Adver News: Town to consider undersoil heating

[News Monkey]

Town to consider undersoil heating
           

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  SWINDON Town plan to give ‘serious consideration’ to installing undersoil heating at the County Ground at some point in the future, chief executive Nick
  Watkins has confirmed.
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[Batch]

Plastic pitch. Fack ooorf.

[suttonred]

Worth looking at. The technology has moved on a lot since the days of the pvc pitches of the 80's. Isnt wembley 50/50 now?

[jayohaitchenn]

The New Wembley being famous for having an excellent playing surface, of course.

[Batch]

I think we've all played on the local 3G pitches.

They are 100 times better than the astro-turf of old. But the professional equivalent would have to be 100 times better again before you get to simulating proper grass.

For reasons I can't properly articulate, I'd hate to see them used for league football.

[Bogus Dave]

The New Wembley being famous for having an excellent playing surface, of course.

To be fair, they relayed it pretty much straight after our play off final, and it's been fine since.

All the top clubs play on a grass/plastic hybrid pitch. How do you think they stay in such good quality? Thats the way forward

[Abrahammer]

Not worth it.

Half the time games are called off not because of the pitch but the H&S bollocks about spectator safety.

[No Longer Posh Red]

Isn't the Madejski pitch one of these.

To be fair, on the basis that they play football & Rugby on it regularly it always seems in pretty good nick

[Batch]

All the top clubs play on a grass/plastic hybrid pitch. How do you think they stay in such good quality? Thats the way forward

Not got a problem with hybrid pitches. But the way the article was phrased sounded like totally 100% plastic, not a hybrid of mostly soil/grass with synthetic fibres.  The Desso GrassMaster (tm) is only 3% synthetic.

I didn't realise Wembley was using this type of hybrid technology.

[Matchworn Shirts]

A consideration, more of a long term investment. I imaging cost v benefit would lean more towards too costly