Pitch Problems

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Point one - I'm not sure how many times the undersoil heating's actually been used at Dens over the last year.

Point two - baking the soil hard, baking the fkn soil hard? Have a listen to yourself please. It's soil, not fkn BeRo.

Point three - the 'tractor' is a small lightweight one with large tyres to spread the load. Designed in fact to avoid....... well, you tell me. A grass cutter's nowhere near heavy enough to cause significant compaction.

Point four - are you saying that grass seed is sown in sand? Wow, such a fertile substrate.

We're guessing, that much is correct, but our guesses are a good bit more believable than, for example, your idea that grass grows in sand.

1. The issue of compaction hasn't just arisen over the last year. It'll have been 4/5/6 years, maybe more. That's why the pitch will be getting progressively worse each year.

2. What happens in a drought? When there's no rain and lots of sun/heat? Soil becomes hard. It'll happen in your garden of 13 years. It happens in football pitches.

3. The tractor still weighs 1.5 tonne. Couple that with attachments on the back, you're looking at 2 tonne going up and down the pitch spraying, brushing, rolling etc. Also, think of all the heavy machinery used when the pitch gets re-done in the summer.

4. No, it sown into the existing soil. The sand is purely a replenishment for the organic matter that's stripped off the pitch beforehand. It also protects the seed. FWIW, seed grows in sand. What do you think new football pitches are made of? It's isn't soil.