Pitch Modifications
To avoid the ravages of the weather upon your pristine playing surface, you might like to invest in the sort of developments to your pitch that the larger clubs often make use of. Under soil heating is becoming increasingly common, as is the adoption of a large ground-staff to keep the turf in the best possible condition. Should you want your team to be relatively sure of how well their tactics might work on what is otherwise an unpredictable surface, you can put money into just such an area. Basically, for a one-off payment of around 100K (which increases markedly in the higher divisions and as your ground capacity increases), you will be able to install improvements to your pitch that will held counteract the worst weathers. This will mean that poor pitch conditions will always be ‘Good’, no matter what the weather conditions. If your side is one that tends to play with a stronger midfield game, then this will obviously be a benefit.
Payments are made every session after that for the upkeep of the Modifications, starting at around 4K, and increasing every session by a similar margin. Modifications can last for a considerable period, perhaps as long as two seasons before the whole thing needs replacing (at a lower rate than the initial installation).
This is not going to be an option widely used by the less financially secure clubs, as expending a fair some of money each season may not be a realistic option for them, but for the clubs with money to burn, it is likely to have a very wide benefit. And remember, a club is not likely to know that you have this improvement until they have visited your ground, by which time, it will be too late for them plan their tactics to benefit from it!
One big bonus though is that if you have pitch mods you cannot get a postponed game under any circumstances at all.
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