The pitch has been sanded to mop up standing water after recent rainfall rather than it being underlying sandy.

However there is no doubt that if the pitch wasn't in regular use (apart from Boxing Day) in October, November, December and January the club's groundstaff would be able to do completely change their cycle of maintenance. As it stands the RU club will not be there for another winter so this should make things a lot easier.

Interesting one this. When I started watching, most pitches had very little grass left by February, just a bit around the corners. Football pitches the same. During the big freeze of ‘63, Cas put braziers all over to get a cup tie played. That pitch had no grass at all. Currently watching Hull v Leeds United, pitch like a green Axminster carpet!

I think Leeds had the pitch dug up and relayed last year too

Ok thanks, didn't think it was that much taller.
The pitch always seems to be poor this time of year. They used to blame it on the old under soil heating system, but they removed that and little appears to have improved.

Pitch was crap but it didn't hamper Leeds so a bit pointless mentioning it.

Looking forward to Mondays YEP to see if " The Sleeve" puts a bit of spin on state of pitch