Today's groundsmen proudly boast about how well their pitches are kept and how they wear with extreme resilience. You only have to look back into the archives and see the cut up turf our legends used to play on.
Modern football today is all about showcasing your highest talents and skills, and you'll want a pitch with the best durability and surface in order to succeed. Having a pitch to match the fantastic stadiums we are privileged to have adds that bit of professionalism to the game. A lush green playing surface not only looks good to the spectators, but is also a mouth-watering prospect for today's stars.
Fibrelastic® technology was introduced by Mansfield Sand in order to produce a more player-friendly resilient surface for all sports stars to play on. With a mixture of sand and organic matter, their pitches contribute to a carpet-like playing surface which is meant to reduce player injuries by reducing pitch hardness and increasing durability. Fibrelastic Rootzone blends materials in order to reinforce the natural growing grass for a long-lasting surface.
However, with that being said, it seems that not everyone is best pleased with the effects Fibrelastic are meant to produced. Gus Poyet today announced that he believes it is the pitch at the Amex which has contributed to large number of hamstring injuries we've succumbed to.
Poyet's comments in the Argus revealed that this season's hamstring injury list has grown from zero from last season to around five or six in this season. An alarming amount for one team alone, so we have to ask, what's the solution to this dilemma?
Can we afford to rip the whole thing out and change it at the end of the season? Do we stick with what we have and hope that things change as the players acclimatise themselves with the conditions? Do we change our training pitch to mirror that of the Amex, so the players are used to the pitch that the play on every day of the week? Or do we simply train less on the Amex pitch, giving it more time to recover after games?
I think it'll have to be a case of trail and error until we find the perfect solution, but I don't think we should make any big adjustments just yet. Fibrelastic is used at over 40 Football League stadiums, and if they haven't experienced the same situation as us, then maybe it isn't the pitch that is causing it?
Without having too much knowledge on the situation it's difficult to come to a justified conclusion, and we all know that amendments are being made to our training facilities to mirror those of the conditions at the Amex, so in time the situation will be resolved. But I don't think we should be getting too worried yet, as we can proudly boast one of the best pitch technologies in the country being in our stadium, it just needs time to wear to it's correct state.
However, with that being said, it seems that not everyone is best pleased with the effects Fibrelastic are meant to produced. Gus Poyet today announced that he believes it is the pitch at the Amex which has contributed to large number of hamstring injuries we've succumbed to.
Poyet's comments in the Argus revealed that this season's hamstring injury list has grown from zero from last season to around five or six in this season. An alarming amount for one team alone, so we have to ask, what's the solution to this dilemma?
Can we afford to rip the whole thing out and change it at the end of the season? Do we stick with what we have and hope that things change as the players acclimatise themselves with the conditions? Do we change our training pitch to mirror that of the Amex, so the players are used to the pitch that the play on every day of the week? Or do we simply train less on the Amex pitch, giving it more time to recover after games?
I think it'll have to be a case of trail and error until we find the perfect solution, but I don't think we should make any big adjustments just yet. Fibrelastic is used at over 40 Football League stadiums, and if they haven't experienced the same situation as us, then maybe it isn't the pitch that is causing it?
Without having too much knowledge on the situation it's difficult to come to a justified conclusion, and we all know that amendments are being made to our training facilities to mirror those of the conditions at the Amex, so in time the situation will be resolved. But I don't think we should be getting too worried yet, as we can proudly boast one of the best pitch technologies in the country being in our stadium, it just needs time to wear to it's correct state.
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