Scotland prop Alasdair Dickinson does not believe the grass will be greener for international rugby if more Tests are played on artificial surfaces.<\/p>\n
The Dark Blues will face Tonga at Kilmarnock\u2019s Rugby Park on Saturday in the first ever full international to be played on a plastic pitch. Dickinson has no problem using the \u00a3500,000 3G turf on a one-off basis but the Edinburgh forward does not think it should be rolled out permanently for big clashes involving the world\u2019s top sides.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old said: \u201cIt\u2019s going to be pretty quick so I hope I don\u2019t get caught one-on-one with a winger. I\u2019ve only played down at Cardiff on their artificial pitch and it was fine. I quite enjoyed it. I\u2019ve been down at Kilmarnock to look at their pitch and it looks awesome. It will be great for the rugby. Does this sort of thing have a future at international level? Well if you had asked me that last year when the Murrayfield pitch was in the state it was, I\u2019d have said yes…….. see more at :- http:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/rugby\/dickinson-tests-should-be-played-on-grass-298609.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Scotland prop Alasdair Dickinson does not believe the grass will be greener for international rugby if more Tests are played on artificial surfaces. The Dark Blues will face Tonga at Kilmarnock\u2019s Rugby Park on Saturday in the first ever full international to be played on a plastic pitch. Dickinson has no problem using the \u00a3500,000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5746,15484,6061,7069,7806,12404],"class_list":["post-76996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-be","tag-dickinson","tag-grass","tag-played","tag-should","tag-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76998,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76996\/revisions\/76998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}