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Embarrassment about Australian football pitches only tells half the story : Comments

By Chris Lewis, published 6/6/2016

Most field surfaces outside Australia do indeed look like carpet with their lush green colour, often made more impressive by attractive chequered patterns.

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The moaning about the ground well demonstrates why Soccer will never be a very big game in Australia.

It's played by Prima Donna's and watched by hooligans. Soccer relies on ethic division and imported talent and even then it's can't get many soccer fans to switch from the English league to watch the A league.

It's the one code that I'm happy to see Australia thrashed at.
Posted by Cobber the hound, Monday, 6 June 2016 10:51:50 AM
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Every game or venue is at the mercy of the vagaries of the climate and attendant weather.

Even so and given an Australian context, we need look no further than the Gabba to see how we might present a world class playing surface, inside the budget constraints of, for us and our relatively small population base.
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Monday, 6 June 2016 11:17:30 AM
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Locked at the hip with the Hound on this one. Soccer is a pansy's game, forced on us by 'ethnics', Poms and Australian gutless, PC, diversifying everything-is-good as long as their are 'suits' who can get their snouts in the trough, types.
Posted by ttbn, Monday, 6 June 2016 2:05:09 PM
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