Potential grass issue - Our father who art in heaven...

[ensco]

....please let the grass take.

Close to the lake, the water table is high. I am old enough to remember what the grass field at CNE Stadium at Argo games in the early 1970s looked like. It was mostly a quagmire. They switched to one of the earliest, most god awful forms of astroturf because of it.

BMO sits essentially at the same spot. And yes, I'm sure the people MLSE have working on this know that history, and know what they are doing.

But we need some luck too. They have never been able to grow grass at Wembley or the Amsterdam Arena.

Please, please, pretty please, let the grass take.

[T.O TILL I DIE]

lmao????????????????????????? is this necessary

[DOMIN8R]

Amen Brother!




No it's not necessary.



It's fun!

[Auzzy]

Not sure if you're been reading the various grass stories. The new pitch has an underground system to pump out water and/or pump in air from underneath. They also installed a subsurface heating system. These did not exist in the old CNE stadium. The location of the field relative to water table etc. will make no difference. Apparently they also had experts plan & deal with the grass installation.

Yes, I do hope & pray that the grass will take & everyone works out well. With the great weather we have had, I don't think we really have to worry though.

[Lucky Strike]

...stay the hell out of our way!

[nfitz]

Hopefully our experts are better than the ones who did Wembley!

[ensco]

Not sure if you're been reading the various grass stories. The new pitch has an underground system to pump out water and/or pump in air from underneath. They also installed a subsurface heating system. These did not exist in the old CNE stadium. The location of the field relative to water table etc. will make no difference. Apparently they also had experts plan & deal with the grass installation.

Yes, I do hope & pray that the grass will take & everyone works out well. With the great weather we have had, I don't think we really have to worry though.

Sure. There's an excellent chance they've got it totally under control. But this is not simple stuff, and not 100% science.

[Auzzy]

Sure. There's an excellent chance they've got it totally under control. But this is not simple stuff, and not 100% science.

Oh, I haven't really been following the Wembley situation (other than hearing how badly it got churned up by the NFL game). OK, in that case, fingers & toes & everything crossed. Don't want any broken ankles etc. due to chunks of sod coming up, as I've seen on many real grass surfaces. (Well, one or two specific ankles would be OK, but otherwise...)

[rocker]

[Bombonera]

The sign above has got to be "the post of the day"! THANK YOU FOR THIS ROCKER!

[celt-nick]

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[LesH]

Bwahhhhhhahaha!
This one should be made a sticky thread's first post, thread titled "our best wishes for TFC".

[mastermixer]

The only thing they may need to worry about on Thursday is the weather. They are calling for rain which may tear apart the soggy grass because it may have not have the time to be properly set yet.

[Gazza]

God owes us one.

[James17930]

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the old Wembley pitch was considered one of the best in the world. It's only the new one which is fucked.

[Whoop]

LOL... that sign is priceless.

[FluSH]

[Dunc]

Maybe we'd have a better chance though on a ruined muddy pitch.. bring on Passchendaele, what have we got to lose

[twistedchinaman]

Thank you.

[Gazza]

I'll be brightening up a lot of people's Monday morning by putting this in a mass email...absolutely perfect!

[Canary Canuck]

But we need some luck too. They have never been able to grow grass at Wembley or the Amsterdam Arena.

Those stadiums have to overcome horrendous growing conditions that BMO doesn't. It's not just the odd NFL game or concert that causes the problems. Growing grass with that lack of light and ventilation creates huge challenges. The San Siro, Millennium Stadium and the Bernabeu have faced similar problems and are constantly re-laying their pitches.

In a small stadium with no roof like BMO the growing conditions are as good as you're going to get

[boban]

Those stadiums have to overcome horrendous growing conditions that BMO doesn't. It's not just the odd NFL game or concert that causes the problems. Growing grass with that lack of light and ventilation creates huge challenges. The San Siro, Millennium Stadium and the Bernabeu have faced similar problems and are constantly re-laying their pitches.

In a small stadium with no roof like BMO the growing conditions are as good as you're going to get

Yeah bit those venue have better equipped personal than the NSS will ever have. And they have state of the art systems as well.

[boban]

And what if He lets him on the field?
Don't you still want Him to bless it?

[Shakes McQueen]

Yeah bit those venue have better equipped personal than the NSS will ever have. And they have state of the art systems as well.

From what we've read and heard, the pitch at BMO is essentially "state of the art" as well.

At the end of the day, the drainage, aeration, and undersoil heating either works, or it doesn't. I can't imagine the location will matter too much, because the conditions the grass is growing in are 90% artificial - everything except the sunlight.

By comparison, the CNE field was just some grass laid down over dirt.

- Scott

[Wagner]

Just walk by BMO today.
look at the pics taken to date.
that Turfgrass is established, and looks amazing.
I had my doubts.
But The sod company and the installation contractor really delivered.

[Chevy]

I think the field is self contained - it's not like a park down by the lake that would be influenced by water table level, etc....

[Petor]

I think the field is self contained - it's not like a park down by the lake that would be influenced by water table level, etc....

Agreed, as long as they installed it "green side up" we should be fine!

[shaggingscot]

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the old Wembley pitch was considered one of the best in the world. It's only the new one which is fucked.

True...I know an older Scottish gentlemen who still has a piece of it back in Dundee.

[Steve]

I think the field is self contained - it's not like a park down by the lake that would be influenced by water table level, etc....

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Isn't it placed over a sealed base of concrete (albeit with drainage and such overtop)? If that were the case, the water table isn't really relevant to the discussion. Plus, as people have said, it has no roof, so gets a lot more sun than more contained stadia. The grass should be good there baring any kind of disaster.

[flatpicker]

I think we need a "We Love Grass" chant.