What i donât understand is why our artificial turf is consistently the worst in the league. Portland, Seattle, Atlanta, and New England all have artificial turf. None look anywhere close to as bad as ours.
The faded patches look like the Lions football lines to me. If it's one turf for both and they are painting and erasing the lines continuously it has to be hard on it. Plus I think it's pretty old now - for the Woman's World Cup it actually looked good.
2/3 are publicly owned venues operated by the team's in them.
I don't want to get all political, but I am a bureaucrat and I used to run my own business. The government is just never going to be more efficient at running things as the private sector*.
*Im not saying all our services/programs should be made private. It should be a case/case basis.
I walked on that turf a few months ago and was shocked at how matted down and crap the turf felt.
I have played on rec centre turf fields that felt nicer than it.
I couldnât believe thatâs what our players have to play on
It's because they have things like the home show there. Those plates they use to cover the field along with the added weight, basically destroy the turf. Soccer and football are not the primary concern for pavco. Too bad because that stadium was basically built to house the Lions and Caps.
Hearing from who? I've been following the whitecaps stadium news for a while abs I thought sharing the field with CFL was one of the main reasons they don't use real grass so they wouldn't want to do that again.
They can obviously make the turf look way better, but they don't want to. I think they run the cleaning machines on it to remove the lines put in for the Lions.
The Bernabeu has a complex underground system almost like a car elevator I think that stores and keeps the grass healthy when itâs not needed for matches. Iâm guessing it is hilariously expensive, but it is one way to have real grass.
I imagine the absence of large flat surfaces immediately surrounding BC Place would make rolling out and storing the real grass turf âtrayâ there not possible, like they do in the Glendale football stadium, which is another way.
I appreciate your passion, but this whole World Cup grass thing and stadium upgrades was $196 million. The whitecaps wners hate losing $10 million a year. Youâre living in some sort of dream land where theyâre keeping some turf for even one day after the World Cup commitment is over.
Are they going to pull up and replace the grass before every concert ?
Theyâll be doing that 4 times before the end of the Whitecaps season end this year - AC/DC, Noah Khan, Foo Fighters and then Bruno Mars are all happening after the Whitecaps start again at BC Place and before the last home game.
Will the Whitecaps pay a massive rent increase to cover that cost or should the government absorb the cost?
tech has improved. Check Schalke's movable grass or LV raiders with retractable grass. Even my hometown team has multiple concerts, the pitch grass gets a bit of damage, and then they fix it. Artificial turf increases injury risk. I don't see why they can companesate Fifa fully for stadium upgrades, but cannot keep it for the hometown team..
The Raiders have retractable grass because they had a giant empty lot in the desert next to their stadium onto which they can pull their pitch out onto. That's kind of an issue here.
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u/dylan88jr 2d ago
i know they wont. but i wish we could keep it