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Yes of course you are right my friend, however, would you not agree with my late father that although sarcasm may be the lowest form of wit it can also be the most satisfying :)

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Well me n yer late dad would have got on just fine U.K.:)

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i thought the pitch looked quite well on weds night, yet we heard a whisper about 2K n more seeding, or did i imagine this?:D

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The original seeding took place during that dry spell. Despite the sprinkler system it must have been a nightmare to try and get it to germinate properly, and more importantly evenly

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[quote=cashman;832938]i thought the pitch looked quite well on weds night, yet we heard a whisper about 2K n more seeding, or did i imagine this?:D:( You might well be right cashy!!! i was down yesterday although it looks lush n green it looked abit thin in places and with this wet weather we're having ant doing the pitch any favers IMHO,looks like it would cut up abit when played on,need a spell of dry weather this week:).

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YouTube - Asfc pitch update 1.8.10

Pitch update taken today (1st august 2010)

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Cheers matey..............

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im sure no matter how it turns out come saturday, it will be a big improvement on last season and will aide our passing game.

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agree, can't be much worse n last season, lookin forward to seeing how the team play on it.:)

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Looks like Hessentahler at Gillingham hasn't heard about the new pitch. This is what he said when talking about one of his trialists;

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Maybe they play on a field that looks like it has just had this years potato crop grown in it and Aborah may find it hard to play on a pitch that looks like a snooker table!!!! :D :D :D

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thanks for posting the video Sausage Butty (ya'd taste better with egg on your face), but i can safely say it was the most boring video I have ever seen!!!!!!

:D

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NEW SURFACE IS STANLEY'S SECRET WEAPON | News Of The World

At least TheDON is confident...... :)

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I was up at the ground earlier on and got confused. it looks like a bowling green.:alright:Its really improved since sunday when i wen up. its playable now imo.:D

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I too have been down today and it looks superb.

Just to let everyone know, Saturday's programme has a behind the scenes look at the work on the pitch - in words and pictures.

It's ASTONISHING to see the state it was in just a month or so ago and the amount of work that's gone into it...

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Here's the Aldershot captains view :rolleyes:

Aldershot begin their League Two promotion chase with a trip to Accrington Stanley on Saturday.
"No disrespect but it's not a very nice ground to got to, but I'd rather go there on the first day of the season when hopefully the pitch is alright and we can play the way we want to," said Charles.

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Stanley pitch will be fit for new season - Accrington Observer

No worries about the pitch......... Or signing players.. :)

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And good to read that one of our two strikers will be fit for the game :)

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I did not know that McConville had been injured :confused: ;) ;)

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(quote) Outgoing chairman Ilyas Khan paid £70,000 to have the playing surface flattened and relaid during the summer after eight first-team games were postponed last season, mainly due to waterlogging problems in one penalty area.(Quote).

It is not merely 'the pitch' as referred to by the CEO, it is 'Ilyas's Pitch'...and I for one will always refer to it as such in the future !.

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Has the safety certificate come yet ???? {hoping yes**

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will be able to tell tomorrow, if we get in or not.:D

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...and me. I'm fretting now! :(

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well MrTs reading this perhaps he would be good enough to relay the news?:confused:

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Surely to god they wouldn't so stupid as to allow the Shots to travel if we didn't have a safety certificate.......would they?

Mr T, can you help to clarify the situation?

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Well im hoping not & trying to remain optimistic that its being persued at this moment as its important for the club as well as the fans:D

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Had some info from a reliable source...

Council have passed it subject to last few seats being bolted into the Cow shed, they arrived late Thursday!!!

They are being bolted in by Stanley Ultras as we speak and it will be passed off at 3pm.....

Only about 10 or 15 seats, then we have 4500 capacity safety cert....

Also been told to ask that if anyone wants to help then get down there with a ten mill spanner!!!! :)

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Thanks Wyn releived :D Ultras will make sure its complete :hehetable

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cheers, them lads are best in the land, it begs the question though," Why is it the 11th hour once again? cos without those lads the club would be knackered,

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Quote from cashy,"them lads are best in the land."

Totally agree - just sorry I can't help - hope somebody can.

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The update i have is that the lads are still up there and probably be there till teatime, credit to Jase and others lending Mick a hand trying to ensure the ground is complete:D

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How the hell do we get away with having a stadium that is under the minimum league capacity, goodwill from the FL??:hidewall:

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I believe that there is a plan in place to sort out the capacity by end of season and FL are OK about it!!!!!

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Is that the same plan that was supposed to of happened end of last season :confused:
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:) Allwork has been done and safty certificate is in place :) Well done those of you who helpped at the eleventh hour to make this possible .THANKYOU:D

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Well done to all involved in helping secure the Safety Certificate:)

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Yes, well done to those who helped out, and thankyou!!

I remain somewhat miffed that yet again its left to the last minute and yet again they only made it with the goodwill of a bunch of fans...............tin pot as usual.

Negative?........possibly, truthful?.......Most definatley :(

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As one who volunteers at our club, I feel almost the same.

