Shandon Par Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 Just now, Fae_the_'briggs said: Too sticky (owing to seagull shite), as are most of the seats. We struggled against Edinburgh City on the plastic. Shouldn't really be an excuse as it's so common in our league but we really didn't look as slick as we do on our lovely East End grass. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fae_the_'briggs Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 24 minutes ago, Shandon Par said: We struggled against Edinburgh City on the plastic. Shouldn't really be an excuse as it's so common in our league but we really didn't look as slick as we do on our lovely East End grass. It should give us a slight advantage being more used to it, unfortunately it doesn't. It's probably more to do with players ability but first time control seems to be a problem. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoBNob Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 6 hours ago, Shandon Par said: I'd like to blame the surface for our imminent defeat. Cheers. It isn't a good artificial surface from the times I've seen it play. Don't think I've seen a good game on it since they switched from grass. 4 hours ago, Shandon Par said: We struggled against Edinburgh City on the plastic. Shouldn't really be an excuse as it's so common in our league but we really didn't look as slick as we do on our lovely East End grass. With the Edinburgh City game they kept it dry as possible, was horrible. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palmy_cammy Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 Our pitch is horrendous when it is dry, which it always seems to be. I've no idea if the ground-staff water it or not, but we get enough rain in Dumfries that it shouldn't be a problem. On the very rare occasions that it does look watered I think our pitch produces the sort of fast and slick passing you'd hope and expect from an artificial surface. The majority of the time though it is a sticky, bobbly mess. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Have some faith in Magic Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 That description of the pitch sounds like the pitch in Edinburgh, hopefully it's peeing it down Saturday lunchtime. As for the game there is surely no way we will get the time and space out wide we got on Friday night. It was shown in the Edinburgh City game that if we don't click and play at pace we are pretty toothless. It will be a hard game, we don't have a particularly good record there recently, any win would be a really good result. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 Have I completely imagined this or did the young groundsman used to go around the pitch when it was first installed and put on the sprinklers? Every chance I'm confusing this with another ground. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_palmy_pie Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 45 minutes ago, palmy_cammy said: Our pitch is horrendous when it is dry, which it always seems to be. I've no idea if the ground-staff water it or not, but we get enough rain in Dumfries that it shouldn't be a problem. On the very rare occasions that it does look watered I think our pitch produces the sort of fast and slick passing you'd hope and expect from an artificial surface. The majority of the time though it is a sticky, bobbly mess. It’s watered before every game. Always has been. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsforlife Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 It’s watered before every game. Always has been. It’s played like a dry pitch most times I’ve seen us play on it.When is it watered? Falkirk and Hamilton in the past have done it right before kick off and again at halftime” never seen that at Palmerston. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QoS_1919 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 I've seen it watered a few times. Played on it 3 times last season in the amateur league and everytime we got there it was just finishing getting watered. How many year was the pitch meant to last again? I can remember reading about it when it got put down. Seems to be by its used by date already. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 Stevie getting in early with "we won't blame the pitch, honest". https://dafc.co.uk/story.php?t=No_excuses_surface&ID=11378 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 It is a shite surface but players will know what it's like and almost every footballer will have trained on the stuff at some point. You only have to look at our results over the past couple of seasons to see it certainly doesn't give us any kind of advantage. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeredbook Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 On 06/08/2019 at 20:57, QoS_1919 said: I've seen it watered a few times. Played on it 3 times last season in the amateur league and everytime we got there it was just finishing getting watered. How many year was the pitch meant to last again? I can remember reading about it when it got put down. Seems to be by its used by date already. It will be relayed next year . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 What's the fucking point in it if it's relayed every couple of years??? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QoS_1919 Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 32 minutes ago, weeredbook said: It will be relayed next year . Really? Or is that just what you think will happen? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeredbook Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 1 minute ago, QoS_1919 said: Really? Or is that just what you think will happen? Have it on good authority . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 It’s 250 green doormats from Homebase. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q0S-RUSH Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 2 minutes ago, D.A.F.C said: It’s 250 green doormats from Homebase. Wrong, Its from Home Bargains actually. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 5 minutes ago, Q0S-RUSH said: Wrong, Its from Home Bargains actually. Wow, next gen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_palmy_pie Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 55 minutes ago, QoS_1919 said: Really? Or is that just what you think will happen? It’s happening and you might just see the old pitch used elsewhere at a pitch near Palmerston 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Flash Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 1 hour ago, Stellaboz said: What's the fucking point in it if it's relayed every couple of years??? I think in 2020 it will be 6 years since it was last relaid. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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