Nani is not alone, Rooney has been underwhelming as well. Carrick & Anderson, on the other hand, very nice
The pitch at Old Trafford
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I'm surprised it's actually not as bad as I thought it'd be.
Did it not snow in Manchester last night? I'm only about 30 miles away and it chucked it down.
Did it not snow in Manchester last night? I'm only about 30 miles away and it chucked it down.
Pitch is awfull, and it's obvious that is affecting quality of the games lately at Old Trafford, players are struggling to make decent pass, and even players like Giggs are struggling with first touch sometimes.
Rooney's first touch has been terrible, but that's mainly down to the pitch I think. Likewise Nani and Rafael have had some heavy touches where they've mistimed the ball - also due to the pitch.
I agree there have been others not playing well including Rooney but i don't think i have seen a winger have more space and do less with it than Nani first half - Christ most Sunday league forwards would have crossed some decent balls with that much room.
Rooney fantastic goal, anyone saying hes playing badly must be watching a different game. I think hes looking very lively.
wrong thread sorry
I hate the pitch, it really ruins the flow of our game.
On the plus side, it's perfect if we're gonna meet Barca.
On the plus side, it's perfect if we're gonna meet Barca.
It's quite annoying.
Carrick's poor first touch before the goal we conceeded came after ball bounced strangely, feck it.
Its gonna cost United points.
SAF not sounding happy with it.
Can't we relay it ?
Can't we relay it ?
I think they're waiting until the end of the season before relaying it.
We're destroying it for a reason.
Have a look at that right wing.
There's a big lad from Portugal coming who loves it over there.
Have a look at that right wing.
There's a big lad from Portugal coming who loves it over there.
Are we leaving it for Madrid? I remember Neville mentioning how they water their pitch like crazy.
I think they have re-layed in the middle of a season before? But you need a schedule with no home games for a while.
Southampton passed it fine.
The grass would get cut up again as we are playing on it every week, won't happen until summer now so there's no point in moaning about it.
Why is the pitch so fecking shit though? City's isn't.
It's been a while since we relayed ours (4/5 years by my estimation). City probably did it in the summer.
I am sure it was done this summer, just before the Olympics started.
It's the grass.
http://www.dessosports.com/sports/football/football-projects
Can Phelan get them circles put into it? Always thought they looked good.
Sure ? I read it has been 6 years somewhere.
It's been 10 years actually. They mentioned it a few weeks ago, that we went throu 16 pitches in the 10 years previous, and then only this one for the last 10 years.
Makes no sense.
Looks like your right, I remember seeing a picture with strips of the grass missing, could have been an old picture or they might replaced a certain part of the pitch.
Well.. yeah? Maybe we should get better grass then, this is just embarrassing.
Manchester United to replace 'collapsed' Old Trafford pitch in the summer, confirms Sir Alex Ferguson
SAF:
"We have had six great years out of the pitch. Our groundsman, Tony Sinclair, has done a fantastic job. But it is looking tired now and I think we will have a new pitch in the summer."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...in-the-summer-confirms-Sir-Alex-Ferguson.html
SAF:
"We have had six great years out of the pitch. Our groundsman, Tony Sinclair, has done a fantastic job. But it is looking tired now and I think we will have a new pitch in the summer."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...in-the-summer-confirms-Sir-Alex-Ferguson.html
I'm no expert, how long does it take to relay the pitch? It would be ideal if we could do something about it before 'squeaky bum time' approaches.
Grass does not grow at this time of the year, so it will not bed, it would be even worse than it is now.
I mentioned earlier in this thread, the work itself can be done in a short period of time but the turfs need to be given time to bind together or they seperate, pull up and you have all sorts of trouble. It takes especially long for it to bind at this time of year with sod all light and loads of water let alone the freezing temperatures it's near on impossible. Sadly it's a summer job.
We are just going to have to live with the pitch until the end of the season. Nothing can be done about it really until then.
Aside from the shitness of the pitch.
What was scary is how we seemed to not have the wits to see Soton passing short and doubling up their movement with pods of 2 and 3 players passing really short and letting the movement around them move the ball over short spaces.
We just kept clogging away with our medium passing range and hoofing it long. Very very scary. We need to adapt if the pitch is shite and use the conditions instead of clogging ahead with the same old strategy time and time again.
Why don't United just have the hybrid type of pitch
seems to be better for passing teams and holds up better.I'm no expert either, but I think we'd have to wait until the season is over before we do a pitch replacement. Ot at least until after freezing temps are behind us.
It looked terrible, they are relaying it at seasons end but geez can we wait that long?
Any reason why it wasn't done last summer ?
Can we use it as an excuse? Both teams have to play on it. Yeah teams playing long balls might not suffer as much but the pitch isn't the main worry there.
I think SAF is just using it as an excuse to save the players some face in the media. We managed 45 perfectly fine minutes on that pitch, we just turned into spastics after that who could't keep the ball for more than 30 odd seconds. You're telling me these world class players can't adapt to a bad pitch within 45 minutes? We've played on worse pitches in the past and not done half as badly.
It's not like Southampton were just lumping it forward either. They managed to pass it around and play decent football.
It's not like Southampton were just lumping it forward either. They managed to pass it around and play decent football.
Maybe they didn't expect that would happen after the Olympics...
Yap, 99 problems but the pitch ain't one.