Tin-pot, maybe, but would you have it any other way? Its why the clubs we support are in our blood, unlike the plastic premier league wanabees.

UP the Shots!

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I'm sure there'll be something else to worry about .... next week! :)

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Would just like to say thanks to Jase and the boys for giving me a lift with the seats today really was an eleventh hour job to get them in as they only arrived yesterday and they needed to be put together, yes it has been a mad week and not every thing has been finished because other jobs kept cropping up, ie new shower facilities in the refs room, safety gates to be finished, new safety barrier at the left hand side of the coppice end welded up and bolted down by the DON himself.I must admit it has been a sterling effort by everyone involved the lads doing the painting, Micky V (you know who you are) Bill and Fran (Adam is an ultra) Harry has cleaned every seat in the stadium and everyone else who has been involved whether the involvment has been big or small .I really think a big thanks should also go to Buzzer who has worked his socks off to get the pitch ready ( at one time i thought the grass was growing faster than he could cut it) I must say at times the last three months has been a real slog and it felt as though it would never end but thanks to a great team we have got there and tomorrow is the big day, it only seems like yesterday we were marching through Cheltenham with flags aloft and now its time for the stanley bandwagon to roll on yet again. ON STANLEY ON

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Pretty much spot on Steve:)

So long as it works both ways

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echo everything yonmon says n probably only cos were owd gets n nearly knackered.:D

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The first word I ever learned in German was einbahnstrasse. Ironic eh ? :D

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Good job fan's who helped :) which ref have we got tommoz ? Ha ha ha. Had faith and got a ticket sorted. Cant wait :)
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Could have been worse if it had been a sackgasse:eek:

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Referee is Jock Waugh from South Yorkshire. Looks like it's 1st time for a Stanley match

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IN the present climate I would say thats more appropriate ;)

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But surely you're looking for "richtung Erfolg"

by the way Dave nice work, got the OSC card today. :) Thanks muchly.

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To bring the thread back to the pitch, I must say it worried me today! The area between the Whinney Hill side and the Clayton End was somewhat reminiscent of a bog! People told me that there's been an awful lot of rain in Accy over the last 24 hours, but if it doesn't improve significantly over the next few weeks, I can see more postponements this season. Even Jimmy Bell felt moved to comment on it as he passed at the end of the half-time break. Fingers crossed!!

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[quote=Oldgobbin;834930]! People told me that there's been an awful lot of rain in Accy over the last 24 hours,quote]

Not that much, Stan. If it's boggy after such a small amount of rain it makes you wonder how the new drains will ever cope with real downpours. I'm worried too, and have always thought that 70 grand would not be enough to get to the bottom of the historical problems.

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The pitch at at the clayton end /cowshed corner is a concern. I saw one occasion today when the ball dropped and didn't even bounce and we're only in August. It may be a case of gettin the contracters back in for corrective the work that needs to be done, but Dillon's comments are those of a tosspot. Quite simply, he's trying to cover up the ineptitude of his side who were expecting an easy win today/ yesterday

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An accredited expert and his team are at hand even as I write Reamer...

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Own manure provided !!...

NB !....NO PRIZES FOR SPOTTING WHINNEY HILL IN THE BACKGROUND ??

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Think I recognise a couple of those operaters, have they worked on our field before ?? ;)

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The Contractors could try PLAN 'B' Reamer...but only as a last resort !!
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You would be forgiven for thinking that there has been more than enough "manure" thrown around our little club this close season, however I find it amazing that none of it landed on the pitch........how weird :)



Yonmon, on a personal note, it was a delight to meet you on Saturday :)

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:) Copyed and pasted this off the clubs e-mail news letter:)

After recent comments regarding the state of the Crown Ground pitch after Saturday's 0-0 draw with Aldershot, Stanley’s next home game is against Macclesfield on August 21 and managing director Dave O’Neill hit back:

“There was an accumulation of things that probably put us back by a fortnight. The weather in East Lancashire certainly didn't help. We’ve got the pitch contractor coming back now for the next fortnight to put the final stages of work into it."

“When we did get it seeded it was the driest spell it could possibly have been and once the grass started growing it’s just been flooded. For the last five or six weeks we’ve had nothing but rain."

Mr O' Neil also said, “We did try to postpone the game last Friday but the Football League said it was our home fixture and it would give us an advantage later on if we had three home games in a row."

He added, “But the contractors have assured us that they can pull it around. “I’m told the drains take three months to get working and they’ve only had two. At which point the pitch should be in great shape.”
Stanley boss John Coleman added: “The pitch hampered us with the way it softened up. “But I think it will be all right. I think in a couple of weeks you’ll see a different pitch.”

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Gotta say yonmon, it usually disappoints me reading the telegraph these days, hence why i very rarely buy it, they spout more crap than the picture ya posted, so i would say "Take It With A Pinch" thats my view anyway.;)

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But which rascal would feed them the 'crap' you speak of in the first place Cashy ?.
Surely no representative of Accrington Stanley would wish to confuse or mislead the Fans by releasing 'news' which might contain inaccuracies ?...

