fantastic!

Well when (if) York City FC & York City Knights get their new stadium I really hope that the powers that be consider getting an iPitch fitted.

You're creating a position that doesn't exist purely for the sake of arguing against it and reacting to anything other than glowing praise for the ipitch with this type of tripe, nonsense, polemic, rhetoric and dogma. I can't be ar5ed lads - you win at something or other.

Most people use the word 'facts' but never mind.

[sizeHATERS GUNNA HATE.

As I have made it clear that I haven't fully endorsed it myself, and still have my own reservations, That isn't true is it?

I don't know any more - I've lost the will to live.

For what it's worth, I hope it's a success and we'll know either way over the course of the coming season; on that at least we appear to be able to agree.

I personally hope the thing is a complete failure. I love the fact that the weather and surface can have an effect on games, for me that’s part and parcel of the game. It’s called playing to the conditions and has always been part of the game. Rugby is played on grass and always should be, anything else just doesn’t look or feel authentic, just my opinion.

What annoys me most about all this is that we have been told several times now that it’s the future! Comments like suggest it’s tried and tested and a complete success. Lets wait till a reasonable amount of games have been played on it before we make judgments on the future of playing surfaces.

Given that Newmarket is billed as a community facility, and available for all, it'll be interesting to see what kind of pitch is laid there if it gets the go ahead....

The stadium pitch is currently proposed to be a grass pitch, although it will probably be a Desso Grassmaster pitch like most new modern grass pitches, which is what they have at the Galpharm, Keepmoat, Leigh Sport Village and Wembley, among others.

The current proposal will be then two training pitches, an all weather full 4G/iPitch and a full size grass pitch (they might wish for Grassmaster on here too but it might be too expensive!). The grass training pitch will be used for training by Wakefield, and anyone else who wants it, in the better weather, but also for local RL & football finals as they propose to have a small spectator stand alongside this pitch for this purpose. Both pitches will be floodlit and the all-weather pitch will be used as many hours a day as possible.

We play in the championship and have the best pitch in RL. FACT.

Dint realise Wakey had been relegated!

Cheers for the info IA. Sounds like a nice set up