Darvel F C 20/21

[Talbot supporter]

Storm Barra to hit on Tuesday morning [emoji943]

[greendot]

20 hours ago, Talbot supporter said:

Storm Barra to hit on Tuesday morning

 

Match already postponed with a pre-emptive waterlogging from the weekend unsurprisingly!

[jimbaxters]

2 hours ago, greendot said:

 

Match already postponed with a pre-emptive waterlogging from the weekend unsurprisingly!

Has no one thought of forking it?

[parkcircus]

Feel a bit for Darvel. The pitch is cracking and a great asset to the league and there’s not many capital investment programs that go well first time round.

The park the Buffs play on cost £150k and took nearly 10 years to get the drainage sorted, this is our first year we’ve got it right, sand banding and weekly vertidraining, but that costs a fortune in equipment.

The 300k Astro had a defective flaw and had to be relaid after 5 year at a cost of £180k

The pitch behind the Astro cost £80k to build and was supposed to be for Killie to train on. They never used it and the vertidrainer can’t be run on it as it hits bricks and rubble 4inches under the surface.

Clubs usually follow what the contractor tells them and mostly they are guessing, especially when it comes to drainage.

What they will have is a cracking surface for decades to come once the teething issues are sorted. Might not be this season or next but it’ll eventually be fixed.

 

Edited December 6, 2021 by parkcircus

[greendot]

1 hour ago, jimbaxters said:

Has no one thought of forking it?

 

The weather's forked it enough already

[Talbot supporter]

Feel a bit for Darvel. The pitch is cracking and a great asset to the league and there’s not many capital investment programs that go well first time round.
The park the Buffs play on cost £150k and took nearly 10 years to get the drainage sorted, this is our first year we’ve got it right, sand banding and weekly vertidraining, but that costs a fortune in equipment.
The 300k Astro had a defective flaw and had to be relaid after 5 year at a cost of £180k
The pitch behind the Astro cost £80k to build and was supposed to be for Killie to train on. They never used it and the vertidrainer can’t be run on it as it hits bricks and rubble 4inches under the surface.
Clubs usually follow what the contractor tells them and mostly they are guessing, especially when it comes to drainage.
What they will have is a cracking surface for decades to come once the teething issues are sorted. Might not be this season or next but it’ll eventually be fixed.
 

You would think in this day and age you would be able to lay a new pitch with correct drainage but can understand some teething problems. Our pitch was bad down 1 side for years until we got it properly done and maintained.

[Killiepiyo]

Took Talbot a while to get the coal rd goal mouth fully sorted. Know little about pitches but what ive known is its a bit trial and error however much you spend. Looking at the weather it may run on a bit

[Talbot supporter]

Took Talbot a while to get the coal rd goal mouth fully sorted. Know little about pitches but what ive known is its a bit trial and error however much you spend. Looking at the weather it may run on a bit

Aye and before that it used to be bad done the big stand side, all sorted now though.

[parkcircus]

6 hours ago, Talbot supporter said:

6 hours ago, Killiepiyo said:

Took Talbot a while to get the coal rd goal mouth fully sorted. Know little about pitches but what ive known is its a bit trial and error however much you spend. Looking at the weather it may run on a bit

Aye and before that it used to be bad done the big stand side, all sorted now though.

The brick wall ground the park wouldn’t have helped, same issue for Maryhill

[parkcircus]

7 hours ago, Talbot supporter said:

9 hours ago, parkcircus said:

Feel a bit for Darvel. The pitch is cracking and a great asset to the league and there’s not many capital investment programs that go well first time round.
The park the Buffs play on cost £150k and took nearly 10 years to get the drainage sorted, this is our first year we’ve got it right, sand banding and weekly vertidraining, but that costs a fortune in equipment.
The 300k Astro had a defective flaw and had to be relaid after 5 year at a cost of £180k
The pitch behind the Astro cost £80k to build and was supposed to be for Killie to train on. They never used it and the vertidrainer can’t be run on it as it hits bricks and rubble 4inches under the surface.
Clubs usually follow what the contractor tells them and mostly they are guessing, especially when it comes to drainage.
What they will have is a cracking surface for decades to come once the teething issues are sorted. Might not be this season or next but it’ll eventually be fixed.
 

You would think in this day and age you would be able to lay a new pitch with correct drainage but can understand some teething problems. Our pitch was bad down 1 side for years until we got it properly done and maintained.

The contractors usually turn up in the summer to quote/plan a project, they’ll never have seen the water running down the hill in the middle of winter

[sweep]

Is the Darvel pitch drained into the river Irvine? If so the level of the river may play a part in water retention.  It takes two or three years for new drainage to draw properly.

 

[Shanner]

Much is the Brechin game going to be to get in?

[andy25]

Much is the Brechin game going to be to get in?

£10.

[holmparkheroes]

Well done Darvel.

[Cinco Estrella]

Surprisingly big crowd there tonight. Good few hundred I’d reckon.

[Lokloyal]

Well done Darvel 

[jimbaxters]

Good result that, well done. Looks like it was an good, hard game too.

[Lichtie78]

Surprisingly big crowd there tonight. Good few hundred I’d reckon.

Was just coming on to ask what the attendance was, looked decent enough from the video of the winning penalty. Will be a good day out for Darvel fans up at Gayfield in January

[Andy groundhopper]

Where can you get highlights from last night's game ? Admittedly I haven't looked very far just yet, getting lazy

[RedEd]

1 hour ago, Andy groundhopper said:

Where can you get highlights from last night's game ? Admittedly I haven't looked very far just yet, getting lazy

The Scottish Cup YouTube channel has them.