Gribz 743 Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Rangers are to lay a new playing surface in time for Wednesday's re-scheduled Scottish Cup tie with East Stirlingshire at Ibrox. Work starts on Friday and will continue over the weekend to be ready for the match on 23 January. The match was originally due to be played on Sunday 13 January, but was postponed after heavy rain left the Ibrox surface waterlogged. The club's groundstaff are confident the pitch will be ready for Wednesday. This is a good thing as the pitch has been shocking recently. No excuses for not putting at least 6 past East Stirling now!! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calscot 0 Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Looks like we'll be putting in a new pitch every January. Is there not a more cost effective solution than this? Seems to me we should dramatically improve the drainage and get in those lights for the grass that Arsenal have. Other large stadiums have good pitches so what are we doing wrong? (Apart from maybe digging down too far...) 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gisabeer 409 Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 remember a few seasons ago there was something up with the grass, it had a disease or something. they said at the time it would cause major problems . 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribz 743 Posted January 19, 2008 Author Share Posted January 19, 2008 I bet Jonc wishes he was the Ibrox pitch right now - he never gets laid 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon 0 Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Not by ladyboys like your good self, no 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraser54 0 Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Pitch was in superd condition until we played DUndee Utd a few weeks ago in that heavy rain and it just cut up 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest scotzine Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 cost effective way = buying loadsa army style ponchos sew they together make a tent across the ibrox pitch and sort the drainage out - then watch as the rain runs into the drains - there ye go! saved the club how many hundreds of thousands on imported green grass! cricket clubs use the same method of sorts wimbeldon use a similar thing also why not a footie club - just need a proper system sorted out and it would save clubs across the country thousands and would also help those clubs that call games off cause of frost - because the race courses have a system in place to prevent frost on their courses - well down in england not scotland yet - buy spending a few thousand on a system that will run for years and years the clubs save hundreds of thousands of pounds in lost revenue and changing pitches etc. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribz 743 Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 Looks like we'll be putting in a new pitch every January. Is there not a more cost effective solution than this? Seems to me we should dramatically improve the drainage and get in those lights for the grass that Arsenal have. Other large stadiums have good pitches so what are we doing wrong? (Apart from maybe digging down too far...) Yeah it seems we are doing this, so drainage and light solutions would be a start. Im getting more and more towards the idea of summer football. Id miss the Xmas program but for the good of our game it think its time to switch the season from Feb to Nov. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie 8,182 Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 We have bought the lights and a new domed rain cover... 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calscot 0 Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 That's really interesting, Frankie. Do you have more details or a link? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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