: Tue May 19, 2009 11:59 am  

J20 wrote:

So you've not got an 80min count down clock because???

Whats the point in them? the timekeeper and referees have their own methods and no stadium countdown clock is ever right, SKY is different as the timekeepers sit alongside the production team.

So to answer your question theres no point in having one as none are ever correct.

: Tue May 19, 2009 12:29 pm  

J20 wrote:

Employing a timekeeper maybe? Ans also getting ex SS out of orange jackets!

well if you lot would behave yourselves we wouldnt need them

oh and we have a timekeeper thanks but when your on sky they like to do the timekeeping themselves.

: Tue May 19, 2009 1:19 pm  

[quote="RealCherry&Whites"][quote="J20"]And whats that in English? Alex Ferguson time keeping?

[b]Can we also please stop saying it's a football gound (mainly SKY) as no football team plays there! Watering pitch was simply tactical, and worked to be fair![/[/b]quote]

It's a £500,000 pitch with state of the art irrigation and drainage systems. It is watered constantly to maintain the optimal surface. Nothing sinister there. [b]All the top premiership grounds irrigate before play commences to have the best surface for play[/b]. The head groundsman is the former head groundsman at Old Trafford so I think he is far more qualified to make a descision about watering the pitch than some message board troll.[/quote]

They do this so the ball will move freely across the playing surface like playing in long grass the ball is hard to move so the grass is cut the grass is also watered so the ball will move along the ground more easily when passing than it would on a harder surface as it the ball would be more of a bounce than a slide. now why does a rugby game need the ball to slide across the pitch apart from silly knockons and mistakes the only time a ball kicked across the pitch is when a grubber kick is made where 9/10 times you would want the ball to be bouncing.

sky like to do their own timekeeping so why didnt they have a clock on the tele then ?

and why pay the money for just to clocks telling the time even if the countdown clock still aint official it gives the crowd a good idea of how long is left im sure one clock is good enough and most people that go the game will have a watch or a phone that also has the time on thats basically like having 3 clocks at the ground

: Tue May 19, 2009 1:21 pm  

J20 wrote:

Can we also please stop saying it's a football gound (mainly SKY) as no football team plays there! Watering pitch was simply tactical, and worked to be fair!

I must have imagined those football games that I've attended at the LSV, then.

: Tue May 19, 2009 1:27 pm  

Leyther_Matt wrote:

I must have imagined those football games that I've attended at the LSV, then.

No, but I bet you wish you had just imagined them!

: Tue May 19, 2009 1:30 pm  

Brad Fittler Fan Club wrote:

No, but I bet you wish you had just imagined them!

LGFC have got a better league record at the LSV than Leigh RL (2 wins, 3 losses I think)

: Tue May 19, 2009 1:37 pm  

[quote="VikingSi"][quote="RealCherry&Whites"]

They do this so the ball will move freely across the playing surface like playing in long grass the ball is hard to move so the grass is cut the grass is also watered so the ball will move along the ground more easily when passing than it would on a harder surface as it the ball would be more of a bounce than a slide. now why does a rugby game need the ball to slide across the pitch apart from silly knockons and mistakes the only time a ball kicked across the pitch is when a grubber kick is made where 9/10 times you would want the ball to be bouncing.

They also do this to reduce injuries to players. The "modern" pitch takes a stud better when irrigated and reduces the chance of ligament injuries. The pitch has a superior drainage to any other in our league hence the need to irrigate. We even had the sprinklers on it prior to the opening game with Salford and the temperature was below 0 degrees!!

we can see you : Tue May 19, 2009 1:47 pm  

trainee_lobbygobbler wrote:

Stereo Vision:

Stereo vision--or stereoscopic vision --probably evolved as a means of survival. With stereo vision, we can see WHERE objects are in relation to our own bodies with much greater precision--especially when those objects are moving toward or away from us in the depth dimension. We can see a little bit around solid objects without moving our heads and we can even perceive and measure "empty" space with our eyes and brains.

I can,t sadly. Last night coming out of my local I bumped into a lampost inexplicable isn,t it ? I walked past the same lampost today though and missed it.Maybe I am developing stereo vision ?

Re: we can see you : Tue May 19, 2009 1:48 pm  

frankb wrote:

I can,t sadly. Last night coming out of my local I bumped into a lampost inexplicable isn,t it ? I walked past the same lampost today though and missed it.Maybe I am developing stereo vision ?

A classic case i think Frank

: Wed May 20, 2009 3:17 pm  

Leyther_Matt wrote:

I must have imagined those football games that I've attended at the LSV, then.

A man who really does like self-inflicted punsishment!