Our Hallowed Turf

[canarytom 0]

How many blades of grass make up our playing surface?

[missing in action? 0]

real or synthetic?we have a composite pitch.

[WeAreYellows49 0]

lol bored much? [:P]

[canarytom 0]

I will need to know both

[WeAreYellows49 0]

Sureeeeeeeeeeeee ya do

[missing in action? 0]

this will be the vaguest and most difficult pub quiz ever,the pitch is 50/50 split, id say about 45,000 of each.

[Yellow Submarine 0]

Is this figure to include non playing areas the other side of the touchlines? Could you be a bit more specific please!

[Ivana_rubyatitz 6]

Unlike your interest in the number of bricks, presumably grass volume varies according to season, climatic factors and whether or not someone has cut the pitch recently....sorry to be pedantic.

[canarytom 0]

[quote user="Yellow Submarine"]Is this figure to include non playing areas the other side of the touchlines? Could you be a bit more specific please![/quote]

All areas needed. I will be happy with an estimate that is no more than 10 blades out

[TheCardinal 0]

Hallowed turf? Has his Holiness blessed it?

[canarytom 0]

[quote user="Pboro_Canary"]

Unlike your interest in the number of bricks, presumably grass volume varies according to season, climatic factors and whether or not someone has cut the pitch recently....sorry to be pedantic.

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I imagine there would be more at the start of the season when it hasn''t been played on much. Does the weather make much of a difference? Surely if it has just been cut, the blades are just shorter rather than there being less of them 

[canarytom 0]

[quote user="TheCardinal"]Hallowed turf? Has his Holiness blessed it?[/quote]

God knows!

[Ivana_rubyatitz 6]

[quote user="canarytom"][quote user="Pboro_Canary"]

Unlike your interest in the number of bricks, presumably grass volume varies according to season, climatic factors and whether or not someone has cut the pitch recently....sorry to be pedantic.

[/quote]

I imagine there would be more at the start of the season when it hasn''t been played on much. Does the weather make much of a difference? Surely if it has just been cut, the blades are just shorter rather than there being less of them 

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If the lawn mower blades are set too low a certain amount of plucking may result in my experience...

[Yellow Submarine 0]

Prior to all the rain and last counting on monday at 3:23am, there were no fewer than 16,128,839 blades!

[canarytom 0]

[quote user="Yellow Submarine"]Prior to all the rain and last counting on monday at 3:23am, there were no fewer than 16,128,839 blades![/quote]

I demand a recount!

[Barclay Kid 0]

Maybe You Should Try Counting At The Norwich v Col U Match When The Score Is 100 - 0 And We Are All Bored! [:P]

[Romantic 0]

Wiki answers say there are 81,981,900 blades per football "field". This phrasing suggests that the answer has an American bias and that they are referring to one of their silly ''picky uppy, run, run, stop, eat, run, stop'' pitches. Now these pointless wastes of acreage are 53 x 120 ft. Our football pitch at Carra is 114 x 74 yards.

That means we pach a grand 109,309,200 blades. As to the composite variables..... I don''t know. Sorry

[Romantic 0]

Of course I meant that their silly ''picky uppy, run, run, stop, eat, run, stop'' pitches is 53 x 120 YARDS. Sorry bout that!