The debate will no doubt continue as long as we have the pitch, but Ian Kirke will be wearing skins tomorrow as he talks about his dislike of the iPitch to the Yorkshire Post:

www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... -1-5810235

I would have thought that we would have been able to produce some injury stats about the pitch, by now, in comparison with grass pitches and I'm surprised we haven't published them, (unless of course they are not favourable!). Indeed I would have thought the RFL would have asked us to, given the occasional sniping that goes on from the players of other clubs (and sometimes their coaches).

I am not against the pitch as long as it isn't a greater risk to our players. A few posters on the TIW site used to make out that our players hated it and other players were reluctant to come to the Club because of the pitch. Given that none of our players wear skins, you would assume they are happy enough with it. Whether the old story that they were taking antibiotics on a regular basis as a precaution against infected cuts, was true or not I'm not sure. One thing the Club did admit to though was reducing the actual training time on the iPitch and mixing it up with time on grass.

I do wonder whether we maintain it as we should since I read somewhere (probably to do with Saracens pitch) that the "grass" needs to be brushed, whereas we seem to roll ours flat. Anyway lets see how it works out, both White and Cahill damaged their ankles on Bradford's grass pitch on Sunday, so it would appear the risk is no different.

I have always hoped that there were no extra dangers, but I am happy that the opposition might think there are and be apprehensive, putting a bit of doubt into their game!

The debate will no doubt continue as long as we have the pitch, but Ian Kirke will be wearing skins tomorrow as he talks about his dislike of the iPitch to the Yorkshire Post:

www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... -1-5810235

I would have thought that we would have been able to produce some injury stats about the pitch, by now, in comparison with grass pitches and I'm surprised we haven't published them, (unless of course they are not favourable!). Indeed I would have thought the RFL would have asked us to, given the occasional sniping that goes on from the players of other clubs (and sometimes their coaches).

I am not against the pitch as long as it isn't a greater risk to our players. A few posters on the TIW site used to make out that our players hated it and other players were reluctant to come to the Club because of the pitch. Given that none of our players wear skins, you would assume they are happy enough with it. Whether the old story that they were taking antibiotics on a regular basis as a precaution against infected cuts, was true or not I'm not sure. One thing the Club did admit to though was reducing the actual training time on the iPitch and mixing it up with time on grass.

I do wonder whether we maintain it as we should since I read somewhere (probably to do with Saracens pitch) that the "grass" needs to be brushed, whereas we seem to roll ours flat. Anyway lets see how it works out, both White and Cahill damaged their ankles on Bradford's grass pitch on Sunday, so it would appear the risk is no different.

I have always hoped that there were no extra dangers, but I am happy that the opposition might think there are and be apprehensive, putting a bit of doubt into their game!