Winter Sports - Football


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Rain continued to fall most days and we had to work around the showers to get the pitch turned back around for football on the 27th as Latics played Wolves


The pitch on 17th September


slow release Lebanon 25:0:5. On the 22nd, the pitch was cylinder mown


both ways and then again during the day of the 23rd, before marking out for the Wigan Warriors vs. Catalan match. The Warriors season was coming to a climax and the Super 8s play off was now looking like a possible place in the Grand Final game at Old Trafford for them. Rain continued to fall most days and we


had to work around the showers to get the pitch turned back around for football on the 27th as Latics played Wolves. We fed the pitch with 180kg of Maxwell


Premier 3:3:12 on the 28th, as we moved into an autumn/winter feeding regime of hardening the plant. The games were coming thick and fast and


the pitch was again turned back for rugby league as the Warriors played their final Super 8s game against Hull FC on the 30th. The Warriors went on to lift the Super


Since we had a break in fixtures, we needed to get the team experienced in the deployment of our rain cover system. So, on the 17th, the sheets were unrolled and fixed in position down the pitch


” Adam Lawrence putting the Toro ProCore over the pitch on 13th October 50 I PC FEBRUARY/MARCH 2017


League trophy at Old Trafford shortly after. No more rugby league now until February. We opened the pitch up again with the


verti-drain on the 1st October and the ProCore on the 3rd. On the 10th, we applied another 3:3:12 and the five goalmouth lighting rigs were deployed for the first time this season. We had been waiting for some electrical work to be undertaken on the sockets to bring them up to date with the latest legislation. We had a rig in each goal area and three in front of the West stand tunnel side.


On the 11th, we did two applications using


the tractor mounted sprayer, 6 litres of Ringer for worm control and another with 40 litres of Biomass and 20 litres of SeaAction seaweed.


On the 13th, the pitch was ProCored at 65mm centres, before the cylinders went on to get ready for the visit of Burton Albion on the 15th.


After repairs, the pitch was aerated with


the verti-drain on the 17th and, with around 6-8mm of rain falling daily, it was pleasing to see the surface draining consistently. On the 22nd, Latics played Brighton,


results had not been going well and the team were sat firmly in the Championship’s relegation zone; unfortunately, the team suffered another loss and this turned out to be Manager Gary Caldwell’s last game. The regular rain and mild weather had


combined to help another bout of disease and the pitch was sprayed with 10 litres of Interface and then fed with 160kg of 3:3:12 on the 24th. On the 27th, we applied 40 litres of


Biomass sugar and 20 litres of SeaAction seaweed. The next day we applied 260kg of Lebanon Country Club slow release 8:4:24. The pitch was prepped again for the visit


of Reading - the team now managed by Warren Joyce - on the 5th November. We


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