There was none for the GF ,what is the reason for this?

Won't OT allow it,it might ruin there pitch lol?

It looks so much better with markings all along the field,looks more professional,like for our GF we had sponsor marking plus every ten metres.Like when I was watching the game today they went above the stadium with the camera and from above the stadium looked bloody shocking there was no color it looked plain.This is the norm @ local venues aswell eh?


The sponsor of the RFL should've had there sponsor planted on the pitch since they're the one's pouring money into the league.I just think it looks a whole lot better anyway.

There was. I could clearly see the try line, the dead ball line, the half way line, the 10m, 20m, 30m and 40m lines, as well as the touch line clearly marked on the field.


Or are you talking about advertising?

All i can see is the lines and nothing else, the 10,20,30,40,weren't pasted on the field.

What if there were a 40-20 how would you know where he kicked it from .I'm just used to the numbers being on the field, atleast you know where he kicked it from lol.

So you complaint boils down to the pitch markings were there, but didn't look exactly the same as they do on the Manly pitch? Pretty parochial if you ask me.

Your pitch markings looks crap,plus you can't compare the manly pitch to any other, we're world class.

it's a soccer ground. Like the JJB, KC etc RL is 2nd fiddle and therefore doffs its cap to the soccer lords and does what they say!

i thought jjb was owned by the league.

No.

That's why Wigan have to play their play-off games at Widnes.

So your complaining that the pitch wasn't marked out like an American Football pitch?

Because its not the nfl



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He's pretending to be an australian.

They need as much help as they can get, numbers on the pitch, beer and tabs adverts everywhere, pretty colours to break up all that green - that sort of stuff.

It doesn't look more professional at all. It looks like little demented marketing folk have stolen the keys to the ground and run riot all over the pitch.

It might get you more money, but it definitely doesn't look more professional.

And in England we can count, so we just think "hmmm he's 5 lines away from the try line so that must be halfway!"

Was it just me or did Jonathon Davies say on the BBC coverage today "I don't know why more players don't go for 40/20s on these short pitches" ???

I know he is Welsh, but still...

yeah but that's not as scientific!

Yeah that was a bit daft. almost as daft as my mate in the pub after saying "oh that's a big pint" no mate, a pints a pint. I think he goes to the bar and asks for a small pint for a half or something. Muppet.

Not as daft as it seems, unless all pitches are 100 metres long, which they ain't.

The 20 and 40 metre lines are measured from the goal lines. So a kick from the 40 metre line, that ends up crossing the opposite 20 metre line, could well be shorter.

Saying that, I doubt the field of play at Old Trafford is shorter than 100 metres, goal line to goal line

It probably will be to fit the in-goals in. You could see the footy goal line behind the try line and THAT is probably 100m

Football pitches are 100 yrds arent they? Is that not 95 mtrs-ish?

Try telling that too 250 million Americans that there pitch looks demented.It's a professional game so the grounds have to be up to scratch aswell .Can you imagine someone watching league for the first time and wondering why do they have lines,if they saw the numbers they might get the drift eh?

In which case that pitch on sat was less than 95m.
It wasn't, im pretty sure OT's playing surface is 100m

The problem for me was that when it went to that side camera, you couldnt tell wereabouts they were. The eastmond try, when he gathered the ball i thought he was still 30/40 metres out!

Yes exactly.
So I have 1 that agree's with me ....

Wiki sez, the playing surface at Old Trafford (for football, I imagine) is 105 x 68 m[2 [ior[/i 114.8 x 74.4 yd.

So, although the RL in-goal stradles what is normally the goal-line for footer, I'd suspect the pitch on Saturday was 100m, end-to-end.

And of course, if Wiki sez it's true...



Wouldn't be the first time Jon Davies had said something a bit daft though, eh.

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