a purely football ground, for one team, as we've had an excellent pitch for several years now.