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Originally Posted by Chimer

Good astro takes a lot of maintaining (though not as much skill), isn't cheap to run, and needs 100% replacement regularly, especially if used throughout the week. But it would cut out those stupid goal celebrations - you wouldn't want to slide on it unless absolutely necessary!! Good for hockey, but football - hmmm.

Originally Posted by Revived Red

I am not convinced about the money-saving aspect. As Chimer has said, maintenance will still be needed. There will be extra secretarial demands - someone will have to keep track of bookings/chase payments (and non-payments) etc. There will have to be more security. In fact it could be necessary to appoint a "premises manager" or such like. Then there will be the cost of floodlights and incidentals such as extra insurance. Are other ground facilities such as changing rooms up to the required standard? I realise there will be income from hirers but would this be substantial enough? And no-one has yet offered an answer to a question I asked earlier. Where do we obtain the initial outlay of £500,000?

It wouldn't be astroturf thats were the savings come in. Astro is whats at sports centre what theyll be looking to get will be more advanced version of whats at soccerdome. Wembley stadium has plastic pitch and natural grass weaved together.