middle mans mate Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 This message was taken from the SWPL forum: Cornwall County FA have ordered that the Cornwall Charity Cup tie, Callington Town v Truro City, will be played on the 3G pitch at Callington School on Saturday. Although not ideal, and 3G not currently allowed in the league, its use is legal in County Cups and at least its a pro-active way of keeping the game ON ! Phil H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sp17 Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Ridiculous decision! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.Ricks9 Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Only option tbh Scotty with the weather were having, better then not playing at all. It's looking like we could be playing our senior cup game on 3G, our lads don't really mind, we played on it when we were in East cornwall league against St. Stephan's borough, decent service to play on I reckon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argyle Fan Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 I saw the St Blazey vs St Stephens Borough game a few years ago on the 3G at Saltmill. Dreadful. Like watching 22 players playing 5 a side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.Ricks9 Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 I think you can play some nice football on a surface like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheikh Mansour Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 It should be a good surface to play football on, it is a shame the majority of the 3G surfaces in Cornwall are extremely small pitches making it hard to play much football on them as it becomes too tight. I suppose this is because the majority are linked to schools and are therefore designed with children in mind, certainly better than no game at all though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S Abbo Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Not a lot wrong with 3G pitches.. Superb surface to play on. Good enough for champions league ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOUNTAINEER Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 The Football Conference voted against them this week. When I am on the continent (Spain & Portugal) 3G are used full size for training by Adults, the same pitches when used for children become two pitches one each half with movable goals situated from touch line to touch line and the pitch marked out in different colours. For league games they use grass. It enables them to have two games taking place at the same time for youth football. Maidstone use a synthetic pitch in the Ryman League, not sure but I think they call it 4G they are unable to take promotion higher up the pyramid unless reverting to grass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secretscout Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 Ridiculous decision! Obviously a Truro player who only has studs so needs to go out and buy some moulds......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 Must admit it wasnt great to watch when St Stephens Borough played St Blazey. But at the moment games need to be played. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secretscout Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 Must admit it wasnt great to watch when St Stephens Borough played St Blazey. But at the moment games need to be played. Is that because Blazey got beat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sp17 Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 Ridiculous decision! Obviously a Truro player who only has studs so needs to go out and buy some moulds......... Ha! If you knew me, you'd know that's clearly not the case. Pro clubs use a mix of grass and 3G for weather conditions like we're currently having... Anyway that's not the point. My opinion is based on the fact that it plays completely differently(not in a good way) to grass. Let alone the fact it's not as forgiving equaling more injuries. We train on a 3G pitch every week, it's very good for training yes, matches no. As I'm sure anyone who's played on one would agree. Let alone the fact there's a massive great fence about 2 feet away from the touch line on most astro's. It's far from ideal! The weather isnt doing anybody any favours (everyone is in the same boat, no pun intended) but forcing games through on make shift surfaces and locations to try and aid the 'back log' of games isn't going to help players who get injured on the surfaces. Or the clubs who haven't got the option to play on an alternative surface, leaving those clubs in the same position. Whatever way you look at it there's going to be a back log of games and surely it's better to play on the correct surface and ground? Especially in a cup match! I want to play as much as anyone else ... But we cannot help the weather! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanks Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 3 g is ok for training but not good enough for senior football in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
view_from_the_stand Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 3 g is ok for training but not good enough for senior football in my opinion. couldnt agree more mate. what you doing with yourself now, back playing anytime soon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamfootie Posted February 8, 2014 Report Share Posted February 8, 2014 Back to topic callington smashed Truro 2-0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
view_from_the_stand Posted February 8, 2014 Report Share Posted February 8, 2014 Back to topic callington smashed Truro 2-0 2-0 and one goal in the 90th minute does not make it a smashing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Odgers Posted February 8, 2014 Report Share Posted February 8, 2014 Back to topic callington smashed Truro 2-0A headcount of 18 spectators, reported by a visitor on the Tony Kempster message board in the section "Where did you go?"Apparently the Cup tie had a delayed start 2-15pm dueto the arena being pre booked by another club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrlaw18 Posted February 9, 2014 Report Share Posted February 9, 2014 with the back log of games what is going to happen? Like last season it probably going to be 3 to 4 games a week to fit all league and cup games in! can the CCFA extend the season to June? or Only play games which involve relegation and promotion teams? I do not know. This is my thoughts....what do others think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Darren Posted February 9, 2014 Report Share Posted February 9, 2014 Can't play football in June mrlaw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bray Posted February 9, 2014 Report Share Posted February 9, 2014 The Cornwall FA did not 'order' the Callington Town v Truro City tie in the Charity Cup to be played on the synthetic surface at Callington School. No more needs to be said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Deacon Posted February 9, 2014 Report Share Posted February 9, 2014 So why did the SWPL get the impression that it was an order? Phil Hiscox doesn't get too much wrong! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bray Posted February 9, 2014 Report Share Posted February 9, 2014 So why did the SWPL get the impression that it was an order? Phil Hiscox doesn't get too much wrong! Best contact the SWPL and find out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Deacon Posted February 9, 2014 Report Share Posted February 9, 2014 So why did the SWPL get the impression that it was an order? Phil Hiscox doesn't get too much wrong!Best contact the SWPL and find out. Email already sent alongwith texts to the second team manager and secretary of Truro City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argyle Fan Posted February 9, 2014 Report Share Posted February 9, 2014 From the SWPL website:"Cornwall County FA have ordered that the Cornwall Charity Cup tie, Callington Town v Truro City, will be played on the 3G pitch at Callington School on Saturday.Although not ideal, and 3G not currently allowed in the league, its use is legal in County Cups and at least its a pro-active way of keeping the game ON !Phil H"I don't think Phil would use the word 'ordered' unless it was so.And that was on Thursday, presumably before Callington had declared their normal pitch playable or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best Posted February 9, 2014 Report Share Posted February 9, 2014 Who cares!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Marks Posted February 10, 2014 Report Share Posted February 10, 2014 if it wasn't ordered should result still stand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
middle mans mate Posted February 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2014 if it wasn't ordered should result still stand Just what we need Marksy, another game to add to the backlog, the main pitch was, and still is, saturated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamfootie Posted February 11, 2014 Report Share Posted February 11, 2014 On grass callington would of beat them by even more goals! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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