After a delay to wait for the grass to grow round 3 was played at Hands Oval on Sunday and what a disappointment it was.
The grass was definitely not to AFL standard and I honestly believe that the games should have not been played this weekend as the surface is crap.
$2.7 million has been spent on grass, lighting and some seating and it is my belief that whoever won the contract has scammed the Bunbury council big time.
I was expecting a surface that resembled something like Rushton park and it turned out to resemble the local cow paddock.
Hopefully the powers that be, will cancel the next fixtures there but i am sure that with so much riding on the success of the whole exercise they will continue to play there but I hope that no football careers are cut short due to the surface.
I was not counting injuries for the 3 games played but hopefully there was no more than normal, but there was definitely a couple of boys from both sides that went down with knee / ankle injuries but how do you measure these things? time will tell.
severely disappointed
Trav