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Just now, CornwallRam said:

You say that, but do you have any actual proof?

I’m not sending you a selfie from my bed, told you before and I don’t care how much money you are offering this time. The answer is still no!

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On 30/01/2021 at 18:23, DavesaRam said:

This is just my opinion, but I think that the condition of the pitch isn't because of lack of finance. It might have something to so with it not being re-laid, but much of the trouble is simply due to the weather. 

We have had consistently bad, wet weather for the last few months, and although there haven't been the storms and deluges we normally get around  now, the rainfall has been pretty incessant. So the ground is absolutely saturated, it has no more capacity t take more water in, so it just runs off, or simply stays put. I travel all over the country and know where to expect to see the flood plains, but there are a huge amount more fields under water than I have ever seen before, and I have been doing this job for 20 odd years. When Pride Park was built, it was at the same level as the entire surrounding area, so there is nowhere for the eater to go, regardless of how good a drainage system we have. So the water just sits there in the pitch which has no chance to dry and breathe. At the time, it may not have been possible to foresee this situation, but maybe the stadium, especially the pitch, should have been built at a higher physical level than the rest of Pride Park so that the water still had somewhere to go. The only other option would be to install a huge underground  tank near the ground to act as a buffer to drain the water into, and then pump it out at a later date.

you not seen the site of the old gasometer, I'd suggest that the water would naturally drain into that? I suspect that it's more a case of the majority of the groundstaff being either furloughed or laid off, as a result of the lockdowns. 

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