Winter Sports
James Mead, Sue Lacey and Andy Key week in between shifts.” It is welcome support, as Sue currently
provides a grounds maintenance service for Avon Valley School, Rugby High School, Lawrence Sheriff School, Riverside Primary School, Newbold Rugby Club, Rugby Cricket Club as well as the Rugby Lions.
Over the years, She has built up a substantial amount of equipment and machinery to help carry out her schedule. These include Hayter and Etesia ride on mowers, a New Holland TN75 tractor, a Trimax Stealth Procut rotary deck, a Sisis slit tine aerator, a ride on ‘trike’ spray line marker and an array of pedestrian equipment - mowers, strimmers, hedgecutters etc. She also has an Auto-roller for rolling the cricket
Looking across the main pitch to the pavilion
squares. Sue carries out all the maintenance operations at the rugby club on her own. “I cut the pitches weekly with the Trimax, maintaining a height of cut between 40-60mm, depending on conditions. I mark out weekly using the trike. Feeding regimes are dictated by budgets but, in general, the main pitch gets fed during end of season renovations and a couple of times during the growing season.” “I like to spike the pitches as often as I can, when conditions allow. This is an important operation for rugby pitches. End of season renovations are, again, dictated by budgets. At the moment they are fairly basic, revolving around deep aeration, topdressing (50 tonnes of sand)
and overseeding.”
The club only use the main pitch for matches and captain’s training runs (pre- match warm-ups). General training for all teams takes place on a floodlit training pitch located on the cricket outfield.
Andy interjects; “When we get the new stadium, we would still retain the current facilities, earmarking them for use by the youth rugby sections. We will also be investing in building additional facilities on the current site, aiming to improve the hospitality facilities and changing room areas.”
“Our vision for the club is to build up
a strong academy ethos, attracting players to come and join the club and use the refurbished club facilities. Plans
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