Winter Sports - Football
Short of cutting the pitch much lower until the poa started to pick up, we would have to live with the pockmarked effect
The team training on the pitch on 12th April
the relegation spots was paramount and anything to help the manager, Micky Mellon, and the lads was top of our agenda. Unfortunately, they played and lost away at Walsall the next evening. We gave the pitch a cut on Thursday 28th and again after training on Friday. On the Saturday morning, we mowed, marked out and irrigated before the team lost 3-4 to Peterborough in the afternoon. Things were certainly getting very tight at the bottom of
League One. We were into May and finally the weather
started to improve, with daytime temperatures into the mid-teens, although we were still getting some night frosts. Spring had arrived two months after it had last year! Suddenly, we were cutting off seven or eight boxes of grass instead of the mandatory one that had been the story for the whole of April. Even the seed that we’d put down in February started to emerge with a
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vengeance, better late than never, I suppose - with just one away league game to go! We were now cutting the pitch every day and it was extremely tempting to cut it shorter, but we kept it at 23mm because we didn’t want to get blamed by the manager for changing anything. The team trained on the pitch three times
that week before going to Swindon for their final match. We also had Shropshire FA games in the evenings.
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