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Last week the new Drains went in and the pitch was re-seeded,just wondered if anyones been up to the ground this week and had a look,with all this heavy rain we've had this week,i hope its worked.:)

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was up at the club today the pitch is very sandy!!!!but looked very dry :)

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Hell mad I thought they been put in place prior to the second leg of the play off semi final:rolleyes::D

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Anyone notice all the soil stacked up behind the scratting shed, it seemed to run the full length of the Whinny Hill side. I wondered if they had run a drain down that side, behind the shed. Could possibly help soak up water running down the hill.

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Tommy I took some pictures around the outside of the ground before the trip to Stevenage and I can comfirm from having a wet foot all day that there is a ditch running right behind the shed end. The coppice half even has reeds sticking out of it.

:)

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I wonder how much more that cost ? It should be free as the last one didn't work at all .

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I believe in the region of £30k with the re-seeding as well.

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:)It was dug up to creat a car park for SKYTV to uses for the playoff 2nd legg :)

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no it was all the grass from the field, went down on bank holiday monday, and they had taken about 3 inches off, and there was a fresh pile at the back of the stand.

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Been up this afternoon grass is growing, don't know if it will be ready for the Blackburn rovers pre season

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can sumone pick up my pics of the pitch yesterday on my FB to repost plz

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:)Here you go chuck :) Has to have at least 3 cuts before any football can be played on it :) Attachment 17905

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Heres some more June 22, 2011 | Facebook

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:) Nice one :)

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Blimey - it looks like it's had a real going over. Lets hope the water collected by the new drains is able to escape somewhere!

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All the top stuff was taken off, it's had more drains and sprinklers fitted.

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It's not the top stuff that bothers me, but what lies beneath.:D

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Is it an ancient burial ground ? :D

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The head groundsman (buzzer) had flooded the pitch with the sprinklers about an hour before I took those pictures so it seems the drains are working, the contactors are back again this week to seed it again apparantly this gives two levels of growth and a better surface, I don,t know but it seems to make sense, will nip up again at weekend and take some spot the difference pics (no prizes) lol.

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Cheers for the pics & updates lads:)

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Hot off the press some more pics of the new pitch June 27, 2011 | Facebook

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It's looking good but if thats ready to play on 16th July I'll be amazed

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Cheers for the pics SC

It's certainly getting the right mix of sun & rain so far this summer

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Really nice to see something positive at the Crown.

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Don't you need players before you start to think about playing?????

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There will be plenty of players, stop panicking :)

It would be stupid to play on the pitch too soon, especially a low key friendly against some club from India :D

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I bet you have been waiting for weeks to get that line in........ :D :D :D

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Aye, but I was too chicken ( fried of course ) :D

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Just back from a quick visit to the theatre of dreams to buy some merchandise. Pitch looks immaculate. As for the player situation, to quote Lew: "If you've brought your boots, we'll give you a trial." ;)

By the way, Lew, thanks for giving the family a guided tour of the stadium, complete with annecdotes. They now know where the old man disappears to every fortnight during the season! :D

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Pitch not good enough for Rovers!!

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Well it looks like you all have your wishes, the friendly against the kentucky fried chicken team has now been switched to Morecambe!!!

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It looked green enough last night when I saw it from a few thousand feet up. It's not often that you can see the Crown Ground, Gigg Lane and Rammy United's pitches all at once!

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:) Off Fishy site :) Club News
Saturday 9th Jul 2011


Pitch update
http://www.accringtonstanley.co.uk/g...ch%20small.jpg

The Crown Ground pitch is making good progress following extensive work over the summer to improve the playing surface for next season.

Full Story Here >>

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looking good there mark certainly better than my lawn

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This small snapshot does look good, but the full picture on the fishy site shows a ot of sandy patches down towards the coppice end:confused:

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Three things:

1) The picture is about a week old - due to the fact that it has poured down the last few times I've been at the club I've not been able to get one of any standard that's up to date!

2) The pic isn't cropped on the front page to deceive anyone - if the full size one goes on there the website loads at a snail's pace.

3) There is still a month until that Carling Cup game against Scunthorpe - at the same stage last summer you would have been hard pressed to see any grass at all!

Keep your eye on the website and I'll try and update once a week between now and then...

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It looks like they have put the 'spoon' back into the surface!

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Another non-story...or will we be visiting the Turf to play Scunny like we did in '93?

Stanley rubbish groundshare claims (From Lancashire Telegraph)

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Took some more pics of the pitch this morning, will post em when I get home from my 2x10 shift.

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The one in Burnley or the one in Accrington ? :D

Think only one person knew about the rumour, certainly nothing passed through our gossip shop and there has been nothing on the Burnley sites. Guess it was a pathetic attempt at having a reason to ring Rob up to see if any other info could be obtained :rolleyes:

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And people on here slate the ultras for giving the club a bad rep! This plonker gets paid for it!!!!! I say smoke him out of the LET offices!!!!

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Some pics as promised Facebook

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Looks green to me. No point switching to the Turf, their pitch is green to :D

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Looking promising. Thanks for pics.

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Looks great. Can't wait to get back there! :)

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13 days to Scunny the grass should be looking great by then, I am confident the surface will hold up a lot better this year.

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:) Crown Ground pith looks the part :) Full story click on the link....Accrington Stanley looking pitch perfect for 2011/12 (From Lancashire Telegraph)