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Thread: BL00DY plastic pitches

  1. #11
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    There's a lot of things not right with Scottish football and I would say plastic pitches probably in the top 5. Imo they should be allowed below Premiership but if you want promotion you need to lay grass.

    Thing is, like a lot of these things who's doing anything about it? Sweet FA. How do you go about changing that, presumably a resolution put forward by one club that needs 11-1 Vote? Or is it a "SPFL management" decision that doesn't need a vote? Its a total disgrace.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stokearab View Post
    There's a lot of things not right with Scottish football and I would say plastic pitches probably in the top 5. Imo they should be allowed below Premiership but if you want promotion you need to lay grass.
    Livi actually laid theirs once they got promotion to the premiership.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TerryTheTerror View Post
    Livi actually laid theirs once they got promotion to the premiership.
    Haha yeah that makes sense 😁

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    Quote Originally Posted by TerryTheTerror View Post
    Livi actually laid theirs once they got promotion to the premiership.
    I had heard that. They wanted to follow the Hamilton model. That is team with barely any fans kept up by home advantage of plastic 😡

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    Quote Originally Posted by geofoxposse View Post
    Of course theres a slight advantage even marginal but its the margins that count, the number of times players of both sides were on their bums shows that, only they were on their bums less than our players.. just but its also a psychological barrier to contend with.

    If the SFA are going to permit all types of surface lets simply have a sand surface and practice play and sleep on it (extreme)

    But the general quality of ball play etc even from the home side was rotten.
    Did you see Killie’s fourth goal? Their first one wasn’t bad either.

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    Sure I heard on radio last week that Livingston had won something like 2 of their last 30+ games on grass. No doubt teams playing on plastic learn to adapt their game. That pitch on Sat was slowing down even short basic passes.

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    If we allow plastic pitches we should ensure they are of highest quality not 3G p!sh - my local rugby club has a better surface .... for the colts!!!

  8. #18
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    We need to ban plastic full stop!

    There is not benefit to the elite players to have to deal with all this

    It’s used to keep poorer sides up when they don’t deserve it

    Sadly it will probably take an old firm player to be injured badly on plastic before the SFA sit up and take some action

  9. #19
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    If the 11-1 rule applies to this then Kilmarnock, Livingston nor Hamilton are going to vote to get rid of them.

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