City Care has accepted it produced a poor pitch at Brooklands Park for a game between Green Island and Taieri on Saturday.
But whether the state of the surfaces has been of poorer quality than in previous seasons is still hotly debated.
Coggan felt the issue was one of resourcing and suggested the city might want to consider cutting down on the amount of pitches it needs to service in order to produce better quality facilities.
"For cricket to be improved we’ve got to get wickets to a higher standard much earlier in the year if we can," Coggan said when approached for comment.
The contract to prepare the city’s cricket grounds has been split between Delta and City Care, while Dunedin Venues Management Limited has taken over the contract to prepare the University Oval.
Coggan said DVML had got the international venue into better shape by throwing more money and staff at it, and now the challenge was to lift the standard of the club grounds.
"Here we have two contractors trying to do their best but they have limited resources, limited people and are also up against the weather," Coggan said.
"What we can’t have is a lot of average pitches — we’re better off having fewer pitches which are better.
"If you’ve got the resources and the desire, you can produce better grass wickets here but you have to have the manpower and the money to do so.
"You are going to have to have less grounds rather than more. That is difficult when every club has its own senior ground with its clubrooms and bar and all the rest of it."
In order to help bridge the gap between club level and domestic level, Coggan said it was important players had access to good quality playing surfaces and "we are a long, long way off that".
