:cry: :cry: :cry:

Ah, yes. A dark, dark, day.

31/01/15 Never Forget.

wouldnt happen in europe.

Bit of a nothing story I feel. How quickly does Adelaide Oval's grass grow at this time of year? That is what the AFL will be looking at because they will want it at 28mm each and every week. For the few A-League games there are each year there they unfortunately don't have much of a bark in this fight. AFL brings in the dollars each week so in my opinion they get the say in these (trivial) matters

I know his till code and have access to his account. I'm sure he won't notice. ;)

As long as your boss is buying.

Sure. Just no throwing wheelie bins at children this time. OK?

And Japanese pensioners

Can I join in too?

Come up for a beer, and find out. ;)

Shouldn't you be too busy stabbing Victory fans and beating up your own players to lay into opposition players? :-k

I did recall in the first game of the season when Adelaide and Victory played on the same venue, even with the short grass it was too quick for the players and affected the standard on the pitch.

Didn't realize Harry Novillo and Archie Thompson played the sport?

Interesting, thanks for providing a qualified opinion, even if it is bad news!

Mate of mine read this, he's a greens keeper and did his apprenticeship at optus oval in the late 90s. Having the afl game the night before and then taking 3mm off will make the roll of the ball inconsistant especially with rain. They would be better to take at least 5mm off but he would think that the afl have insisted they can only take the amount off that fits a-league requirements. He said it would 100% detract from the game. He also said if they paint over the ads and then take the length off you shouldn't see it but again they won't they will mow then paint over the ads making it look shit.

And this is why Adelaide will always be overlooked when it comes to Socceroos games. No proper facilities, everything handmade for another code. At least Melbourne has AAMI, Perth NIB stadium and Brisbane got suncorp.... What does Adelaide have? Hindmarsh? Lol no wonder they're overlooked

Nah, just women and children.

Does the AFL damage the pitch like Rugby and League does?

Jog on little one

:-s :lol: What demands have we made?

This guy wins the internet.

And yet we'll have people lining up to defend alf. what a joke

Why is their home advantage thrown out? It's not as if WSW weren't going to train on there. Both not training there or both training there is the same result

*Shrugs*
It is what it is

Most of our squad has played quite a few games there before anyway
WSW should have finished top if they wanted the game played to their demands

If it was 5+ years ago this game would have been at footy park for christ's sake :lol:

Adelaide has played on the Oval before with it cut correctly so they will know how it's going to play/

Though it's a massive beatup over something pretty irrelevant.

The issue is that neither team will get to train and practise on the pitch.
So any home "advantage" adelaide had is technically thrown out.

All this means is that the teams can't train on the ground, they'll train at Coopers instead.

Is 3mm really that much of an issue?

It's getting cut after the AFL, so it'll be fine for the A-League.

That was when they were preparing for cricket season though and the grass way cut too low.

Weren't there complaints about the field being too zippy for the Victory game? Maybe this will help?

Or maybe it's way too thick and everyone will do their ACLs.

Edited by paladisious: 26/4/2016 02:14:02 PM