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  • Connell10
    Silver Seat
    • Mar 2011
    • 3468

    #1

    The pitch!

    I was watching a dvd the other day showing the rangers play at loftus rd in 77 and it really brought home to me how bad our pitch was , id forgotten it was a case of spot the grass through all the mud and sand! i think the pitch we have at the moment is the best we had in years and is a credit to the ground staff! does anyone know if the rumour is true that there is a under ground stream running below the pitch on the ellerslie rd stand and thats what makes the pitch on that side a bit dodgy! true or bull?
    LONDON CALLING TO THE ZOMBIES OF DEATH.... ALSO KNOW AS BRENTFORD FANS
  • Mublock
    Apprentice
    • Mar 2011
    • 122

    #2
    Lack of sunlight is the reason the pitch was always dodgy...the roof of the stand prevents the sunlight getting to the grass there...these days they use lamps that go up and down the pitch creating artificial sunlight...

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    • waterbuffalo
      Banned
      • Mar 2009
      • 3642

      #3
      Originally posted by Connell10
      I was watching a dvd the other day showing the rangers play at loftus rd in 77 and it really brought home to me how bad our pitch was , id forgotten it was a case of spot the grass through all the mud and sand! i think the pitch we have at the moment is the best we had in years and is a credit to the ground staff! does anyone know if the rumour is true that there is a under ground stream running below the pitch on the ellerslie rd stand and thats what makes the pitch on that side a bit dodgy! true or bull?
      Connell, let's go back to Astro Turf, it just destroyed our supposedly superior opponents, their legs couldn't take it. All we had to do was bounce it at the centreback, watch it go over his head..goal!

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      • Connell10
        Silver Seat
        • Mar 2011
        • 3468

        #4
        oh mate that focking ominturf pitch was shite! i remember going to the first game played on it , i was with my dad and no-one in the crowd knew how it would play, we soon found out from the the first goal kick and the ball came down and seemed to bounce 100ft into the air! i looked at my dad and he looked at me and said as one " this pitch is focking awful"as we both shook our heads! worse was to come as we got beat by luton in that game as well! still we got to a cup final and got promoted on the back of it! does anyone remember the last game on it when at the final whistle there was a pitch invasion and fans started to rip it up?? great days!
        LONDON CALLING TO THE ZOMBIES OF DEATH.... ALSO KNOW AS BRENTFORD FANS

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        • LoftusRoadLad
          W12 Seat
          • Jan 2011
          • 19582

          #5
          Was you one of loads of us who dug up some turf and took it home ? I did and put it in me garden ! Thinking about it now...musta been a idiot ! lol

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          • Connell10
            Silver Seat
            • Mar 2011
            • 3468

            #6
            no i was even worse i bought a peice of ominturf from the club shop! wot a prat!
            LONDON CALLING TO THE ZOMBIES OF DEATH.... ALSO KNOW AS BRENTFORD FANS

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            • LoftusRoadLad
              W12 Seat
              • Jan 2011
              • 19582

              #7
              Originally posted by Connell10
              no i was even worse i bought a peice of ominturf from the club shop! wot a prat!

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              • waterbuffalo
                Banned
                • Mar 2009
                • 3642

                #8
                Originally posted by Connell10
                oh mate that focking ominturf pitch was shite! i remember going to the first game played on it , i was with my dad and no-one in the crowd knew how it would play, we soon found out from the the first goal kick and the ball came down and seemed to bounce 100ft into the air! i looked at my dad and he looked at me and said as one " this pitch is focking awful"as we both shook our heads! worse was to come as we got beat by luton in that game as well! still we got to a cup final and got promoted on the back of it! does anyone remember the last game on it when at the final whistle there was a pitch invasion and fans started to rip it up?? great days!
                If Stoke had it, they'd win the premiership by 15 points!!

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                • waterbuffalo
                  Banned
                  • Mar 2009
                  • 3642

                  #9
                  that's what we need, a tiny narrow pitch, bomb it up the middle to HH and Ishmael, 8 men in our half, we'd never lose!

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                  • waterbuffalo
                    Banned
                    • Mar 2009
                    • 3642

                    #10
                    no, actually we have a lot of wingers, we should play at wembley, really wide, I mean, really really wide.

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