There was always going to be questions asked early on and 1 year on, the fact that there has been so little said about the pitch, means that it has worked.

The benefits of the plastic pitch will be noticed more in the off-season when hopefully it will be used for other activities.

Various players have commented on it on Twitter over the season, summed up pretty much by Ryan Atkins yesterday: "I honestly didn't mind the pitch but wouldn't want to play on it every week!"

I was thinking this the other day has there been anymore injuries on it compared to grass?

It doesnt help the home team when defending thats for sure

It's ugly, scruffy dirty and industrial and I can't see the point, what's wrong with grass?

Reduces the spectacle of sport, which is actually why we go and spend our hard earned. Not for me.

It's a vastly improved technology over the astro-turf pitches I played on 20 years ago and still bear the scars from now. The manufacturers have proven the pitches are not a direct cause of serious injury (Serious injuries will still occur and possibly in differnet scenarios to proper grass) and I think this has been shown over the season.



Give it 20 years and professional 'pitch based' sports will all be on at least partially artificial surfaces.

I'd say McShane got injured due to the pitch yesterday.



It also goes some way towards spoiling the game as players do not play the same way as they do on grass eg wingers do not dive for the corners.



From what I hear there are regularly been players suffering from infected "burns" for weeks after playing on teh pitch. Dig it up and condemn it to history.

the pitch will ultimately be judged on what type of return on investment it produces, it just makes no financial sense to have the biggest area of a modern stadium only contributing to the up keep for a couple of hours for about 20 weekends

I've got a mate whose played on it and he hated it. Apparently its too 'fast' and the bounce of the ball isn't true.

You had me with you until that part

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For the first time I'm interested how the proposed i pitch will be at Barnet when the Saracens RU team move there, insomuch as how it copes with competitive scrums, ie can forwards dig in for a push ?

Does it have an iPod dock?