yes but our own vikings fc plus a female footballteam play there

So not real teams then? You used to have Everton didnt you? The LSV get a good return from Blackburn, even in the Championship

Mathers is a whinger. Saw a women's football game on telly there the other day and didn't see them worrying about diving in for tackles or to score.

It's Liverpool women's team who play here. I went to watch Vikings FC here and BT Sport were getting ready for the broadcast and Ms Skelton, Richie Mylers lass walked right by us......very nice!

Everton reserves used to play down here

Thanks for the response. It would be interesting if Widnes will release the figures and if it does make a saving.

As said, it takes a lot of use and can be done in all weather. The principal is great and it seems issues have been ironed out.

I don't think Mathers was wrong in what he was highlighting at the time, it was a new thing that effected him personally and wanted to make sure that the issues were looked at. Without his outburst it is possible that extra rubber was not then put down and more injuries were incurred.

Technology is advancing so quick these days I'm waiting for the day we're watching the game being played on a memory foam mattress!!!!

Although no one can argue with your comments on playing surfaces, the move to summer rugby was purely about our major sponsor needing some decent, regular, weekend sport to show on their TV stations.

Any news on injuries that have occured on the Ipitch when compared to grass? Personally I wouldn't know where to start as there are the ones that occur on the day or long term use (I know a lot is made of dodgy knees from footballers who played on the astroturfs at Oldham, Preston, QPR) anyone heard of or know of anything.

I remember a few mumblings from players about the pitch being tough on the knee joints.

we lost two players to knee injuries at the back end of last season at widnes,

Is it cheaper, than grass?????

How much is grass costing now days?

they reckon it was £125k a couple of years ago to relay wembley but then they relay it a few times every year. not sure how the £1M figure for Leeds was worked out as Old trafford's was quoted at £500k this year. done by Desso, a Dutch firm.