the pitch

[Behindu]

You beat me to it J11. The one question I have is, will the egg chasers be making any contribution to the £750k it costs to relay it? (Or is that kind of expense covered in their 'hire' of the stadium?).

Probably the same contribution they made to laying the current one - which IIRC was 50%.....

[ScottishRoyal]

You beat me to it J11. The one question I have is, will the egg chasers be making any contribution to the £750k it costs to relay it? (Or is that kind of expense covered in their 'hire' of the stadium?).

thought it cost 250k to install in the first palce, so shirley a relay should be cheaper than that, not treble it

*note the word treble haroLOLd*

They're also laying an irrigation sytem that involves spraying water into dry turf or sucking water out during heavy rain. I'd imagine that that will bump up the cost a fair bit.

[Behindu]

You beat me to it J11. The one question I have is, will the egg chasers be making any contribution to the £750k it costs to relay it? (Or is that kind of expense covered in their 'hire' of the stadium?).

thought it cost 250k to install in the first palce, so shirley a relay should be cheaper than that, not treble it

They aren't relaying it though.
They are ripping it up, installing new draining and cabling, adding special lights and doing a host of other things.

Think of it as a huge upgrade rather than just a repair and replace.

[Behindu]

As they said it is not the Rugby and I don't see other pitches looking as bad as ours.

Indeed, great surface at Birmingham ! Old Trafford and Stamford Bridge have had how many new surfaces in recent years ?

I have no idea if the new groundsman is any good, but I'm also not sure whether I'd rely on the verdict of the man who killed our whole pitch the week before a new season by spraying it with weedkiller !!!

[M4 Junction 11]

Work is already well underway to fully renovate the Madejski Stadium pitch

[Royal Monk]

Looks like they have dug up everything right up to the advertising hoardings !!!!!!

[Rawlie19]

Well it was a susidence problem or something, due to the rubbish having shifted over the years. So the lot has to be replaced, which is also why it's costing a lot more than other years. They're not just re-laying the turf this time.

[AbovetheI]

It's an improvement.