When are we likely to get definitive stadium news?

[Arl arse]

[index1000]

Supposedly to stop shit getting on them. I sit in the Upper Centenary and everywhere was covered in fucking dust at the beginning of the season from when they rebuilt the main stand.

are you sure it was dust and not all the old cunts crumbling to bits around you

[Ronnie Whelan]

I know the anfield road is next on the agenda but i would love if we made the centenary as a mirror image of the main stand. It would look brilliant.

 

Obviously,it would be a massive job logistically for the club,but it would be terrific.

[Philbert]

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[Arl arse]

With 2017-18 fast approaching for Liverpool FC, the pitch at Anfield is undergoing improvements as the Reds prepare for their first home game of the season against Crystal Palace on August 19.

 

Ground staff at Anfield are working on the summer project to improve the playing surface and overall quality of the pitch ready for the new campaign.

 

The changes will see a new automatic irrigation system installed to help improve drainage from the pitch. It will allow the surface to be watered prior to kick-off in under three minutes. Anfield will also be the first stadium in the UK to fit the unique 'Permavoid' irrigation system which will speed up drainage, especially in wetter months.

 

In addition, a new undersoil heating system has been put in place which will help aid growth and also prevent the ground from freezing during the winter months. As part of the undersoil heating system, over 19 miles of pipeline has been put in place to ensure optimum conditions for maintenance and grass growth. Eight heat and moisture sensors have been installed to help monitor the best growing environment for the pitch.

 

Over 40,000km of artificial grass fibres will be stitched into the layers of sand beneath the pitch, which will be composed of 97 per cent organic grass and three per cent artificial grass fibres.

 

On the pitch renovations, Andrew Parkinson, LFC’s operations director, said: “We have a number of significant projects ongoing across the stadium during the summer months. The pitch renovation is a major piece of work which the whole team are really excited about ahead of the new season.

 

“This is another significant investment at Anfield making further important improvements like installing state-of-the-art drainage and irrigation systems that will ensure our players have the best playing surface for the seasons ahead.”

 

Interesting Anfield pitch facts…

 

Over 19 miles of pipeline has been installed under the pitch as part of Anfield’s new undersoil heating system.

Specialised installers will inject over 20 million individual artificial turf fibres into the pitch at Anfield.

Over 40,000 km of artificial fibre will be stitched into the pitch during the renovation – the equivalent of the Earth’s circumference.

Over ½ ton of grass seed will be sown into the pitch at Anfield. This in turn will produce approximately 250 million grass plants. Each grass plant typically has around five leaves meaning that players will be playing football on approximately 1.25 billion individual blades of grass.

The club uses Dwarf Perennial Ryegrass which is the strongest and most hardwearing grass for sports pitches. There are approximately 1,000 types of Dwarf Perennial Ryegrass around the world and our ground staff use four of the best cultivars to grow Anfield’s hallowed turf.

Once grown, the pitch at Anfield is cut and tended to daily.

Ground staff use 12 large grow lights and three small grow lights to cultivate the grass on the pitch. One grow light includes a tent which is can be used over the goalmouth where the temperature and humidity can be controlled to speed up growth.

[Harry Squatter]

I know the anfield road is next on the agenda but i would love if we made the centenary as a mirror image of the main stand. It would look brilliant.

 

Obviously,it would be a massive job logistically for the club,but it would be terrific.

Wouldn be amazing but I think they would have to buy up the houses in the road behind it which would be very long winded as virtually all of them are occupied. A lot of the ones in the road behind the main stand were condemned as well. The centenary stand is awful and was a missed opportunity when we could have built a really big stand, plus the club owned all the houses I think but then sold them after it was built.

[jimmycase]

I know the anfield road is next on the agenda but i would love if we made the centenary as a mirror image of the main stand. It would look brilliant.

 

Obviously,it would be a massive job logistically for the club,but it would be terrific.

 

Not going to happen as the houses on Skerries Road are too close.

 

Engineering wise, it may be possible to add another 10 rows if they could jack up the Centenary \ Kenny Dalglish roof and the existing foundations take the weight. Economically though, Im not sure that would be viable.

[Trumo]

The upper tier of the King Kenny stand is already at the maximum permissable rake for safety and optimised viewing. Those at the back of the stand already have a compromised view of the near touchline because it is so close to the front of the stand, so extending the tier further would only increase this problem. Adding another tier is another no-no too because each additional tier needs to be a little steeper than the one below it. And all this is before you consider that the homes on Skerries Road have been renovated and reoccupied, so would be both expensive and unlikely to be demolished. If the club and the council had thought things through properly in the 1990s to come up with a workable plan, then maybe Skerries Road and the near side of Wylva Road could have been cleared to make space in the same way that Lothair Road and the near side of Alroy Road were cleared behind the Main Stand.

[jimmycase]

An Upper Tier wouldnt need any change of rake to add additional rows if, adding additional rows was possible.

 

The line of sight angle from the touchline to the upper tier first row (which I sit on) to every row behind to the last row is the same. Work it out geometrically, the view doesnt change.

[A_S]

Any ideas as to the cost of the pitch work?

[m0e]

Any ideas as to the cost of the pitch work?

It's pretty much our marquee signing.

[Harry Squatter]

The Echo seem very keen to report on the new pitch. It's almost as if it's never happened before.

[Barrington Womble]

The Echo seem very keen to report on the new pitch. It's almost as if it's never happened before.

It hasn't for about 20 years has it?

[SlugTrail]

Any ideas as to the cost of the pitch work?

2 years transfer budget

[Harry Squatter]

It hasn't for about 20 years has it?

2 due to the work on the main stand I think.

[Barrington Womble]

2 due to the work on the main stand I think.

The pitch had something like a 10 year life cycle, which ran out in 2012. They were going to do it 2 years ago, but couldn't. I'm sure it's over a decade and maybe almost 2 since it was done fully as they're doing now.

[Red House]

2 years transfer budget

 

So, for free then.

[VladimirIlyich]

So, for free then.

the contractors owe us.

[jimmycase]

Well I didnt know that, the PL introduced a rule 2 seasons ago that all PL pitches should be 100m x 68m except where existing stadia does not permit the dictated pitch size. Wondered why we lobbed a bit off the Anny road end near where I sit.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4622406/Tottenham-won-t-allowed-change-Wembley-pitch.html#newcomment

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Any ideas as to the cost of the pitch work?

I heard we had to sell the old turf first.

[Caramac]

[jimmycase]

 

Will be like a new signing.

[lifetime fan]

Three tiered Anny Road end?

 

 

https://www.thisisanfield.com/2018/02/liverpool-fc-announce-anfield-road-extension-plans-later-year/

[The Acolyte]

There was an article earlier this week but with less detail. Question, why wait till the Kirkby expansion is done? The two don't interfere with each other?

[Chip Butty]

Geographically no, but the management of the project who liaise with the contractors will have central involvement day to day, so I'd guess and rightly so - one at a time approach would be best.