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The pitch - dsmg - 26-02-2022
Looks an absolute picture. No excuse for not controlling the ball. In days gone by it was a quagmire at this stage of the season.
RE: The pitch - Hammie - 26-02-2022
We will pass beautifully in a little circle during the warm up.
RE: The pitch - TBP - 26-02-2022
(26-02-2022, 02:50 PM)dsmg Wrote: Looks an absolute picture. No excuse for not controlling the ball. In days gone by it was a quagmire at this stage of the season.
Actually, it wasn't. Pompey have always had a decent surface, since Duggie Reid and his staff dug some effective drainage ditches back in the 50s. The Big Match Revisited confirms this.
RE: The pitch - Northstander - 26-02-2022
Yep agree we've normally had a decent pitch as I recall. Sometimes it has got heavy under the South Stand no surprise. I have seen a couple on TV lately that are awful. Morecambe one of them who we have to visit
RE: The pitch - dsmg - 26-02-2022
Take a look at the Biley Christmas show, 84. Quagmire
RE: The pitch - Northstander - 26-02-2022
I was away at Sea sadly that day lol
RE: The pitch - TBP - 26-02-2022
Last game of the season, 1975, against Norwich, a billiard table.
RE: The pitch - dsmg - 26-02-2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNGZQuPFTTs&t=337s
Not a billiard table
RE: The pitch - Hammie - 26-02-2022
when I used to sell programmes, Pete in the shop told me about Deacon's discussion with the groundsman in May. Groundsman: "I need six bags of grass seed"
Deacon: "You can have one"
Might account for the lack of green stuff along the South side in those days.
RE: The pitch - TBP - 26-02-2022
(26-02-2022, 06:58 PM)dsmg Wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNGZQuPFTTs&t=337s
Not a billiard table
It's certainly cutting up a bit. I was at the game, but I don't recall the weather conditions. There is no sand down and it looks very green. Billiard table is a figure of speech and not to be taken literally. As I said, in 1975, it was in startlingly good condition, compared to every other team featured, including Ipswich, who had been on the week before.
RE: The pitch - Hammie - 26-02-2022
(26-02-2022, 08:27 PM)TBP Wrote:(26-02-2022, 06:58 PM)dsmg Wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNGZQuPFTTs&t=337s
Not a billiard table
It's certainly cutting up a bit. I was at the game, but I don't recall the weather conditions. There is no sand down and it looks very green. Billiard table is a figure of speech and not to be taken literally. As I said, in 1975, it was in startlingly good condition, compared to every other team featured, including Ipswich, who had been on the week before.
and comparing to now is unfair as the pitches then were proper grass on genuine earth as compared to a strange mix now of earth, sand grass and plastic