CEO is having them removed because of Health and Safety. Someone might walk into them. Currently looking into borrowing some safe one's from Rotherham Utd.
I hope whoever took that was wearing hard hat, safety glasses, hi-viz jacket and reinforced toecap boots. Just can’t be too careful can you …
I know we've had a lot of staff turnover recently, but surely there's somebody left who knows that we have undersoil heating?
Probably doesn't work, or if we switch it on a quarter of Barnsley will go up in flames, or it's been ripped up and sold as none of our players could be sold for profit in the summer.
Does it actually work still? I know a few years ago we had a match called off thanks to the snow/frozen pitch, even though they claimed it was left on overnight.
To be fair there is no point putting it on yet - if there is still snow on the pitch on Friday then it should go on although presumably if there are any snow flakes on grove street the match will have to be called of for elf and safety reasons - far more danger slipping going to a football match than any other outdoor activity in Winter
Why would you waste the energy when it is supposed to be 10 degrees tomorrow & a natural thaw will follow, we do not play until saturday so I think the groundsmen are right to leave it
I see zero point in undersoil heating or other pitch clearing mechanisms; inflatables etc. Not cos they don't work, but the simple fact is that a game is barely likely to go ahead if the surrounding areas are 'unsafe' in this day and age.
I think the postponements have usually been due to the area around the ground not being safe, rather than the pitch itself, although you may be correct in recalling a game where the undersoil heating hadn't worked properly (your post triggered a vague memory of something like this).