Hemel Hempstead Town v Torquay United, 23rd September 2023

MellowYellow · Post by **MellowYellow** » 22 Sep 2023, 21:08

Playing devils advocate here Dave. The crumb rubber infill made from recycled car tyres is supposed to improve the bounce of the ball and as a shock pad to reduce injuries. Nonetheless, in Europe there is a crackdown on plastic pitches after tests showed the rubber infill contained small amounts of potentially toxic and carcinogenic chemicals including mercury, lead, and arsenic. The Dutch for example are to phase them out completely by 2030. The EU stated that you can remove such hazardous substances "by substituting much safer materials, for example natural grass". Who would have thought!

Minneapolisgull · Post by **Minneapolisgull** » 22 Sep 2023, 21:42

Hemel 1-2 Torquay
Keep the winning run going.

Rio Doherty · Post by **Rio Doherty** » 22 Sep 2023, 21:52

Hemel Hempstead Town 1-1 Torquay United.

Jackom · Post by **Jackom** » 22 Sep 2023, 22:16

Can’t see a win here, 0-0

notnow · Post by **notnow** » 22 Sep 2023, 22:38

Anyone any idea what GJ meant about having a game in hand in the latest press call?

ShropGull · Post by **ShropGull** » 23 Sep 2023, 14:11

Hemel Hempstead Town 1-2 Torquay United

Oil Beef Hooked · Post by **Oil Beef Hooked** » 23 Sep 2023, 14:29

Another tough game today, but staying positive.

Hemel 1 : 2 Torquay

Cheddargull · Post by **Cheddargull** » 23 Sep 2023, 14:42

Stobbs and Da Silva not in squad. Callum Thomas on the bench.

Post by **Dave** » 23 Sep 2023, 14:55

MellowYellow wrote: ↑22 Sep 2023, 21:08 Playing devils advocate here Dave. The crumb rubber infill made from recycled car tyres is supposed to improve the bounce of the ball and as a shock pad to reduce injuries. Nonetheless, in Europe there is a crackdown on plastic pitches after tests showed the rubber infill contained small amounts of potentially toxic and carcinogenic chemicals including mercury, lead, and arsenic. The Dutch for example are to phase them out completely by 2030. The EU stated that you can remove such hazardous substances "by substituting much safer materials, for example natural grass". Who would have thought!

Yep, agree with sentiments, I spent 10 years in youth development football, coached on these surfaces, there are many studies across the United States and Europe, again there's little agreement, many suggesting low exposure to infill isn't harmful, others showing different results, however think we all agree to use the safest products possible.

brucie · Post by **brucie** » 23 Sep 2023, 15:53

Irrespective of whether these pitches are harmful we obviously cant play on them.

Unfortunately being in this god forsaken league we have to play on them every other week. We cant afford to lose this game and have to up it in the second half.

culmstockgull · Post by **culmstockgull** » 23 Sep 2023, 16:08

Agree Brucie we just cannot cope with plastic, we are slow, listening to BBC devon we are defensively poor, and a single midfielder of lapslie doing all the work, I do not believe that both stobbs and de silva are injured. Lets hope they improve second 45.

Post by **Dave** » 23 Sep 2023, 16:20

Why can't we play on synthetic pitches? We knew there would be a number of matches on these surfaces, didn't we play a PSF on an artificial pitch, don't we have use of the 3G at PCC to train on.

teddiebear · Post by **teddiebear** » 23 Sep 2023, 16:26

UnitedinDevon · Post by **UnitedinDevon** » 23 Sep 2023, 16:27

1-1

Not sure why we play lapslie so far forward - hes no creative no.10 style player and is far too small

WJD who has just scored would be far better pushed further forward

Loanees still massively needed

toastkid · Post by **toastkid** » 23 Sep 2023, 16:39

We need to find the pockets of space. Apparently.

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