Winter Sports - Football
manager asked me if they could have a training session on the pitch instead, and they had the full squad out from 10am- 12:30pm for training and 3 x 30min games. On Monday 16th, the pitch was
repaired and then verti-drained at tight centres, followed by the Hondas to cut and collect the debris.
The next day, we applied 8 x 20kgs of Maxwell Premier 3:3:12 on the pitch in the morning before the rain and winds of Hurricane Barney started! The next day, we came in to find the pitch side advertising hoardings were now spread and mangled across the pitch. There was a reasonable amount of damage to the grass in places and a few large gouges where the steel frames had dug in. We had to use angle grinders to separate much of the signage that was all bolted together the full length and width of the pitch. On Thursday, the squad had another session on the pitch, citing that all their usual venues were now too wet to use, so we endured another two and half hours of warm ups/warm downs and short games. Friday 20th, we repaired the
damaged areas, verti-drained and used the Hondas for a clean-up. Over the previous few weeks,
we’d been working hard on fabricating a lighting rig. I’d been down to Wolves to look at theirs and, armed with measurements and photographs, we set about building our own. We had some lengths of galvanised beams and sheets from the old irrigation tank roof, and I found a guy down in Sussex who was breaking some old Golf buggies, so I bought four axles and wheels from him. We bought some lengths of steel box section from a local supplier and, by kind courtesy of the West Midlands Police, we had some light fittings, bulbs and ballasts free of charge. As I’ve said before, Richard is a dab hand at welding and fabrication, from his former life working at Stadco (an automotive supplier) so, with some felt pen drawings on the wipe board understood, he built the first rig with a large degree of professionalism and robustness. The club electrician had been
busy this week, creating a 3-phase supply for us from snack bars under the stands behind each goal, whilst we wired the rig and
16th November and more aeration
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