Quote Originally Posted by Shere Khan View Post
You should be rating grounds at season start not now as all the clubs have different work loads.
Also bare in mind that councils will pretty much always say they have lack off funds which means unless the ground is dangerous the only upgrades are from the club itself or grants.
Nnswf can sit there and say all they want about needing fields upgraded but they aren't in control of those grounds.
(Won't go into the FA funding system here)

1.Uni
2.Suburbs
Swansea
Barnsley
Dudley
3 Mayfield
4 Suns
5 Cardiff
6 Bero
New Lambton
I think now is a good time to rate the fields....we have had half a season or so....all fields have been played on equally (except possibly Uni who have played night games on a different field...not sure if other clubs did this ?)
As per sammydog's post above...look at the then and now !.... And getting on Alder park or Cardiff at the start of the season is totally different to playing mid season or (ahem !) at the end of the season.

As you posted...... its about the dollars (or lack there of) available. I reckon all clubs do their best, but as a Uni player, we hear the comments from club players when they come to a pitch that's in top nic..... (In saying that Uni spent all of its pre-season training on an oval that has a cricket pitch in the middle, was rarely mowed, was uneven, patchy grass, bumpy etc etc).