Swansea City to Rip Pitch up after Barnsley game Saturday

[Ericsladkilnhurst]

Swansea City are to rip up their pitch at Liberty Stadium, after the home game against Barnsley on Saturday 19th December.
They have found the playing surface has got worse over the last month, stating a serious disease had taken hold in the grass, & with the post-lockdown schedule & increased rainfall in October, had played a part in its demise.
They are going to re-lay the pitch entirely, with a hybrid turf pitch to the standard of the same quality, as at Spurs Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with the next home game not until December 30th, it will give time for the pith to bed in.
Rugby club the Ospreys shares the ground with Swansea, which to me is not good for a pitch surface, but in the financial climate it seems it suits both clubs.

[MillerBill]

I read that and the players were saying these last few weeks it has deteriorated and it has stopped their passing football.Barnsley are playing them at the right time.

[flourbasher]

Ah yes that fully explains why we weren't given the penalty for the blatant handball.
Grass disease was the cause.

[Ericsladkilnhurst]

Brings to memory to my last job, to which I worked in a quarry in the Doncaster area near to the Robin Hood airport, formally R.A.F. Finningley.
We supplied all types of turf dressings for golf courses, racecourses, football clubs, & different sports, which includes top dressings for the greens, Rootzone & Divot Mix ( blend of sand / soil mixture ) for making the fairways, other mixtures, plus wicket clay dressing for cricket pitches, we supplied golf courses from Isle of wight, up to Fort William, we at one time supplied dressing for Wembley stadium, plus a number of football clubs, quite a lot of racecourses, good money was made on these materials.
Well one time we had a order for Rootzone for a golf course, a artic trailer load was ordered, so the trailer was swept out by the driver, then the trailer was loaded, & delivered to the golf course, who used the 27 tonnes of Rootzone ( 70% sand / 30% soil mixture ), after a week the golf course got in touch with our firm, & said the fairway had a field of Rapeseed growing, it turned out the wagon firm had been carrying Rapeseed, & the Rapeseed had some caught in the trailers trailer cover, it cost the haulage company quite a lot of money to make it right, that was a right disease of the fairway.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Brings to memory to my last job, to which I worked in a quarry in the Doncaster area near to the Robin Hood airport, formally R.A.F. Finningley.
We supplied all types of turf dressings for golf courses, racecourses, football clubs, & different sports, which includes top dressings for the greens, Rootzone & Divot Mix ( blend of sand / soil mixture ) for making the fairways, other mixtures, plus wicket clay dressing for cricket pitches, we supplied golf courses from Isle of wight, up to Fort William, we at one time supplied dressing for Wembley stadium, plus a number of football clubs, quite a lot of racecourses, good money was made on these materials.
Well one time we had a order for Rootzone for a golf course, a artic trailer load was ordered, so the trailer was swept out by the driver, then the trailer was loaded, & delivered to the golf course, who used the 27 tonnes of Rootzone ( 70% sand / 30% soil mixture ), after a week the golf course got in touch with our firm, & said the fairway had a field of Rapeseed growing, it turned out the wagon firm had been carrying Rapeseed, & the Rapeseed had some caught in the trailers trailer cover, it cost the haulage company quite a lot of money to make it right, that was a right disease of the fairway.

On that connection, if the Swansea pitch is infected then we need to make sure our boots are fully cleaned, otherwise Roundwood and NYS will get the “blight”

[Ericsladkilnhurst]

On that connection, if the Swansea pitch is infected then we need to make sure our boots are fully cleaned, otherwise Roundwood and NYS will get the “blight”

Actually Grist I was thinking if the grass has got a disease, what if a player got injured & got a cut on his leg etc, could the wound get infected with anything.