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Aluminum Goal Posts

Fully welded goal post corners on ITSA GOAL products are Raising the Goalpost Industry Standard.

Some Goalpost manufacturers, but not all, are  beginning to follow our lead and are incorporating, at long last, welded corners on some of their football goals. The problem of un- welded mitred corners on football goal posts was  highlighted in 2005 at Old Trafford when the goal posts came apart during a live broadcast game between Manchester Utd and Liverpool on Match of the day. After this incident other manufacturers followed our lead and started to offer welded as well as unwelded corners on goal posts.  The photographs below taken all around the U.K. demonstrate the maintenance problems and dangers of un-welded corners and joints on aluminium football posts. Crossbars can expand up to eight millimeters whilst uprights expand just one millimeter which means that any un-welded corners and joints can never stay together without constant re-alignment and re-tightening of bolts.  Be sure to check before you buy that ALL corners are fully welded on your goal posts unless you want to buy yourself a lot of  maintenance work. Is the small saving in money terms worth all the hard work every week.

Free standing football goalposts  from our company have always had fully welded corners and side frames that do not rust. We believe where  possible not to mix steel (ferrous metal) and aluminum (non ferrous)  and that is why we prefer not to make goal posts with heavy steel net supports that are bolted onto the rear of aluminium goalpost frames. Numerous freestanding goalposts used in sports centres have wheels and in the main many have collapsed  or are entangled with net cord.  The wheels used with internal bearings are not ideal when left out in the open all the time and that is why they do not last very long. We do not recommend flip over wheels as they can may become dagerous. We can attache flip over wheels to our goalposts however we feel  our own wheel systems offer longevity, practicality and real value for money over such wheels.  see    Aluminium wheels and dollies    

Other makes of Goalposts with un-welded corners coming apart !

 others mitred corner Goal post on free standing oval goal with rear rollers (not ITSA GOAL) others Goal posts with  mitred corners when regular maintenance of bolts has not taken place. others Aluminium football goalposts with steel net supports and mitred corners. (not from ITSA GOAL )
other manufacturers Mitred corner football goals and how bad they can get. Photograph shows how far out of square uprights are on others football goals that pull heavy rear rollers. others Football goal with mitred corner at Winterhill School on mini soccer goals  
Aluminum Goal posts with steel net supports showing why at ITSA GOAL  we do not mix the two on our Aluminum goals

 

A common site with aluminum  Goal posts covered in tape with rusting rear net supports.                             (not an ITSA Goal product)

 

 other manufacturers Aluminum Goal posts with steel net supports - Ferreous and non ferreous metals do not mix.

 
 
flip over wheels can become a dangerous  hazzard and that is why we never recommend them.Better options to move goals are available

 

counter balance bags can splt and weight can be lost. To pass the safety standard at least twelve of these bags may be needed per goal.

 

 

 THE ABOVE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE OF OTHER GOAL POST MANUFACTURERS - FOOTBALL GOALS

ITSA GOAL LTD -  Leaders in goal post design  

By pointing out problems future development ,design, and improvement in safety of all football goal posts is ensured. Our stance on the welding of crossbars to upright corners to prevent them expanding apart and the problem of nets becoming entangled in rear roller goals have led to other manufacturers having to implement design changes. Our non lifting twist & lock steel uprights are also being introduced by other manufacturers which will improve safety . We lead...... other football goalpost manufacturers can only follow 

ITSA GOAL LTD - Raising Industry Standards

As a company we do not follow what has gone before but improve existing products in the market place with innovation and quality engineering. Making products cheaper inevitably means corners need to be cut ,lesser quality materials are used which can result in poor performance and this may also compromise safety.  This policy of continued development is why we have so much more positive customer feed back than any other company in the Industry.  We make Goals that work and not goals that make work