Regarding the Ffos Las winter going: if memory serves, during the first couple of seasons after opening the concensus was that the course was one of the few, along with such as Doncaster and Musselburgh, that would be likely to produce ‘decent’ ground during wet spells; now it’s being compared to Uttoxeter!
Either the ground has undergone serious compaction or, more likely, the mistake in those early days was one of drawing binding conclusions from insufficient data
It would seem the concensus here on TRF was determined by precisely two – me and the now-exiled Paul Ostermeyer 
In mitigation the provision of ‘decent winter ground’ was/is the course’s stated aim
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