Don't players get cuts and grazes on grass? It always looks like they do. Maybe not on very muddy grass but during the summer when the pitches harden (assuming a half decent summer anyway) and during the winter when pitches are not mudbaths, I seem to remember seeing players interviewed with grazes and cuts on them.

I think Widnes should be forced into installing an old-school team bath in each changing room. And along with a very hot tap, rather than a cold, there is a tap which releases witch hazel.

Ben Harrison: Hey Richie how did you get those burns on your knees

Richie Myler: errrrrrrr......... ipitch mate, yes........ trained on it last night.

Just wait until Jon Wilkins had a chance to play on it! can see a few official complaints being put in then

Richie Mathers has posted a picture of his knees on Twitter. Looks nasty; lockerz.com/s/180627472

Richie Mathers has posted a picture of his knees on Twitter. Looks nasty; lockerz.com/s/180627472

Wouldn't fancy playing on that! Looks nasty from Mathers pictures.

Don't fear, Apple have promised that the I-Pitch 2 will not cause any scratches or grazes.

Yes they do but grass will break up on contact, this stuff by it's nature won't. There is no give and thus you get maximum resistance.

I'm sure there is a way around it, protective bandage, plastic spray on skin, vasoline. I certainly wouldn't bin it without making some effort to counter it's weak points - nothing is perfect to start with.

Aprt from one error Mathers played very well and I'm not a fan - get a grip it's a debate about a pitch.

Shocking. Said when it got announced it was an awful idea.

Tenner says that players will get more impact injuries throughout the season at Widnes than anywhere else.

Radio saying Widnes U20 game abandoned due to serious injury

Tom Coyle compound fracture of his leg apparantly.

Looks like this pitch may be a very costly mistake, how long to lay a new grass pitch? home games at Wire for a couple of weeks?

The injury was caused by a tackle not the pitch.

It wouldn't have helped mathers when he skid onto the concrete/gravel when craven scored his try. If players want to wear under armour to prevent them getting burns then go for it, you only have to play at widnes once a year. I saw peacock having a little say last night as well. It had been approved by the RFL! If it hadn't of been, we wouldn't of spent half a million installing it.

As for the broken leg incident, it had nothing to do with the pitch. It was an injury which sadly can happen in rugby, it's happened in the past and it will happen again.