Incidentally, the chap on my Avatar is the latest addition to my 'family'...Meet 'Stanley Hope' !!!

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Well with the media, if they aint got a 1st rate rascal, a second rate one will do, if they aint got that, the power of invention tends to come into play, so basically i can't say which rascal.;):D P.S.perhaps Alfred E knows?

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Can't help it , is me background in the diplomatic circles, cultured as FOOT is our cashy.:D

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[quote=Redraine;834943]
Being somewhat surprised at seeing little or no information regarding 'Ilyas's Pitch' being released from official sources,( which having to have two demanding games played on it over the coming week, and the advanced weather reports of more rain to come, has rekindled my high-anxiety !)....
Apart that is from a brief allusion in our wonderful Lancashire Telegraph as to the change of venues for Reserve games ...Will someone in the know (nudge nudge....wink wink !), in an attempt to ease my worried mind, please post an accurate report on the current state of 'the hallowed turf '.

Also, sharing Redraines feelings, and hearing the many comments regarding extra financial support being given to ensure that 'Ilyas's Pitch' will reach an acceptable standard...I hope that this necessary funding has been seen and released as a vital investment by those holding the purse strings, and that JC will get the surface he would like to allow his Team to play his much-publicised 'passing-game'...He deserves this if nothing else !...

SO.... 'ON STANLEY !!...ON !!!'

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I've heard that we are under an transfer embargo again, something about a player we had on loan a few years ago. I can't see this being right, maybe Dany can tell us this week

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were ya hear that?:confused:

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On sky sports this afternoon that leam Richardson has signed for a year for us.
Great news - embargo over !!!!

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SH !... I'm completely overwhelmed by this information about THE Embargo....but what about 'Ilyas's Pitch'...Has it been fettled yet ?....Has more finance been made available for the project ?..Does anyone know ?...Is anyone really interested ??...or must I have to wait for an Official proclamation ??...

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Maybe the Telegraph may be quicker ;)

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really in any transaction,theirs only the guy who paid the bill, n the guy who received the payment, can tell ya, n we know 1 of those is infamous fer porkies, same applies fer any further work needed, so to not put too fine a point on it, yer knackered fer finding out.:D

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I will reply to your question about the pitch yonmon. Contractors have been on it all week a new drain has been put in down in the corner near the water tank as it was flooding there with heavy rain,right up the cow shed sid has been gravel slitted every two or three feet from the wall out to about the edge of the 18 yard box and I must say that this morning it looked "better" but IMHO the only cure is a spell of dry weather to allow it to stablize and the grass to root and knit together properly.

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As a lot of water seems to come of the houseing estate down to the Whinney Hill side,I thought they might have dug a deep trench ,the full length of the Whinney Hill side.Also, is there still a ditch behind the cow shed? if so ,is that deep enough?

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The ditch is still there, however was dug in the late 70's/ early 80's to prevent water from Whinney Hill and the brick works entering the pitch.

How effective it is, given it was dug and filled with ash (from local businesses) around 30 years ago is a excellant point.

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Is this a new playmate for Alfred and Stanley I wonder? :p:D:p

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Yonmon, a question...........If, three is a crowd :hehetable what is four??????????????? :confused: :confused: :D

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Hmmmm..Well for a start...

Four is the only number that is spelled wiith an amount of letters that is exactly equal to its value!

Then again Four is just enough for a game of Twister !.

Also,(being unashamedly Homophonic !), it is the word one hears just before a golf ball hits one on the head !!

Over to you Joe !

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Four is also the number of corners on Ilyas's Pitch!!!! ;)

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Yonmon I must say your light hearted humour brigthens my day, I am off to the crown now and will give cow shed sid your kindest regards and see if his gravel slitting has healed any overnight lol.

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Yonmon not a lot to report on the pitch today, IMHO it aint improved any but then again what do I know, there was plenty going on around the ground ie Buzzer doing his daily 3mile walk behind the mower (or was he being pulled along) scaffold going up for the tv towers and about 7 or 8 of the pitch contractors scrattin around up near sid,s cow-shed, may have more news tomorrow as I will be there all day.

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Plenty of rain forecast over the next few days!!!!

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We don't like the sound of that procedure SC !!.... Now look, Sid is no Doctor but he says if you spotted them 'scrattin' then it seems to him like the Contractors may have contracted something they didn't really contract for, like Scabies or something worse !.... So he suggests that you keep them at arms length tomorrow...you never know..

And also I'm fairly certain that 'Scrattin Around' was an old Dixieland number which I used to rattle off in my wild youth... when I needed the money !!....Happy Days !.

But thanks for the resume...keep 'em coming !!...




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Yonmon.................did you mean something like this?


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Seemed to play better yesterday, I thought!! Still some issues on Cow Shed side.

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I wouldn't be too confident about that. If Newcastle pay the same respects to lower league teams in the Carling Cup as other big teams do, then you will find they are more accustomed to pitches like this than St James park. It's where the reserves play thier games;

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