next to your ground .. higher than the pitch its what ive heard it need jacking up or some galvanised stilts to cure the problem....

It is near the ground but not higher than the pitch mate.

Well it isn't. Not sure why your bringing this subject up though.

Well strangely enough, there is a point here!

Apparently the drainage system taking the water away from the ground is actually Lower than the Leeds/Liverpool meaning it doesn't drain away like it should!
I think she's asking after all the furore over the state of the pitch?

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I'm not saying it deffo is but just what I heard

The river is not higher than the ground for starters but the ground the stadium is built on is very much marsh land.
If the river was higher than the ground the water table would mean the pitch was flooded all the time.
And even if the water table was higher than the ground with the correct dewatering pumping system in place the pitch would be dry at all times. Its all down to a bad winter and grass not growing in winter from what i ahve seen there is to much sand on the top of the pitch and that is what is cutting up just now no grass to bind it.

You should be able to dig a hole deeper then the Leeds liverpool at the side of it and it should not fill with water. The canal is lined with puddling clay to keep the water in.

Me thinks people are getting mixed up her. The River Douglas is inbetween the stadium and the Leeds/Liverpool canal, dont forget.

Exactly. Its just simple over use and Latics being forced to train on it when the weather was bad in January. On Sunday the ground will host it's 7th match in 3 weeks - you can't expect a carpet pitch in winter with that much use.

I collect old dvds of Wigan and they show the pitch in far worse state than it is now, even two years ago. I've not watched the two wigan games so far and thought, hmmm the pitch isn't good is it. Maybe I'm blind though lol.

As for the drainage, I was under the impression that they sorted that out when they did the big work on the pitch in 2008.

It was bad for the latics v bolton.

7th game in 3 weeks, what are they expecting? I suggest they only have themselves to blame for the heating breaking that time!

Bad for the watching spectators too.

Pffft. It were two crap sides who can't score goals. Nowt to do with the pitch!