Its the stone baselayer going down, The rubber particles are near the end stages



Im back at Stadium Wednesday so will get few more then

Haven't you just photoshopped a picture of Headingley or the JJB pitch onto the Stobart Stadium there?

Maybe I've missed the boat on this discussion, but what's the point of the iPitch? What's wrong with grass?

Grass is soooo last year!

What's wrong with grass? Nothing much, but you can't train on it if you want to keep it pristine. You can't hold other sports on it. You can't use it all year round. And it still has the tendency to become a mud bath in periods of heavy rain.

I've no idea how this ipitch will turn out for us, but that's the reason for it.

This may be a daft question but what footwear do you need for the iPitch?
does it take a stud? Blade studs? Trainers or those dimple soles like they used on the artificial pitches in the 80s?
Perhaps anyone who has follows Russian footy will know or maybe someone has played on this sort of surface somewhere else.

Can you play on this pitch with studs?
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Seems this idea came about because Widnes do not have an adequate facility to train on. Would it not have been a better idea to spend £600,000 on improving the training facilities rather than the pitch?

I'm sure I read about Widnes getting a brand new facility around the time Saints got one.

No, it came about because they want to increase revenue at the stadium. We are also in talks about developing training facilities on an old recreation ground off Liverpool Rd.

Your both right.

Saddened has covered one angle in that we dont own any training facilities of our own at present and we can't realistically expect full time pro's to do ball work in the winter months in a disused Stobart warehouse or beg, stealing and borrowing suitable indoor facilities to train inside as we had been doing as a part time side. The pitch wouldnt take being trained on each day in it's original form so we have solved an immediate and pressing problem thanks to SOC.

I was under the impression that the Leigh Rec site was going to be more of an academy centre and to be used to give other amateur junior sides a decent base of facilities to run from. In any case as far as a training venue was concerned it is still a fair way away and something was needed for this year and in all likelihood next.