OAFCM35 Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/29919748 League 1 & 2 chairmen vote today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie_J Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 I play regularly on a 3G pitch. It's a fantastic surface; far better than astroturf. The problem is, for all the money to be saved in maintenance, if they're not allowed in the Championship, you'd have to dig the bugger up if you won promotion, just like our plastic pitch in the nineties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24hoursfromtulsehill Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 I reckon we should get one. Oldham being Oldham, we'd soon find ourselves in a league where it's banned. Good for community use as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greengrass Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 Could be a case of media hysteria but worth consideration? http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/how-safe-artificial-turf-your-child-plays-n220166 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudemedic Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 I play regularly on a 3G pitch. It's a fantastic surface; far better than astroturf. The problem is, for all the money to be saved in maintenance, if they're not allowed in the Championship, you'd have to dig the bugger up if you won promotion, just like our plastic pitch in the nineties. Technically we had to dig it up anyway as it was banned in the then Division 2 as well as the then Division 1. It's just our luck that the last year they could be used we got promoted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego_Sideburns Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 In the Chron, LG says the regular use of artificial pitches would “write off” up to six players in the current squad who have had knee problems in the past, due to the harder surface. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slystallone Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 Older astroturf pitches are the reason that, at 34, i can sometimes stuggle to even walk without severe knee pain. Granted that was from playing Hockey not football, and I was regularly twatted on my already dodgy knees with a wooden stick too, but still. I can well understand LJ's point about some of the players. Those types of surfaces, albeit tjey're now of a better quality and standard than the 1980's and 1990's versions, are knee wreckers. So, i would guess Kelly, Forte, Elekobi, Lockwood, B Wilson, Ibhere, and poss Turner would all be in danger if it ever happened... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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