Should Alan make part of our training regime be playing on a wet, plowed field.

[Secret Site Agent]

Simple question that came up with my depressed pompey supporting workforce. Considering the difference in quality between the pitch at SMS and the pitch eslewhere, should part of our preparations be on a less prepared, more soggy undulating pitch, to maybe get used to a more, shall we say, alternative way of playing?

 

Discuss, please, crumulent, well thought out arguments, parliamentry rules apply.

 

Go!!!

[paris]

There's four pitches in Green Park that could help ...

[suewhistle]

Farlington Marshes were never too bad, but Bransbury Park would probably fit the bill.

[Saint_clark]

No. Other teams manage to perform well on sh*t pitches without needed to f*ck their own up, and so should we.

Just give him a bit of time.

[The9]

No, as the players are more likely to pick up injuries on bad surfaces.

 

Also, I believe "cromulent" is the Simpsonian term you are seeking, but I shan't be crossing the floor about it.

[Dig Dig]

These players should have enough experience playing on crap pitches. They won't have gone their whole careers only ever playing on the finest pitches.

 

They are professional football players and as such should be able to adapt and play on most surfaces.

 

Alternatively, if they really need practise they can come play for my team in the Sunday league and then they will really see some **** pitches

[Mewsta]

There's four pitches in Green Park that could help ...

 

We have a 'Semi-Final' to play there saturday.... should churn it up a bit more!!!

[Secret Site Agent]

No, as the players are more likely to pick up injuries on bad surfaces.

 

Also, I believe "cromulent" is the Simpsonian term you are seeking, but I shan't be crossing the floor about it.

 

Well done. The identification of crumulent only 'Embiggens' you, The9!!!!!It has only taken 3 years on th is board.

[forever a red and white]

ironically, whenever i play with saints in the rain on fifa i lose

[Dig Dig]

ironically, whenever i play with saints in the rain on fifa i lose

 

Thats most of the time then!? It always rains of fifa

[IamLeGod]

Whilst I can sort of understand some of the logic behind it.

 

It's worth bearing in mind that the majority of our team aren't exactly Premiership stars, most have spent considerable time in the lower leagues, so really should be used to scrappy pitches.

[Dig Dig]

Whilst I can sort of understand some of the logic behind it.

 

It's worth bearing in mind that the majority of our team aren't exactly Premiership stars, most have spent considerable time in the lower leagues, so really should be used to scrappy pitches.

 

Exactly- we shouldn't be plannig our training session's around playing on dodgy pitches....imho

[Legod Third Coming]

Ploughed pitches is a red herring. There was nothing wrong with Wycombe's pitch.

 

There was everything wrong with our work rate, formation and thinking!

[Glasgow_Saint]

Tranmere pitch was the reason we lost - also the reason why Leeds won there 4-1 last night.

[Dig Dig]

Tranmere pitch was the reason we lost - also the reason why Leeds won there 4-1 last night.

 

The ref was the reason we lost apparently, didn't hear too many grumbles about the pitch.

[saint_stevo]

Adams Park now seems to look pretty green, amazingly

[SamKimish]

Simple question that came up with my depressed pompey supporting workforce. Considering the difference in quality between the pitch at SMS and the pitch eslewhere, should part of our preparations be on a less prepared, more soggy undulating pitch, to maybe get used to a more, shall we say, alternative way of playing?

 

 

Jackson's Farm?

[oggiee]

For me its simple, yes, it's a weakness, it needs to be fixed.

[Window Cleaner]

Ploughed, for those who try to understand estuary English.

[BadgerBadger]

My back garden is avaiblable fro training and fits the said description although size might be an issue

[up and away]

Pardew does come out with some bollix when the squeak is on, there is nothing wrong with most of those pitches. Stockports looks really bad but I have seen a lot of good football played on there. When you go up against a very good side like Huddersfield and are first to every 1st and 2nd ball, then cannot get near that level against Tranmere, it's nothing to do with the pitch. Against Norwich there was only one team in it, against Wycombe we could not even win a corner. The pitches are just a poor excuse for a basic flaw at the heart of the team. Just like the -10 was run out as an excuse, this is equally invalid.

[aintforever]

I think it makes sense to occasionally train on a bad pitch, if Saints spend their entire time training in the dome or on the perfect training ground surfaces it's little wonder they come unstuck in some boggy northern **** hole.

 

Of course players should be able to play on any surface, but it's about being the best prepared as possible and surfaces do change the way the game is played.

[alpine_saint]

There must be otherwise of acclimatising the team to L1 mid-week, mid-Winter sh*tty NorthernMonkey matches without turning Staplewood into a quagmire.

[TopGun]

There must be otherwise of acclimatising the team to L1 mid-week, mid-Winter sh*tty NorthernMonkey matches without turning Staplewood into a quagmire.

 

Why Northern Monkey Alps?

