Re: Stadium Site pictures : Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:05 pm  

knockersbumpMKII wrote:

Has the old groundsman from KR being kept on to maintain the pitch or has the job been tendered out to a contractor. Any idea on pitch dimensions, much distance from the pitch to the nearest fans? Of course undersoil heating but will the pitch be all natural or have some 'weave'...lol..just curious

I think the groundsman from KR is being employed at our new place (based on something I read somewhere but I can't remember where!); no idea about pitch dimensions but I assume they will be whatever the standard is (if there is one); hoping a lot that we will be close to the action as that was one of the things that made KR so good (the new stadium will be enclosed, though, so that should help create an atmosphere); no undersoil heating so far as I'm aware. You think we are rich or sommat?

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:01 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

I think the groundsman from KR is being employed at our new place (based on something I read somewhere but I can't remember where!); no idea about pitch dimensions but I assume they will be whatever the standard is (if there is one); hoping a lot that we will be close to the action as that was one of the things that made KR so good (the new stadium will be enclosed, though, so that should help create an atmosphere); no undersoil heating so far as I'm aware. You think we are rich or sommat?

There are a combination of posssible dimensions

Playing field

Rugby league is played on a rectangular grass field 68m wide and 100m long. The recommended minimum around the field is 3m (preferred 5m). The goal posts are 16m high and 5.5m wide. The crossbar is 3m high from the ground to the top of the bar. The in-goal areas measure 68m wide and between 6m–11m long. It is recommended that the bottom 2m of the uprights are padded.

I imagine there will be a H&S style couple of metres wide of track around the edges so the players challenging for a ball in goal have less chance of colliding with the advertising.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:03 am  

SaintsFan wrote:

no undersoil heating so far as I'm aware. You think we are rich or sommat?

that is a surprise, you'd think it a given that undersoil heating a minimum for a new 'best in RL' stadium. I suppose with no other sports of any significance playing during the winter months it wasn't cost justified? Saying that with the money you tapped the council for you might have gone the whole hog...lol Hope you aint gonna scrimp on some decent bogs, it was my fave part of KR being an avid amateur social historian

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:15 pm  

Gruntfuttock wrote:

Sundays update


Ghost train

leaves on the line?

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:56 pm  

nikos wrote:

leaves on the line?

The wrong kind of leaves...

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Apr 12, 2011 3:46 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

I think the groundsman from KR is being employed at our new place (based on something I read somewhere but I can't remember where!); no idea about pitch dimensions but I assume they will be whatever the standard is (if there is one); hoping a lot that we will be close to the action as that was one of the things that made KR so good (the new stadium will be enclosed, though, so that should help create an atmosphere); no undersoil heating so far as I'm aware. You think we are rich or sommat?

I'm friends with the assistant groundsman and frequently speak to him in turks/sporties
and right now he's a labourer on the ground but when the new ground is built, he regains his position as assiant groundsman, so i think it's fair to say they'll also have the same groundsman

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Apr 12, 2011 5:34 pm  

Dont know if already posted on here but i noticed the steel going up on the north stand today.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Sun Apr 17, 2011 10:14 pm  

Sundays update from us

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Sun Apr 17, 2011 10:47 pm  

Gruntfuttock wrote:

This part of the stadium is really taking shape now. It's going to look classy.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Mon Apr 18, 2011 11:03 am  

yup very classy indeed