: Tue Mar 24, 2009 1:50 pm
Neil HFC wrote:
Wakeys always looks very good IMO.
I think you have to have two catagories, modern and old pitches.
It's impossible for an old pitches to match modern pitches in some respects. With modern drainage, laser leveling and synthetic elements pitches like those at the KC and Galpharm are near perfect most of the year - possibly too perfect.
BV is not perfectly level it actually rises a little in the middle. However it's slight imperfection IMHO makes it a better pitch. For reasons I don't know BV never gets waterlogged and never cuts up and the grass is always lush I suspect the fact that BV is so open helps, possibly the only upside to the ground.
So IMHO BV is the best of the traditional pitches by some way, and because of it's the character it is possible the the best if not the most perfect surface overall. It's also worth a note that BV is one of the few traditional pitches that is full size, something a number of older pitches are not which again gives a better impression.
Other older pitches that look good are Cas and Saints.
One modern pitch that always looked bad was Widnes, but that may have improved.