Welcome Harrogate Town

They need to replace their 3G pitch with grass, and as a result will be ground sharing with Doncaster until it's done.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53637169

Maybe its time for the FL to allow 3G pitches with a lot of the clubs in div 1 and 2 now struggling for money they could use their facilities 24/7 to generate money. It would mean clubs would not have to have a seperate training ground as they could train at their main ground, how much would Crawley save if they did not have to hire Horshams ground.

I understand that plastic pitches have improved down the years, but I've never forgotten the crap that QPR played on many years ago. If you tried a slide tackle you would get a friction burn. The goalkeepers were allowed to wear long-legged apparel, something normally reserved for snowy pitches, but I reckon all the players could have done with it. The ball bounced far too high as well and long passes were often too long. I can't recall the details but from QPR's home record, it looked like they gained an unfair advantage in spite of allowing the opposition to train on it.

It always seems bizarre to me that WC Qualifiers and Champions League games can be played on artificial surfaces, but not a L2 football game.