The recent weather proves why we can't rely on any so called winte

[kent dee]

Since when has looking after a golf course been anything like looking after a football pitch with undersoil heating?

I'm not saying it is the same, what I'm saying is the area he has to look after should never cost that amount.

[Guest DAVIDB69]

How many would that be?

League that has hundreds of millions of pounds poured into it has better pitches than Scotland. I, for one, am amazed.

7 games postponed in last month I think

[HibeeJibee]

Some seasons pass with barely a handful of Premiership games postponed. This season there have only been 7 postponed out of 132, and that's with several storms and the wettest December on record.

As such, to say that "so many top flight games" have been postponed seems rather OTT.

Ross County and Killie haven't had any off, home or away!!

[strichener]

The last month has had so much rain and so many top flight Scottish games called off.

Incidentally most of the pitches in Scotland are awful and can't take any water, lots of rain in England yesterday but most of the top flight grounds in England looked fine

Leicester's ground looks in amazing condition.

But if we fast forward a year it would be this point now where we stop for two weeks despite having the last month of monsoon weather , then no doubt the weather would be fine for two weeks , then be poor again once the shutdown was over

Our pitch looks like a bowling green.

[dorlomin]

You get serious flooding in summer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_Kingdom_floods

Also much of our serious flooding happens in November and January so there is no real way to schedule to miss it.

[HibeeJibee]

Dundee United spent 225 thousand on there pitch and everything they do with it in a year. Everton spent just over 5 million looking after there's. They have a drainage system only we can dream of.

Let's not go there.

Serious inflation since 1962-63...

http://www.glenrothesarabs.com/whyarabs.htm

The weather was so bad, with heavy snow and ice that refused to thaw, that between December and March, Dundee United were able to play only three times. The worst winter on record for years wiped out the Dundee derby match on 2nd January and a frozen pitch knocked out the match against Third Lanark to begin three weeks of inactivity on the pitch.

Snow-blowers were not enough, as the real problem was ice beneath the snow - the winter freeze, which had even created large ice flows on the river Tay, caused United's Scottish Cup tie against Albion Rovers to be postponed four times. Desperate to get the tie played before the next round of the Cup was due, the management hired a squad of 25 workmen to break up the ice with picks. When this also didn't work, Club manager Jerry Kerr arranged for industrial tar burners to be brought in to melt two inch thick ice from the pitch. This resulted in the pitch being waterlogged with very little grass left.

The management then arranged for several lorry loads of coarse sand to be spread across the barren surface, and the regulation pitch markings were then painted on top in an effort to make the pitch playable. Astonishingly, the referee pronounced the pitch acceptable and the match went ahead, at the fith time of asking, on 26th January. It cost United over £600 but it was money well spent.

[Carl Cort's Hamstring]

The management then arranged for several lorry loads of coarse sand to be spread across the barren surface, and the regulation pitch markings were then painted on top in an effort to make the pitch playable. Astonishingly, the referee pronounced the pitch acceptable and the match went ahead, at the fith time of asking, on 26th January. It cost United over £600 but it was money well spent.

Chelsea were still doing that 40 years later:

[HibeeJibee]

Softies.

Dens Park, 1936:

[Dr Koop]

I'm just going with the flow.

This kind of thing just irrigates me.

[Dr Koop]

Softies.

Dens Park, 1936:

Man's game.

[lionel hutz]

Dens Park, 2016:

Seems about right

[Miguel Sanchez]

You get serious flooding in summer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_Kingdom_floods

Also much of our serious flooding happens in November and January so there is no real way to schedule to miss it.

*note: the following ire is not aimed at you, rather the point you make and anyone who blindly states otherwise

It's almost as if the weather is too inconsistent and unpredictable to schedule regular breaks around. The "the weather was miserable this weekend so this proves we need summer football to give Rangers and Celtic a chance in Europe" brigade of oxygen-thieves seem impervious to this realisation.

[Glenconner]

*note: the following ire is not aimed at you, rather the point you make and anyone who blindly states otherwise

It's almost as if the weather is too inconsistent and unpredictable to schedule regular breaks around. The "the weather was miserable this weekend so this proves we need summer football to give Rangers and Celtic a chance in Europe" brigade of oxygen-thieves seem impervious to this realisation.

Oxygen-thieves?