Where the pitch will eventually end up…
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The minimum recommended distance from the touchline to the advertising hoardings is 4m per the Green Guide (sorry I have been reading it today as I have been engaged on a project to develop a new stadium complex)
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Call me demanding but I would like all this and some management that knows a bit about the runny kicky ball stuff.
Pitch renovation progress!
Pitch progress 💪
— Wycombe Wanderers (@wwfcofficial) June 3, 2025
See how the installation of our brand-new pitch at Adams Park has continued over the past fortnight. pic.twitter.com/PMDOi7qBTw
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With an aged undersoil heating system… no inbuilt irrigation system and a top desso surface well past its best… we have consistently had one of the best playing surfaces in the leagues. Our groundsmen need some serious recognition for this!
This season our pitch must be next level good. Premiership standard…
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I think where the stadium is has helped the groundsmen no ends. Its quite exposed which allows the winds to flow through & over the ground with ease as well as having none of the stands blocking the light for large periods of the day.
As old people say “Let nature take its course”
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When I had a ground tour they said the parts of the ground near the corner of the Family Stand and Shed End (!) don’t see light between November and March. That’s what the funny light machine behind the away stand is used for.
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Had quite a lot of manure on it second half of the season
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Halfway through that video the dugouts are taken down and the base removed. Can we assume they’re being lowered into the ground?
I noticed that, but it looks to me that a longer base for new dugouts has been installed rather than lowered.
They shifted a serious volume of material to back fill the hole dug out, for under soil heating and irrigation, before relaying the new pitch soil surface. I wonder how much was reused from the old and how much had to be brought to site new.
Impressive work so far.
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While our old pitch was always as good as the ground staff could make it, I think it was said somewhere that it had become quite hard. (Maybe a comment from a player in an interview?).
It was certainly quite firm before the start of the 2021 season(I think) when fans got the chance to walk out onto the pitch during the Party at the Park which RC organised as a thank you for fans after COVID.
By all accounts, our pitch has been appalling for the majority of the last 10 years. You could argue we played better away from home this season because of our home pitch.
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Our very aged undersoil heating system can’t of helped matters with regards to the quality of the pitch. It must have been on constantly from November through to March last season. I’m no pitch expert / groundsman, but it must have had a factor?
Thats a great shout. Would help with the restricted view in the Origin stand
Interesting you should say that. I’ve recently declined a couple of procedures and a pacemaker on the cardiology side and have discontinued a particular drug (on seemingly counterintuitive specialist advice) on the oncology side. I’ll be 87 in September and I’m averse to anything that is designed to prolong my life to an age when I could be entirely on my own.
I would much prefer to let nature take its course.
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Apologies for butting in with something so personal and unrelated to the thread topic but that comment about letting nature take its course had, for me, a very real relevance.
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Can I just say: we love you Micra!
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I’m sorry @micra I didn’t mean to upset you
Don’t be silly, @Otter87. You certainly haven’t upset me in any way whatsoever. The phrase just happened to strike a chord because I’d used it earlier in the day in an email to one of the cardiologists. I’m restricted in what I can do compared with a few short years ago and rarely get out but I’m reasonably comfortable, eating and sleeping well, and (at least for the immediate future), happy to let nature take its course.
The kind responses to my ramblings are much appreciated.
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That’s made me well happy. Thank you all.
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