Sloping pitches
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Topic: Sloping pitches
Posted By: Guinness John
Subject: Sloping pitches
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2022 at 20:56
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Much has been made of the slope at Goldington Road. I was thinking that surely it cannot be the only such pitch.
The Rec at Bath seems to have a deep end. Anyone got any other observations, maybe narrow/wide/long/short/synthetic ? ------------- Bedford Blues Supporter of the Year 2010 - 2011 |
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Posted By: Even Older Hooker
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2022 at 21:21
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Redruth drops down and dips at the bottom corner (Hell Fire Corner) where the locals are very friendly !!! Played there for Worthing back in the days and visited many times ------------- Another one against the head |
Posted By: Scrumtime
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2022 at 07:47
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Dorking has a pretty big one if I recall correctly |
Posted By: Robb
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2022 at 08:26
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Tunbridge Wells has one too. Tring's is huge!
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Posted By: Happy
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2022 at 09:55
Hertford is classified as a black Diamond run when it snows 
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Posted By: oldman
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2022 at 10:15
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Hinckley, six feet from one side to other. ------------- oldman |
Posted By: Kimbo
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2022 at 23:24
Really? I've never noticed. Mind you, it's only really an issue when it's from end to end. ------------- Our Club |
oldman wrote:Posted By: Richmids
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2022 at 05:08
| Not sure if they still play at the same ground but remember watching Tamworth at Aston Old Eds and that had a pretty bad slope |
Posted By: castleparknight
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2022 at 07:05
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Bedford have great facilities, but with a bit of investment, and a bulldozer to shift earth about to flatten out the pitch could be up there with the best. If I was to do anything to Goldington Road it would be to install terracing on the opposite side to the stand - for those of us who are vertically challenged one needs to be up against the railing to see anything. The slope may be an issue for the Premiership (nowadays) but whilst Bedford doesn't hold those ambitions the improvement of spectator experience on that side is all that I think they need to do to improve the experience - oh and improve the quality of the beer (I rarely feel tempted to partake of many libations there due to the poor quality of the ale). As for a narrow pitch I always felt that Rotherham had a narrow pitch - but perhaps that was just the size of their players that seemed to fill the pitch, not leaving much room to wriggle through. ------------- Onward and Upwards C'mon Donny! |
Posted By: Camquin
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2022 at 09:40
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There was an ambitious plan a few years ago to turn the pitch round and build a stadium and pay for it with some flats. I believe it was rejected by the planners. ------------- Sweeney Delenda Est |
Posted By: Mark W-J
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2022 at 11:21
| Ealing used to be a massive slope 15 years ago, but they've levelled it out now. |
Posted By: OldNick
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2022 at 11:49
| As for Rotherham's narrow pitch I think that had more to do with the position of the cricket square. |
Posted By: kempstonblue
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2022 at 12:08
I saw that plan on a council planning portal, asking for land for housing. It struck me as similar to what Leyton Orient FC have done. ------------- The older I get, the more the RFU leave me confused. |
Posted By: kempstonblue
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2022 at 12:18
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This was the 2017 submission…if only https://edrms.bedford.gov.uk/PlanningBrowse.aspx?id=QHStc6H304OG3f9U8%2f9Sqg%3d%3d" rel="nofollow - https://edrms.bedford.gov.uk/PlanningBrowse.aspx?id=QHStc6H304OG3f9U8%2f9Sqg%3d%3d ------------- The older I get, the more the RFU leave me confused. |
Posted By: castleparknight
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2022 at 15:16
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That would be fantastic. If only there was the money - one day maybe...... ------------- Onward and Upwards C'mon Donny! |
Posted By: FHLH
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2022 at 15:54
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...but how many have the full width (70m) and full dead ball (22m). I played at a club with those and it don't half knacker forwards but makes for great running rugby.
------------- "My father told me big men fall just as quick as little ones, if you put a sword through their hearts." |
Posted By: Camquin
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2022 at 16:40
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I seem to recall Murrayfield ha the full size pitch, including dead ball areas. But they are rare. ------------- Sweeney Delenda Est |
Posted By: kingsheathlad
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2022 at 18:03
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I vaguely recall in the 80's a Easter tour in the South West and playing Ilfracombe. I was on the wing and sure there was a slope or was that the alcohol kicking in after the night before. ------------- Cauliflower ear. |
Posted By: Redted
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2022 at 20:02
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Ilfracombe definitely has a slope. Others in Devon that certainly used to have slopes were Brixham and North Tawton.
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Posted By: islander
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2022 at 09:35
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Since this thread has wandered a bit... Coldharbour is a lovely village in Surrey with a picturesque cricket ground near the top of Leith Hill. The current ground is slightly undulating tho' mostly quite flat; however back in the day, before WW2, the history of the club explains how the ground was on a separate plot, downhill nearer the village pub. On one side of the old ground, the terrain dropped so steeply to one side of the square that the batting side had to use callers: these people stationed themselves on the boundary on that side and shouted advice to their colleagues who were batting as to whether they should keep running or stay in their ground.
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Posted By: Raider999
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2022 at 20:05
I have played at the current ground, I remember it being very small. ------------- RAID ON |
Posted By: All the Way
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2022 at 20:28
It's a lovely ground, we play there each season. Perhaps my favourite ground, along with Abinger CC and Hagley CC!
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Posted By: FHLH
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2022 at 23:31
There's a lovely village cricket ground near Cambridge which not only needs callers, but has a mature oak tree in the covers But, does a marginally sloping rugby pitch change the game? You'll be wanting those skin chafing dead flat plastic pitches soon. You change your game to suit the conditions and most grounds' wrinkles are known ------------- "My father told me big men fall just as quick as little ones, if you put a sword through their hearts." |
Posted By: Stoatgobbler
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2022 at 16:24
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Underhill Park, home of Mumbles RFC, playing in League 2 West. OK, so it's Wales, but there's a defined slope, so for 40 minutes, you're playing uphill.
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Posted By: Kimbo
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2022 at 19:59
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Well, we've managed to find one sloping Championship pitch on this Championship thread
------------- Our Club |