Fair point, but if I had to arrange this, and I was looking at it objectively, I'd look and see 'I can do this in August, and have two teams have to change fixtures, or I could do it in June, and only have one team to change fixtures'

Doing it out of City's season is a no-brainer, no matter how annoying it may be for us.

Will cost the club attendance of fans who live away, can't see me making the trip from Worcester that many weeks in a row.

As I understand it this has been going on only since a few days before Christmas.

Digging the pitch up was muted when there were problems with the sub soil in the summer but it was decided that it would not be necessary and the SMC told us that!

The fixtures were agreed by the SMc and both our Club and the RL consulted them before the fixtures were released.

Since then however a major problem has occured with the undersoil heating and there have been leaks etc. and there is still a sub soil problem so the full overhaul which should see the playing surface OK for another 10 years is now necessary.

I don't know if there is any compensation deal in place but Standee is spot on with what he says and it will be financially tough on some.

However for those who travel to all away games at least we will be doing it on lighter nights and in better weather and the bring back Sunday brigade get a couple of Sunday games too. However a series of away games is expensive for the fans but my main fear is that we have a slow start and are struggling a bit in the League thats when you don't want a string of away games in mid season against other potentially struggling Clubs!

Still its got to be done and the vagueries of the Councils deal with the SMC may give them total control but it also means they have to pay all the costs of such work too!

It would never happen at Welton

No real problem for me aside from the potential issue of having to move a home Challenge Cup Quarter Final.

It's a shame to lose the home games in June, but we're used to it - we didn't play at home last June and only had one home game in June 2011 and 2012.

For once it benefits me one less shift swap to do

This is utterly outrageous.

Quite

One million was spent on it last year. Council owned tat eh!

Why didnt we just paint it green like you did after the Campbell fight (dont forget his title shot near year at your gaff, well the gaff you rent)

Just proves once again that it's football that buggers up the pitch an not rugby.

If the leaks that caused the damage are through lack of maintenance/maintennce schedule in the first instance (or even from buying inferior products) then it's another sign of how badly the SMC is run and let's be honest has been run since its inception.

Posted losses by the SMC no doubt will be used long term by Mr Allem in some way or another despite the relatively minor effect it'll have on his business no doubt being able to offset those losses elsewhere.

Our ball will be in the freezer, or we will switch to the council owned mini KC lightweight stadium. Not a drama. Providing their pitch is playable.

bring a can of green spray paint and you'll be ok mate

would rather play at the keepmoat if we ad to give up home advantage in the cup, if we get that far of course

Screws up things for me. Will miss both those fixtures now due to work. Waste of time buying a season ticket! :-/

Like another poster said though, in the event of this happening I would choose Donny. With our "partnership" imagine we could play there and get used to the ground for the semi afterwards