Winter Sports
Access to the pitch is narrow
Mick has acquired some artificial turf, left over from the Woodhouse installation, that will be laid along the linesmen’s runs and on the corners of the pitch. This will help reduce damage to the runs and make it look more aesthetically pleasing.
As for a wish list, Mick would love to see the club invest in undersoil heating. The biggest bane of his life is moving frost covers on and off the pitch, especially when there’s only him and the maintenance man to do it; and there’s fifty-four covers to move! Last winter, the first use of the covers was on 28th November and the last on
New equipment is making a difference
9th April. In total, the pitch was covered for thirty-five days, including one continuous spell of twelve days. The amount of work involved in trying
to keep matches on during the depths of a bad winter is immeasurable, especially with limited resources. Mick is not one for moaning, but he wishes that people had a better understanding of what groundsmen have to do to keep matches on, especially at lower league levels. However he would not swap his job and, being a lifelong supporter, has enjoyed the successes of the 2012-13 season immensely. It’s a great job when you are part of a winning team and you
can see the rewards for all the hard work, both on and off the field. On both Wembley visits, 25,000 Bantams fans made the trip to the capital, so the fan base is there for the club to reap the benefits of continued success which, in turn, would enable further investment in the pitch.
Mick is confident that, as the song says, things can only get better, and the recent investment in new machinery has certainly been a step in the right direction.
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