I was told that when they interlace the 4G synthetic strands in with the real grass it lasts approx. 5 years - each time it is cut a little more of the synthetic is lost over time.
Add this to excessive wet weather, we play a lot more games on it and over winter it has the under soil heating on more often it all contributes to wear and tear.
we have a full 14 days until we play on it again - depending on weather I would imagine that is good time to get it back as it was.
I also think that it is degrading then it could actually be in the favour of the "lower" teams that play a more industrial brand of football. Now we are getting into our stride the better the surface the better our players should be so the pitch should be a priority*
*although when we had the best pitch in league our football was utter gash