[alpine_saint]

Why Northern Monkey Alps?

 

Why not ?

[derry]

Get the ball out wide and attack from the flanks instead of everyone in the middle of the pitch.

 

Don't keep 11 players in the penalty area for set pieces it just means nobody marks properly because of the clutter.

[TopGun]

Why not ?

 

 

Just not sure it's necessary really. Are all Austrians nazis or child molesters?

[Legod Third Coming]

Get the ball out wide and attack from the flanks instead of everyone in the middle of the pitch.

 

Don't keep 11 players in the penalty area for set pieces it just means nobody marks properly because of the clutter.

 

Finally I agree with you!!!!

 

Why the feck at Adams Park did we not leave 1 or 2 players up at their corners?

 

It immediately means they have to leave a minimum of 2/3 defenders back AND gives us an out.

 

If the player(s) you leave up is also Waigo/Antonio, the opposition are screwed because they know a quick break is a real possibility so leave their entire back four on the halfway line!!!

 

As for getting it out wide, we didn't need to! They ran at us down the middle of the pitch. I've seen lumpier snooker tables!

[alpine_saint]

Just not sure it's necessary really. Are all Austrians nazis or child molesters?

 

Possibly, I wouldnt know.

[AndyNorthernSaints]

Why Northern Monkey Alps?

 

Just ignore his t0sser comments.

[David Strover]

Well done. The identification of crumulent only 'Embiggens' you, The9!!!!!It has only taken 3 years on th is board.

 

I bet you failed English. But that's unpossible!

[Secret Site Agent]

I bet you failed English. But that's unpossible!

 

Got English Language at A level, my friend. But, as the9 will tell you, big Simpson fan. Sorry, in joke that went right over your head. And the fact i wrote it in the middle of the M1 in a portaloo on a blackbury is, I think, quite an achievement.

[Junior Mullet]

There must be otherwise of acclimatising the team to L1 mid-week, mid-Winter sh*tty NorthernMonkey matches without turning Staplewood into a quagmire.

 

Not sure why, but I lol'd.

[Legod Third Coming]

There must be otherwise of acclimatising the team to L1 mid-week, mid-Winter sh*tty NorthernMonkey matches without turning Staplewood into a quagmire.

 

Eat a bag of chips, put on a pair of high heels and singlet top, totter around a market square holding a bottle of WKD...

[Junior Mullet]

Eat a bag of chips, put on a pair of high heels and singlet top, totter around a market square holding a bottle of WKD...

 

 

Ricky Lambert shoould be fine then.

[saintedwill]

Simple question that came up with my depressed pompey supporting workforce. Considering the difference in quality between the pitch at SMS and the pitch eslewhere, should part of our preparations be on a less prepared, more soggy undulating pitch, to maybe get used to a more, shall we say, alternative way of playing?

 

Discuss, please, crumulent, well thought out arguments, parliamentry rules apply.

 

Go!!!

 

Isn't this the whole reason we've got to wembly?

[Norm]

Got English Language at A level, my friend. But, as the9 will tell you, big Simpson fan. Sorry, in joke that went right over your head. And the fact i wrote it in the middle of the M1 in a portaloo on a blackbury is, I think, quite an achievement.

 

 

On a Blackbury/Blackberry or using one? I do hope you used your left hand to wipe your arse!

 

And you achieved an A! I left with "Could do better if he tried harder!"

[Andy Durman]

When the pitches were good at the beginning of the season we were at our worst. Maybe we should look here for our reasons for not getting to the play offs.

[The9]

Well done. The identification of crumulent only 'Embiggens' you, The9!!!!!It has only taken 3 years on th is board.

 

It's still "cromulent", google.

[Secret Site Agent]

It's still "cromulent", google.

 

It seems it can be spelt both ways.

 

I can't believe we are disagreeing over the spelling of a made up word from a TV programme.

 

Great Isn't it.

[Secret Site Agent]

On a Blackbury/Blackberry or using one? I do hope you used your left hand to wipe your arse!

 

And you achieved an A! I left with "Could do better if he tried harder!"

 

I would prefer to wipe my arse with the Blackberry to be honest. Lump of **** that it is. They just wont give me an Iphone. Bastards.

[Window Cleaner]

I would prefer to wipe my arse with the Blackberry to be honest. Lump of **** that it is. They just wont give me an Iphone. Bastards.

 

Perhaps they'll give you one of those new KDDI models.

[david in sweden]

Simple question that came up with my depressed pompey supporting workforce. Considering the difference in quality between the pitch at SMS and the pitch eslewhere, should part of our preparations be on a less prepared, more soggy undulating pitch, to maybe get used to a more, shall we say, alternative way of playing?

 

Discuss, please, crumulent, well thought out arguments, parliamentry rules apply.

 

Go!!!

 

 

.and why not , I've heard sillier suggestions:smt111