End in sight to Bradford City pitch battle (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Sorry for having slept through it all plus being out of the country for a while, but whatever happened to the proposed move re. super facilities over near Leeds Uni. Were there not all weather pitches available or maybe i am thinking of Marley playing fields over in Keighley.

Someone explain this story to me.I have no idea about football pitch maintainence.

Why would changing pitches help,when they're all outside and will get covered in the same snow and ice?

How many pitches do we have? I thought we had 2.Rawdon Meadows and Apperley Bridge as a spare one.

Why do we need more pitches?

Why were city training at Valley Parade last week? It's grass,its outside,is it any different to training on our training pitches,other than being flatter than them?

Why not use Buttershaws pitches in bad weather? They won't get muddy but might get a few carpet burns.Or use St Bedes' all weather gravel pitch

The deal with the uni fell at the last hurdle but I did think that some satisfactory arrangement had already been made with Woodhouse Grove re use of facilities, including dining etc and this venue had 3G pitches installed. Possible mis-read or misunderstanding on my part. Unless anyone else remembers this.

Prisoner Cell Block A wrote:
The deal with the uni fell at the last hurdle but I did think that some satisfactory arrangement had already been made with Woodhouse Grove re use of facilities, including dining etc and this venue had 3G pitches installed. Possible mis-read or misunderstanding on my part. Unless anyone else remembers this.

I'm sure i remember reading they had 3G pitches too.

What are 3G pitches anyway lol? Are they gravel,green carpet type or what?

Danstarr69 wrote:

Prisoner Cell Block A wrote:
The deal with the uni fell at the last hurdle but I did think that some satisfactory arrangement had already been made with Woodhouse Grove re use of facilities, including dining etc and this venue had 3G pitches installed. Possible mis-read or misunderstanding on my part. Unless anyone else remembers this.

I'm sure i remember reading they had 3G pitches too.

What are 3G pitches anyway lol? Are they gravel,green carpet type or what?

I remember reading something about Woodhouse Grove also. Please fill us in on what happened.

I too remember the story that all these problems were solvedwith a tie in to woodhouse grove.And I recall stewarts comments about the ridiculous amounts spent on a boardroom big and lavish enough to play 5 aside football in, errantly spent by richmond while the training facilities were pathetic.
3G pitches as I understand are a growing fibre type grass mixed with grass.
Certain clubs pitches can then cope with our elements and it allows say rugby and football to be combined without the pitch been destroyed.
Liverpool have one nd Wembley finally adopted the technique after umpteen dig ups after finally abandoning the advice of Bradfords very own sports turf research institute at Bingley St Ives.
So much money wasted that will never come back

Prisoner Cell Block A wrote:
The deal with the uni fell at the last hurdle but I did think that some satisfactory arrangement had already been made with Woodhouse Grove re use of facilities, including dining etc and this venue had 3G pitches installed. Possible mis-read or misunderstanding on my part. Unless anyone else remembers this.

In May 2011 ML was quoted as saying “It’s a great deal with Woodhouse Grove and we’ve had to sign a 12-year lease to get it. It’s going to be as good a training facility as the Premier League. The players won’t be able to moan about the training ground now. But we will still use the same pitches down there because they are good pitches. The trouble is that sometimes it floods, although not as much as people exaggerate. Nine times out of ten, the problems come from the ground freezing up, not flooding. But then a frozen pitch will be a frozen pitch wherever you are. But now we’ll have a proper facility inside. And it’s a private school so they’re not scrimping on what they are putting on.”

“We’ll have full use of the swimming pool, gyms, physio facilities, a feeding area and sprung indoor sports hall. And the current artificial pitch is being lifted two metres so there is no risk of flooding. We’ll have inside and outside training, which is the most important thing in the winter. The players will train and eat there and then go home – they will only need to come to the ground for matchdays. They can do one session, eat, then train again in the afternoon. You couldn’t do that very easily before because you had to come to and from Valley Parade. You look at the gym facilities and they are better than any round here. So there are no excuses.”

The Woodhouse Grove Headmaster's Beginning of Term Letter, September 2011, contained the following: '' Elsewhere on the site the main changes have been: the commencement of the swimming pool project. Spoil from this scheme is being "banked" behind the sports centre and will provide the spoil needed to form the terrace on which a new floodlit all-weather pitch will be constructed. Our new partnership with Bradford City FC provides a substantial proportion of the revenue we need to build this pitch but at the time of writing Governors have not approved a start date so "watch this space".

Headmasters End of Term Letter December 2011:
''We have also arranged the funding required to build, later next year, a floodlit synthetic pitch''.