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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: oneedham on February 22, 2020, 09:40:25 AM
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I know it gets mentioned all the time and is becoming boring but the club never give a clear answer.
Rainfall has been horrendous but my garden this morning 20 mins from the ground is OK. I know the ground sits on a high water table and beside a brook but can we have some answers as it becoming rather depressing.
I was one who put money towards them.
Why aren't covers used early before surface water gathers? ( again I appreciate water rises from underground)
Have we bought the Matchsaver covers?
Is there more volunteers can do during rainy spells to get games on?
Can we look to dig underground drainage/piping for the worst corner at the golf road that could maybe link in with the street drainage outside the ground? At present the water can't filter away.
I dislike fake pitches, it is never the same game, people pull away on tackles and they just don't make games as exciting, so for me we need to look at ways to sort drainage.
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Am I right in thinking the covers dont cover the full pitch ?
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Am I right in thinking the covers dont cover the full pitch ?
These Matchsavers should do. It reads as we have bought them but again no update?
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We share your frustration but sometimes you just have to accept that everyone is doing their best but the weather wins.
Even Curzon is off and they have a great piitch. Too much rain came down last night.
I thought the main purpose of the covers was to protect from frost, not sure they even cover the whole pitch either ?
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https://matchsaver.com/altrincham-fc-prepare-for-winter-with-matchsaver
I think we have new one's?
I accept the weather always wins but the above link is an example of lack of communication.
The club is going in the right direction regarding communication, but not when it comes to the pitch or injury updates.
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I put a fair bit into the pitch covers, were all frustrated. At best they cover half the pitch, so we need ones to cover all the pitch surely. The drainage then where all this water on the covers goes is an issue. It runs to the sides and back feeds under the covers into the ground and lifts the water table, so self defeating. As Ollie says, we need better drainaige around the pitch and not just flow into a mud filled ditch by the allotments.
That said, the rain in the last 2 weeks has sodden the ground. It has to be the worst amount of winter rain in memory in this area.
The club I am sure are looking at how to improve the pitch and surrounding drainage. It should be in the 10 year plan.
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How long ago was that link published ? And why did the club not post it to the official website ?
I have no beef with today's game being off as the high water table is a problem we simply can't control, and the club site warned yesterday that the situation was unpromising.
But I have to agree with others that we should be kept up to date with injuries/illness within the squad. Simon Richman ? Sean Williams ? It isn't hard surely !
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There is an injury update video on Twitter.
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Trafford is ON.
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How many games have we saved with this set of covers
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Pitch covers have saved no games I believe, for rain at least.
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There is an injury update video on Twitter.
Thanks - I'll try to pick it up, though Twitter is a foreign land to me.
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There lots of clay in our area be interesting to know if we have any underground driange-soakaway system?? The water table is very high everywhere at the moment due to all the rain though so covers wouldn't help?
Came across this forum might have some helpful info.
https://www.pitchcare.com/forum/view/98817-football-pitch-advice
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There is an injury update video on Twitter.
Thanks - I'll try to pick it up, though Twitter is a foreign land to me.
Phil,
Here's your portal to a brave new world....
https://twitter.com/altrinchamfc/status/1230612583977189376 (https://twitter.com/altrinchamfc/status/1230612583977189376)
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There lots of clay in our area be interesting to know if we have any underground driange-soakaway system?? The water table is very high everywhere at the moment due to all the rain though so covers wouldn't help?
Came across this forum might have some helpful info.
https://www.pitchcare.com/forum/view/98817-football-pitch-advice
Article from April 2009 on Alty's pitch:
https://www.pitchcare.com/news-media/altrinchams-part-time-love.html (https://www.pitchcare.com/news-media/altrinchams-part-time-love.html)
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Thanks for that much appreciated.
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Good article and we know the sprinkle system is still operational but is the drainage still as effective as it was 10 years ago?
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Think the rain this season, especially this month has been the worst in 30 years. I believe the club had the drains within the ground cleaned out in close season gone, and they fitted extra drainage in the ground. But at the end of the day, it naturally flows into the local cut by the allotments, which flows into a stream. If the cut water level rises, then this affects the drainage at the ground. With the rain in last 2 weeks it needs many days of dry weather to start to recover. Not happening at present. Without massive investement we are going to have this recurring issue.