Also in this issue: Alan Ferguson, Ipswich Town FC Winter Sports I guess that’s why they call Cash in hand!
Roy Rigby, Grounds Manager at the world’s richest football club, is benefitting from a huge injection of cash for new machinery and pitch rebuilding. Pg78
Working Magic!
Pitchcare’s Dave Saltman meets Dieter Prahl, Head Groundsman at Bayer Leverkusen FC, during a trip to the Bayer headquarters in Germany. Pg84
Spending Cuts
Due to the current recession, long-term plans are being reviewed, in particular operating budgets with, in some cases, reductions being made. Pg88
Technical Damp Thinking!
Languard’s Paul Cawood has a bit of a rant about the lack of initiative from pesticide manufacturers. He wants them to solve real problems not just launch yet another pesticide. Pg16
Moss Boss!
Moss control and eradication - one man’s variation on Mother Nature’s Anhydrous Syndrome. And yes, it does exist! Pg66
it the Blues! Alan Ferguson, Head Groundsman at Ipswich Town Football Club, talks about his time at the club and the problems that relegation bring. Pg72
Nigel Gray, Hampshire CCC Cricket Bowl’dly Going ...
In twenty years with Hampshire CCC, Nigel Gray has seen the club develop facilities that are set to place it in the premier league of international cricket. Pg90
Frosty the Groundsman
Tony Frost has retired from cricket, for the second time, to start a career in groundsmanship. Pg96
A touch of Glass
Peter Glass is Head Groundsman at Midhurst Cricket Club situated in the shadows of Cowdray Castle. Pg98
Square Bashing!
Neil Godrich, Head Groundsman at Derbyshire CCC, has been turning the square through 90 degrees. We find out how and why. Pg102
Hoppy Days!
Jimmy Lea, Groundsman at Bollington Cricket Club, won this year’s Pitchcare/Cricket World Groundsman of the Year award in the Local Authority category. Pg104
Employment
Learning and Training Richard Murray of Real World Training goes back to the womb to find out where it all began! Pg112
Handling Conflict
Frank Newberry explores how conflict at work can be a positive opportunity. Pg114
Old what’s his name .............. 36 Setting the Standards ............ 38 Be Wise, Economise .............. 42 Training Update ...................... 52 Festivals, Concerts & Fairs .... 68 The Overnighter ...................... 88 Hammer Time! ........................ 87 Caseron Gone ........................ 106 I’m alright Jack .................... 108 The cool ................................ 116 Irrigation or irritation? .......... 118 Worminology ........................ 120 Alkaline Hydrolosis .............. 122 Going Dutch .......................... 124 Turning turf around .............. 126
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Congratulations are in order as Chris,
work means that she needs a stiff one at the end of the day - that’s a drink, by the way!
Awards accredited. All this additional hard
Chrissie, Christine (we never know what mood she’s in) continues to get Pitchcare’s training courses LANTRA
CHRIS JOHNSON
STUART BURTON Web Designer
efficiently and quietly! It’s a trait that has endeared him to the women in the office - they like the silent and mysterious type apparently! Nothing mysterious about his design skills though, which are proving successful with clients.
Stu still bucks the Pitchcare trend by going about his work
KIRAN CONTRACTOR Sales Administrator
website. Insists that his hairstyle is ‘the fashion’, although we are not sure from which decade! Still, it’s nothing a comb
wouldn’t sort out ... and as for that ‘beard’, pass me the razor!
As PC’s online shop continues to grow Kiran has been busy uploading new products to the
JULIE ROBINSON Sales Administrator
As the pounds continue to drop off, Julie is a shadow of her former self. Fortunately, it has not detracted from her bubbly personality, and her ‘brummie’ brogue can be heard ringing around the office as she deals with enquiries, always with a smile on her face - or is that a grimace from facing Dan all day?
Company Accountant
With the new Pitchcare offices being closer to her beloved horses, there’s every possibilty that we will have to erect stables in the car park so that she can ride them to work!
Actually, that’s not a bad idea, especially as we can move the accounts team in there as well, with obvious benefits - see right!
SHARON TAYLOR Accounts Admin
If talking was an Olympic sport we would have a gold medal winner every time - that’s if the stadium announcers and commentators could get a word in edgeways! Needless to say, whilst crunching numbers Lyn has a propensity to ‘talk a bit’. So much so that, if she ever went quiet, we’d probably call an ambulance!
LYN PRICE
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