TWENTY Questions
Barry Glynn - manic Pitchcare poster and, apparently, not a great lover of dog owners!
Aerial view of the County Ground
Who are you? Barry Glynn, Head Groundsman at East Moseley Cricket Club in Surrey.
Family status? Married, with two grown up sons, both cricketers of course.
Who’s your hero and why? Me, I think I am just great.
What is your dream holiday? A cricket tour to Barbados.
What annoys you the most? There isn’t enough room here to answer.
BG in full flow - when isn’t he?
What would you change about yourself? Nothing.
Who wouldn’t you like to be? Someone other than me.
Favourite record, and why? Imagine, by John Lennon, because it suggests that religion is a pile of rubbish!
Who would you choose to spend a romantic evening with? Not, not me - my wife or, if she wasn’t around, Michelle Pfeiffer.
If you won the lottery, what is the first thing you would do? Buy a hover cover.
If you were to describe yourself as a musical instrument, what would you be and why? A tuba, because it takes a lot of hot air to play it.
What’s the best advice you have ever been given? Don’t tell the boss that - I ignored it, of course!
What’s your favourite smell? An opposing batsman soiling himself - hasn’t happened much in the last 30 years!
What do you do in your spare time? Lol, the ‘occasional’ posting on Pitchcare, plus some golf and, until recently, martial arts.
What’s the daftest work related question you have ever been asked? Can you make the ends slow but the middle of the pitch pacey?
What’s your favourite piece of kit? Ransomes Super Certes mower - that’s because it’s the only thing I’ve got that’s under 25 years of age!
What three words would you use to describe yourself? Big, opinionated and hungry.
What talent would you like to have? Telepathy.
What makes you angry? Virtually everything.
What law/legislation would you like to see introduced? A law which allows you to shoot fat, thick, tatooed chavs who let their dogs mess on my outfield - or any other dog owners, come to that!
“The major firms are much more flexible now and they’re willing to come down and give demonstrations on site, which means you can see how they work on your turf, and all the team can trial them as well. The shows are also increasingly expensive, so I’m seeing less need to attend them”
looking to update the stock from a sole supplier. Harrogate Week and Saltex
were once ideal opportunities for clubs such as Kent, looking to make big machinery replacements, to see what’s on offer, yet Andy believes they no longer hold the same draw for visitors. “The major firms are much more flexible now and they’re willing to come down and give demonstrations on site, which means you can see how they work on your turf, and all the team can trial them as well. The shows are also increasingly expensive, so I’m seeing less need to attend them.”
Despite his wish to upgrade, Andy doesn’t believe that old necessarily means bad. “I’m a big fan of some of the older pieces of kit, some of which we’ve had here for nearly thirty years,” he says. The machines in the shed include a Ransomes Jacobsen Tri-King, for use predominantly on the
outfields, two rollers and a Ransomes Mastiff which, despite being over thirty years old, “does a better job than many of the newer machines. The quality old machines are gold dust to come by and some models fetch big money.” He uses a Paladin pedestrian walk behind mower, with groomer, for first preparing the wickets, while the Dennis FT610 cylinder mower and Ransomes Matador 61 help him maintain the nets area in winter. There’s also a Ransomes Certes wicket cutter, a 4ft auto roller and two scarifiers - a SISIS 600 and SISIS Mach 4 - which Andy claims are “equivalent to the Graden model, but the Graden is quieter.”
The club’s bigger pieces of kit include a Cushman utility vehicle and a Valpadana tractor.
“I could do with an additional wicket mower, as it
Entrance to the County Ground
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