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16 minutes ago, EddardStark said:

Ball almost impossible to pass along the deck on that surface. Shambles. Is is something to do with stadium design?

Given the general design of the stadium hasn't changed in a hundred years, I doubt it.  

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6 minutes ago, scottincarlisle said:

With all the work done on top of it for the Commonwealth Games I'm not surprised its knackered.

It's probably been relaid at least a couple of times since then. 

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1 hour ago, iainmac1 said:

Is the pitch actually any worse than Celtic Park or Ibrox or any other pitch used regularly? They interviewed a rangers player after and asked him about it and he said it want too bad. Not as bad as had been made out.

The ptich looked a lot worse than the Ibrox pitch. Players were falling over every few minutes, the turf was ripping up as players were running.

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The Hampden pitch used to be one of the best in the country.

 

Its been fuct ever since they started having concerts on it every summer. With the shape and design of Hampden - crap as it might be for fans in the east and west stands - its ideal for growing grass. Low shallow stands, plenty of air and light.

 

When they decided to stage a Robbie Williams concert instead of hosting a scotland home game thats when the writing was on the wall. And this process of relaying it every 2 months is just making it worse.

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Does it not take time for a new pitch to bed in?

Surely relaying it all the time is counter productive, and leads to exactly the type of surface folk are complaining about where the top layer cuts up badly...

i suppose most grounds would be re-seeded in June and July, but hampden tends to host concerts then...

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Or a car park, considering how bad parking is around the ground!

They were debating whether we needed Hampden or not on Off the Ball the other week.

If you remove sentiment or tradition, it's quite hard to make a case for keeping it.

We have 2 better stadiums in Glasgow. A bigger better one in Edinburgh although it's not a football stadium. Easter road, rugby park, Pittodrie or tynecastle when the new main stand is done could all host smaller games.

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1 hour ago, sbcmfc said:

Or a car park, considering how bad parking is around the ground!

They were debating whether we needed Hampden or not on Off the Ball the other week.

If you remove sentiment or tradition, it's quite hard to make a case for keeping it.

We have 2 better stadiums in Glasgow. A bigger better one in Edinburgh although it's not a football stadium. Easter road, rugby park, Pittodrie or tynecastle when the new main stand is done could all host smaller games.

Good post. I personally think it is time to end this sentimental guff about "the home of Scottish football" and get rid of Hampden Park. 

Surely any half decent builder could turn Lesser Hampden into a wee stadium for Queens Park to play at ?

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2 hours ago, sbcmfc said:

Or a car park, considering how bad parking is around the ground!

They were debating whether we needed Hampden or not on Off the Ball the other week.

If you remove sentiment or tradition, it's quite hard to make a case for keeping it.

We have 2 better stadiums in Glasgow. A bigger better one in Edinburgh although it's not a football stadium. Easter road, rugby park, Pittodrie or tynecastle when the new main stand is done could all host smaller games.

Yeah but if you build a car park over the stadium footprint, you would end up with a permanently empty car park...

Turn it into a centre of excellence, an extension of the Toryglen facility and keep the Hampden name. Tell QPFC to feck off with the rent for Scotland games, take them around the country instead and when Rangers and Celtic are drawn together in cups, rotate the games between the grounds, starting off with a coin toss. Hampden is pish now and not fit for purpose.

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How much would it cost to hire Murrayfield?

It holds 15,000 more than hampden, so even at a modest £20 average ticket price, you could pay the SRU £300k per game and be no worse off (although it is money that could be kept in football by using parkhead or ibrox).

One of the few negatives would be the need in Scottish football to appease both sides of the old firm, so games would no doubt have to be divvied up evenly between the 2 if parkhead and ibrox were to be used.

 

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I just can't see how this new pitch will be fit for playing two games on it , less than a week after it's laid. The roots will not have time to bind to the soil underneath. I'm no expert, but laid a few lawns and other areas before, and it needed a while with good growing conditions for it to become well established.

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