witchcraft.

Of course, it'll be no use on matchdays in winter as that dreadful woman Elfine Safety will have shut the stands in case there's a small patch of ice some where in them. She'd have had an apoplectic fit if she'd seen the snowball fights we used to have on the terraces when I was a kid back in nineteenhundredand mindyourownbusiness

No, believe it or not you just slide as if you fell over on the grass. So you can lose a bit of bark, but mostly fine.

If you are able to change the markings on these pitches, would it make sense for all duel use pitches, that are used for both rugby and football eg; KC Stadium to install it?
Just saying as alot of the time when the seasons overlap the pitches just get churned up and also if ever a pitch needs relaying it seems to always effect the rugby teams rather than the football?

I've played on an i-pitch for American Football, you definitely need to make sure you have the correct foot wear. If teams come with the wrong boots (lets not put it past RL teams to do that) then Widnes may get an advantage.

If the drainage is spot on then wet weather shouldn't be as bad. They are definitely fast, firmer pitchers. Should be interesting to see the kicking games too.

New England Patriots (NFL) and New England Revoultion (MLS) both play on an artificial pitch at the Gillette Stadium with the markings being changed in the same week some times, they also host some Lacrosse on it too so it's easy enough to change the markings.

From what I've seen with the American sports on them, they play just like natural grass just without the mud.

Another Lancashire innovation. Yorkshire are just introducing floodlights.

I thought that at the time. Then he starts banging on about unfair advantages and whether we should be forced to allow teams to train on it before playing on it. There are many ways teams give themselves an advantage, whether its the sloped pitch, the small in goal area, the width. To me, this will be a good thing especially in bad weather.

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for more info go here,also questions and answers download from the vikings official site cheers. www.widnesvikings.co.uk/article.php?id=5601

Don't think it was at Leigh East.

Leigh Centurions use that pitch for training sometimes and it didn't look like Leigh East from the shots I saw

Think it may have been at Edge Hill University Ormskirk

One will be the terrifying Thomas Coyle.

I just think he played Devil's advocate, and did it well. Let's face it, there's plenty of flatcappers who'll be shocked by this innovation and will have thought all the things Hemmings asked out loud. This way their questions are answered.

Its just another way in which RL pushes the boundaries of british sport.