Swansea off ??

Like I said, in 2012 when I was at the Club that's what the host club was paid for a championship game.

 

Is that the boiler they still have? I bet that takes some upkeep.

Hard with them only being used a few months of the year.

 

To be fair to the groundstaff they relaid the pitch in the "off-season" and it only had 5 weeks to grow and establish itself, instead of the usual 10 or 11 weeks.

 

It must only be me then that is worried about the pitch being waterlogged , last Sunday the pitch was cutting up badly , a fast thaw will only make it worse & with the water table being so high I think we could have problems .

 

Yes. I get that but I was referring to donkeys years back when the under surface was shale and clinker- the ground being built on an old tip I believe. There was no criticism of the staff intended. And I could be wrong about the under surface as well. But I do know the ground had incredible drainage.

 

I seem to remember it was about 1000 Kw. I know that one monthly gas bill for a very cold month was £22k.

 

You're spot on with this. We had an amazing pitch. I'm guessing in the name of sporting science we dug up the pitch or something (maybe when we had undersoil heating fitted) and with the taller stands, it's not been close to the same since.

 

I am not aware that Oakwell is on a 'perched water table'. There is a 500mm diagonal slope from the SW corner to the NE corner. Below the topsoil and clinker the sub strata slopes this is why it drains so well. That said it does not prevent the pitch from becoming waterlogged if it is subject to excessive water.

 

So basically my friend, you concur

 

No matter the state of the pitch pound to a penny they put the sprinklers on lol

 

I’d be very surprised if the game was off. Pitch might not be great but the game should be on.

 

Sleet/snow now forecast again overnight

 

I can remember going to a cup match vrs Oldham at a time that they were in the 1st Division and we were waiting for the tide to come in on their beach. Never seen the like of it since. I remember that we lost to them by a wonder goal from Andie Richie from near the half way line, after we have bossed them most of the game.

Also remember that I parked the car right at the side of the ground because I took my disabled Grandad to the match. Some dipstick Barnsley fan disgruntled at loosing bent the windscreen wipers on the car. Happy days!

 

Just another example of how much money Stadiums suck up in maintenance and running costs.

 

That's a different thing. Maintenance cost is different to running costs and in all honesty would a brand new stadium have a significantly cheaper under soil heating system?

 

It actually wouldn't surprise me at all if it did. The kit we'll be using is obviously going to be very specialist, but I'd imagine upgrading it would be a huge expense so we won't have done it in years - probably decades. Wouldn't surprise me at all if a new installation could reduce running costs by something like an order of magnitude, but might not be viable where we are without making it part of a serious renovation.

I could be way off, but it's alarming just how much even a brand new domestic boiler can save you if your current one is of a certain age, so I dread to think how inefficient the club's is. Does anybody know when it was put in?

 

welcome to my world....

 

dont worry NY stadium has a more modern boiler and its only 21.9K. Conway readying a press release on how he saved our club the 100 quid