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Chelsea vs Tottenham match thread

Surely Harry already gave Xabi some vegemite when at Liverpool.

Decent game, shame about the pitch could of been a really good spectacle.
 
Frankly Speaking said:
what was the problem with the pitch?
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It wasn't great.....

The quality of the playing surface is usually the first casualty when a stadium attempts to host both rugby league and football in the same period. Because the mechanical demands of the two sports are polar opposites, a pitch engineered for RL rarely delivers the pristine, carpet-like surface required for top-tier football.

In Australia, this issue is amplified due to how the country's sports landscape has evolved. The tension between rugby league and football pitch quality is driven by a unique mix of stadium economics, shared ovals, and code dominance.

Andy Harper has been a constant critic of this issue down the years.

A lot of analysts and footballing purists like Harper have argued that forcing the A-League to play on surfaces chewed up by league scrums or shoehorned into rectangular retrofits fundamentally undermines the technical standard of the game.

It comes down to conflicting geometry and biomechanics. You simply cannot design a single piece of turf that natively satisfies the brutal, vertical, scrum-heavy demands of rugby league and the horizontal, high-speed, precision-rolling demands of football.
 
Football us life said:
It wasn't great.....

The quality of the playing surface is usually the first casualty when a stadium attempts to host both rugby league and football in the same period. Because the mechanical demands of the two sports are polar opposites, a pitch engineered for RL rarely delivers the pristine, carpet-like surface required for top-tier football.

In Australia, this issue is amplified due to how the country's sports landscape has evolved. The tension between rugby league and football pitch quality is driven by a unique mix of stadium economics, shared ovals, and code dominance.

Andy Harper has been a constant critic of this issue down the years.

A lot of analysts and footballing purists like Harper have argued that forcing the A-League to play on surfaces chewed up by league scrums or shoehorned into rectangular retrofits fundamentally undermines the technical standard of the game.

It comes down to conflicting geometry and biomechanics. You simply cannot design a single piece of turf that natively satisfies the brutal, vertical, scrum-heavy demands of rugby league and the horizontal, high-speed, precision-rolling demands of football.
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I was at the Brisbane Roar v Perth Glory Grand Final. The pitch looked quite literally like a cow paddock. It ruined the game.

I agree with Harper, but can't see an end to the situation until our clubs have their own grounds. Will that happen? Can't see it.
 
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