Memories of the plastic pitch

[1973 ranger]

Think it was ripped up around 87/88 Westy and Chelsea 6-0 was a great day but Liverpool in 86 Milk Cup Semi was one of my favourite games on it.

[Fraggy]

Bought a piece for a fiver when they tore it up. Looks like something you’d see in a green grocers. Ours was concrete underneath. Oldhams and Lutons at least had sand. Gary Bannister was class on it.

I managed to cut me a piece off during one of the many pitch invasions of that era. I also secured myself the corner flag down between paddock & School end (just the flag not the pole, some wedge head grabbed the pole).
Great times, & I always remember many games being cancelled because of the weather, but ours always went ahead.
Also remember a friendly against Notts County, I think we was supposed to be playing away, & almost every game in the country had been called off, so they put on a friendly.

The era of Terry"s All Gold

[West Acton]

Think it was ripped up around 87/88 Westy and Chelsea 6-0 was a great day but Liverpool in 86 Milk Cup Semi was one of my favourite games on it.

Now I remember watching that live on the box and even watching game on tv under floodlights was special

[West Acton]

How you reckon someone like Adel would have coped on AstroTurf

[1973 ranger]

Best 2 players I saw on it were Glenn Hoddle and Jan Molby. Adel would have been class on it.

[Since1972]

Simon stainrod wasn't too shabby on it

[1973 ranger]

Johnny Byrne was good on it as well.

[The General]

Does anyone remember John Burrige the keeper who used to walk on his hands

[brightonr]

Remember it fondly, mainly due to it coinciding with a particularly successful and entertaining era of our history.

It was like watching a different game though. Just imagine what the game would be like if it were played on concrete. It certainly required us to play in a different way.

Remember my brother in law telling me a funny story. Apparently, about 5 minutes before the teams were due to come out, the away team dressing room door would open and a bucket of vaseline would come sliding in through it.

Now that's how to take advantage.

[Shania]

Other players I remember seeing on Television during the Astro Turf days were Mike Flanagan and Mike Fillery. I`m not sure any of those two were that good, but anyway. Mike Fillery came to QPR from Chelsea, I think. A quite tecnical gifted midfielder. Probably in the same team as Gary Waddock..

[Since1972]

Budgie was a nutter wasn't he

[Since1972]

Super sub was Wayne fereday and we had another winger.. Gary??

[West Acton]

Budgie was a nutter wasn't he

Used to sleep in his gloves

[Since1972]

Micklewhite!

[West Acton]

Micklewhite!

Was he a winger I thought he was defender.

Dawes always springs to mind when I think of the plastic