Magazine - Articles by Laurence Gale MSc (Page 9)

Back to Coventry ...
2 Jun 2010 - General Sports - Laurence Gale MSc - Issue 30 - Apr / May 2010
Coventry University has allocated £160 million over the next ten years to develop the city centre campus, all extra work for Site Services Manager, Stephen Beasley, and his small team.

Centre of Excellence
24 May 2010 - Rugby - Laurence Gale MSc - Issue 30 - Apr / May 2010
One of the most recent jewels in the crown at the Vale is the establishment of a Centre of Excellence ­ a unique and unrivalled 40-acre sports and training facility which plays host to elite sports teams, academies and teams in development.

A Grigg thank you
13 May 2010 - Cricket - Laurence Gale MSc - Issue 30 - Apr / May 2010
Having spent twenty-four years tending the Barnsley Cricket Club square, Head Groundsman Tony Grigg is bowing out at the end of the season. He talks to Laurence Gale about his time at the club.

Paulley Maintained!
5 May 2010 - Bowls - Laurence Gale MSc - Issue 30 - Apr / May 2010
Many bowls clubs are finding it difficult to attract new members, and even those that do play are at the ‘higher’ end of the ‘age scale’, and balancing the books can be difficult. Penkridge Bowls Club have employed the services of Lee Paulley, of Vital Turf Management, to improve their green.

How best to control moss
4 May 2010 - General Sports - Laurence Gale MSc - Issue 30 - Apr / May 2010
Having come through one of the worst winters in years it not surprising that many playing surfaces have suffered from the consequences of this poor weather. One of the biggest problems facing groundsmen and greenkeepers is the amount of moss and algae that has flourished and infected many playing surfaces.

Beet’s route to a better course ...
10 Apr 2010 - Golf - Laurence Gale MSc - Issue 29 - Feb / Mar 2010
Stourbridge Golf Club once appeared in the Guinness Book of Records as being the course with “the longest yardage over the smallest acreage”. Our editor meets Craig Beet, Head Greenkeeper at Stourbridge Golf Club, a parkland course in the West Midlands

Pottering about!
29 Mar 2010 - Football - Laurence Gale MSc - Issue 29 - Feb / Mar 2010
Andy Jackson, Head Groundsman at the Britannia Stadium, was one of a just a handful of groundsmen presiding over a match as the ‘big freeze’ decimated the football programme

A baptism of snow!
13 Mar 2010 - Football - Laurence Gale MSc - Issue 29 - Feb / Mar 2010
For many football club groundsmen the period between Christmas and the New Year is usually a busy time, with a glut of fixtures to accommodate at a time when their pitches are most vulnerable due to the poor weather and low light levels. This winter has been even more challenging.

Jabber from the hut
26 Feb 2010 - Cricket - Laurence Gale MSc - Issue 28 - Dec / Jan 2010
Alan Hamilton, Guernsey Cricket Board’s Head Groundsman, steps out of his hut to talk about cricket on the island. It speaks volumes about a community that a groundsman’s hut is an integral part of it, but that is Guernsey cricket.

It's a jungle out there!
22 Feb 2010 - Best of the Rest - Laurence Gale MSc - Issue 28 - Dec / Jan 2010
When a press release titled “Specialist turf for zoo” landed in our editor’s email inbox he was off on a ‘wild animal chase’, before you could say “boo to a zebra” to find out more.

Alive and Kicking ...
18 Feb 2010 - Rugby - Laurence Gale MSc - Issue 28 - Dec / Jan 2010
The transformation of West Park Leeds rugby ground has been a huge success and ensured that amateur rugby in this part of Yorkshire has a vibrant future