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New stadium New groundsman NEW MEADOW
Shrewsbury Town FC’s 2007-08 season kicked off at the aptly named New Meadow Stadium with high hopes of gaining promotion. However, a disappointing campaign saw them finish 18th in Division 2.
Laurence Gale MSc meets Head Groundsman Richard Barnett
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hrewsbury Town Football Club have had an eventful few years. A drop to the
Conference saw an immediate return to League status via the play-offs. This was followed by a flirtation with promotion in the 2006-2007 season, their last at Gay Meadow, the club’s home for almost 100 years. In the summer of 2007 the club moved to a brand new 9,875 seater stadium. In these days when many professional clubs are struggling with finances it is perhaps surprising to note that they are the twenty- sixth club from the top four divisions to move to a new stadium facility in the past twenty years! Of course, the benefits of
moving into a new facility are many, both on and off the pitch. In Shrewsbury Town’s case those benefits include a move to higher ground away from the River Severn, which had a habit of flooding the Gay Meadow pitch on a regular basis during the winter months.
The installation of the new
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pitch was undertaken by the contractors, Kestrel, working closely with the main contractors, Hall Construction, who were building the stadium and its infrastructure. The client’s brief was to
produce a surface which could not only handle football but also a number of rugby union games. Based on this criteria, the decision was taken to build a perched water table pitch with a rootzone than had been stabilised with Loksand fibres. The sub base in the stadium
was graded, levelled, compacted and rolled. A primary drainage system was installed along with a fully automated pop up irrigation system. A 120mm deep (2-6mm) gravel raft was installed followed by 150mm of lower rootzone and 100mm of upper rootzone. Loksand was ameliorated in to the top 25mm
of the upper rootzone materials. A pre-seeding fertiliser was applied and the pitch was then seeded with Barenbrug Bar 8. Kestrel also constructed a new training pitch with primary drainage installed at 5 metre centres. Sand and topsoil was ameliorated to a depth of 100 mm. Secondary drainage sand slits at 2m spacing and two watering points were installed. Finally, a pre-seeding fertiliser was applied prior to seeding. Topsport’s Loksand System comprises a suite of traditional sand-based products that have been reinforced with the addition of high strength polypropylene fibres. The resultant mixes are very stable, offering resistance to deformation in high stress areas. Used in its concentrate form, Loksand can be ameliorated on site with the indigenous soil to produce a reinforced rootzone capable of resisting compaction and promoting air passage and water passage to the grass roots. Fibre-reinforced silica sand can also be used to produce a stabilised free- draining surface to produce a firm yet forgiving surface. The stadium was handed to the club in May 2007. The first match at the new ground was an ‘All-Stars’ friendly which included the likes of ex Chelsea star Gianfranco Zola. Inspired by their new pitch, Shrewsbury Town ran out 4-0 winners. The club employ two full time
groundsmen who look after both the stadium and training ground pitches.
Head Groundsman, Richard
Barnett, was appointed in July 2007. He is responsible for overseeing all the work at the stadium, the training pitch and all landscaping features on site. He had previously worked as an assistant at Gay Meadow. His assistant is Andrew Muir who spends most of his time looking after the training ground
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