Grazes and cuts from hard/dry pitches?

Kent Brockman

I'm going around like a child with grazes and scabs on both knees due to playing footie on the hard ground at the moment.:(

Someone mentioned putting vaseline on their knees before playing on a dry/hard pitch.

What do any of you guys do to prevent this as it is a nuisance and the same cuts get opened again and again?
(I know, I'm very soft:o )

dreamers75

walk it off yah wuss

Seaneh

if it's your teams pitch and you have a tap at the club house get a REALLY long hose and spray the pitch an hour or so before games, you wanna soak the thing pretty good, it will mostly dry out before kickoff and the grass will be softer.

Mitch Connor

i tore a good few layers of skin of my leg playing football on one of the gen3 or 5 astro pitches a month or so back. Couldn't touch the area properly for a week and had to have it properly bandaged up - skin still hasn't repaired properly yet either. stupid dry pitches.

Coillte_Bhoy

Serves ya right. It's called football not 'footie' and is should be 'lads' not 'guys'. This is not a rugby forum.:mad:

Seaneh

Mitch Connor wrote: »

i tore a good few layers of skin of my leg playing football on one of the gen3 or 5 astro pitches a month or so back. Couldn't touch the area properly for a week and had to have it properly bandaged up - skin still hasn't repaired properly yet either. stupid dry pitches.

isn't sliding against the rules in 5-a-side astro?!?!

Aidric

An astro graze is no laughing matter. Hurts like hell.

Mitch Connor

Seaneh wrote: »

isn't sliding against the rules in 5-a-side astro?!?!

1. i was playing in goal, it can be required to slide across the ground.
2. it was a full size pitch.

:P

Kent Brockman

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

Serves ya right. It's called football not 'footie' and is should be 'lads' not 'guys'. This is not a rugby forum.:mad:

The question was directed at actual football players , not armchair critics thanks.

For everyone else:
This is 11-a-side on grass but the pitches are very dry and hard due to the weather, and the burns are very similar to the astro ones. They are wet for a few days and take ages to heal.

Anyone hear of the vaseline thing?

joe123

Yep the pitches are rock hard at the minute. My right knee got a serious doing with taking a few layers off it after cutting it a few times.

Your best bet is to get a bandage called vetrap in a chemist/pharmacy. Stick a bandage over the cut and put a bit of that vetrap around it then. Stays on for the whole game and offers a bit of padding.

Coillte_Bhoy

Kent Brockman wrote: »

The question was directed at actual football players , not armchair critics thanks.

For everyone else:
This is 11-a-side on grass but the pitches are very dry and hard due to the weather, and the burns are very similar to the astro ones. They are wet for a few days and take ages to heal.

Anyone hear of the vaseline thing?

Ooohhh that got me. guys ffs

Frisbee

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

Ooohhh that got me. guys ffs

Cut it out.

Mars Bar

I got a lovely graze on my left knee just over a week ago and it's taking ages to go away coz it doesn't get a chance to heal coz of shaving my legs. I know, I know...ye didn't need to know that!

That sounds like good stuff joe123. Thanks for sharing...

Frisbee

I play on astro at least twice a week every week during the season and I can certainly see where your coming from.

The pitch out in ALSAA is the worst, fall on that and you can say goodbye to a layer of skin in that area for several weeks. I can't think of anything that would stop it tbh other than try not to fall/slide :pac:

Generally if it's a bad one that's open for a few days the big priority is to stop it getting infected so either lash some TCP/Savlon on it.

rebel girl 15

the liquid plaster stuff is supposed to heal the cuts and grazes faster - I've used stuff like veltrap, sticks to itself and no hassle with trying to tape it in place.

Coillte_Bhoy

Frisbee wrote: »

Cut it out.

Fair enough. ok.

Pure_Cork

Seaneh wrote: »

isn't sliding against the rules in 5-a-side astro?!?!

If you're not in an organised league anything goes, steel-toe cap boots and all