The Lang Park surface

[Scorchie]

they’d better get the uv lights out tonight and start repairing it because holy hell, you could see the dead buried underneath where the cemetery was

 

[Mustafur]

they’d better get the uv lights out tonight and start repairing it because holy hell, you could see the dead buried underneath where the cemetery was

That was just the Dragons players.

 

[Volvo Driver]

The worst thing is you've got the NRL going with this approach of wanting a game at Suncorp every week, if the surface is that bad.. I don't think the teams competing want to play there every week.

It's only Round 3 and I know it was due to a concert but we've got Magic Round coming up, the ground will probably host other sporting events, that looked genuinely dangerous last night.

Suncorp has had many concerts and it's never been quite this bad. The turf is usually well protected when the stadium is setup for a concert. I'd say it's more the weather conditions then anything else.

 

[Bull Shark]

Suncorp has had many concerts and it's never been quite this bad. The turf is usually well protected when the stadium is setup for a concert. I'd say it's more the weather conditions then anything else.

It's 100% the concerts.. the concert nights themselves are but a fraction of the problem.. the 'bump-in, bump-outs' where you have dozens of semi trailer trucks driving all over the ground and stages etc being set up, takes a serious toll on playing surfaces..

 

[1910]

It's 100% the concerts.. the concert nights themselves are but a fraction of the problem.. the 'bump-in, bump-outs' where you have dozens of semi trailer trucks driving all over the ground and stages etc being set up, takes a serious toll on playing surfaces..

We had over a month of rain over magic round and played eight games on it and it didn’t have an issue.

What did Ed do so different?

 

[Xzei]

We had over a month of rain over magic round and played eight games on it and it didn’t have an issue.

What did Ed do so different?

gingers they salt the earth wherever they walk

 

[Bull Shark]

We had over a month of rain over magic round and played eight games on it and it didn’t have an issue.

What did Ed do so different?

He had a bit more luggage

 

[1910]

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He had a bit more luggage

Doesn’t answer why it’s been better in the past with concerts and metre of water and eight games.

And it was fine against the Cows.

 

[Bull Shark]

Doesn’t answer why it’s been better in the past with concerts and metre of water and eight games.

And it was fine against the Cows

Has there ever been a heavier schedule of concerts leading into an NRL season as what Suncorp hosted this year ? It had Elton John, Red Hot Chilly Peppers and Ed Sheeran in January / February..

You could see clearly in that Cowboys game that the surface had been relaid at some point between the last concert and the NRL season..

Yeah the playing surface might have been ok after that first game against the Cowboys but it’s going to take time to bounce back and it’ll probably look worse in a couple of weeks after a few more rounds of NRL because it hasn’t had time to properly repair

I challenge anyone to gather up the best team of groundsmen they can and tell them to get an elite level playing surface back to its best after three lots of semi trailers have driven all over it repeatedly, stages and scaffolding have been put up and down and tens of thousands of people have trampled all over it