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<blockquote data-quote="saulan" data-source="post: 1130672" data-attributes="member: 60236"><p>Two key issues:</p><p>- It's actually been football turf rather than rugby turf up until now (2010 World Cup heritage and then used for local football league). Stormers only became theanchor tenant earlier this year so they will finally reseed it this year to make it fit for purpose, but it has been pretty choppy to begin with. Prior to that the Stormers were just doing year to year rental of it (/fighting insolvency so probably didn't want to do/could not do long term committments)</p><p>- There was a monster truck event that took place in the stadium about a month ago. As you can imagine, that absolutely destroyed the pitch even further (i.e. this event: <a href="https://www.monsterjam.com/en-US/events/cape-town/apr-22-2023-apr-22-2023" target="_blank">https://www.monsterjam.com/en-US/events/cape-town/apr-22-2023-apr-22-2023</a> )</p><p></p><p>Basically will be resolved for next season, but that really can't come soon enough.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="saulan, post: 1130672, member: 60236"] Two key issues: - It's actually been football turf rather than rugby turf up until now (2010 World Cup heritage and then used for local football league). Stormers only became theanchor tenant earlier this year so they will finally reseed it this year to make it fit for purpose, but it has been pretty choppy to begin with. Prior to that the Stormers were just doing year to year rental of it (/fighting insolvency so probably didn't want to do/could not do long term committments) - There was a monster truck event that took place in the stadium about a month ago. As you can imagine, that absolutely destroyed the pitch even further (i.e. this event: [URL]https://www.monsterjam.com/en-US/events/cape-town/apr-22-2023-apr-22-2023[/URL] ) Basically will be resolved for next season, but that really can't come soon enough. [/QUOTE]
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