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Winter Sports - Football


What’s in the shed? ... which includes power harrowing the pitch


after two seven-a-side artificial pitches to the back of the east terrace. These are brushed at least once a week with a Sisis dual-frame Flexi-comb and Z brush, topping up goalmouths with rubber when needed. “We also look after a high school pitch which the Motherwell youth academy use daily, although we are only able to cut and line once a week due to the fixture schedule between the youth academy and the students.” Mikey believes that the industry in Scotland is ‘insecure’ due to lack of finance available to football and golf. “Generally, I’d say we were undervalued, but I’m lucky as I have a good manager, coaching staff and chief executive who appreciate the hard work all the staff put in at Motherwell; and they remember the bad history of this pitch in the last decade.”


“But I still believe that better communication and consultations with management, coaching staff, leagues and governing bodies would help to highlight the issues we face. Pitch protection rules for coaches, especially in poor weather conditions, would seem an obvious place to start. They appear oblivious to what rules are in place and the damage their warm-ups can cause. We are not just moaning for the sake of it. When we see our pitch being torn up because of their ignorance, it hurts. This is something I think the league has to address as, when trying to explain to a coach on match day, the last thing he wants to hear is a groundsman moaning about his pitch, which is understandable. He has a game to prepare for, I know, but they forget we have a pitch to look after, as well.”


Dennis G860 cylinder mowers c/w verticutter and brush cassettes x 2 Kubota STV32 tractor and front loader Wiedenmann TerraSpike G160 Toro Procore 648


John Deere R54RKB rear roller rotary mowers x 2


Hardi 400ltr sprayer


Sisis dual-play Z brush with Flexi comb


Scotts spreaders x 2 Transfer wheel linemarker Spray linemarker


Machinery is generally purchased on a five year finance deal, where we own the machine at the end of the term.


We purchase from local dealers, with Fairway Grass Machinery undertaking our maintenance contract.


We now have most of the equipment needed to do the job. What we don’t have, my old boss, John Hayes at Celtic FC is always willing to help us out whenever he can.


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