Has anybody got any pictures of how its progressing?

It's growing well

Why? So you can tell Richard Hillman?

haha...

Just curious, we must have some 'insiders' on board here who could take a cheeky snap?!

I'll let you into a little secret



It's green

go and look throug the railings on the powerhouse owner corner

I've just tried but the Floodlights aren't on... May have to have a look during day light hours

Patience young man, patience. We'll all get to see it in time!

Have you tried emailing the club? They might have a photo knocking about!

Ive got a couple of photos from today but dont know how to add them

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Sign up to a [url:2el46orfhttp://www.photobucket.com[/url:2el46orf account (Free), and upload your pics to it.

It is then easy to copy the url of those pics you have in photobucket and sumply paste one in between

Don't forget to take your camera with you

Can I just go O/T here for a minute and just say that John Stape getting Rosie Webster to take a test on his murders whilst being held hostage was absolutely excellent. "There is a an 'a' in weapon".
He is by far one of the best characters in that soap and underlines why Corrie will always be infinitely better than the dross that is Eastenders on the other side. I say 'Bravo Sir...Bravo'.

All the underneath stuff is getting laid down at the mo, asterix had a pic on his twitter the other day. December 1st is the scheduled completion date I think?

Is it the suff with the liitle black rubber pieces?

Its the stone baselayer going down, The rubber particles are near the end stages



Im back at Stadium Wednesday so will get few more then

Haven't you just photoshopped a picture of Headingley or the JJB pitch onto the Stobart Stadium there?

Maybe I've missed the boat on this discussion, but what's the point of the iPitch? What's wrong with grass?

Grass is soooo last year!

What's wrong with grass? Nothing much, but you can't train on it if you want to keep it pristine. You can't hold other sports on it. You can't use it all year round. And it still has the tendency to become a mud bath in periods of heavy rain.

I've no idea how this ipitch will turn out for us, but that's the reason for it.

This may be a daft question but what footwear do you need for the iPitch?
does it take a stud? Blade studs? Trainers or those dimple soles like they used on the artificial pitches in the 80s?
Perhaps anyone who has follows Russian footy will know or maybe someone has played on this sort of surface somewhere else.

Can you play on this pitch with studs?
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Seems this idea came about because Widnes do not have an adequate facility to train on. Would it not have been a better idea to spend £600,000 on improving the training facilities rather than the pitch?

I'm sure I read about Widnes getting a brand new facility around the time Saints got one.

No, it came about because they want to increase revenue at the stadium. We are also in talks about developing training facilities on an old recreation ground off Liverpool Rd.

Your both right.

Saddened has covered one angle in that we dont own any training facilities of our own at present and we can't realistically expect full time pro's to do ball work in the winter months in a disused Stobart warehouse or beg, stealing and borrowing suitable indoor facilities to train inside as we had been doing as a part time side. The pitch wouldnt take being trained on each day in it's original form so we have solved an immediate and pressing problem thanks to SOC.

I was under the impression that the Leigh Rec site was going to be more of an academy centre and to be used to give other amateur junior sides a decent base of facilities to run from. In any case as far as a training venue was concerned it is still a fair way away and something was needed for this year and in all likelihood next.