Winter Sports
Mark with Robert Jack of Dennis
discloses. “It’s always good to have people that keep the faith, and stick with you. Keith has been one of those guys, and I suppose it helped that he’s a Palace fan himself.”
Mark has four staff to help him manage both the training ground and stadium pitches, Gareth Read, Dean Waters, Sam Cannon and Niall Watson, along with three others, Tom Clark, Craig Corner and Graham Stobart who help out on match days. Gareth tends to spend most of his time, except matchdays, overseeing the work at the training ground, whereas the remaining
Pitch set up for training ahead of the play off final against Watford staff work at both venues.
The stadium pitch is a soil based construction that has been modified into a Fibresand pitch, with the top 150mm ameliorated with sand and sand fibres to increase stability and make it more free draining. Last year, and for the first time in ten years, the pitch was slit drained at one metre centres. This year’s renovations saw Kensetts
koro off, cultivate, vertidrain, topdress with 100 tonnes of Sibelco RH45 sand and overseed with eighteen bags of Johnsons seed. For the coming Premiership season,
Mark will have to widen the playing surface and purchase new goals and nets to accommodate the new Hawk-Eye goal- line technology that comes into play at the start of the season. In recent years, Mark has taken on
board many of the new technologies on offer to help monitor the pitch’s performance and apply a range of ancillary products to improve turf quality. He regularly takes soil temperature and moisture readings, along with a robust Clegg hammer monitoring programme to measure the hardness of his pitch. Using a 2.5Kg Clegg hammer,
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