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Post by cenlasocafan on Feb 18, 2007 10:48:04 GMT -6
Those new fields in Pineville where they played the jamboree. Ward 9 I think it's called. The worst fields ever and very dangerous, full of rocks and even glass. I don't know who approved those fields?
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Post by sooner on Feb 18, 2007 12:45:20 GMT -6
lakeview soccer club in new orleans But they're getting better!
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Post by lindsyadig on Feb 18, 2007 14:25:50 GMT -6
worst field ive ever played on was at higgins. they have ditches in the middle of the field and the lines are nearly impossible to see! very easy to get hurt on these fields!
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Post by Tigertail on Feb 18, 2007 16:03:18 GMT -6
I second Newman's turtle shell.
Concrete walkway too close on one touch line, chainlink fence too close on the opposite. Oh yeah, kneel down from the sideline and you can barely see players on the opposite field!
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Post by soccerrouge on Feb 18, 2007 19:46:19 GMT -6
Muss Bertolino Stadium in Kenner, Corner's (steep) slope down toward the field/goal (all 4). Metal drains at each corner. Large holes just (less than 6") off the goal line. Drains on each side of mid-field, covered with mud. Field shorter than a football field since they put the goals up about 6-8 yards from where the football field back of the end zone line would be.
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Post by pompey on Feb 18, 2007 21:00:35 GMT -6
Muss Bertolino Stadium in Kenner, Corner's (steep) slope down toward the field/goal (all 4). Metal drains at each corner. Large holes just (less than 6") off the goal line. Drains on each side of mid-field, covered with mud. Field shorter than a football field since they put the goals up about 6-8 yards from where the football field back of the end zone line would be. So, that aside, its a pretty good pitch then? Ben Franklins, you could almost be mistaken you're at Pensacola, the amount of sand sections on the field
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Post by afan on Feb 18, 2007 21:05:18 GMT -6
Until drainage is addressed, the Lakeview fields will remain horrible. Those fields hold too much water, days, sometimes weeks after rain.
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Post by Wofford Dad f/k/a SJA Dad on Feb 21, 2007 11:47:30 GMT -6
And we wonder why we as a state struggle so mightily when we play the Floridas, Texases, and now even the Mississippi's of the world. As a general rule, our high school soccer facilities are abysmal. Newman -- whose kids parents pay I heard $17 thou a year -- can't upgrade that field -- not even for boys football? That school probably puts out the best lawyers in the state, but if any of the rest of us sued them for the unreasonable safety hazards that field presents, not even Isidore's best and brightest could defend it. There is a reason why public education on the whole in our state is so poor -- it's because so many take their dollars into the private school sector. The private schools spend a lot on education -- as they should -- and it is difficult justifying $$$ on athletic facilities -- that's not what a private school parent wants to hear. Meanwhile, public school facilities -- academic and athletic -- continue to crumble. Turn this around -- how nice is it to go to Pensacola or Jackson or pretty much anywhere in Texas and sink your toes into real bermuda grass that stretches across a soccer field without any bumps, slashes, or concrete walkways a foot off the sideline.
Oh well -- that's enough from my high horse. It's been a bad day.
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Post by bfplayer on Feb 21, 2007 19:34:54 GMT -6
newman is definitely the hardest to play on anyday, and franklin yes is a swamp after bad weather but otherwise I think it's fine
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Post by furriner on Feb 23, 2007 20:06:47 GMT -6
Northlake Christian (Covington).
Too short, too narrow - the baseball and softbal diamonds intersect the field, so part of the field is gravel. There is also a large compost heap that often falls onto one of the corners. Every game, at least a dozen balls go over the wall into the subdivision behind. It also stinks really bad because there is a monkey farm next to it.
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