Third in our new series where we pick up on a website thread and investigate further on your behalf - nice aren’t we!
Be wary of using GLUE...
Old Trafford’s PETE MARRON, clarifies the situation regarding his use of PVA glue on the one day wicket
There has been a lot of talk recently on thePitchcare message board about using glue to stabilise wickets, so I thought I’d clarify my use of PVA glue at Old Trafford. We started to use the glue last year at
the ground when one of our guys, Gerard Carter, suggested that it might work well. Gerard had used glue at his previous club in Wellington, New Zealand.
Although we thought it was quite laughable at first, my philosophy is, you can but try, so we made up a mix and sprayed a strip or two in the practice nets. The results went extremely well. The glue provided a little film across the surface and binded the top pretty well.
Having seen the results, I spoke to the board initially but they were fairly negative. After a while I suggested again to them that we should trial the gluing process, and this time we agreed to do the U19’s test pitch and two one-day pitches, which also proved very successful. My worry though about all the
current talk, the speculation on the TV, and in the press, is that groundsmen everywhere will think it’s the solution to all their problems. Well it’s not”
“Groundsmen everywhere will think this the solution to all their problems. Well it’s not!”
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