Message Board - Football: how many games so far?

How many games have you had on your pitches to date including dual use surfaces. To incluse reserve/rugby/friendlies and cup games Any replies would be great and also interesting - premiership/league?

so far i have had
10 rugby league [super league ]
22 football [unibond premier ]
16 rugby league training sesions

44 games and various training sessions on a single pitch at non league club.

Wildcat

Are you at Wakey ?

I presume the whites are still playing at your place ?

Leeds United reserves now play at South Leeds Stadium mostly,with a handful of games at Elland Road.Wakey Trinity ground is still in top nick,well done Steve,i dont know how you mange to do all your various jobs and yet still keep a good pitch despite its overusage.

ive got 4 non league clubs and 1 junior club, between them thats 6 no.1 pitches and 7 training pitches,all of which get used weekly by 4 first team, 4 reserve team, and 3 youth team as well as sunday league juniors, (my quadraplay is a god send) they are all prepared and marked out prior to every game

nice to know someone knows who i am thanks anonymous [how do you know and do i know you ? ]

17 - 1st team (Championship)
8 - Rugby (Premiership)
3 - Reserves
1 - FA youth cup
Odd training sessions

Matches

Although i manage grass tennis courts the use is great

Ok...This is a typical summer schedule for me

4 grass court Tournements (2 county standard)

9 hours per day (7 Days a week)=63 hours per week -Depending on conditions

The problems i`ve got is with play 7 days a week and demand for play is great then it`s difficult to "Rotate" courts and keep courts out.

However i must say i`ve got from Aug-Apr to renovate and manage the courts

God knows how you rugby/footy boys manage with so many matches and games close together AND when cellular growth rates are at their lowest.

Thanks

so what your saying anthony is....that your sat in your office looking at all your machines serviced up for the new season, drinking tea and posting on PC web..? you lucky bugger.....hehe..

Lol

I bloody wish !

Apart from the "Drinking Tea" And "Posting on PC" comment.

awwww, come on mate it dont take that long to change the oil in a couple of old senators and a clapped out mountfield....lol

nottingham forest

21 1st team games and 5 reserve games

21 first team games-are you sure??? According to your fixtures this season you have had 16 including the cup-there is no way you had 5 pre season friendlies-no-one does at that level!

maybe in wasnt notts forest 1st team, maybe they hired pitch out!!, mind you Tietjen wasnt very clear was he bertbert..........

No-I know for a fact that they had definately two pre season games, but not 5!

sorry bert my mistake you are correct we have only had 16 1st team games not sure why i put 21!

Matt Tietjen
Deputy Grounds Manager

Thanks for that!

Notts Forest with Megson in charge -16 games plus Training sessions.

Just to add, I look after a few non league pitches, one of them is Flackwell Heath Football Club, Ryman Div.2, we have today 21/01/06 had our 50th game...we have just agreed a 3 year ground share with a lower league club, Marlow Utd, as well as renting out to other clubs, this is a picture of the pitch today after i put some sand on, chain-harrowed two directions and then quadraplayed two directions...What do you guys think..?

It looks a credit to you ticky21. Where do all these football clubs find the money? and how much do they pay for this maintenance? In my neck of the woods very little if any at all is spent.

Thankyou for that Bath I must confess, that i do some of the labour FOC as a way of sponsorship, but thats only cos ive picked up business from other clubs thru this one, and i have a board on the pitch...but there are a couple of influencial members on the committee and they do seem to pull in sponsors, on average their monthly bill would be £350-400....plus materials...

Thanks for the info. Ticky21. Keep up the good work.

Show off!

There's a bit of a curve on those stripes btw.

he he

Nah thats not a curve Zoid, its light refraction, take into account the low winter sun, and the natural slope of the pitch...yeah.........No i dont believe me either LOL

dear bert, over the past two months i have noticed the bitchy comments you have made. i suggest u go to thailand to find a nice thai girl to relieve the compaction down below because you obviously need to get a life

Ticky

Bloody hell

look at that Mamby mamby weather you get down south !

You`ll actualy find out how cold the North is on Wed.

Remember the North is a big place !

I once had a mate who who came up to see me and he claimed he was "Up north" however he was actualy in Hull

And his comment were while on the mobile in his car "Ok i think i`m just round the corner according to my map" !!

Lol

And stop showing off with your pics !!

Get some bloody work done

Lol

See you "Up north" !

And you just keep fidley-ing with yourself as well!

Anthony...... UP F*****G NORTH....Im lost out of sight of Windsor Castle flagpole mate... so to come north of Watford im gonna have to get me passport stamped, anyway that sunshine you see there, i waited weeks for that,

ALSO my tennis court mowing mate...ive been busy all day cleaning and servicing my Ford 1210 compact, ive got a busy week sorting out all my pitches now its dry enough to do something sensible on them...,HAHA

Doesn't this look better?

Paul

I have my own Liverpool thread on another website and I'm taking 'a hell of a beating' at the moment.

:-(

ticky

I bet those stripes looked straight as a die after you'd enjoyed the chairman's hospitality?

Zoid, i did the stripes AFTER i partook of the chairmans hospitality, and Paul, how could anything with red on it look good??? it the BLUE lion for me an nothing else........But respect to Charlton for giving us a run for our money,