Local Sports Grounds

[KITZ]

Another wet season

So many grounds not up to scratch - no investment from councils - Northern and Associations happy to take everyone?s fees and rego money but gutless to push councils or invest their own money.

LMRFF only reserved for top competitions and the rest have no chance.

The cycle continues.

not even the top competitions using it, otherwise it would currently have games on it every night instead of TSP and teams training, its a very poor use considering every rego fee pays money to the fund to help maintain it, yet still have to pay to use it and then still not use it for rescheduled games.

[KITZ]

With the recent controversy around Wallarah Oval (near Jaffas and opposite mcdonald Jone) and proposed basketball facility it could be a good move to investigate synthetic facility.

- We know the drainage is poor, they?ve cited this
- it doesn?t get much usage due to the drainage

It?s a large area. You could probably fit 2-3 fields in the area. Aside from Adamstown fields it?s probably one of the large parcels of fields around town.

Whether it be CoN, NNSW, Newcastle Football or even The Jets, could be a potential investment.

Obviously depending upon the party completing the works, it could lead to benefits for everybody.

https://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/f...y#quick-link-4

CoN - could hire out to anybody and everybody, can use for cricket (summer), football, even room for some 5s courts or summer evening comps.

NNSWF and Jets would obviously favour their elite - similar to LMRFF but, could also free up LMRFF for use by everybody.

Newcastle Football - could secure it, rent it out for cricket over summer, 6s, hold summer comps and use it to get their local teams games played, school games etc.

I?m aware it?s a large outlay, and politics would come into it, but there?s not too many sites like this.

There's actually lots of sites like it, every single council ground with a pitch on it. Everywhere I went in Sydney there was a playground and an open use synthetic pitch - fences but gates open for use by anyone - can also be hired out by clubs etc as well.

[howardyou]

Newcastle Football had ideas around making Wallarah a Centre of Excellence prior to them buying/building(?) the Steel River office. It would have been two full synthetic pitches, Jaffas being a grass pitch with stadium including a double-sided grandstand, offices, etc.

But they now have an office in an industrial estate......

[sapdad]

Newcastle Football had ideas around making Wallarah a Centre of Excellence prior to them buying/building(?) the Steel River office. It would have been two full synthetic pitches, Jaffas being a grass pitch with stadium including a double-sided grandstand, offices, etc.

But they now have an office in an industrial estate......

I was always told that deal relied on another local club ground sharing but they werent keen on the idea.Im not sure its as simple as a choice between fields or an office.

[matjpacker]

sapdad nailed it, whilst clubs most NPL clubs would generally like an artificial pitch, it also means they lose the little bit of control they have over their grounds, especially the fenced off ones as now it?s playable all the time and council can open it to other clubs. Too many egos in the way.

[howardyou]

I was always told that deal relied on another local club ground sharing but they werent keen on the idea.Im not sure its as simple as a choice between fields or an office.

Of course it wasn't that simple, however offices do fit in grandstands, and imagine the money they would've made with all of this wet weather over the past few years. Teams are queuing up (and paying up!) for the privilege of training on artificial at Speers Pt.

[Jim]

Newcastle Football had ideas around making Wallarah a Centre of Excellence prior to them buying/building(?) the Steel River office. It would have been two full synthetic pitches, Jaffas being a grass pitch with stadium including a double-sided grandstand, offices, etc.

But they now have an office in an industrial estate......

Newcastle is Aids when it comes to football

[KITZ]

Newcastle is Aids when it comes to football

Aids is well managed with medication these days. Maybe more like Ebola. The further away you are the less risk you are at from catching it and it has like an 80%+ death rate from bleeding from all of your orifices.

[WOW2.0]

Anyone see that the Scottish Premiership (SPFL) has voted to ban synthetic pitches

I was curious to know why, and there wasn't much talk of the 'why' on FB

Did find this though
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crg69wrp9y8o

Apparently there was a study by Stirling University that found the rubber infill "might be" carcinogenic. Seems a bit of an excessive response to a might be.

A few clubs aren't happy, apparently it costs a Scottish club over 750,000 pounds a year for grass growing heat lamps to maintain a proper turf pitch through winter.

(Obviously we could do with a few more synthetic pitches on a day like today...wonder if the above direction will filter down)

[Nou Camp]

Anyone see that the Scottish Premiership (SPFL) has voted to ban synthetic pitches

I was curious to know why, and there wasn't much talk of the 'why' on FB

Did find this though
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crg69wrp9y8o

Apparently there was a study by Stirling University that found the rubber infill "might be" carcinogenic. Seems a bit of an excessive response to a might be.

A few clubs aren't happy, apparently it costs a Scottish club over 750,000 pounds a year for grass growing heat lamps to maintain a proper turf pitch through winter.

(Obviously we could do with a few more synthetic pitches on a day like today...wonder if the above direction will filter down)

I remember reading something like this about 10 years from an American study which said goalkeepers were like 20 times more likely to get cancer from the synthetic pitches due to all the diving around they do on them
Surprised haven?t heard more about it since then