Martyn Waghorn / Synthetic Pitches

[Peh Muncher]

Should Dundee do what they should and beat Dumbarton at home, then a weakened Rangers await in the QF of the Scottish Cup at Ibrox. 

Martyn Waghorn, Rangers' prolific striker, may be out for 6-8 weeks if initial reports are to be believed (see link). 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35606940

This would be really good news for any team playing Rangers and may even affect Rangers title run in should he fail to return to fitness sooner rather than later. 

In relation to this, there has been some blame for his injury attributed to the synthetic pitch at Rubgy Park. I myself have had an ankle injury from playing on a 3G pitch as my studs caught in the surface. Another reason why these pitches should not be used at the highest level of Scottish football. 

[Gnasher]

O'Halloran and Billy King are also cup-tied 

[TheDarkBlues]

Should Dundee do what they should and beat Dumbarton at home, then a weakened Rangers await in the QF of the Scottish Cup at Ibrox. 

Martyn Waghorn, Rangers' prolific striker, may be out for 6-8 weeks if initial reports are to be believed (see link). 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35606940

This would be really good news for any team playing Rangers and may even affect Rangers title run in should he fail to return to fitness sooner rather than later. 

In relation to this, there has been some blame for his injury attributed to the synthetic pitch at Rubgy Park. I myself have had an ankle injury from playing on a 3G pitch as my studs caught in the surface. Another reason why these pitches should not be used at the highest level of Scottish football. 

Always hated playing on synthetic pitches when I was playing. The first time I played on one I came away with burn marks up my arms and legs and from then on I always wore better clothing.

I think worse that that is the 5 aside pitches with the gravel, that never helped my knees of elbows either.

[Peh Muncher]

O'Halloran and Billy King are also cup-tied 

Tidy! Fingers crossed we do the damage against The Sons. 

Can't believe The Rangers have someone with King and Billy as their name. Typical 

[TheDarkBlues]

Tidy! Fingers crossed we do the damage against The Sons. 

Can't believe The Rangers have someone with King and Billy as their name. Typical 

It should be 'The King Billy' as 'King Billy' went out of existence 5 years ago

[Bloomogg]

"Waghorn's injury has led to Warburton calling for an end to the use of artificial surfaces"

So why do they train on them at Murray Park?

http://rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/new-pitch-laid-at-mp/

[Blue4evr]

Tidy! Fingers crossed we do the damage against The Sons. 

Can't believe The Rangers have someone with King and Billy as their name. Typical 

Do you think they might sign our under 20's centre half, Ben Priest !

[SM1893]

As a goalkeeper when I tried to play, I absolutely loathed them, the sand based at DISC and Dawson being tougher than my old dears cooking!

Was hearing that artificial surfaces in the top level of our game go through various and quite rigorous testing for ball roll, length of 'grass' and bounce etc. Hamilton also use their science dept to assess injuries and have 'found' that there's no correlation between the surfaces and injuries IF they are constantly used by players. 

The injuries come from training on grass during the week and then playing on an artificial surface at the weekend. If they are to be used then clubs will need to train on surfaces similar to the ones they are playing on at weekends. 

Waghorn, O'Halloran and King Billy are out and that should make life a little easier for our back 5.

[Gnasher]

^{Can't find the article but fat boy Waghorns injury was caused by him using blades on the artificial surface}

[gedee]

One of the Pundits on BBC Sports sound last night (I only heard a wee bit, so I might have got this wrong) was saying,

Hamilton FC, and maybe a few others with artificial grass, insisted it cost much more to maintain, than natural grass !!

His question was, if this is the case, why use it, when players obviously, don't like it? Did I pick up the comment wrong?

[Abdul Latif]

One of the Pundits on BBC Sports sound last night (I only heard a wee bit, so I might have got this wrong) was saying,

Hamilton FC, and maybe a few others with artificial grass, insisted it cost much more to maintain, than natural grass !!

His question was, if this is the case, why use it, when players obviously, don't like it? Did I pick up the comment wrong?

Actual maintenance may be more, but call offs are rare and it can be used much more and take more of a pounding than grass.

Therefore you can actually make a fortune out of not needing separate training facilities, and because you could play about 23 hours a day on it hiring out to local clubs etc.

Grass may cost a bit less to maintain, but it's out of action especially over the winter for all but 90 minutes a week and even then it looks cut up and awful.

Edited 1 March 2016 by Abdul Latif

[Cobra]

Artificial surfaces are a great idea... in Siberia. I'd ban them altogether.