Etihad Stadium boss Paul Sergeant expects playing surface to bounce back after KISS concert. Picture: Stuart Walmsley Source: Herald Sun
ETIHAD Stadium boss Paul Sergeant yesterday assured the football world that the playing surface would be in "fantastic'' condition by Saturday night, despite hosting two KISS concerts this week.
His assurance came as the Herald Sun revealed several players have privately raised concerns about the surface the hardest they had experienced.
Etihad Stadium had major problems with a shifting surface in 2010 that were blamed on three AC/DC concerts in February, but Sergeant said this week's KISS concerts were different because they would only infringe on about 15 per cent of the surface.
AFL spokesman Patrick Keane said that fact, plus the installation of turf protection, meant the league was comfortable the concerts would "cause minimal impact on the grass''.
He said readings of the surface's firmness, taken on the eve of last Friday's Western Bulldogs-Hawthorn game were "well within our guidelines for stadium surface''.
"We're not anticipating any concerns when it comes to next weekend's game,'' Keane said.
Sergeant denied the ground had been prepared with the concerts as the priority, and if anything the surface was "a little soft''.
"We haven't prepared the field with KISS in mind; we've got sportsmen to look after,'' Sergeant told Triple M.
"When we say it's in that 'preferred range' [of readings], in fact, if anything, it's probably a little bit soft. I know that's not the feedback that's coming back ... There's a bit of 'divoting' so we're going to be looking into that, but in terms of the hardness, it's something the guys monitor very, very closely.''
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