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Remedial work at the SWALEC Stadium
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Remedial work at the SWALEC Stadium
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Saracens handed pitch boost
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Harrogate 2012
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Harrogate 2012
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USA's Best Cricket Grounds: Fontana Field, California
30 Apr 2009 -
Cricket -
Press Release
When Asif Ahmad decided to buy and build his own field in Fontana, California, a one-hour drive east of Los Angeles, he went the whole nine yards or in cricket terms, the full 22 yards, the length of a cricket pitch.
New cultivars and grass seed mixtures for golf courses introduced
30 Apr 2009 -
Industry -
Press Release
A new seed mixture for golf greens and bowling greens called MM8 has been introduced into Limagrain UK’s MM range of grass seed mixtures. Two new perennial ryegrass cultivars, Venice and Malibu, are also now included in the MM golf mixture range.
Playing fields leased to sports teams
30 Apr 2009 -
Football -
Press Release
Councillors have agreed to lease playing fields to two Nithsdale sports teams.
Time to keep off the grass
30 Apr 2009 -
Football -
Press Release
Doncaster Rovers fans could see less of Sean O'Driscoll's side during this summer's pre-season campaign than usual, due to the programmed end of season renovations.
Manage turf to avoid May Day panic
30 Apr 2009 -
Industry -
Mark Sanderson
Applications of Primo MAXX to regulate turf growth over the coming weeks could help greenkeepers manage mowing more effectively during the Bank Holiday weekends and enable them to cut costs.
Grounds get the Twickenham treatment
29 Apr 2009 -
Rugby -
Press Release
THE RFU Head Groundsman Keith Kent is giving playing surfaces throughout the country the Twickenham treatment with a unique series of personal pitch inspections.
Scottish Golf Club’s cash crisis
29 Apr 2009 -
Golf -
Press Release
A Scottish Golf Club is tee-tering on the brink after a 40 per cent drop in membership this year.
Cirencester Town's late groundsman was remembered in a charity bike ride on Saturday
29 Apr 2009 -
Football -
Press Release
The epic charity bike ride to commemorate the much-missed Alan Lloyd, former groundsman at Cirencester Town, who died in 2007 on his 65th birthday, is set to become an annual event.
Kestrel complete Glamorgan's outfield in time for new season
29 Apr 2009 -
Cricket -
Press Release
Glamorgan CCC’s cricket pitch at the SWALEC Stadium, Cardiff, has been re-built on schedule by Kestrel Contractors Ltd.
grass-roots cricket is thriving thanks to Sky's money
29 Apr 2009 -
Cricket -
Press Release
The ECB are ploughing funds earned from Sky TV coverage to fund the game the grass-roots level
Who's to blame in the Wembley turf war?
29 Apr 2009 -
Football -
Press Release
Latest news about Wembley
Two fingers to the downturn
29 Apr 2009 -
Training -
Duncan McGilvray
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The following article is adapted from Duncan McGilvray's motivational seminar of the same name held during Harrogate Week 2009. It focuses on the present, very negatively perceived financial situation which, if accepted, is self defeating and does no-one any good!
Hover bovver in Cardiff
29 Apr 2009 -
Cricket -
Press Release
Glamorgan ground staff wrestle with a state-of-the-art Hover cover which refused to budge from the middle of Britain's newest Test ground.
UK Company lands major African Pitches Contract
28 Apr 2009 -
Industry -
Mike Beardall
The company which installed the Moscow pitch for the EUFA Champions League cup final last year has won the contract to design and build all of the African Championship pitches for COCAN 2010 in Angola.
Pitch Perfect thanks to drainage trencher
28 Apr 2009 -
Industry -
Press Release
A British-made Mastenbroek drainage trencher has weathered the worst of the wintry excesses to help contractors finish extensive outfield improvement works at Gloucestershire County Cricket Club’s Bristol ground in good time for the first match of the season. Chris Webb caught up with the machine in the closing stages of the contract.
Kells unmoved by surface criticism
28 Apr 2009 -
Football -
Press Release
The Hampden Park groundsman will not suffer the same fate as his English counterpart, despite the weekend's Homecoming Scottish Cup semi-finals being spoiled by a sub-standard surface.
McCoist wants Hampden Park pitch dug up and replaced
28 Apr 2009 -
Football -
Press Release
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Rangers want the Hampden pitch replaced in time for the Scottish Cup Final on May 30 after another embarrassing weekend for the national stadium.
France throw down gauntlet to English cricket
27 Apr 2009 -
Cricket -
Press Release
What could be more English than the thwack of leather upon willow under a leaden spring sky, the cries of bowler and fielders, and the scent of tea being dispensed from a Thermos flask on the boundary?
Massey Ferguson Grounds Care equipment bound for the Orkneys
27 Apr 2009 -
Industry -
Mike Bird
Massey Ferguson’s appointed dealer for the Orkney and Shetland Islands, Linklater Engineering, has secured a valuable order for the supply of grounds care equipment to
Orkney Islands Council.
SCH launch new Brochure
27 Apr 2009 -
Industry -
Press Release
SCH (Supplies) Ltd, manufacturers of attachments for estate and garden tractors, are busy distributing their new full colour 64 page brochure to dealers and customers.
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