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Busy at Valley Parade
Rugby -
By David Markham (15 Mar 02 0:00)
Another hectic schedule of matches has put enormous strains on Bradford City’s pitch at Valley Parade.Ground staff are repairing the pitch after the ground staged two Bradford City First Division football matches and one Bradford Bulls Super League game in a five-day period.
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Dual Sport at Reading
Football -
By Jem Fox (14 Mar 02 0:00)
The pitch at the Madejski Stadium hosted both rugby and football last season. It was felt that given the aspect of the new stadium and its wrap around structure, wasn’t beneficial to playing two sports without some form of reinforcement - Read Article
Springs in the air at Wisley
Golf -
By Dave Whitaker (11 Mar 02 0:00)
Back in November we closed nine holes of the course to re-turf all the greens and do other redevelopment work to improve those nine holes with an anticipated opening date in mid April.
The winter has been very kind to us in terms of weather conditions with the temperatures being much higher than normal. The greens have responded very well and we have already been able to hollow core and top-dress them to finalise our levels. We our currently cutting these greens at 5mm.
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Seeding in February
Football -
By Steve Patrick (07 Mar 02 0:00)
Hello again to everybody at Pitchcare and to people reading how guys like me make a living. Last night the 6th of March we played a game here at Ewood Park for the first time in five weeks. - Read Article
Ilkley Tennis Club
Tennis -
By David Markham (05 Mar 02 0:00)
Ilkley Tennis Club is one of the biggest in the north and head Groundsman Rod Wild is trying to ensure that all 14 grass courts are in prime condition ready for the target date for the start of the season on May 1st.
The highlight of the year at Ilkley is the open tournament, a week long British tour event from July 27th to August 3rd.
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Lords lead the way
Cricket -
By Mick Hunt (04 Mar 02 0:00)
I suppose that somebody has to be first and we have had to look at new systems for a while now that will enable the ground to be used for events other than cricket. Lords generally, is only filled approximately four times a year and it therefore makes economic sense to look at alternative use of the stadium. - Read Article
The Bradford and Bingley cricket club
Cricket -
By David Markham (04 Mar 02 0:00)
Paul Markham will complete ten years as Groundsman at Bradford & Bingley CC this year.
Paul, who is the only full-time Groundsman in the Bradford League, trained in horticulture at Shipley College, passing phases one and two.
His great strength is his experience and the fact that he plays for the club’s second team means he also knows the art of pitch preparation from the players’ point of view. - Read Article
Watery Wolves
Football -
By John Calderwood (26 Feb 02 0:00)
When we left the ground on Friday, the home game against Walsall was five days away and the pitch seemed to be holding up quite well with the recent rain that we had encountered. By Sunday, I was a worried man, it never stopped raining all day and for the most part it was heavy rain. - Read Article
Town training torment
Football -
By Paul Courier (25 Feb 02 0:00)
The Northampton Town players have trained on the pitch this season 25 times already and this is added to the 29 first, reserve and youth team games played. The pitch has had its fair share of use, but the problem has been the fact that we have endured so many wet games. - Read Article
Shipley Golf Club
Golf -
By D Markham (22 Feb 02 0:00)
Shipley Golf Club is situated in the West Yorkshire town of Bingley, a parkland course set in the most beautiful part of the Aire Valley. - Read Article
Winter care at Wasps and Rosslyn Park
Rugby -
By Steve Moore (22 Feb 02 0:00)
In the spring of last year the company who owned both Q.P.R FC and Wasps RFU were in receivership, leaving the contractor with a major dilemma - Read Article
Returfing the Theatre of Dreams
Football -
By Keith Kent (14 Feb 02 0:00)
Up until a few weeks ago, I had felt that the pitch was going to hold up and get us through another season of play, but the combination of games and the recent wet weather has deemed it necessary to re surface the pitch.
The organisation of such a major mid season project may seem daunting, but much of the logistical groundwork has been done in the past.
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Filbert Street News
Football -
By Chris Parry (14 Feb 02 0:00)
Well, the Christmas and New Year hasn’t been particularly kind to us here at Leicester, it started on the 21st December where we put our evergreen frost covers out on the pitch in readiness of a –2 frost, heavy rain had fallen and the pitch froze prior to the West Ham game. - Read Article
Nene Park Diary at Rushden
Football -
By Paul Knowles (12 Feb 02 0:00)
For my first article for this excellent website I thought I would share my diary with you covering the hectic week my team and I faced from Tuesday 29 Jan to Tuesday 5 February. This period covered three Division 3 games on the stadium pitch as well as the usual training on pitches 2 and 3 – lovely! - Read Article
Thatch at Bradford PA
Cricket -
By Chris Cay (12 Feb 02 0:00)
Groundstaff at Bradford Park Avenue cricket ground have declared war on thatch. - Read Article
Valley Parade
Football -
By D Markham (11 Feb 02 0:00)
The weather thwarted Bradford City’s hard working groundstaff on the second leg of their live TV sporting double at the weekend. - Read Article
Old Trafford The Refit
Football -
By Keith Kent (11 Feb 02 0:00)
You may have heard that we are once again re-turfing Old Trafford .... - Read Article
Valley Parade
Rugby -
By D Markham (11 Feb 02 0:00)
The weather thwarted Bradford City’s hard working groundstaff on the second leg of their live TV sporting double at the weekend. - Read Article
Valley Parade, Bradford
Football -
By D Markham (06 Feb 02 0:00)
Bradford City’s groundstaff face a busy and difficult few days to have the Valley Parade pitch ready for two live televised matches this weekend. - Read Article
Valley Parade, Bradford
Rugby -
By D Markham (06 Feb 02 0:00)
Bradford City’s groundstaff face a busy and difficult few days to have the Valley Parade pitch ready for two live televised matches this weekend. - Read Article
