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Player Wilson Odobert

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Remember when Frank was telling us...just last week...that we have 5 players for 3 positions up top available (in a 3-4-3 formation) and the rest will start coming back. He was saying to justify it was enough and look now.

In the next few days we will find out Moore actually had a break clause in his loan.
 
Airfixx said:
This was my OG point... Surely the regular, most commonly used pitch is the lower of the 2 and subject to whatever typical foundations that any other pitch would be?
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Other way around. The NFL pitch is below the regular pitch. The regular football pitch rests on three separate trays that are mounted to rails and roll beneath one of the stands when they need to use the NFL pitch or events.
 
PointToPatrik said:
It is regular grass. But the trays that the grass rests on that allows it to be retracted apparently makes it much stiffer than your typical, stationary pitch.
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As above, that's what I was getting at...... Surely common sense says you put the footy pitch on the bottom, natural ground rather than the false floor (leave that to the NFL lot to worry about!).
 
I knew Wilson's injury was serious at the time. Although he walked off , it took quite a while for him to stand up.
Not only do we lose , but we seem to be getting a serious injury per game. I thought Wilson looked quite good yesterday, but he's not really had much opportunity to show what he can do, and now it's going to be a while before he gets his chance.
That's also another body down, when will it end???
 
Airfixx said:
As above, that's what I was getting at...... Surely common sense says you put the footy pitch on the bottom, natural ground rather than the false floor (leave that to the NFL lot to worry about!).
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Isn't there a car park under the artificial surface too?

There is no natural ground below either pitch is there?

That is underneath the car park.

Where is the karting track?
 
PointToPatrik said:
It is regular grass. But the trays that the grass rests on that allows it to be retracted apparently makes it much stiffer than your typical, stationary pitch.
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I can't help but think there must be less "give" in the pitch and this could be the root cause of some of these knee & hamstring injuries. Be interesting to see any Data regarding where and when some of the injuries occurred.
 
manmountainbutters said:
Don't think it's the grass length or wind speed anyone is talking about.
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I've only 'walked' on one top end pitch, wembley but it's absolutely amazing, like walking on velour..BUT underneath it felt concrete hard..wouldn't fancy falling over on it, there'd be an initial break from the grass then no give, it's rock hard... Not sure about our pitch, but that it's new technology and the amount of injuries, could well suggests there's issues...
 
Kosher Kid said:
Isn't there a car park under the artificial surface too?

There is no natural ground below either pitch is there?

That is underneath the car park.

Where is the karting track?
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Under near every pitch in a modern football stadium, it's a thin layer of turf, a thin layer of drainage material over crushed stone for firmness and flatness. Ours just sits on massive steel slabs, and then under them, the second pitch. Unless those slabs are bouncing, and the fact that they weigh 3000 tonnes each, without the weight of turf and material, I find it difficult to believe that 22 players would cause enough weight to put any strain on it what so ever. It's not really any different ergonomically to any other pitch.
 
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