Plastic pitches to be ditched in Premiership?

[Yeats 62]

"Majority shareholder Billy Bowie hopes final planning approval for their Bowie Park training facility will be granted so work can begin in the spring.

Kilmarnock hope their women's team will be based there by the end of next year.
The centre will have two full-size pitches, a training complex and a 250-seat stand, and be the youth academy's home as well as Kilmarnock Women's."

This might be the reason they can go back to grass. They would still have playing and training facilities for the youth and woman's teams, and also rent out the astro for friendlies, five- a sides etc. when free. Keeping the grass pitch damage free.

[arab1970]

Agree with this but what I would say is come Jan/Feb A lot of the grass pitches are actually worse to play on than the astro

[tHeArAb]

"Majority shareholder Billy Bowie hopes final planning approval for their Bowie Park training facility will be granted so work can begin in the spring.

Kilmarnock hope their women's team will be based there by the end of next year.
The centre will have two full-size pitches, a training complex and a 250-seat stand, and be the youth academy's home as well as Kilmarnock Women's."

This might be the reason they can go back to grass. They would still have playing and training facilities for the youth and woman's teams, and also rent out the astro for friendlies, five- a sides etc. when free. Keeping the grass pitch damage free.

That's the only reason they're doing it. If the training facility doesn't go ahead, neither does the grass pitch.

[Yeats 62]

Yip... have to agree with the last two posts.

In saying that, the amount of "all weather" pitches (I know I know) called off these days is pretty poor. And some of the grass call-offs, with or without undersoil heating (which can burst due to rapid temerature change, when convenient, allegedly ) are just as bad.

Wonder if Norway have the same problems. Hmmm

[ARAbCHNID]

Agree with this but what I would say is come Jan/Feb A lot of the grass pitches are actually worse to play on than the astro

In days gone by yes but these days pitch management is ten times better. Tannadice is like a bowling green even in the middle of a bad winter. The groundsmen deserve a lot of credit too.

[LSArab]

Hope Livi go down.

Grass in the top flight - another reason why we need promotion