* Digging up punt rd before seasons end - keep in mind that they can resurface Etihad in a week..they could of done it in Mid September.6 weeks turn around if they had trades organized
Unfair and irrelevant comparison Jack. Resurfacing a prepared stadium with purpose grown turf in pre-determined sectors all in a week is entirely reasonable, if not expensive, and is funded entirely by the stadium. Punt Road needs to be rebuilt - oval reshaped, base dug out and rebuilt, drainage installed, subsurface reshaped and compacted, top soil laid, shaped and lasered, and that will take a shedload of time and money just to get to a stage of being ready for the turf to be laid. If you want an 'instant' outcome re: drop-in turf a la Etihad then you pay a premium on top of that as opposed to the 'traditional' way of laying strips and letting it bed, and the club would have to foot the bill for the whole thing. Doing it the way the are in at the timeframe they are makes the most sense when you consider all the factors involved because I just know how the great unwashed would react if Cotchin did his ACL as a result of a substandard surface at Punt Road, all because we rushed the revamp.
