Wan Bissaka injured by our death trap pitch side set up

BlueHaze said:
I'm 100% sure RVP also smashed into something and was down for quite some time as well. Was that at OT or another arena?


Edit, it was at QPR away, similarly to the one at OT.
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I remember someone falling into a camera pit or something similar. Thought it was RVP.
 
Skills said:
We need to use it to our advantage. I'd raise it up even more, make the fall more steep.

Leave very little room around the white lines for players trying to run up for corners and long throws.
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Brilliant mate.
Ensure that we never score from any of those again, and maximise injuries to our own boys.

You're obviously a very keen thinker :drool:
 
I’ve always wondered why they don’t fix the slope, it can’t be that hard to fix surely?

you have to run up a hill to take a corner
 
I worked in landscape gardening as a kid and it would be incredibly cheap to fix this, astounding that it has never been done.
 
Tarrou said:
I’ve always wondered why they don’t fix the slope, it can’t be that hard to fix surely?

you have to run up a hill to take a corner
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Someone said the steep slope is necessary for drainage. What I don’t get is why they have a landing zone featuring bricks and hardwood hording. Seems crazy that they couldn’t at least lay down some padding when a match is played.
 
Injuries aside it has to make players fractionally less willing to bust a gut to cut back a ball when we’re attacking the Stretford End. AWB will think twice from now on anyway. Such a stupid oversight. Type of detail you’d expect a top manager to make a fuss about.
 
K Stand Knut said:
Well, yes.

They appear to be indicating that I said something that I didn’t say.
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Its an overexaggeration of your quoted comment. Maybe my attempt at humor fell about as flat as complaing about people who point out potential hazards in hope that they can be improved upon before something happens.
 
Tom Cato said:
Its an overexaggeration of your quoted comment. Maybe my attempt at humor fell about as flat as complaing about people who point out potential hazards in hope that they can be improved upon before something happens.
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ok. And this whole thread is based on an over-exaggeration of a problem with Old Trafford.

One potentially bad situation doesn’t make a massive problem.
 
“Death trap” :rolleyes:

Players are far more likely to be injured colliding with a goal post.
 
There haven't been any serious injuries, so it's proven safe. Leave it
 
Kerry Donaghy said:
Just read Wan Bissaka had to be stretchered off after colliding with the advertisement boards at the end of the game.

I've been saying for a long long time that that massive drop off at the side of the pitch at Old Trafford is an accident waiting to happen, I'm surprised there aren't alot more serious injuries due to it.
When a player is running at full speed to keep the ball in (as AWB was last night) there's just not enough space to stop yourself before you come to that massive dip which I think (I maybe wrong) then features concrete, bricks and advertising boards.
As I said, it's a really dangerous layout that needs sorted asap.
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The fact there hasn't been more injuries than there have suggests your post is way OTT
 
I agree, it seems a bit amateurish as much as anything. It surely hinders player’ run ups for corners too, not sure if they fixed it in the corner flag area.
 
Its time to change it for a lava pit. It would look so much cooler
 
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