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    Posted: 08 Apr 2022 at 19:59
Well, we've managed to find one sloping Championship pitch on this Championship thread LOL
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Underhill Park, home of Mumbles RFC, playing in League 2 West.

OK, so it's Wales, but there's a defined slope, so for 40 minutes, you're playing uphill.
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Originally posted by islander islander wrote:

Since this thread has wandered a bit..

There's a lovely village cricket ground near Cambridge which not only needs callers, but has a mature oak tree in the covers

But, does a marginally sloping rugby pitch change the game? You'll be wanting those skin chafing dead flat plastic pitches soon. You change your game to suit the conditions and most grounds' wrinkles are known
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Originally posted by Raider999 Raider999 wrote:

Originally posted by islander islander wrote:

Since this thread has wandered a bit...

Coldharbour is a lovely village in Surrey with a picturesque cricket ground near the top of Leith Hill. The current ground is slightly undulating tho' mostly quite flat; however back in the day, before WW2, the history of the club explains how the ground was on a separate plot, downhill nearer the village pub. On one side of the old ground, the terrain dropped so steeply to one side of the square that the batting side had to use callers: these people stationed themselves on the boundary on that side and shouted advice to their colleagues who were batting as to whether they should keep running or stay in their ground. Smile


I have played at the current ground, I remember it being very small.

It's a lovely ground, we play there each season. Perhaps my favourite ground, along with Abinger CC and Hagley CC!
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Originally posted by islander islander wrote:

Since this thread has wandered a bit...

Coldharbour is a lovely village in Surrey with a picturesque cricket ground near the top of Leith Hill. The current ground is slightly undulating tho' mostly quite flat; however back in the day, before WW2, the history of the club explains how the ground was on a separate plot, downhill nearer the village pub. On one side of the old ground, the terrain dropped so steeply to one side of the square that the batting side had to use callers: these people stationed themselves on the boundary on that side and shouted advice to their colleagues who were batting as to whether they should keep running or stay in their ground. Smile


I have played at the current ground, I remember it being very small.
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Since this thread has wandered a bit...

Coldharbour is a lovely village in Surrey with a picturesque cricket ground near the top of Leith Hill. The current ground is slightly undulating tho' mostly quite flat; however back in the day, before WW2, the history of the club explains how the ground was on a separate plot, downhill nearer the village pub. On one side of the old ground, the terrain dropped so steeply to one side of the square that the batting side had to use callers: these people stationed themselves on the boundary on that side and shouted advice to their colleagues who were batting as to whether they should keep running or stay in their ground. Smile
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Ilfracombe definitely has a slope.
Others in Devon that certainly used to have slopes were Brixham and North Tawton.
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I vaguely recall in the 80's a Easter tour in the South West and playing Ilfracombe. I was on the wing and sure there was a slope or was that the alcohol kicking in after the night before. 
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I seem to recall Murrayfield ha the full size pitch, including dead ball areas.
But they are rare.
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...but how many have the full width (70m) and full dead ball (22m). I played at a club with those and it don't half knacker forwards but makes for great running rugby.

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That would be fantastic. If only there was the money - one day maybe......
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This was the 2017 submission…if only
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Originally posted by Camquin Camquin wrote:

There was an ambitious plan a few years ago to turn the pitch round and build a stadium and pay for it with some flats. I believe it was rejected by the planners.

I saw that plan on a council planning portal, asking for land for housing.
It struck me as similar to what Leyton Orient FC have done.
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As for Rotherham's narrow pitch I think that had more to do with the position of the cricket square.
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Ealing used to be a massive slope 15 years ago, but they've levelled it out now.
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There was an ambitious plan a few years ago to turn the pitch round and build a stadium and pay for it with some flats. I believe it was rejected by the planners.
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Bedford have great facilities, but with a bit of investment, and a bulldozer to shift earth about to flatten out the pitch could be up there with the best. If I was to do anything to Goldington Road it would be to install terracing on the opposite side to the stand - for those of us who are vertically challenged one needs to be up against the railing to see anything. The slope may be an issue for the Premiership (nowadays) but whilst Bedford doesn't hold those ambitions the improvement of spectator experience on that side is all that I think they need to do to improve the experience - oh and improve the quality of the beer (I rarely feel tempted to partake of many libations there due to the poor quality of the ale).

As for a narrow pitch I always felt that Rotherham had a narrow pitch - but perhaps that was just the size of their players that seemed to fill the pitch, not leaving much room to wriggle through.
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Not sure if they still play at the same ground but remember watching Tamworth at Aston Old Eds and that had a pretty bad slope
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Originally posted by oldman oldman wrote:

Hinckley, six feet from one side to other.
Really? I've never noticed. Mind you, it's only really an issue when it's from end to end.
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Hinckley, six feet from one side to other.
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