think one of the comemtators just mentioned something about a report to the comissioner.

Does it mean the do iPies at Widnes now?


taxi!

Wakey going berserk at half-time about their players being cut to ribbons. Shut up by full time, though.

Did see a lot of nasty-looking grazes on elbows and knees.

No good for worms

Give it a few games, it will be interesting to see if there is a trend in any injuries coming out of these games.

Good job players dont get cuts and grazes on normal pitches in summer then

Think the players should wear knee and elbow pads, when playing on this pitch. And just to be on the safe side, maybe a helmet?
Come to think of it, why not play the game in 4 quarters and go with defensive and offensive teams.
I'm really looking forward to Octobers Super Bow... er, Grand Final

I would have guessed trials would have also taken place on it prior to the RFL's ok to use it.

No injuries in the game at all, were there?

Cuts and grazes are something that occurs in any game on a dry pitch. Of course, if this is something that's going to happen all the time then clubs should be prepared for it. If players need too wear skins, then they need to wear skins. Not the end of the world, is it? They help cool you down in the warm summer months anyway.

We will have to have an ipitch at the KC when Rovers move in.

But then we'll have to kick City out because they won't be allowed to play on it. That'd mean we wouldn't need it anyway.

I think City should just get out of our stadium personally so we can get a lovely iPitch and bring back standing area!

I don't think Richie Mathers likes the IPitch

he shouldnt frigging goes in knees first then

To be fair, I bet a lot of Cas and Salford players will be in the same boat!

You shouldnt be like that after playing a match.....its a joke and someone will be seriousley hurt on that pitch.

That is shocking, i know its no a major injury , but any graze like this needs to be treated with precaution as it could get infected and can be life threatening .

Those pictures of Mathers knees are truly shocking.

I bet Widnes and the RFL make out it's no big deal, but no players knees should look like that after a game of rugby.

I wonder how long it will be before a player has a serious eye injury after playing on that pitch. I noticed a couple of players got up after making tackles last night and were clearly trying to get someting out of their eye's, obviouslt one of the small rubber baubles. Still, at least it looks nice.

The pies were crap and they'd sold out by half time at the away end. We took more fans than ever before so God help em when you lot go. My tip - get a couple of pies in early doors, or better still take your own.

Halifax should have got the spot, not the plastic chemics.

It isn't just the iPitch that wrecks knees [urlhttps://twitter.com/#!/steWild13/status/165914752789381120/photo/1[/url

I mentioned on another thread, the time when Les Clarke got a mate of his to dump hundreds of tons of "topsoil" onto the pitch at Boulevard. About six games into the season and it was obvious that far from being topsoil, it was mostly clay and drastic action was called for. So Les Clarke's mate suggested putting sand down to help break up the clay, he also offered to supply the sand. Turns out the sand was straight off some beach, had fragments of seashells in it and hadn't ever been sterilised. There was that much of the bloody stuff, we became know as "The Seasiders". The upshot was, we played the season out with a treatment room full of players with septic, festering cuts on their legs & arms. Every tackle was a source of infection.

Artificial pitches end up swamped in body fluids (sweat, saliva, blood etc) at the end of a game. A natural pitch has natural bacteria that help break down and mitigate potential infections, artificial pitches don't enjoy this natural phenomenon. Studies in the US have also shown, apart from "turf burn", there are higher incidences of "turf toe" (a hyperextension of the big toe), ACL, "foot lock" (where the foot cannot turn naturally) and even concussions.

It will be interesting to see how the season pans out

Of course the pitch is better after the rugby season ends. In case some haven't noticed, grass grows better in the summer than the winter. The problems at the KC are caused by the West Stand stopping the sun shining on the pitch for a lot of the time.

It is the pitch, not City that causes the problems. Boothferry Park was always acknowledged to have one of the best surfaces in football and looked like a bowling green whereas all the older ones can recall the mud wrestling which took place on the Boulevard. Remember one game being abandoned because they ran out of fresh shirts and the ref couldn't make out the two teams for the amount of mud on them?

The state of people's knees are terrible, Wonder how it will pan out.

You'd think they'd have spent a bit more on the corner flag area, the goalmouths and centre circle then because that West Stand problem only seems to affect those areas.

Basically, you've just come up with a load of old cobblers

Exactly...

Serious risk factors the only solution I can see is skins to minimize the risks